Thu.Sep 27, 2018

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Myth #3: Digital Transformation Requires A Chief Digital Officer

Forrester IT

Do you see the Chief Digital Officer as some kind of digital superhero, swooping in to rescue a dysfunctional business and transform it into a digital powerhouse? The truth is Chief Digital Officers can be very effective with strong CEO backing, but they are not always necessary. A business savvy, customer-obsessed CIO can be as […].

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An interview with Robert Fink, Architect of Foundry, Palantir’s open data platform Part Two: Open Source and Open Approaches

CTOvision

Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series of three capturing the result of recent interview/discussions I had with Robert Fink of Palantir. The conversation was wide ranging, hitting on topics of design, development environments and a bit on the philosophy of enterprise tech. Several common themes emerged in those topic areas, including […].

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The Day Of The Machine Is Here: Are We Human Enough To Seize It?

Forrester IT

You’re an executive, an employer, or maybe an up-and-comer in your organization, but either way you have surveyed the moment and you know that big things are poised to happen.

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Cisco unearths 13 “High Impact” IOS vulnerabilities you need to patch now

Network World

Cisco today exposed 13 vulnerabilities in its IOS and IOS XE switch and router operating software that the company said should be patched as soon as possible. The vulnerabilities were detailed in Cisco’s twice-yearly dump of IOS exposures. All have a High Impact security rating and fixes should be evaluated by users quickly. [ Also see Invaluable tips and tricks for troubleshooting Linux. ].

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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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AI & Machine Learning: An Enterprise Guide

Information Week

A collection of information resources designed to help enterprise IT professionals launch and advance their artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation initiatives.

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SEO and The Wrong Ways People Try To Achieve It

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - SEO and The Wrong Ways People Try To Achieve It - Information Technology Blog. Search engine optimization, or SEO, remains an integral part of any digital marketing campaign, precisely because it’s the backbone of your presence online. Search engines crawl around websites on the internet and assess their “importance” to their respective audiences.

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A Markdown-to-PDF Workflow on Linux

Scott Lowe

In May of last year I wrote about using a Makefile with Markdown documents , in which I described how I use make and a Makefile along with CLI tools like multimarkdown (the binary, not the format) and Pandoc. At that time, I’d figured out how to use combinations of the various CLI tools to create various formats from the source Markdown document.

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16 Best Big Data Programs at Prestigious  MBA Schools

Dataconomy

We live in a world of 1’s and 0’s, a world of data. Consumers and businesses send and receive enormous amounts of data all day, every day. From smartphones that learn how the user behaves to purchasing decisions that inform marketing messaging to analytics that can isolate flaws in a. The post 16 Best Big Data Programs at Prestigious MBA Schools appeared first on Dataconomy.

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How to Keep IT “Fresh” and Get Digital Ready

Future of CIO

The majority of IT organizations are perceived as monolithic, isolated, and stereotypical support centers with heavyweight hardware boxes, focus on “keeping the business lights on.” IT running in an industrial mode as a business controller or a restraint no longer fits in the dynamic business circumstances or volatile digital new normal. Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity.

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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter 1 The Digital CIO as Change Agent

Future of CIO

As businesses change shape, size, expansion, and transformation, CIOs have to wear different personas and master multiple leadership and management role effortlessly. The important thing is that the digital CIO as the top leadership role must have the strategic mindset, interdisciplinary knowledge, unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet creative enough to not hold the company back from growth, and ideally, becomes the digital change agent.

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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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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/28/2018

Future of CIO

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 5000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society.