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The End of Dashboards: Complex IT Environments Require Smarter Solutions

IT Toolbox

Is it time to bid farewell to traditional dashboards? Learn how to build success in today’s complex IT environment. The post The End of Dashboards: Complex IT Environments Require Smarter Solutions appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Responding To The Cybersecurity Signal In The Sky, A Hero Steps Out Of The Shadows: Software Composition Analysis

Forrester IT

Software composition analysis (SCA) has lived for many years in the shadow of static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools that have commanded bigger budgets, stakeholder attention, and vendor competition.

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5 Urgent Priorities Guiding Investments in Higher Ed Digital Transformation

IT Toolbox

What are the key drivers and priorities for digital transformation in the higher education sector? Find out. The post 5 Urgent Priorities Guiding Investments in Higher Ed Digital Transformation appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Want More Customer Data? Build An Enterprise Data Strategy First

Forrester IT

In the era of data deprecation, many B2C marketing clients are asking me “how can I get more first-party data?” or “how do I get more customers to share data with me?

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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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76% of Contact Centers Leverage Chatbots To Support Operations and Customers

IT Toolbox

Discover the state of chatbots in contact centers today and the benefits and challenges they present to contact center professionals. The post 76% of Contact Centers Leverage Chatbots To Support Operations and Customers appeared first on Spiceworks.

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10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss at CCF 2023

Association of Information Technology Professional

If you’ve ever been part of a good brainstorm session, you understand what it feels like when the group knows they’re on to something. It’s a great feeling and it’s part of what makes the CompTIA Communities & Councils Forum (CCF) so important and valuable to members and the IT industry.

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Cloud native tech and can-do culture drive BSS transformation at Telefonica Germany

TM Forum

Eva Ulicevic, Director of Architecture, Strategy and Analytics at Telefonica Germany, discusses cultural change, partnership and training as the CSP creates a highly modular, cloud-native, and digital BSS.

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Avoid at All Costs: IT Outages Are Pricier Than You Think

IT Toolbox

What’s the real price of an IT outage? Find out how to prevent downtime. The post Avoid at All Costs: IT Outages Are Pricier Than You Think appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Digital Transformation Is a Must Have in Financial Markets

Information Week

While greater organizational efficiency is a byproduct, the real advantage is in better data protection and increased consumer confidence.

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Study: Companies have upwards of 1,000 apps but only a third are integrated

Tech Republic Security

A new study by Salesforce’s MuleSoft suggests more isn’t necessarily better if an organization’s applications are not playing well together. Unfortunately, more than 70% remain disconnected from one another and the core business. The post Study: Companies have upwards of 1,000 apps but only a third are integrated appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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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Upgrade Windows 10/11 Edition using Intune Policy

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link]. Read More The post Upgrade Windows 10/11 Edition using Intune Policy appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Jitesh Kumar.

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Prilex POS malware evolves to block contactless transactions

Tech Republic Security

A new version of the Prilex POS malware has found a novel way to steal your credit card information. The post Prilex POS malware evolves to block contactless transactions appeared first on TechRepublic.

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FTC Fines GoodRx $1.5M for Sharing Health Data With Facebook, Google

Information Week

What does it mean for CIOs? In this first-known action for violation of the Health Breach Notification Rule, the FTC sets precedent for how a company's definition of 'business' may legally be called a 'breach.

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Lifetime VPNSecure subscriptions are now just $39.99

Tech Republic Security

Secure your internet connection now with VPNSecure while it’s still on sale. The post Lifetime VPNSecure subscriptions are now just $39.99 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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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Is It Time to Start Worrying About Quantum Computing Security?

Information Week

Quantum computing's dark side is the threat the technology could pose to cybersecurity. Here's what you need to know.

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Research finds women are 65% more likely than men to lose jobs in ongoing wave of tech layoffs

GeekWire

BigStock Photo Tech layoffs are impacting women at a disproportionately higher rate than men, representing a possible setback for the industry’s efforts to improve its gender diversity, according to research by talent intelligence platform Eightfold AI. The key finding : women in tech are 65% more likely than men to lose their jobs. The research was led by Sania Khan , Eightfold’s chief economist and a former U.S.

