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Siemens Snaps Up Mendix; Low-Code Platforms Enter New Phase

Forrester IT

Siemens announced acquisition of Mendix, a leading low-code development platform, for $730 million in cash, or 7-8 times annual revenues, we estimate. Yes, that’s the $83 billion industrial powerhouse, Siemens. Mendix will join Siemens’ $13 billion Digital Factory software division, but operate independently and as it did before the acquisition (scheduled to close in October […].

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InfoWarCon is Coming 1-3 Nov in Leesburg VA

CTOvision

InfoWarCon18 is coming! This event has a reputation for bringing together great thought leaders in information warfare. It always attracts a nice cross section of military leaders, academics, strategists, cyber thought leaders and thinkers from around the world. Every InfoWarCon to date has provided a fantastic venue for examining the current, future and potential hostile [.].

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CYBER SECURITY TRANSFORMATION IS A THING, AND IT NEEDS PERSONAL AND RELENTLESS DRIVE

Forrester IT

Well, it’s happening! My first Forrester report was published this week. (Forrester clients can access here). The topic? Cyber security transformation of course! It’s what I have lived and breathed for the last 3.5 years. I have also engaged peer CISOs doing terrific work transforming their firms’ security function and capabilities – I’ve always had […].

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We Learn From Death

CTOvision

Why are we perpetually surprised (or not, depending on how you look at it) at the failure of so many at both the organizational and individual level to take cybersecurity seriously? I would argue that most people are placing cybersecurity exactly where it should be when it comes to the myriad risks in their lives, [.].

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Cisco Purchases Duo Security for $2.3B

Forrester IT

Today, Cisco announced that it has acquired Ann Arbor, Michigan/California-based Duo Security for $2.35 billion in cash. Founded in 2010, Duo Security has been growing rapidly over the last few years with its multifactor authentication (MFA) offering and has raised over $120 million in venture financing to date. Based on Forrester’s estimates of Duo Security’s […].

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Intune Help Desk Support Tools for Windows Devices Quick Review

Anoop

Intune provides useful tools for help desk teams. I assume for most of the organizations, help desk teams are the first level support for all Intune or mobile device management issues. Intune Help Desk Support Tools explained in this post will help the team to get full speed on support scenarios. I have a post […]. The post Intune Help Desk Support Tools for Windows Devices Quick Review appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Cisco pays cool $2.3 billion for hot security company Duo

Network World

Cisco today laid out $2.35 billion in cash and stock for network identity, authentication security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo helps protect organizations against cyber breaches through the company’s cloud-based software that verifies the identity of users and the health of their devices before granting access to applications with the idea of preventing breaches and account takeover.

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Modern Point of Service is both Volvo and Ferrari

Forrester IT

We’ve just published the all-new Forrester Point of Service (PoS) Wave – and it turns out that brands and retailers have a lot to choose from to deliver the best experience for their customers. Whose customer is this? As a retailer that must provide your customers with great experiences, your expectations for your PoS only […].

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Best Data Management Tips for Small Businesses – How Remote DBA Expert can help you?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Data Management Tips for Small Businesses – How Remote DBA Expert can help you? - Information Technology Blog. It is essential to make sure that all your data regarding the company are well organized to profit and prosper from it. For this purpose, a proper database management system is essential. There is different software which can help you regarding the management of the database and it is necessary to use them correctly to get the best results.

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Cisco Acquires Duo or How Should You Do 2 factor authentication (2FA)?

Forrester IT

NIST has not been recommending SMS OTP 2FA for a while precisely because of SMS inbox takeovers, MITM attacks, etc. [link] From the license cost perspective moving away from SMS for example to Google Authenticator is minimal. Google publishes guides on how to do this [link] From the technical support perspective the process is marginally more expensive […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Six Biggest Recent Data Breaches You’ve Probably Been Affected By

Dataconomy

Millions of online accounts have personal data stolen on a daily basis, including from large corporations that users believe to be trusted. Here are just 6 of the recent largest data breaches that you’ve likely been affected by and should cause you to check your accounts more often. The. The post Six Biggest Recent Data Breaches You’ve Probably Been Affected By appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Creating Paradigm Shift for Reinventing IT

Future of CIO

Embracing digital is inevitable as that is now part of the business venture. Walking the digital talks is a broader and longer journey with many leaps and jumps, bumps and curves. IT is the threshold of going digital, CIOs will continue to be put on the front line to run IT as a change agent. They need to really understand the vision and strategy of the business and synchronize with those strategic goals, create the paradigm shift for reinventing IT as the change agent and innovation engine of t

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Desktops-as-a-Service, With No Cloud Lock-In – Frame and Nutanix Xi Cloud Services

Nutanix

Earlier today, we announced the intent to acquire Fra.me and, following the closing of the acquisition, make available Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) within Xi Cloud Services. The service will initially support 1-click desktop instances on AWS and Azure, and continually expand to all types of cloud environments.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 8/3/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 4800+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Can BoDs bring The Pairs of Fresh Eyes to the Boardroom

Future of CIO

Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and velocity of the digital era, organizations no matter large or small, all face the unprecedented change and constant disruptions. The purpose of the board of directors is to direct the organization in the right direction and monitor its performance. The directorship in any organization becomes more critical and challenging for guiding the business through the uncharted water and steering in the right decision.