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Use Direct Mail To Get The Attention Of Your Digital-First B2B Buyers

Forrester IT

When was the last time you answered a phone call from a phone number you didn’t recognize or opened an email from an unfamiliar sender? Like, never? Same here. The sad truth about most modern marketing tactics is that they’re too cheap and too easy. When anyone can do it, everyone will — which also […].

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How blockchain is becomming the 5G of the payment industry

CTOvision

As more blockchain-based payment networks and fiat-backed digital currencies – including one from the largest U.S. bank – emerge, experts and analysts are predicting a sea change for the financial services industry. “I think you’re starting to see a growing consensus,” said Matt Savare, a partner who works in the technology group of New Jersey-based law […].

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The Tao of Zero Trust

Forrester IT

I get asked 2 questions at least weekly, in some cases almost daily: Where do we start for Zero Trust – Fix your IAM and user side of the equation. What is the difference between other frameworks and Zero Trust – Ok, now we can get down to the nuts and bolts on this one. Zero Trust turned ten years old this […].

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Microsoft launches previews of Windows Virtual Desktop and Defender ATP for Mac

CTOvision

Microsoft today made a slew of announcements to help IT pros reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity. The headline items are the launch of Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for macOS in limited preview. But there are also updates around Office 365 ProPlus, Windows 10, […].

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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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Don’t Drink From A Poisoned Well, Mitigate Supply Chain Risk With Zero Trust

Forrester IT

Motherboard and Kaspersky unveiled that hackers compromised a server of computer manufacturer, ASUS’ live software update tool to install a malicious backdoor on thousands of computers. The malicious file was able to masquerade as authentic software update as it was signed with legitimate ASUS digital certificates. The manufacturer unwittingly pushed out the backdoor to customers […].

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ProBeat: Google’s Stadia is all about the cloud and AI

CTOvision

Last Tuesday, Google announced that Gboard now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition. This Tuesday, Google announced the Stadia cloud gaming platform. In the span of seven days, Google managed to talk about the benefits of going from the cloud to the edge and about the benefits of going from the edge to […].

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5G to be an Enabler for New Technologies like VR and AR: Gunter Reiss, A10 Networks

CTOvision

The highly anticipated and talked about 5G service is all set to become a reality in India by 2020. Although the service brings about enormous business opportunities, it doesn’t come along with a few challenges. In an interview with Dataquest, Gunter Reiss, Vice President – Worldwide Marketing, A10 Networks, discusses cyber security and legacy infrastructure […].

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Barneys And Starbucks Raise The Bar With Loyalty Program Updates

Forrester IT

Grab a latte and start spring shopping – you’ll be rewarded. Barneys introduced a new loyalty program this month, and Starbucks announced upgrades to its existing program. We’re not surprised. Loyalty programs are a hot commodity – and I mean commodity: it’s incredibly hard for brands to maintain a differentiated program. Our data shows that […].

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5 Ways to Kickoff Data Governance in Self-Service BI Programs

Social, Agile and Transformation

Sponsoring self-service BI where business users are empowered to develop their own dashboards and instrumenting data governance are not conflicting objectives. In fact, they are complementary and both are necessary to enable data driven organizations. Don't believe me? Go count the number of Excel spreadsheets or GSheets are on your network. Try to count how many duplicate data sources are.

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How can you harden your human firewall? Use creative and pragmatic tactics in your awareness program

Forrester IT

We consistently get inquiries with clients asking us about the trends and effective ways to create cyber security awareness within their organisation. This field has grown so much in recent years. There are now so many fantastic tactics that organizations have tried and tested – we can all learn from them. You should never have […].

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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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How to hack your own Wi-Fi network

Network World

One way to bolster your understanding of Wi-Fi security is to do some hacking yourself. That doesn’t mean you should infiltrate a company’s network or snoop on a neighbor’s setup. Rather, ethical hacking and legitimate Wi-Fi penetration testing – done in cooperation with the network owner – can help you learn more about the strengths and limitations of wireless security.

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Automation: How Can We Reskill the Workforce?

