Mon.Apr 20, 2020

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Managing Your Company Through The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forrester IT

To navigate the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, governments and companies must design and enforce Pandemic Management Protocols (PMPs) — a set of procedures and processes by which people will go to the office, go to school, congregate in public, eat in restaurants, travel, and move without causing unmanageable new outbreaks of the virus.

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Creating A Successful Pricing Strategy As An IoT Business

CTOvision

Read Nathan Shinn explain how you can implement a successful pricing strategy for the Internet of Things business on Forbes : The appeal of the internet of things (IoT) remains strong for businesses. And while a great business idea is an essential initial component of your IoT strategy, an equally creative pricing and monetization strategy […].

Strategy 330
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Entering The New Normal: How To Safely Bring Your Workforce Back

Forrester IT

New Pandemic Management Protocols provide guidance on how to bring employees back to work safely and effectively.

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Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services

CTOvision

Microsoft and Cisco this week announced the “seamless integration” of the two companies’ Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud products, enabling more edge computing scenarios. According to a blog post Tuesday by Tony Shakib, an IoT business acceleration leader for Microsoft Azure, the integration will be beneficial for IT and operations personnel who are trying to set […].

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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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The Coronavirus Crisis Puts Telcos Back On The Map As Strategic Providers

Forrester IT

The coronavirus crisis offers telcos an opportunity to reposition themselves. Over the medium and longer term, the stronger telcos will benefit from the crisis.

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How Blockchain is Reshaping Market Research

CTOvision

Read Jasal Shah’s article about how blockchain is reshaping the market research sector on CXO Today : The most significant fallout of cryptocurrency crash of 2018 was that decision-makers across industries sat up to take notice of the blockchain technology. As the fundamental concepts of blockchain — keeping a verified ledger account of all transactions […].

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Cloud Security Risks Rise During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Survey

CTOvision

As several organizations are forced to shift to work from home to curb the spread of COVID-19, IT and cloud security professionals are concerned about the security of their cloud environments, according to the “State of Cloud Security” survey conducted by Fugue. The survey revealed that 96% of cloud engineering teams are at present 100% working […].

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

The March Numbers Are In: Retail Sales Are Down, But Not Out The Census Department released preliminary figures for March sales in the US on April 15, which provided an official glimpse of the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy and retail spend. We expect the upcoming slate of earnings releases to reinforce the following narrative: Consumer spend is up at grocery stores (including alcohol stores), mass merchants, […].

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Customizing UDI Wizard with UDI Designer Using SCCM | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s see Customizing UDI Wizard with UDI Designer Using SCCM. In part 1 on User-Driven Installation (UDI), I explained how you can integrate MDT with SCCM | Configuration Manager | MEMCM for creating a User-Driven Installation OSD task sequence for the better end-user experience.

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Google Helps Users Reduce Google Cloud Costs

Forrester IT

Over the past two years, the major native cloud players have launched cloud management product teams focused on improving the visibility, billing, and optimization capabilities available natively. Google has also joined this effort. The company provides customers with cost and billing support via onboarding checklists, how-to guides, billing support specialists, and providing billing account, catalog, […].

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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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What Digital Transformation Means Viewing Through a COVID-19 Lens

Social, Agile and Transformation

It's an interesting time to be thinking about transformation. Some will argue that we have to slow digital transformation efforts because COVID-19 business issues will have higher priority. Others will suggest that COVID-19 will drive a new wave of transformation requiring organizations to better support remote work and digital workflows.

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Three Insights From The Forrester Wave™: Digital Wealth Management Platforms, Q1 2020

Forrester IT

The wealth management industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and firms are turning to digital wealth management platforms (DWMPs) to accelerate their initiatives. In “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Wealth Management Platforms, Q1 2020” report, we identified the 13 most significant digital DWMP providers, which we evaluated across 26 criteria.

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Digital Transformation: Business Leaders Still Struggling to Cope

Information Week

What you don't know can hurt you. When it comes to digital transformation, many top enterprise executives may have to learn this lesson the hard way.

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Optimize Your Digital Front Door Strategy In Healthcare To Fend Off New Competitors

Forrester IT

The COVID-19 pandemic has prioritized self-triage and virtual care investments for healthcare organizations (HCOs). While the current situation has accelerated investment in these technologies given that they are required, prudent HCOs will ensure that these investments are folded into their long-term strategy to make the shift from reactive to proactive care.

