Mon.Sep 14, 2020

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Renault Rolls Out Blockchain-Based System For Auto Industry Compliance

CTOvision

Carmaker Renault Group said it has developed a blockchain-based system allowing manufacturers to certify the regulatory compliance of vehicle components from design through to production. The XCEED (eXtended Compliance End-to-End Distributed) […].

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Build The Case For A Customer Success Management Program Now

Forrester IT

Build The Case For A Customer Success Management Program Now Business leaders recognize that there is great value in retaining their best customers. Forrester’s research bears this out: devoted customers pay price premiums, buy additional services, and help attract other good customers. But how do customer experience (CX) leaders convince executives to invest in the […].

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Running Into Cloud Migration Challenges? Here’s How To Overcome Them

CTOvision

Read Srinivas Arasada explain how businesses can avoid or overcome cloud migration challenges on Forbes: Cloud computing is no longer new ground for organizations, but surveys show that there’s still […].

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Oracle Sort Of Buys TikTok (But Not Really)

Forrester IT

Larry Ellison proves that customer acquisition cost (CAC) is no barrier in Oracle’s conquest to expand its cloud credibility and market share. The announcement is murky at the moment, but the particulars indicate that Oracle and ByteDance will enter into a technology partnership to host the US operations of TikTok. This allows TikTok to escape […].

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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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Why Should You Automate Manufacturing Processes: To Save Money, Make Money Or Both?

CTOvision

Read why Andres Richter says that manufacturers need to automate their processes using Internet of Things connected devices and artificial intelligence on Forbes: No matter what they churn out at […].

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CMOS: Shift To People-Led-Planning

Forrester IT

CMOs, you won’t make it through the harsh economic conditions coming in 2020 if you can’t adjust your planning approach to respond to changing customer needs and operational availability. You’ve known shifting to people-led-planning was a good idea for years. Read the new research I just published with my colleague Stephanie Liu to learn how […].

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Pandemic Got Your Marketing Plans Down? Pivot To People-Led Planning

Forrester IT

COVID-19 has disrupted school, summer vacations, birthdays, weddings — you name it. It has been equally unforgiving to marketers, whose carefully crafted marketing plans became irrelevant amid store closures, erratic shopping trends, and supply shortages. If there’s one upside to the pandemic, it’s pushing marketers to reevaluate their marketing planning processes.

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Beware – excessive permissions are the #1 cloud threat

CTOvision

Read why Eyal Arazi says that excessive permissions in cloud computing are harmful on iTWire: In this new environment, workload security is defined by which users have access to a […].

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Apple Keynote

Forrester IT

Apple’s “Time Flies” keynote will take place tomorrow, September 15, live from Apple Park: [link] I have been following Apple keynotes for many years (since at least 2005) and they often generate irrational expectations for disruptive innovative products. Over the past few years, pundits have regularly questioned Apple’s ability to innovate while continuing to grow […].

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The evolution of IoT asset tracking devices

CTOvision

Here is a look at how the Internet of Things asset tracking has emerged as one of the high growth applications on Helpnet Security : Asset tracking is one of […].

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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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How a Java Low-Code Development Platform Drives Useful Innovation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Can Java development teams have all the benefits of working with their development environment and also have the speed to market, best practices, and scalability coming from a low-code platform? The answer is yes, but it requires a Java-based low-code platform that has two-way code integration into the Eclipse IDE and supports UI, workflow, and API development.

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Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System

All Things Distributed

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. The disadvantage of this is that there is no “how to” guide for us—a lot is unknown. However, the advantage is that when we solve a new problem, it’s an opportunity to reinvent our services and create new benefits for our customers. Indeed, we have created some of our most innovative and successful ideas when we have entered unchartered territory.

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SCCM Report Office 365 Client Upgrade Readiness Dashboard | Part 3

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s build an SCCM Report Office 365 Client Upgrade Readiness Dashboard. This post is a continuation of Part1 and Part2, in my previous posts we imported two raw data reports that gave us information about different Microsoft Office versions. We also understood a few more details got added after enabling the ‘Office365 ProPlusConfigurations‘ information on Office 365 Inventory.

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The Fast Track to Success: CompTIA Rising Star Makes 2020 Work for Him

Association of Information Technology Professional

Just when we’re about to write off 2020, JJ Adams proves your goals don’t have to take a backseat.

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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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Microsoft’s underwater server experiment resurfaces after two years

The Verge

Photo: Microsoft. Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean. Today, the company has reported that its latest experiment was a success, revealing findings that show that the idea of an underwater data center is actually a pretty good one.

