Wed.Apr 14, 2021

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Three Seismic Shifts In Buying Behavior From Forrester’s 2021 B2B Buying Survey

Forrester IT

Forrester’s 2021 B2B Buying Survey, with more than 950 respondents from around the world, reveals significant changes in buying behavior.

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Bitcoin hits record high of $63000 before largest cryptocurrency exchange listing on Nasdaq

CTOvision

The value of the cryptocurrency bitcoin has surged to a record high, reaching $63,000 (£45,800). The cryptocurrency, which has risen in value by 450% in the last six months, continued to climb by a further 5% during trading on Tuesday. Bitcoin’s price has more than doubled since the start of 2021. The digital currency has […].

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Future Fit Technology Strategy – Learning from Amazon

Forrester IT

The future fit challenge applies today, not just tomorrow CIOs and technology leaders have a core objective to develop and improve the technology foundations and innovation their firms need to win, serve, and retain customers. They must also enable their employees with the capabilities to achieve this customer obsession in an efficient and effective way. […].

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CipherTrace Introduces Compliance Solutions for DEX and DeFi Protocol Using Chainlink Network

CTOvision

CipherTrace, a leading crypto intelligence company has launched its new compliance solution CipherTrace DeFi Compli that helps decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and DeFi applications to abide by the rules and regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This is a big step towards bringing legitimacy to the fastly evolving DeFi space. The CipherTrace DeFi Compli […].

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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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Forecasting In Uncertainty: Despite The Pandemic, US Tech Jobs Grew In 2020 Led By Data And Security Positions

Forrester IT

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 31 released its 2020 Occupational Employment Survey. We use this data for our estimates and forecast of US business and government spending on tech staff, utilizing both the data on tech jobs by industry and on average annual salaries for different tech positions. But the OES survey […].

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Voucher Discounts: How to Save Money on Your IT Certifications (2021 Refresh)

Association of Information Technology Professional

Getting an IT certification is an investment in your career. But with every investment comes a cost. Here are seven ways to get a voucher discount.

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Report: Defense Tech Startup Anduril Eyes New Funding Round

CTOvision

Anduril Industries plans a new round of financing that would value the defense technology startup at approximately $4 billion to $5 billion, The Information reported Monday. The Irvine, California-based startup is likely to use the proceeds to further expand development work on drones and other military equipment. The publication cited sources that say the new round […].

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Tackle Five Challenges Of Tech Experience Improvement

Forrester IT

With vaccine rollouts continuing en masse in many countries, companies are starting to get greater clarity on their return-to-work strategy. Forrester’s research has been clear on the return to work: 30% of companies will return to the office “as normal,” 60% will operate in a hybrid model, and 10% will transition to an “anywhere work” strategy, in which employees primarily work remotely.

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Snowflake Blasts into the Cloud Wars Top 10, Replacing #10 Adobe

CTOvision

Despite having annual revenue of well under $600 million, high-growth superstar Snowflake has forced its way into the Cloud Wars Top 10 by seizing the data-cloud position that all the major cloud players missed and are now eager to claim. Snowflake replaces #10 Adobe on my weekly Cloud Wars Top 10 rankings. While Adobe’s Digital Experience […].

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What Does It Take To Be A Successful CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs want to find ways to be successful Image Credit: GotCredit. Just think of all of the things that the person with the CIO job has to stay on top of: the explosive growth of cloud computing, the continued rise in business-managed IT spend, and incredible leaps in data analytics and automation. In this environment, a new generation of CIOs are leading the way by rewriting the culture of IT to better embrace the importance of information technology.

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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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Centripetal on Finding simplicity in Cyber Threat Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Byron Rashed explain how companies can sort out their cybersecurity strategy through threat intelligence on Centripetal Blog : In battling the constant threat of security breaches, many organizations rely on solutions that provide real-time security alerts. The average enterprise employs dozens of tools, leaving security teams inundated with alerts and focused on multiple interfaces […].

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The Rising Bar For Retailer Mobile App Experiences — Are You Ready?