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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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Microsoft Windows Admin Center: How it can help you manage remote PCs and servers

Tech Republic Data Center

With staff working from home, Microsoft's web-based server administration tools will help to keep the lights on in data centres and in the public cloud.

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5G In Financial Services

Forrester IT

5G will become a general-purpose technology for financial services firms.

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Is Quantum Computing Ready for Prime Time?

Information Week

Progress is steady, but the technology hasn't matured enough for most enterprises to truly benefit. Here's what needs to happen.

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Scammers exploiting stimulus payments with phishing attacks and malicious domains

Tech Republic Security

Since January, more than 4,000 domains related to coronavirus stimulus packages have been registered, many of them malicious or suspicious, according to Check Point Research.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Civic technology, more than ever, will be at the heart of democracy and effective government

Trends in the Living Networks

Civic technology, often called CivicTech, is usually defined as technologies to enable constructive engagement between citizens and government. However I frame it more broadly as technologies that help us create a better society. I think the distinction is important, as even in these times of enlarged government roles, I believe the future does not lie in an artificial separation between government and citizens , but rather in government as an enabler for people to efficiently, compassionately,

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Configuration Manager Default Antimalware Policy

Mick's IT Blog

While building my new Configuration Manager server, MECM, I took screenshots of the default antimalware policy settings in the event settings in it ever got changed. The default should not be changed. A new policy should be created and deployed.

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Use WDAG to Manage Chrome Firefox in Windows with Intune – Part (2/3)

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this article, we are going to discuss how to use Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) to manage Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in Windows from Intune using WDAG. This is Part (2/3). Series of Posts – 1. Use OMA-URIs to Manage Chrome Firefox in Windows with Intune – Part (1/3) 2.

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Energy Efficiency in Construction Industry

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Energy Efficiency in Construction Industry - Information Technology Blog. According to the United States Department of Energy , the construction industry both commercial and residential modernized, at the same time, energy efficiency has gained great importance. As the concept of energy efficiency emerged within the construction industry, individuals and firms have since explored ways on how to achieve optimally efficient construction using lesser costs, while pre

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Coronavirus spurring interest in biology, games, cooking, and learning

Tech Republic Cloud

A surge in activity at specific online communities run by Stack Exchange reveals what people want to learn and do as a result of COVID-19.

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Securing Smart Home Ecosystems

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Securing Smart Home Ecosystems - Information Technology Blog. “Alexa, curtains up. Alex, coffee on.” Smart home ecosystems are very much here, and they’re often held together by the glue of a virtual assistant: Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, or Apple’s Siri. These systems bring your compatible devices together to work as one, but they don’t do all the work for you.

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The Value of Business Architecture

Future of CIO

Business Architecture (BA) contains the organizational context and is strategic in that it gives direction to the business design and transformation. It’s a great strategic planning tool for business leaders to gain a systematic understanding of market dynamics, the connections between related business units, the organizational interrelationship between people and process and ecosystem perspectives, to orchestrate a high-performance digital organization.

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Retirement Planning in the Middle of a Pandemic

Virtualized Greek

The following first appeared on Money & Markets. If you’re reading this, I hope you’re still employed or that your business hasn’t been too badly disrupted. I’ve been impressed by the ability of millions of Americans to carry on business as usual despite the stay-at-home orders and closure of offices. It’s a testament both to modern technology and to the get-it-done spirit of America’s business owners and workers.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The “Implication” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

Future of CIO

“ Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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The big data challenge: How to improve time-to-insight

CTOvision

Government agencies are looking for new ways to combine their silos of information into a single view to help them make better decisions, reduce costs and improve time-to-value. But this is a huge challenge when the most valuable databases can be difficult, if not impossible, to join together. This kind of segregation is expensive and […].

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#6700 Blog Posting Celebration: Understand Human Capital and Unleash Human Potential Apr. 2020

Future of CIO

Digitization and globalization have a huge impact in the business and world, and talent has become the defining theme of this new digital paradigm. People are always the most invaluable asset the business should invest in, tapping the unlimited human potential is both art and science, it takes out of box thinking and a trans-disciplinary approach. Here is a set of blogs to celebrate #6700 blog posting.