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Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

GeekWire

A rendering of what was supposed to be REI’s new headquarters complex in Bellevue, Wash. Facebook is now purchasing the property from REI, which decided to sell amid the shift to remote work caused by the pandemic. (Image via Wright Runstad & Company / Spring District). Facebook is yet again expanding in the Seattle region, its largest engineering hub outside of Silicon Valley.

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Feds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds

The Verge

In a truly bizarre situation that I’m still trying to wrap my head around, US Customs and Border Protection tonight tweeted that its officers had “recently seized 2,000 counterfeit Apple AirPods from Hong Kong, valued at $398K had they been genuine.” There’s also a press release : “CBP officers are protecting the American public from various dangers on a daily basis,” said Troy Miller, director of CBP’s New York field operations, in the release.

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Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud

GeekWire

Members of the Project Natick team power wash algae, barnacles and sea anemones off the Northern Isles underwater data center, which was retrieved from the seafloor off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. (Microsoft Photo / Jonathan Banks). Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in , scrubbed off algae and barnacles and assessed the findings of the unique underwater project.

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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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It's official: Nvidia is acquiring Arm

TechSpot

Nvidia has announced that it has reached an agreement with SoftBank to acquire Arm Limited, in a transaction worth $40 billion financed using common stock and cash. While Nvidia will take possession of Arm and its lucrative IP portfolio, the transaction does not include Arm's IoT Services Group, which will.

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Blue Origin and partners pass key milestone for lunar lander design

GeekWire

Artwork shows the National Team’s lunar lander making its touchdown. (Blue Origin Illustration). Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the aerospace team that it’s leading has completed its first “gated milestone” in a NASA-funded effort to develop a lunar lander for crewed missions. The milestone — known as the system requirement review, or SRR — involves specifying the baseline requirements for the missions, the space vehicles and the landing syste

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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images. Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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The Other CFO: The Rise of the Cloud Economist

Information Week

Here's why you need someone on hand who understands the technical and financial aspects of cloud management so that things don't spiral out of control.

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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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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Might Be the Most Violent Kids Show Out There

Gizmodo

Netflix’s Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous opens on a kid running for his life. He watches his guide get eaten by velociraptors before he himself is swallowed by a T-Rex. It turns out it was just a VR video game, but that kind of represents the whole series: Children being “safely” traumatized. Read more.

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Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots

Venture Beast

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter discusses profitability; Spot, Pick, Handle, and Atlas; the company's broader roadmap, including which robots are next. Read More.

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Why smoke, why? What happened to the promise of clearer skies in Seattle come Monday

GeekWire

Seattle’s skyline is a smokey haze due to wildfire smoke on Sept. 12, 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Waking up Saturday morning, my window blinds glowed with a ghoulish yellow thanks to the blanket of wildfire smoke that was smothering Washington, Oregon and California. I rolled over and went back to sleep for an hour. Our family made it through the weekend with board games, a lot of pie, “The Office” reruns, the entertainment value of a new kitten and, most importantly

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Looks Bad

Gizmodo

I do not like this map one bit. The Atlantic hurricane season from hell is kicking into overdrive with five tropical cyclones dotting the map, two more that could form in the next week, and one particularly worrisome storm heading for the Gulf Coast. Read more.

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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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Radiall proposes ‘massive modular’ 6G mesh networks with tiny antennas

Venture Beast

While 5G networks are under construction across the world, 6G researchers are proposing a radical change that would distribute data across 'micro-cells.' Read More.

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‘He has no clue’: Elon Musk offers blunt criticism of Bill Gates’ take on electric trucks

GeekWire

Tesla’s Semi, as seen on the company’s website. (Tesla Image). While Elon Musk plans to keep on (electric) truckin’, don’t expect him to pick up a hitchhiking Bill Gates. The latest beef between the billionaires bubbled up on Twitter over the weekend when the Tesla CEO responded to the Microsoft co-founder’s recent take on the viability of electric semi trucks.

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Electronic Arts doubles down on EA Play brand with EA Desktop app

Venture Beast

Electronic Arts is launching a new EA Desktop app, a revamped version of its Origin online gaming service. It is also boosting its EA Play brand. Read More.

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Amazon to hire 100,000 new operations workers in latest spree fueled by pandemic demand

GeekWire

Mary Peters, an Amazon stower, places items in a robotic shelving unit at the company’s Kent, Wash., fulfillment center. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Amazon plans to hire an additional 100,000 full- and part-time workers across its operations network in the U.S. and Canada to help keep up with the surging demand for its e-commerce services during the pandemic.

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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.