Information Week

The growing interest in automation in the enterprise highlights the need to place humans in jobs that are best suited for humans rather than machines, and a need for continuous training.

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MVP Summit 2019 – My Experience, Overview, and NDA Stuff!

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I had a chance to attend Microsoft MVP summit 2019 in Bellevue and Redmond (Washington – US). This MVP summit was my 4th MVP summit in a raw. It has always been an excellent experience for me. The 2019 MVP summit started with a sad note on the loss of Atta Elayyan.

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Network Awareness Using ARPwatch | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

This topic of network awareness is dear to my heart — not because of what it does but because it is network-based and I started out in the IT field as a network engineer, so networking holds a special place for me. What do I mean by “network awareness”? Network awareness is simply being aware of when a new device is put on your network, here’s how to use ARPwatch to do so.

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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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Kaleido Brings Its Blockchain Market to Microsoft Azure

Information Week

A blockchain software-as-a-service platform expands to another cloud service, showing opportunity for such networks.

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Choosing LambdaTest for Selenium Automation

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Choosing LambdaTest for Selenium Automation - Information Technology Blog. In the world of software development, it is very important never to forget about the testing phase. This topic has been heard by a developer throughout his working life: since he started studying, until he retires, going through articles like this one; and it will continue to be that way for a long time since it is the way to maintain a minimum quality in the development of any software.

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At the RSA Conference: Oh, That Security Talent Crunch?

Information Week

Keeping pace with the changes in IT security calls for new tactics in developing and acquiring security talent.

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Best Online Privacy Tools

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Online Privacy Tools - Information Technology Blog. Ensuring that your privacy is completely safe online is pretty challenging these days, so what can you do in order to safeguard and protect it? It’s true that certain companies are capable of tracking what you do online, and most people have resigned to their fates, thinking that there’s nothing that can be done – that, however, is not true at all.

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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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Weekly Update 3-25-2019

Linux Academy

We have updates on our Cloud Playground, information over Azure and its rotating door of exams, and a new slew of teasers both for our new Linux Academy for Business platform as well as updates to the Linux Academy platform for all of our students. Cloud Playground: Come and Play. We’ve been talking about the Windows Server 2019 Cloud Playground for the past few weeks, and now, it is 100% ready for you to use.

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Useful Websites to Help Write a Good Blog Posts (2019)

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Useful Websites to Help Write a Good Blog Posts (2019) - Information Technology Blog. Blog writers are the superheroes of internets. They open the doors to abundant knowledge to almost everything on the planet. From how to take care of your baby to how to build your own house, bloggers can walk you through every phase of your life.

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Introducing Advanced Search for Mobile

Linux Academy

I often like to say, “ It would be impossible to do any of this without input from our students ,” and without a doubt, that also applies to our mobile apps. That statement has never been truer than in this last month. After extensive feedback from our students, we’ve decided to completely overhaul our “Training” page on mobile.

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Deal with the “Pale, Stale, and Failing” Patterns Properly and Lead Digital Transformation Smoothly

Future of CIO

Digital transformation isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business, but a quantum leap with radical change. The journey of going digital will not be flat. It represents a break from the past, with a high level of complexity and uncertainty. The path for digital transformation can be iterative, evolutionary, revolutionary, or disruptive.

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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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Are you testing your numbers?

Spearline Testing

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The Best “Divergent Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

“ Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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AI’s Impact on Food Service Industry

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting a wide range of industries, and the food service and restaurant industry is certainly a good example. AI technologies are enhancing and changing the entire restaurant experience, from the ways in which we order food, to the way in which food is prepared and served, and how customers interact with […].

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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning: Designing Digital Organization with Changeability Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development to harness innovation?

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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.

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How to Optimize Websites for Google’s Featured & Rich Snippets

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Optimize Websites for Google’s Featured & Rich Snippets - Information Technology Blog. Google has made it simple for users to look for information using featured snippets. Featured snippet appears as one of the search results on the Google search engine. The search engine results page (SERP) is no longer loaded with links of other websites.

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