Wed.Apr 24, 2019

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Voice Assistants Cannot Answer All Your Questions

Forrester IT

Let’s be honest: There is a lot of hype around voice assistants (or, as we call them at Forrester, intelligent agents, or IAs). Marketers, agencies, and vendors alike are all excited about this potential voice search future. But have you ever had a voice search experience with an IA like the cartoon below? We wanted […].

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Bodybuilding.com Security Breach, All Customer Passwords Reset

CTOvision

Bodybuilding.com fitness and bodybuilding fan website notified its customers of a security breach detected during February 2019 which was the direct result of a phishing email received back in July 2018. As detailed in the data incident notification published on the company’s help center, the security breach might “have affected certain customer information in our possession” […].

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Predictions 2019 Update: Cloud Computing Soars To New Heights

Forrester IT

At the end of 2018, Forrester’s cloud team made some bold predictions about how cloud computing would accelerate enterprise digital transformation everywhere, from the data center to the mobile device to the edge. And we were right: Enterprise demand is exploding, new cloud platform services are being launched monthly, and public cloud services are coming […].

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Three Essential Mobile Security Measures

CTOvision

Read Andrew Hoog explain the three essential mobile security measures every company should adopt on DZone Blog : Many of us have heard of the 80/20 rule, also known as the ‘Pareto Principle.’ Applied to mobile application security, the idea is that guarding against threats with the greatest potential impact can mitigate 80 percent of […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Can We Talk (Honestly) About The Executive In The Room?

Forrester IT

It’s easy to pick out truly bad examples of leadership. In every organization you are part of — from the parent-teacher cooperative to the leaders of nations — there are inept leaders who seem to have cajoled or manipulated their way into their roles. Despite how easily such examples come to mind, however, these egregious […].

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Major DDoS attacks increased 967% this year

CTOvision

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is increasing in size and frequency, as multi-vector exploits become more of the norm in hacker’s efforts to distract and confuse security teams while damaging their businesses, according to a Wednesday report from Neustar Research. Attacks sized 100Gbps and higher increased by 967% in Q1 2019 compared to Q1 […].

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Top risks of deploying zero-trust cybersecurity model

CTOvision

Read Dennis Turpitka explain why adopting a zero-trust model for cybersecurity brings many benefits — but also risks on Tech Target : The zero-trust model of cybersecurity has been billed as an ultrasafe defense against emerging, unrecognized threats. Unlike perimeter security, it doesn’t assume people inside an organization are automatically safe.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Crisis Management Is Changing Boeing’s having a tough run. The company is under intense scrutiny after two crashes involving its 737 MAX jets, with governments grounding planes globally. This isn’t the first time Boeing planes have crashed — but PR-wise, it’s the worst. What’s different serves as caution for all leaders, regardless of industry. The […].

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A hotspot finder app exposed 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

CTOvision

A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks. The app, downloaded by thousands of users, allowed anyone to search for Wi-Fi networks in their nearby area. The app allows the user to upload Wi-Fi network passwords from their devices to its database for others to use. That […].

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Is An Open Office The Right Solution For Your IT Department?

The Accidental Successful CIO

An Open Office removes walls, but does it create too much noise? Image Credit: Jaysin Trevino. Can you remember the day when if you wanted to talk with your boss you would go walking down the hall to his or her office? You’d knock on the door, get called in, enter and perhaps shut the door behind you. Well guess what – those days are just about over.

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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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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I am happy to introduce the new AWS Asia Pacific ( Hong Kong ) Region. AWS customers can now use this Region to serve their end users in Hong Kong SAR at a lower latency, and to comply with any data locality requirements. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the eighth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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SCCM Message Processing Engine – Journey of Status State Messages to MPE

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This is the post where I’m going to predict that how is SCCM going to change in future. In this post, you will see how SCCM is becoming more modern and evolving faster than cloud technologies. Let’s see what SCCM Message Processing Engine journey is. Let’s go through the journey of status messages to state […].

