Thu.Mar 07, 2019

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We Should Chat About WeChat And Why Facebook Wants In

Forrester IT

For years, I’ve maintained that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook Inc., has had his eye on a singular goal: becoming the global version of China’s WeChat. WeChat is China’s most popular messaging app with 1 billion monthly users. China’s population is 1.4 billion people, which means approximately 2 in 3 Chinese are on WeChat. But WeChat […].

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Active Directory PowerShell Module Configuration Baseline

Mick's IT Blog

With the recent 1809, RSAT is now integrated into Windows, which is a major plus for the admin side. In my environment, I have the active directory PowerShell module enabled on all machines for two reasons. The first is I use it to move the machine in AD during the build process. The second is that I have an SCCM baseline that makes sure the Bitlocker key matches the one stored in AD.

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Uncovering 2020 Digital Experience Priorities: It’s That (survey) Time of Year!

Forrester IT

This week we launched our annual panel survey on Digital Experience (DX) priorities, challenges and strategies. If you’re a leader, decision-maker, or influencer of your enterprise DX strategy, we’d love to have your input: [link] take the survey?

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IT Talent Shortages: What Businesses are Doing to Cope

Information Week

For organizations that are having trouble recruiting IT professionals with in-demand skills, some options have become available in the cloud and gig economy.

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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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Data And Analytics Leaders, We Need You!

Forrester IT

How do you create an insights-driven organization? One way is leadership. And we’d like to hear about yours. Today, half of the respondents in Forrester’s Business Technographics® survey data report that their organizations have a chief data officer (CDO). A similar number report having a chief analytics officer (CAO). Many firms without these insights leaders […].

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How blockchain will manage networks

Network World

Ethernet networking technology is flawed, say some engineers. The problem is it doesn’t have any inherent security built in to it. Ethernet also hard to manage because it's centralized. It’s out-of-date, and it needs revamping, researchers say. One attempt to address the issue is the Marconi protocol, which is a strategy to shift network and packet management over to a smart contract, decentralized chain-based system.

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CDOs Need To Change Their Firms, Then Change Jobs

Information Week

If the chief data officer does their job right, they very quickly reach the point where they need to move up or out.

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What is Green Technology?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is Green Technology? - Information Technology Blog. It’s also known as sustainable technology and is a term used to cover technology that’s considered to be environmentally friendly, either because of its production process or supply chain. It’s also been used when referring to energy production that’s less harmful to the environment than traditional ways of producing energy such as burning fossil fuels.

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Introducing Google Cloud Hands-On Labs by Linux Academy

Linux Academy

Linux Academy is the industry-leading hands-on lab cloud training platform with unique hands-on labs that are not found anywhere else. These labs and platforms are a reflection of our core belief of supporting students in their mission to learn and grow and also pushing the boundaries of online learning, and we’ have even more to deliver. Recently, we expanded the hands-on lab platform to include: instant labs , instant terminal , Cloud Playground , and Cloud Sandboxes.

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Releases Keep Rollin’ In

Flexagon

Flexagon has released FlexDeploy 5.0.0.4! The new version includes enhancements and bug fixes for FlexDeploy, our DevOps platform for continuous delivery and release automation. A few highlights include a new Helm plugin which streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications ongoing improvements for REST APIs ODI support for deployment archives Flexagon also released two new FlexDeploy jumpstart demo labs for Oracle E-Business.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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New Hands-On Training Content, Enterprise Platform Features, & Free Gems Coming | April Live Shows

Linux Academy

The Linux Academy Live Show Returns in April. Join us to interact with our team and see the latest and greatest in cloud and Linux online training! You won’t want to miss our April Live Shows. Join Anthony James, Founder and CEO, and Chris Fisher, VP of Community as they take you behind the scenes of the most significant platform updates in our history: New hands-on training content to keep you ahead of the curve.

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C-Suite Whispers: Considering an event-centric data strategy? Here’s what you need to know

Dataconomy

Digital transformation dominates most CIO priority lists pertaining to questions such as: How will digital transformation affect IT infrastructure? Will technology live on-premise or in the cloud? Depending on where that data lives, an organization requires different skill sets. If you’re building these resources in-house, then you need an infrastructure.

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How to Increase AWS Certifications by 50% | Rackspace Case Study

Linux Academy

Rackspace is a global leader in IT services that helps businesses tap into the power of cloud computing and provides managed hosting services across public and private clouds. “Rackers” (Rackspace employees) deliver expert advice and integrated managed services across public and private clouds, managed hosting, and enterprise applications.

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Running IT to Shape Innovative Workforce

Future of CIO

We live in the information and knowledge economy, digital workplace encompasses so much that it's hard to isolate it from other dimensions of the enterprise. With information fluidity, knowledge abundance, powerful technologies, the digital era upon us is the age of people, people are the focal point of any organizational design, tech application, or process management.

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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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Cloud Computing’s Value Proposition | Maximizing Business Value with AWS

Linux Academy

One of the most attractive aspects of cloud computing is its “pay as you go” pricing model. This can dramatically cut capital expenditures and replace them with operational expenses that offer more control and much greater flexibility to the enterprise. Amazon Web Services’ broad portfolio of solutions and services empower organizations to drive measurable business success including cost savings, cost avoidance, and operational resilience, with dramatic reductions in downtime, improved resource

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Systematic Problem-Solving: Looking out of Problems before Looking into the Problems

Future of CIO

Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem, not just the band-aid approach to fixing the symptom. How you find a solution to any problem depends on your perspective to that problem, but every problem has numerous angles to take into consideration. To deal with many of today’s complex problems, shall you take a systematic problem-solving approach - what Russ Ackoff, an American organizational theorist, used to call "looking out of the problem" as opp

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8 Best Employee Engagement Strategies

Kitaboo

Are your employees really engaged at your workplace? According to a survey, only 34% of workers in the U.S. are engaged. The rest of them are probably just clocking in the hours and looking for a better job. What is the reason behind this lack of engagement? Is it work pressure? Do they feel unacknowledged? Don’t they like the work environment? A disengaged workforce, however talented, does more harm than good for your organization, as they tend to be less productive and hardly enthusiastic abo

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 3/7/2019

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Maste r ” book series includes 27 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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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.