Mon.Jan 21, 2019

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CEOs And Software

Forrester IT

How To Lead The Most Important – and Perplexing — Corporate Domain by John R. Rymer and Jeffrey S. Hammond Summary What if CEOs — not software development and delivery leaders or CIOs — held the keys to the fast, high-quality software delivery that is so crucial to digital business?

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How Can 5G Accelerate The Internet Of Things (IoT)?

CTOvision

5G, or fifth generation cellular communications technology, has become a hot topic across industries for its potential impact on emerging technologies, and specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT), which describes the development, manufacture, and use of connected devices. These devices range from small heart-rate-monitors to autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, intelligent factories, and much more.

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Brands: Here Is The Size Of Your Digital Commerce Prize

Forrester IT

Consumer-facing brands know that there is proverbial “gold” in generating direct sales through digital commerce — but the big question is the size of the prize. Where will brands place their digital commerce bets, and what will each yield in terms of digital sales, profitability, and customer relationships? The sales opportunity across different digital commerce touchpoints, […].

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Hybrid cloud trends offer lessons for potential adopters

CTOvision

Organizations and IT administrators hoping to follow hybrid cloud trends can save time and energy by planning ahead with these hybrid cloud design, deployment and migration guidelines. A hybrid cloud system mixes private and public cloud platforms with orchestration that enables workload flexibility between them. Hybrid cloud admins can move workloads between on-premises and third-party clouds […].

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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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Killing Spreadsheets and Empowering Data Driven Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

One of the more polarizing discussions I've had with IT leaders on Twitter chats #IdgTechTalk (Thursdays 12pm ET), #CIOChat (Thursdays at 2pm ET) or at conferences is around the use or misuse of spreadsheets. From the comments, you can guess people are either "for" or "against" using spreadsheets, but what we are really saying is, "Use them wisely" and find ways to replace them with more.

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How Blockchain Technology Can Improve America’s Infrastructure

CTOvision

Read Adam Millsap explain how blockchain technology can help improve USA’s crumbling public infrastructure on Forbes : America’s infrastructure is often described as crumbling, broken-down, and out-of-date by politicians from both sides. While the reality isn’t so dire, there are obvious infrastructure issues throughout the country, such as New York’s subway, D.C.’s metro, and almost any […].

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CIO upfront: The Internet of Things – who pays when things go wrong?

CTOvision

Read Mark Campbell of Russell McVeagh discuss what companies can do to protect themselves on CIO : The internet of things (IoT), the ability of everyday objects to remotely connect to computers, promises connection, convenience and new market opportunities for manufacturers and developers. For the users of smart devices and apps, the convenience factor comes with […].

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The Future of War is Cyber

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - The Future of War is Cyber - Information Technology Blog. To explain what Cyberwar is, we have to do a little exercise of imagination. Imagine a war without a battlefield, without troops deployed, without firearms, bombs, large-scale bloodshed. Imagine moving all hostilities into a large office, full of servers and monitors connected to the internet and controlled by a small handful of IT experts.

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Facebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead to take over Portal team

CTOvision

Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google’s entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware. Ryan Cairns comes aboard after 12 years at Google, where he was most recently the engineering lead for a team of more than 500 people tackling AR/VR at the big G, including Daydream, Lens and ARCore, according to his LinkedIn. His […].

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Q&A: Cloud Services Offer Retailers New Competitive Edge

Information Week

Incumbent retailers can no longer count on size and scale to fend off startup rivals. Google Cloud's Pravin Pillai discusses how cloud-based solutions can make these enterprises nimbler.

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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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Tips for Finding the Best Photography Equipment

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Tips for Finding the Best Photography Equipment - Information Technology Blog. Choosing photography equipment can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. If you are buying a camera or lens for the first time, you will be overwhelmed with the long list of choices that are available. By merely looking at the technical details, you can easily be confused, especially if you do not know what the terms mean.

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Three Aspects of Running Highly Adaptive Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Digital means fast-paced changes, continuous disruptions, overwhelming information, and shortened knowledge life cycle. How successful the individual or the organization can handle such “VUCA” digital new normal depends on how fast and capable they can adapt to changes and overcome upcoming challenges. Here are three aspects of running a highly adaptive digital organization.

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7 Effective Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate and Boost Conversion

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 7 Effective Ways to Reduce Bounce Rate and Boost Conversion - Information Technology Blog. When someone takes a cursory look through your home page and then decides “ No, not here. I should look elsewhere! ”, they have bounced. To track your bounce rate, pop into Google Analytics and determine whether you need to do something about it.

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Creativity and Authenticity

Future of CIO

Being authentic is the state of self-consciousness, self-discovery, and self-improvement. It seems everyone who considers authenticity has his or her own view of it. It is a construct formed in the mind and we know that the mind of every individual is different, the actual mental understanding and subsequent manifestations in action will be different for each individual.

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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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MacX DVD Ripper Pro: Copy and Rip Any DVD in 5 mins [Giveaway]

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - MacX DVD Ripper Pro: Copy and Rip Any DVD in 5 mins [Giveaway] - Information Technology Blog. Want to digitize your entire collection of DVDs or family movies? It’s simple; you just need the right tool. In addition to the tireless DVD burner, you will need the application that goes well. Here we are about MacX DVD Ripper Pro, which allows you to extract, convert and edit your DVDs to many video formats compatible with multiple devices on your computer withou

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: “Change Agent” CIO Jan, 2019

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.

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The Nutanix Approach to Federal IT – Part II

Nutanix

In Part I of this blog, we talked about “the interesting times we live in” regarding the state of Federal IT. The problem is – managing and delivering IT shouldn’t be an adventure.

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Easy Does It: 6 Great Ways to Improve Your Website Usability

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Easy Does It: 6 Great Ways to Improve Your Website Usability - Information Technology Blog. We all know that feeling of frustration we get when we arrive at a website and find that it’s nearly completely unusable, requiring such an effort of combined patience, guesswork, and trial-and-error to get what you need from it.

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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.