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Cisco: DNSpionage attack adds new tools, morphs tactics

Network World

The group behind the Domain Name System attacks known as DNSpionage have upped their dark actions with new tools and malware to focus their attacks and better hide their activities. Cisco Talos security researchers, who discovered DNSpionage in November, this week warned of new exploits and capabilities of the nefarious campaign. More about DNS: DNS in the cloud: Why and why not.

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5 Must Have Gadgets for your Bag in 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Must Have Gadgets for your Bag in 2019 - Information Technology Blog. You must have read hundreds of articles on how to never leave home without essentials like a bottle of water, sunscreen, and an extra credit card. But today technology has taken over our lives like never before. Needless to say, we need to welcome it, adapt to it, and allow for it to give us its best.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Sharpen Your Business Intelligence Blade

Information Week

Managing and monitoring your digital infrastructure doesn't have to painful. There are steps you can take to give your operational intelligence an edge.

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Are citizens prepared for the data implications of smart cities?

Dataconomy

What are the fears around data while exploring potential use cases to demonstrate the value for the ‘smart citizen’? Here is a look. With The United Nations reporting that two-thirds (68%) of the world’s population are expected to live in cities by 2050, scientists are seeking new and innovative ways. The post Are citizens prepared for the data implications of smart cities?

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Topspin and Terabytes: IBM Ups Its Cloud Game at the Masters

Information Week

Lessons learned from working with sports data can inform new ways of addressing enterprise DevOps, cloud, and AI needs.

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Using Cloud Endure for Migration

Linux Academy

As more and more organizations migrate applications and services to the cloud migration of services is becoming more critical to organizations so they can accelerate moving on-premise services to the cloud. Many organizations that have migrated services the cloud have started building new projects in the cloud and have not migrated many on-premise services that are still running in their own data centers.

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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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Why You Need to Address Your Cloud Skills Gap

Information Week

The progression of cloud innovations require new skills and new approaches to training IT professionals.

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Navigating in Bash | Bash basics

Linux Academy

So far what we have taken a look at how the AWK command, the SED command and event designators can make your Bash life easier but they really are a touch more advanced than what I would consider Bash Basics. This time we are going to talk about Exploring in Bash. These are the commands that are used on a daily basis that really should become the staples of your command line kung-fu.

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“Five-Step” Openness in Innovation Management

Future of CIO

In the rapidly evolving businesses and dynamic economic systems, innovations are very complex but critical for firms' survival and thriving. Some businesses try to force innovation via “command & control” management style, but it often does not work well. Because the environment plays an important role, there are both tangible and intangible elements which need to be knitted into the unique innovation competency of the organization.

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AI Jobs Disruption – Why the U.S. Financial Services Industry is Different

Dataconomy

No longer considered the “future of work,” AI is infiltrating industries and job roles at impactful rates. Across the U.S. economy, one-third of the U.S. workers are interacting with some form of AI in their jobs today – even if many of these interactions are still in a limited capacity. The post AI Jobs Disruption – Why the U.S. Financial Services Industry is Different appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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The Best “Ingenuity” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises 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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Carahsoft and GitLab Partner To Help Feds Deliver Code To Production Quickly and Securely

CTOvision

Editor’s note: When we see any press release by a member of the Carahsoft family we take note. Some, like the one on GitLab below, seem to be of particularly high interest to federal technologists.- bg SAN FRANCISCO and RESTON, Va., April 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – GitLab, the single application for the software […].

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Bring Insight to the Boardroom Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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New Linux Academy for Business — Q2 Roadmap!

Linux Academy

I’m proud and excited to say we began rolling out the all-new Linux Academy for Business platform to our business customers this week. Over the next few weeks, all of our business customers will be upgraded to what we believe is the ultimate platform for multicloud training at scale. Look for an email from us to let you know when you’ve been upgraded!

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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.