Tue.Jul 30, 2019

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CEOs Own Software Competency — And The Structure Of Innovation Delivery

Forrester IT

World-class innovation delivery requires weaving together three foundational realities: “Software is eating the world.” Marc Andreessen famously said this in a 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal. It was true then, and it’s all the more true today. Whether your firm is disrupting markets or playing catch-up, every major business activity and strategy requires […].

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Expanding the cloud to the Middle East: Introducing the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region

All Things Distributed

I'm happy to announce today that the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region is now open! This is our first AWS Region in the Middle East and I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to organizations of all sizes. Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations can run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in the Middle East.

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60 Days. 100+ Inquiries and Briefings. 4 Things You Should Know.

Forrester IT

If you missed my intro blog, “A New Rhythm in HCM“, here’s the summary: I’m new to Forrester after more than 25 years working for software vendors, including, most recently SAP, where I was a part of SAP SuccessFactors product leadership team. I’m very excited to be leading the re-ignition of Forrester’s Human Capital Management/ […].

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Top 10 SCCM Content Source Location Priority List

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I have seen that SCCM content source location priority is most popular SCCM interview question. If you are one of those SCCM admins who stumbled across this interview question, then this post is for you. SCCM content location logic is not always the same; it can change depending on the version of SCCM & scenarios. […].

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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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A Blueprint For Pragmatic Digital Transformation: The Home Depot Story

Forrester IT

Traditional retailers have been impacted more than most when it comes to digital disruption. Even retailers and brands that have embraced the urgency to transform often struggle to prioritize investments and create the right culture. Fortunately, we can learn from organizations that are embracing a pragmatic approach to transformation. They often start with focused innovation […].

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The Insider Guide to Frankfurt Book Fair- Vol.1

Kitaboo

It’s that time of the year again! The Frankfurt Book Fair is back! If there’s one occasion which brings all the who’s who of the publishing industry at one place, it’s the Frankfurt Book Fair , or as the Germans call it – Frankfurter Buchmesse. With a 500-year-old history, this event is considered to be the world’s largest trade fair for books.

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4 PHP Mistakes You Need to Avoid At All Cost

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 4 PHP Mistakes You Need to Avoid At All Cost - Information Technology Blog. Did you realize there are over 1.3 million computer programmers in the United States? Finding a way to rise above the competition in this industry is no easy task. The best way to achieve this goal is by producing quality work in a timely manner.

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Hotel Chains Demonstrate Common B2B eCommerce Website Blunders

Forrester IT

Why do hotel web sites fail to support business travellers' customer journeys, in both the digital and physical sense? B2B eCommerce sites should help business shoppers balance price with value, which is a nuanced combination of many factors, not a series of binary choices.

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Atlassian CIO's Lessons for Better M&As and Divestitures

Information Week

Is there anything more headache inducing than the idea of IT efforts needed for a merger or acquisition? Here's a look at one CIO's journey and lessons learned.

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The Forrester Wave™: ECM Content Platforms, Q3 2019

Forrester IT

Forrester is excited to announce the publication of the ‘The Forrester Wave™: ECM Content Platforms, Q3 2019‘ report. Watch the video below to learn how this refresh of two classic waves merged into one and what to expect from the evaluation: Forrester included 14 vendors in this assessment: Alfresco Software, Box, GRM Information Management, Hyland, […].

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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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Best Online Security Tips From an I.T Point of View

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Online Security Tips From an I.T Point of View - Information Technology Blog. Whether you own a small company, a multinational corporation or a side business, online security is one of the most pressing issues of our time. With just a few strokes of a keyboard, a cybercriminal can gain access to your most important and sensitive data.

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A Guide to the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Database Star

Learn all about Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), what they are used for, how to understand them, how to create them, and more in this guide. What is an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)? An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is a type of diagram that lets you see how different entities (e.g. people, customers, or other objects) […].

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The role of next-gen firewalls in an evolving security architecture

Network World

As the commercial enterprise firewall approaches its 30th birthday, it is hard to overstate how dramatically the product has evolved. This 2,700-word research report looks the current state of next-generation firewall technology.