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Asynchronous open APIs to support event-driven architecture

TM Forum

Discover how this Catalyst is enhancing the Open Digital Architecture for interoperability of event-based interactions. By introducing a subset of the Open Digital Architecture (ODA), and RESTful Open APIs to streaming platforms, this Catalyst aims to help event streaming take huge steps toward the levels of interoperability befitting the IoT era.

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DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

GeekWire

Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team has engineered devices such as this one to pave the way for creating topological qubits and scalable quantum computers. (Microsoft Photo / John Brecher) The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is laying down a bet on Microsoft’s long-running effort to create an industrial-scale quantum computer that takes advantage of the exotic properties of superconducting nanowires.

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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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Using digital twins to improve the customer experience

TM Forum

Digital twins, a digital representation of physical objects, promise to help communications service providers (CSPs) improve network engineering and operations as well as customer experience.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains the company’s current mindset in surprise debut on earnings call

GeekWire

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company will “continue to invest for the long-term” even as it deals with economic uncertainty. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy joined the company’s earnings call with analysts and investors for the first time Thursday afternoon, explaining that it’s something he plans to do “from time to time going forward.” His predecessor, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, traditionally left the quarterly earnings calls to th

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CSPs use privacy computing to support green energy grid

TM Forum

This Catalyst is helping energy companies reduce their carbon footprints. The project shows the latest privacy-first architecture that enables CSPs and utility companies to achieve a sustainable greener grid.

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Here’s how VCs are advising founders and assessing startups amid the tech downturn

GeekWire

From left, clockwise: Elisa La Cava, Aviel Ginzburg, Sara Lindquist, and James Newell. Whether or not the economy is in recession is still up for debate. But the startup world is definitely in one. That’s one key point made by a panel of Seattle startup investors Tuesday night, hosted by the entrepreneur program TiE Seattle at the Global Innovation Exchange in Bellevue, Wash.

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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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TM Forum Open API workshop lays firm foundations for zero-touch partnering

TM Forum

Learn about the progress that CSPs and vendors made in creating Open API environments for zero-touch partnering during an Open API Spec Jam, hosted at Vodafone’s headquarters in December, and what to expect for digital ecosystem development in 2023.

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Smaller capacity hard drives are more susceptible to failure as they age, study finds

TechSpot

A quick peek at the most recent report from cloud storage provider Backblaze concludes that larger drives—12TB, 14TB, and 16TB—fail less frequently than smaller capacity versions. During the past year, the annualized failure rate (AFR) for HDDs increased significantly from 1.01 percent in 2021 to 1.37 percent in 2022, according.

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5G network operations need digital twins to ensure customer loyalty

TM Forum

Learn how this Catalyst project is using reliable 5G network operations to boost customer loyalty. The project shows how a new digital twin network platform can help service providers to simulate network performance and demand based on historic user-based AI - then apply business rules, knowledge graphs and machine learning inference models to verify SLA guarantees and configure network slices.

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AMD reveals Ryzen 7000X3D pricing and availability, starting February 28

TechSpot

In January, AMD unveiled its first set of Zen 4 X3D processors. While the CES announcement confirmed the specifications featured within the CPUs, AMD did not reveal MSRPs or release dates for the highly anticipated chips. Yesterday, AMD unexpectedly announced those and other details.

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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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How intent-based network designs can dynamically match resources to customer needs

TM Forum

A TM Forum Catalyst looks at how to use intent-based networks to create 5G services of tomorrow. It demonstrates how to manage the lifecycle of a 5G network slice through its expressed business intent.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in part to advances in information technology. Two IT leaders who have been on the forefront of that are Kim Mackenroth and Chris Nardecchia. Kim Mackenroth is vice president and global CIO of Textron, a Fortune 302 multi-industry company with around 33,000 employees worldwide. Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business s

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The role of intent APIs in cost-effective autonomous networks

TM Forum

Learn how this Catalyst is demonstrating intent-driven, multi-layer, autonomous operations with TM Forum Open APIs. It showcases intent implementations according to common CSP- defined business objectives by developing intent interfaces and models at the business layer, which will cascade down to the service and resource layers.

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

CIO Business Intelligence

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. It’s something you should do all year long and, if approached correctly, it works no matter where you are on the career ladder. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.