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Mapping Trends Part One: Opportunity And Angst

Forrester IT

[A year ago, we set out to take a deep look at what we’re calling the mapping industry, a 50-year old industry that operates more in the background than in the full light of day. We identified over 100 important vendors, from data suppliers like Place IQ and Pitney Bowes, to full-stack providers like Esri […].

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Five Critical Ingredients For Enterprise Blockchain Success

CTOvision

Read Alison McCauley list five critical ingredients for enterprise blockchain adoption on Forbes : Blockchain benefits are driven by network effects: the more participants on a shared platform, the greater its potential value. Yet executives have found it’s a struggle to align the support of their ecosystems. At stake is the potential to unlock trillions […].

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Retail’s Secret Growth Weapon: Generous, Flexible Online Returns

Forrester IT

As eCommerce continues to grow, so do online returns. Digitally native startups are shifting shopper expectations with their customer-centric return processes, leading traditional retailers to rethink how they handle returns. I recently dug into returns and the result is my new research, “Retailers, Reduce The Pain of Online Returns.” Some of our key findings: Shoppers […].

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Understanding Device Health Attestation Intune Device Compliance Check

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post I will be talking about Device Health Attestation (DHA) and its role in Intune device compliance check. Let’s dive into Intune Device Compliance Check and DHA. Introduction Intune device compliance is a check mechanism – whether the managed devices meets the specified security requirements as per organization security policy.

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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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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Amazon’s New Echo Lineup Does What Fire Phone Never Could Remember when Amazon created a new phone, hoping it could revolutionize the smartphone business? Remember how badly that failed? This week, Amazon released new products that prove it doesn’t need a smartphone to get up close and personal with its most engaged customers who now […].

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SQL Server takes a turn towards Kubernetes and big data

Tech Republic Cloud

SQL Server 2019 big data clusters bring relational and unstructured data together in a world where you don't have to curate data before using it.

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How to kick-start scripts to automate VMware's ESXi installation via USB

Tech Republic Data Center

Rolling out hundreds of VMware's ESXi hypervisors is a time-consuming project with the chance for errors. Learn how to use a USB flash drive to automate the ESXi install.

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How to avoid the dreaded Google Calendar malicious invite issue

Tech Republic Security

Watch out for suspicious Google Calendar invites and learn how to prevent them from making their way to your calendar.

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Navigating the Skills Gap in the Hybrid Cloud Era

Information Week

IT leaders who will survive in the hybrid multi-cloud world are fostering the skills they already have in-house, while embracing some shifts toward new ideas.

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Most Fortune 500 companies still opaque about security measures

Tech Republic Security

A Bitglass survey said 52% of the world's most profitable companies do not have any language on their websites about how they protect the data of customers.

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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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WVD is GA’d Generally Available World Wide with AppAttach Feature?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Great News with some screenshots from YouTube Video [link] User Profiles. The post WVD is GA’d Generally Available World Wide with AppAttach Feature? appeared first on SCCM|Intune|WVD|Azure| Windows by Anoop C Nair.

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Takeaway from MLOps NYC: Open Source Frameworks Need TLC

Information Week

The growing open source options to manage and develop machine learning applications still require customization and care before enterprises dive in.

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How to add and use a trusted server on Nextcloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Nextcloud allows you to share files and directories with local users as well as users on a remote, trusted server.

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Getting Technical: Learn How a VoIP Phone in Your Office Works

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Getting Technical: Learn How a VoIP Phone in Your Office Works - Information Technology Blog. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one the fastest growing telecommunication technologies of 2019. The VoIP system converts analog audio signals into digital data which is transmitted over the internet to allow free phone calls.

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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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How to add and use a trusted server on Nextcloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Nextcloud allows you to share files and directories with local users as well as users on a remote, trusted server.

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WVD is GA’d Generally Available World Wide with App Attach Feature?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Today, Microsoft announced the General Availability of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). I think Windows Virtual Desktop is the only VDI service that delivers a multi-session Windows 10 experience. WVD Experience Estimator Tool This experience estimator tool is pretty interesting one.

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Incorporate Both Ends and Means to Build a High Mature Digital Organization

Future of CIO

The digital paradigm shift is multidimensional expansion and interdisciplinary practice. The information technology, process, capability and culture tuning, etc, are all tactics to expand both horizontally and vertically, get the organization from here to there for managing a seamless digital transformation. High mature organizations are incorporating both ends and means, moving solidly from doing digital by applying digital technologies to going digital and being digital.

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Getting from AI Pilot to Scale

Information Week

So you've succeeded with your automation and AI pilot project. Now how do you get to scale?

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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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IoT roundup: Security holes abound, GE Digital makes noise and more

Network World

This week, we look at IoT security holes -- both usual and unusual -- an IIoT player makes a move, and mergers and partnerships worth noting.

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The Best “Bottleneck” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

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 Internet of Things: Where are we so slowly heading?

CTOvision

Read David Balaban take a look at whether the Internet of Things technology is becoming stagnated on IT Pro Portal : We set our hopes on IoT more than on anything else nowadays. Some of the benefits we expect from it include better control of systems, more real-time data about them, and a greater number […].

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: The CIO’s Innovation Inquiries Sep. 2019

Future of CIO

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency.

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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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What’s next for big data after a turbulent 2019?

CTOvision

Read David Richards take a look at whats next for big data on Venture Beat : When thousands of data scientists and business analysts converge on New York next week for the year’s main data industry event, Strata, they will be looking for answers to the current chaos in our business and technological ecosystem. We’ve seen […].

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Free Courses at Linux Academy — October 2019

Linux Academy

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Each month we will kick off our community content with a live study group. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Courses Free in October : [new] Cloud Formation Deep Dive – This course will take a deep dive into AWS CloudFormation, with support from our interactive diagrams to assist the stu

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Artificial Intelligence Is Not A Technology

CTOvision

Read Kathleen Walch’s article about how AI is not just one technology: People have long dreamed of the idea of machines having the intelligence and capabilities of humans. From the early Greek myths of Hephaestus and his automatons to the Golem of Eastern European Jewish tradition to well over a hundred years of science fiction stories, […].

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Meet our.NEXT Europe Customer Award Finalists!

Nutanix

For our upcoming.NEXT Europe conference in Copenhagen we are excited to recognize some of the most innovative companies, IT leaders, and technology teams in the industry.

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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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Navigating the Skills Gap in the Hybrid Cloud Era

CTOvision

Read Barry Baker explain how you can manage the shortfall of skill gaps in cloud management on Information Week : At the intersection of public and private cloud and traditional IT and on-premises, hybrid cloud has grown to near-ubiquity in recent years. There’s ample reason for this. At the enterprise level, the value of existing […].

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The State of the SAP S/4HANA Market – What Can We Conclude from Research by ASUG & IDC?

Nutanix

Some recent reports provide insights into plans to move to S/4HANA and the major considerations that are showing up.

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Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox add HTTP/3 support

CTOvision

HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Starting today, Cloudflare announced that customers will be able to enable an option in their dashboards and turn on HTTP/3 support for their domains. That means that whenever users visit a Cloudflare-hosted […].

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