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Why 96% of Enterprises Face AI Training Data Issues

Dataconomy

A recent survey of over 225 enterprise Data Scientists, AI technologists and business stakeholders involved in active AI and machine learning (ML) projects, suggests that for most organizations, it’s still early days for AI technology. The AI market is projected to become a $190 billion industry by 2025 ( according. The post Why 96% of Enterprises Face AI Training Data Issues 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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Adding a Name to the Kubernetes API Server Certificate

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to walk you through how to add a name (specifically, a Subject Alternative Name) to the TLS certificate used by the Kubernetes API server. This process of updating the certificate to include a name that wasn’t included could find use for a few different scenarios. A couple of situations come to mind, such as adding a load balancer in front of the control plane, or using a new or different URL/hostname used to access the API server (both situations taking place

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No-Fault Found. The headache of faults where no root-cause can be found.

Spearline Testing

Telecommunications problems. Networks are complex and they’ve become more complicated as voice, video, and data compete for the same resources. When things go wrong in the world of telecommunications and networking, energized investigation teams assemble like crime scene investigators, gathering the digital evidence that will find the root cause and support corrective action.

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Digital Playbook vs. Cookbook: What’s your Hand Book to Make a Leap of Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

The purpose of going digital is to make a significant difference in achieving high performance and unlocking the full potential of the business. It is a long journey full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity. Transformation leaders have two jobs - to play their functional management role well and to be accountable for leading the cross-functional initiatives that drive transformation.

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How to turn a spreadsheet into a web app in 3 minutes

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

I’ve mentioned the dangers of spreadsheet misuse on many occasions, and explained why it’s so important to put that spreadsheet data into your database. However, I realized that I’ve never showed you how to turn your spreadsheets into database-driven web apps. So, we created a video to do just that. The following video explains why you should convert your spreadsheets into web apps, and even shows you how it’s done.

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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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The Best “Accountability” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 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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A [service design] reading list

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

A s**t post I recently made led to a lively Twitter thread that got into origins of service design and inadvertently brought to light how broad the meaning and scope of #servicedesign actually is, and how far back it actually goes beyond Europe and the United States Majid Iqbal – A reading list.

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: How to Set Digital IT Change Agenda July 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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Mapping roads through deep learning and weakly supervised training

CTOvision

Creating accurate maps today is a painstaking, time-consuming manual process, even with access to satellite imagery and mapping software. Many regions — particularly in the developing world — remain largely unmapped. To help close this gap, Facebook AI researchers and engineers have developed a new method that uses deep learning and weakly supervised training to […].

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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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Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019

Linux Academy

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. August Study Group: Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certification for work or a personal goal, studying and staying on track is hard. Join our dedicated study group and we’ll help you pass the exam.

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‘AI will have bias but it’ll be easier to root out than human bias’

CTOvision

Successful adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) at the workplace ultimately depends on employees accepting and embracing their changing role in the future of work, says a recent white paper by global training and development organization Dale Carnegie, “Beyond Technology: Preparing People for Success in the Era of AI” The paper was based on responses from […].

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Free Courses at Linux Academy — August 2019

Linux Academy

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and resources. Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. August Study Group: Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certification for work or a personal goal, studying and staying on track is hard. Join our dedicated study group and we’ll help you pass the exam.

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Executives are not comfortable with analytics platforms, and still prefer their spreadsheets

CTOvision

For close to two decades, vendors, analysts and pundits alike have been predicting the death of the spreadsheet, as executives, managers and professionals move on to connected, intelligent analytics platforms to aid in their decision-making. It’s 2019, and guess what? Everyone still loves their spreadsheets. A recent study of 1.048 executives out of Deloitte finds […].

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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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DeepMind and Waymo collaborate to improve AI accuracy and speed up model training

CTOvision

AI models capable of reliably guiding driverless cars typically require endless testing and fine-tuning, not to mention computational power out the wazoo. In an effort to bolster AI algorithm training effectiveness and efficiency, Google parent company Alphabet’s Waymo is collaborating with DeepMind on techniques inspired by evolutionary biology, the two companies revealed in a blog […].

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How OpenAI, Founded to Keep Powerful A.I. Out of Corporate Hands, Got Into Bed With Microsoft

CTOvision

OpenAI was founded less than four years ago as a valiant stand against the idea that powerful new technology must inevitably be controlled by giant corporations. The then non-profit’s goal: Develop artificial intelligence “the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” Earlier this week, a […].