Thu.Sep 26, 2019

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Financial Service Firms Need To Stop Thinking Like Retailers On Personalization

Forrester IT

Many financial services firms say that they are already delivering on personalization and view improving their personalization capabilities and technology further as a top priority. But financial services companies’ current personalization efforts are nowhere near the level necessary to engage increasingly demanding customers. And most are thinking like retailers when it comes to personalization — […].

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How to defend your organization against browser-hijacking malware and ransomware

Tech Republic Security

Network attacks more than doubled this past quarter versus the prior quarter, according to a new report from security provider WatchGuard.

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Three Critical Metrics You Should Expect From A Vulnerability Risk Management Solution

Forrester IT

Many vulnerability risk management (VRM) solutions are limited and fail to provide meaningful metrics about the health of your VRM program. One example is the use of counting metrics such as the number of vulnerabilities identified in your organization. Counting stats don’t have any real value because they fail to provide context. These vulnerabilities could […].

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Benefits of STEM Education and Publishing

Kitaboo

STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—is a curriculum based on these four ideas. Instead of segregating these four disciplines in separate and discrete subjects, STEM interlinks them together into a cohesive learning paradigm, which is based on real-world applications. The goal behind integrating these four significant topics is to induce a sense of curiosity among students about a plethora of other related subjects including aerospace engineering, computer science, physics, che

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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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Run Your Business At The Speed Of Thought

Forrester IT

Whether you model your data and analytics practice around an insights-driven strategy or are transitioning your business to run on algorithms, these visions have greater implications than our technology heritage has prepared us for. The factory model for assembly line delivery assumed machines don’t think. And, process optimization had the effect of turning humans into […].

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Cisco: 13 IOS, IOS XE security flaws you should patch now

Network World

Cisco this week warned its IOS and IOS XE customers of 13 vulnerabilities in the operating system software they should patch as soon as possible. All of the vulnerabilities – revealed in the company’s semiannual IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundle – have a security impact rating (SIR) of "high". Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to, conduct a command injection attack on, or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on

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Responding to email-based attacks takes over three hours, on average

Tech Republic Security

Manually addressing breaches that result from email-based attacks is a time sink for IT professionals, according to a Barracuda report.

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Harvard study lays out best data strategies for multi-cloud environments

Tech Republic Cloud

Harvard Business Review released an in-depth study on what it takes to have a top-of-the-line strategy for big data.

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Why businesses would rather lose revenue than data

Tech Republic Security

While businesses don't want to lose data, 66% of business decision makers said their current IT resources do not keep up with growing technological demands.

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Open Source Gains Ground in the Enterprise

Information Week

You may not hear a lot of enterprise executives talking about it, but open source software is becoming a mainstay in big organizations.

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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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75% of execs cite phishing as the most significant security threat to businesses

Tech Republic Security

Training is the key to helping the enterprise avoid cyber threats from phishing or other means.

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The future of project management and leading organizations to become agile

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning I gave the opening keynote at the Project Management Institute NZ Annual Conference on The Future of Project Management. My keynote covered the fundamental trends shaping business, government, and projects, the changing nature of work and organizations, the new capabilities required by project leaders, and the nature of leadership for the future.

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How to deploy the Kubernetes WebUI with MicroK8s

Tech Republic Security

Looking for a web-based tool to manage Microk8s? Look no further than the Kubernetes dashboard.

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How to use Docker.env file

Tech Republic Cloud

Make your docker-compose.yml composition easier and cleaner by declaring variables in an.env file.

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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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Q&A: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne on Observability in Development

Information Week

More tools to better understand how apps are interconnected could save time on repairs and chasing security alerts.

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Best App that Tracks Phone Usage

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best App that Tracks Phone Usage - Information Technology Blog. If your family or friends complaint you are not giving time to them or you are facing certain health issues lately, then chances are high you are addicted to your smartphone device. Smartphone addiction isn’t a new phenomenon as millions of users are fighting with it around the world.

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How to use Docker.env file

Tech Republic Cloud

Make your docker-compose.yml composition easier and cleaner by declaring variables in an.env file.

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Exploring Cluster API v1alpha2 Manifests

Scott Lowe

The Kubernetes community recently released v1alpha2 of Cluster API (a monumental effort, congrats to everyone involved!), and with it comes a number of fairly significant changes. Aside from the new Quick Start , there isn’t (yet) a great deal of documentation on Cluster API (hereafter just called CAPI) v1alpha2, so in this post I’d like to explore the structure of the CAPI v1alpha2 YAML manifests, along with links back to the files that define the fields for the manifests.

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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 Rise Of “Menstrual Surveillance” and the Fight for Data Privacy in Women’s Health

Dataconomy

Before you start using the next amazing new femtech innovation, you may want to weigh the benefits against your right to privacy. You might want to think twice before accepting that sweet employer incentive for participating in health monitoring. Yes. Corporate wellness monitoring programs offer benefits, but they also have. The post The Rise Of “Menstrual Surveillance” and the Fight for Data Privacy in Women’s Health appeared first on Dataconomy.

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How to deploy the Kubernetes WebUI with MicroK8s

Tech Republic Security

Looking for a web-based tool to manage Microk8s? Look no further than the Kubernetes dashboard.

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How to enable Wake On LAN in Ubuntu Server 18.04

Tech Republic Data Center

Find out how to enable Wake On LAN on Ubuntu Server.

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Take a Logical Scenario to Drive IT Change Management

Future of CIO

Digital transformation isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business, but a quantum leap with radical change. It requires a unique vision and the courage to pursue it. Due to the exponential growth of information and “disruptive power” of digital technologies, IT needs to become a “Change Department” because it is in a unique position to manage business information and capture the oversight of the business.

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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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How to enable Wake On LAN in Ubuntu Server 18.04

Tech Republic Data Center

Find out how to enable Wake On LAN on Ubuntu Server.

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The Best “Growth Mind” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

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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Meet our.NEXT Europe Customer Award Finalists!

Nutanix

For our upcoming.NEXT Europe conference in Copenhagen we are excited to recognize some of the most innovative companies, IT leaders, and technology teams in the industry.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/27/2019

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 28 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.

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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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Convert Markdown to PDF Tutorial

Linux Academy

How to Convert Markdown to PDF. I wrote, back in December of 2018 (it’s September of 2019 now) over here about how I created a process for converting Markdown to PDF with Pandoc. Well, the plot thickens… What was really nice, if you read that post, was how fast we could convert now. There were some things we were willing to put up with in exchange for such a speedy (a few seconds) turnaround time.

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How ATS simplifies the recruitment process

Hacker Earth

The fate of a business rests in the hands of a recruiter. Dramatic, I know. But not necessarily wrong. . Recruiters are responsible for bringing in the best talent possible to an organization. Because there are so many moving parts to recruiting—scheduling, interviewing, communicating— recruiters can significantly lighten their workload with applicant tracking systems. .

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How ATS simplifies the recruitment process

Hacker Earth

The fate of a business rests in the hands of a recruiter. Dramatic, I know. But not necessarily wrong. . Recruiters are responsible for bringing in the best talent possible to an organization. Because there are so many moving parts to recruiting—scheduling, interviewing, communicating— recruiters can significantly lighten their workload with applicant tracking systems. .