Forrester IT

Use best-in-class examples to prioritize your retail mobile app development.

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Best ConfigMgr Secondary Server Upgrade Step by Step Guide | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Best ConfigMgr Secondary Server Upgrade Step by Step Guide | SCCM appeared first on HTMD Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Why IT Leaders Should Make Cloud Training a Top Priority

Information Week

As IT operations continue drifting into the cloud, it's important to ensure that organization personnel keep pace with the latest skills and practices.

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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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5 Simple Ways to Become PCI-DSS Compliant

Association of Information Technology Professional

Discover how and why your organization should become PCI-DSS compliant.

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100+ critical IT policies every company needs, ready for download

Tech Republic Security

From remote work and social media to ergonomics and encryption, TechRepublic has dozens of ready-made, downloadable IT policy templates.

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Shells makes using Linux in the cloud incredibly easy

Tech Republic Cloud

If you're looking for a virtual Linux desktop or server host, Shells delivers simplicity and performance for just about any type of user.

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DDoS attacks increased by 20% in 2020, meaning everyone should consider themselves at risk

Tech Republic Security

There were more than 10 million DDoS attacks in 2020, driven by new attack vectors and new threat actors; most of the industries targeted were vital to life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Understanding POLQA

Spearline Testing

Poor audio quality often means a customer can’t complete the objective of their call. It has a negative effect on average call duration, customer experience, and call abandonment rates for contact centers. A majority of large corporations with call centers are aware of this, and they frequently pay their telecoms providers for the highest quality lines in order to supply their clients with the highest quality audio.

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Cybersecurity funding hits all time high in 2020

Tech Republic Security

Investors pumped almost $8 billion into cybersecurity firms last year, according to Crunchbase.

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MassMutual CISO Talks Cybersecurity Priorities

Information Week

Insurance and financial firm MassMutual's chief information security officer talks about the changing threat landscape and how data science is helping the security team's charter.

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FBI cleans up infected Exchange servers

Tech Republic Security

The feds removed web shells that provided backdoor access to cybercriminals in a recent exploit of Microsoft Exchange.

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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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ServiceNow combines ITOM Visibility with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Tech Republic Cloud

Customers can use the integrated services to manage multicloud environments as well as daily IT operations, according to the companies.

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Revenge: Spectrum Workers on Strike Build Their Own ISP

Gizmodo

If, for any number of reasons, you’d like to burn telecoms to the ground and build a new internet service provider on their smoldering remains, good news for you. New York City Spectrum workers, who’ve weathered an anguishing four-year strike, have built their own internet service provider. If the city throws its… Read more.

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The Five Pillars of Resilience Engineering

Information Week

Keeping systems up and running has become even more critical given today's distributed workforce. Here are five ways to keep your engineering team ready for anything.

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Amazon sets 2021 diversity goals and releases new workforce data on gender and race

GeekWire

Inside Amazon HQ. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead). The news: Amazon released new data on the racial and gender makeup of its workforce and outlined plans to increase the number of Black and women employees at the company. The data: As of Dec. 31, women make up 31.4% of U.S. corporate employees, up 1.4% from 2019. Black employees make up 7.2%, up from 5.4%.

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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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Securonix, AWS partner on new cloud-native SIEM solution

Tech Republic Security

AWS customers will be able to connect their accounts to Securonix's AWS-hosted SaaS security software using what it calls a "bring your own cloud" model.

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NVIDIA and Cloudflare offer AI to all developers

Tech Republic Cloud

The partnership said its workers developer platform is faster and 75% less expensive than AWS Lambda.

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Navy Acknowledges Weird Footage of Unidentified Objects Flying Around Its Ships Is Real

Gizmodo

The Pentagon has officially verified that night-vision video circulating of unidentified, triangular aerial craft swarming around the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Russell in 2019 is real, as first reported last week by Mystery Wire. Read more.

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HyperX teams with 1,000 Dreams Fund to support women in gaming

Venture Beast

HyperX, the gaming accessories and memory brand now owned by HP, has teamed up with 1,000 Dreams Fund's academy to support women in gaming. Read More.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.