Fri.Jan 24, 2020

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The I&O Organization Under Pressure

Forrester IT

Whither Infrastructure and Operations? Cloud-native, DevOps, and automation are turning I&O’s world upside down. As organizations move to self-provisioning, I&O professionals are rightfully concerned about their futures. In the world of self-service consumption, the traditional tools and tasks of I&O teams are subject to constant overhaul and replacement.

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Hackers targeting Arabic-speaking countries with malicious Microsoft Office documents

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals created a homemade RAT that uses multiple cloud services and targets countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Morocco.

Microsoft 141
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Meet Your New Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, And ICS Research Analyst

Forrester IT

This month, I joined Forrester’s security and risk research team as a senior analyst covering cyber threat intelligence, digital risk protection, vulnerability management, and industrial control system (ICS) security. I am excited about joining the team and expanding Forrester’s existing research in threat and vulnerability management and securing the control systems that keep our manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and communities safe and productive.

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6 CRM Benefits for Healthcare Providers

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 6 CRM Benefits for Healthcare Providers - Information Technology Blog. With the start of 2020, it seems like the prediction from the previous years for the customer relationship management (CRM) software would be satisfied by growing to $18 billion with the year-end. The increase in the use of healthcare crm throughout the industry becomes the reason.

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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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Learning: It's a Give and Take Thing

Information Week

InformationWeek is conducting its annual State of Enterprise IT Survey, and we invite you to participate.

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Cannabis Dispensaries: Security And Risk Considerations For Continued Growth

Forrester IT

In the US, cannabis is fully legal (medical and recreational) in 11 states and Washington, DC. For medical use, it is legal in 33 states. This is a flourishing industry, with one study conservatively estimating it will reach $30 billion by 2025. As dispensaries set up shop, they face many of the same risks as […].

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Thinking and Learning About API Design

Scott Lowe

In July of 2018 I talked about Polyglot , a very simple project I’d launched whose only purpose was simply to bolster my software development skills. Work on Polyglot has been sporadic at best, coming in fits and spurts, and thus far focused on building a model for the APIs that would be found in the project. Since I am not a software engineer by training (I have no formal training in software development), all of this is new to me, and I’ve found myself encountering lots of question

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How to set up secure credential storage for Docker

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to avoid saving your Docker login credentials in plain text by creating an encrypted credential storage.

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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: Creative Synthesis Jan. 2020

Future of CIO

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “ 100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special cr

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Democratized Software: Empowering the Business

Information Week

We are witnessing the next wave of software; one that democratizes its use and allows all parts of a business to participate in making it work.

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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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The Lunar New Year (The Year of Rat) Celebration

Future of CIO

The lunar New Year is around the corner, To awaken the consciousness by bridging two seasons; Winter is gradually walking away; And the warm Spring is approaching, We are stepping into the “Year of Rat.” Dragon dance demonstrates energy and symbolizes harmony; Lantern shines up to wish for a brighter future. Plum blossom for courage and hope. Water narcissus for luck and prosperity, Flow with New Year's best wishes and saying.

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The Perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard

Future of CIO

The balanced scorecard offers a way for a corporation to gain a wider perspective on its strategic decisions and performance management by considering the impact on finances, customers, internal processes and employee satisfaction. The balanced scorecard enables the management more accurately judge the coming curves and obstacles on the path of strategy management and get into actions in a creative, positive and proactive way.