Wed.Apr 15, 2020

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Pandemic Fallout Creates Perfect Conditions For Insider Threat

Forrester IT

Organizations around the world have moved quickly to deal with COVID-19, sending users to work from home, reducing staff, and taking other cost control actions. While these steps are necessary, they combine to create ideal conditions for insider threat. Motivations that compel employees to become malicious insiders include financial distress, disgruntlement, and announcement or fear […].

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23 April Webinar: Refreshing Your Data Strategy for the New Age of Hybrid Cloud Computing

CTOvision

On Thursday April 23 at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific, I’ll be participating in a webinar I hope you will find of interest. This online discussion will provide insights into how data architectures can be improved in the age of hybrid cloud computing. From the webinar overview: The agility and improved mission support associated with the widespread […].

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Open Banking in Australia: Where Are We Now?

Forrester IT

Quite a lot has happened since 2020 started. As Australian banking leaders roll out initiatives to help consumers and small business owners cope with the fallout from the coronavirus, they also face an impending deadline: to make consumer data available by July this year. Although open banking was announced two years ago, most Australian banks […].

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Free 8 eBooks for ConfigMgr | Intune | SCCM Device Management | Download

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, you shall get an opportunity to download free eBooks for ConfigMgr and Intune. All the following eBooks are either from Microsoft or community. Introduction – eBooks for ConfigMgr Most of the eBooks discussed in the post are directly published by Microsoft.

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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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Go Beyond Surveys To Measure CX

Forrester IT

Getting decent survey response rates is hard and getting harder for CX professionals. That means you need to start mining other data that can give you a sense of the quality of the experiences your customers are having.

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Unlocking Business Potential with Digital Data Optimization

Information Week

Information is power. With data playing an increasingly important role in achieving enterprise success, IT leaders must learn how to squeeze the maximum value out of collected data.

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Cisco says to patch critical UCS security holes now

Network World

Cisco has posted a package of 17 critical security warnings about authentication vulnerabilities in its Unified Computing System that could let attackers break into systems or cause denial of service troubles. Specifically the problems are with Cisco’s UCS Director and Express which let customers build private-cloud systems and support automated provisioning processes and orchestration to optimize and simplify delivery of data-center resources, the company said.

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Three hurdles to address before digital retail payments can scale across APAC

Forrester IT

Trust plays a huge part in the success of any new payment system, and any friction can create obstacles. In Asia Pacific, though digital retail payment is growing quickly, there are three key challenges to overcome: Lack of differentiated value for customers, Fragmented standards, Fragmented digital retail payment ecosystems.

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CIOs Look For Ways To Use Blockchain Resumes

The Accidental Successful CIO

Blockchain can make background claims easy to verify Image Credit: Photo by Helloquence on Unsplash. The person with the CIO job realizes that their company has a significant problem when it comes to hiring people. They can’t always trust that the resume that the person has given them is truthful. The traditional way of trying to make sure that the company is getting the straight story is to run a background check on each candidate.

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Three Hurdles To Address Before Digital Retail Payments Can Scale Across AP

Forrester IT

Trust plays a huge part in the success of any new payment system, and any friction can create obstacles. In Asia Pacific, though digital retail payment is growing quickly, there are three key challenges to overcome: Lack of differentiated value for customers, Fragmented standards, Fragmented digital retail payment ecosystems.

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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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Scammers exploit coronavirus for Business Email Compromise campaigns

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals are deploying COVID-19-themed gift card scams, wire transfer scams, and payroll scams aimed at organizations and their employees, according to security provider Trustwave.

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Six Aspects To Palo Alto’s Acquisition of CloudGenix

Forrester IT

On March 31st, Palo Alto Networks announced the intent to acquire CloudGenix, a software defined WAN appliance vendor. This was another announcement in a long list from the security and networking industries about merging together SD-WAN and security. Such combinations are inevitable because: SDWAN adoption hasn’t matched the hype. Here is a dirty little secret: […].

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Why Compliance is for Guidance, Not a Security Strategy

Information Week

Chief information officers face challenges obtaining buy-in to invest in cybersecurity. Yet equating compliance to security is the biggest mistake CISOs are making.

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How Apple and Google plan to combat the coronavirus through contact tracing

Tech Republic Security

The companies are touting a built-in technology to identify people potentially exposed to the virus, but there are challenges over effectiveness and privacy.

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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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GitHub goes free for teams, reduces premium pricing

Tech Republic Cloud

The new changes take effect immediately and permanently expand free individual access to groups, with an unlimited number of collaborators allowed.

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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: The Digital Professional Competency Apr. 2020

Future of CIO

The purpose of “ Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit“ is to share insight about multidimensional enterprise fit from digital characteristics, organizational structure, change, knowledge, and talent perspectives; evoke critical and paradoxical thinking about digital “fit vs. misfit,” spark healthy debates on how to define and develop true digital fit, and build a fitting working environment to inspire creativity and accelerate digital transformation.

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How to create a group calendar in Nextcloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Find out how to add group calendars to Nextcloud so your work at home cloud solution is even more capable of making your job a bit easier.

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A Post-Coronavirus Retirement Action Plan

Virtualized Greek

The following fist appeared on Money and Markets. We’ll never know the exact numbers, but I suspect a lot of Boomers will be delaying retirement for a couple years following the coronavirus bear market. While the S&P 500 is sitting at March 2019 levels, shares of the sorts of high-yielding stocks loved by retirees – equity REITs, mortgage REITs, energy stocks, preferred stock, etc. – have taken brutal losses that won’t be as easily recovered.

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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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CTERA extends the global file system to DevOps with new tools

Tech Republic Cloud

The SDK for Python enables automated provisioning of edge-to-cloud file services and the Ansible Collection enables enterprises to automate IT processes, the company said.

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Don’t Go Bargain Hunting in Carnival (CCL) Quite Yet

Virtualized Greek

The following first appeared on InvestorPlace. Few companies have been battered as hard as Carnival Corporation (CCL) by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdowns. Along with hotels and airlines, Carnival has the misfortune of being a travel and leisure company with high overhead and effectively no income for the foreseeable future. In mid-January, when COVID-19 was hitting the Chinese economy hard but seemed a world away from Europe or the United States, CCL stock traded around $52 per

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The “Realization” 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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Your agency teams are up and running remotely. Now what?

Nutanix

Like many state and local agency IT teams over the past few weeks, your people had to move at lightning speed to get your agency up and running remotely.

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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 amazing opportunity of balancing home, office, and ‘third space’ work post-coronavirus

Trends in the Living Networks

A couple of days I was a guest on ABC’s The Drum program. One of the questions I was asked was the degree to which we will continue to work from home after the pandemic. For my response watch the brief video below, or see the full program online , this segment starts at 45:00. Below the video I describe in detail the forces shaping the relative roles of home, office, and ‘third space’ in a post-coronavirus future of work.

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Your agency teams are up and running remotely. Now what?

Nutanix

Like many state and local agency IT teams over the past few weeks, your people had to move at lightning speed to get your agency up and running remotely.

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Avoid IT Management Pitfalls by Using IT Architecture Tools

Future of CIO

With continuous disruptions often led by technology and abundant information, IT is the key component in building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays. Excessive IT complexity limits innovation and enlarges gaps between IT and business. The useful tools such as IT Architecture(ITA) helps to improve the growth capacity and maturity of the organization and rebrand IT as a trustful business partner.

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Your agency teams are up and running remotely. Now what?

Nutanix

Like many state and local agency IT teams over the past few weeks, your people had to move at lightning speed to get your agency up and running remotely.

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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.