Wed.May 08, 2019

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Your Technology Investments May Not Deliver The Productivity Gains You Expected

Forrester IT

Improving productivity has traditionally been a key justification for technology investments. However, trends in overall US productivity indicate that increases in tech spending no longer raise overall US productivity as much as in the past. Given that US firms have theoretically been investing heavily in digital transformation, the failure of overall US productivity to grow […].

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90% of data breaches in US occur in New York and California

CTOvision

Cybersecurity firm Risk Based Security (RBS) released an alarming report on data breaches in the first quarter of 2019, revealing a record breaking number of data breaches that exposed billions of documents to theft. “For three years in a row more than one billion records have been exposed in the first quarter of the year, whereas […].

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Windows Autopilot Hybrid Domain Join Step by Step Implementation Guide

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In most of the Windows Autopilot deployments, Windows 10 machine is Azure AD joined. But the majority of the organizations still rely upon On-premise on-prem Active directory join. In this post, you will learn details about Windows Autopilot Hybrid Domain Join scenario.

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Top 5 Configuration Mistakes That Create Field Days for Hackers

CTOvision

Sometimes it’s the little things that lead to big consequences. When it comes to cybersecurity, hacks more often than not stem from minor missteps – or even completely preventable, obvious mistakes. Common security mistakes and overlooked misconfigurations can open the door for attackers to drop malware or exfiltrate data – or even sabotage operations.

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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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Are CIOs Ready To Deal With Hackers?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Hackers pose a serious threat to CIOs, are CIOs ready? Image Credit: Dani Latorre. As CIOs, every day is busy. We’ve got a lot of different things going on that have to do with the importance of information technology and it can be very challenging to try to get everything done. That’s why when it comes to hackers, we are aware of the problem but we may not be currently doing anything about it.

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Freedom Mobile data breach impacts thousands of customers

CTOvision

Freedom Mobile, a major Canadian telecommunications provider, has revealed a data breach which may have exposed sensitive information belonging to thousands of customers. On Tuesday, cybersecurity researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor said they were able to access a database belonging to Canada’s fourth-largest telco, which was “totally unprotected and unencrypted.” The database contained […].

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How to Limit How Long Google Keeps Your Data

CTOvision

Google put security and privacy features front and center as it kicked off this year’s I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. The company went so far as to say that “security and privacy are the central theme” of its upcoming Android Q release. But let’s say you want to take some control […].

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How to make your online business successful

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to make your online business successful - Information Technology Blog. Online business can be successful as long you invest in the right marketing strategies and maintenance tactics. You need to keep your customers alerted and provided with the correct contents and products. Also, make sure that you have the best website to get top ranking in various search engines like Google, Bing or even Yahoo.

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Managing Security Risks in the Cloud

CTOvision

Read Daniel Smith explain how companies can manage security risks in the cloud on Security Boulevard : Often, I find that only a handful of organizations have a complete understanding of where they stand in today’s threat landscape. That’s a problem. If your organization does not have the ability to identify its assets, threats, and […].

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Tips for Search Engine Optimization on Instagram for Business Marketing

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Tips for Search Engine Optimization on Instagram for Business Marketing - Information Technology Blog. Instagram has over 800 million users today, and the number is increasing day by day. It is great for businesses to use and promote their products and services as well. One can use search engine optimization on Instagram and reach out to the targeted audience with success.

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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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Database Server Deadlines: Preparing for End of Support

Information Week

A set of long-running database management platforms will soon lose technical and security support but there is still time to act.

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Top 5 Tools for Creating Appealing Videos Online

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Top 5 Tools for Creating Appealing Videos Online - Information Technology Blog. In recent years the consumption of video has been increasing, especially in social networks. Many businesses that result to be at the forefront have at least one promotional video of their services or brand. For this opportunity we bring you several interesting tools for the creation of appealing video.

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5 Can't-Miss Interop Sessions for Networking Pros

Information Week

Preparing for his trip to Interop in Las Vegas, an InterOptic exec shares his recommendations for sessions to attend.

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Leading Review Management Tools for Small Businesses

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Leading Review Management Tools for Small Businesses - Information Technology Blog. The importance of reviews to businesses today is well documented and undeniable. Research shows that up to 95% of customers check reviews for any product online before purchasing it. My personal experience seems to indicate as much! At present, there are numerous review websites and applications available that function as public forums where people post about their experiences with

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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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7 ways to improve your customers’ experience on your voice channel

Spearline Testing

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CTOvision Named A Top 20 AI and ML Blog

CTOvision

CTOvision has been named to another list of top blogs, this time by gengo.ai. We are grateful for the recognition, it makes us want to try harder to get you the information you need to leverage the dynamic changes under way in the tech world for your enterprise. Gengo lists CTOvision as the top blog […].

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Three Levels of Innovation Management Maturity

Future of CIO

There is no doubt innovation is becoming more important whereas technology becomes so advanced and the pace of change is increasing. In practice, innovation focus and capabilities an organization demands depend on the circumstances the business is in. Different organizations have different strengths and competency to innovate. They are at a different level of innovation maturity.

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VDI Series Part 1: Moving Beyond the POC

Nutanix

Gartner released a report in mid 2010 that they expected 50 million VDI desktops by 2013. Then there are the recent newsflashes surrounding VDI : Citrix buys Kaviza and RingCube.

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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 Best “Inclusiveness” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 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 organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Nutanix Mine: Hyperconverge your Data Protection

Nutanix

The Nutanix Mine platform uses the Nutanix AOS goodness to provide the same benefits for secondary storage as we are doing for your applications - simplicity, performance and resiliency. Nutanix Mine extends both the management plane and the data fabric of Nutanix AOS to now run data protection functionality and backup target storage in a turn-key solution, being able to backup environments where Nutanix is the primary infrastructure as well as any virtualized environment.

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The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Board Director’s Digital Profiles May 2019

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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Real-time Cloud Security Compliance

Nutanix

Xi Beam helps you gain real-time visibility and control over your multi-cloud security health by automating 250+ security audits based on industry best practices and Beam’s recommendations to improve your cloud infrastructure security.

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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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The TAR command | Bash Basics

Linux Academy

I was sitting in a talk that was being given by Ell Marquez at Linux Fest North West and at the start of her talk, there was a comic. In this comic, it indicates that to defuse the bomb, you have to be able to enter a TAR command without Googling. Of course, they are all doomed. Since we have covered some of the cool tricks that can be done with AWK and SED as well as Navigation and Event Designators , this time, we will make sure that you are able to save the world when it comes time to use th

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What’s New with Xi Leap Cloud Disaster Recovery Service

Nutanix

Commercially launched last November, Xi Leap is a mainstream hybrid cloud service from Nutanix, providing disaster recovery for all of your on-prem hosted applications in an easy to consume manner.

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The TAR command | Bash Basics

Linux Academy

I was sitting in a talk that was being given by Ell Marquez at Linux Fest North West and at the start of her talk, there was a comic. In this comic, it indicates that to defuse the bomb, you have to be able to enter a TAR command without Googling. Of course, they are all doomed. Since we have covered some of the cool tricks that can be done with AWK and SED as well as Navigation and Event Designators , this time, we will make sure that you are able to save the world when it comes time to use the

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Nutanix Clusters on AWS: The True Hybrid

Nutanix

While there are many different ways of bringing an HCI stack on top of AWS bare metal, at Nutanix, we have chosen the most native approach to the problem with the conviction that such an architecture is in the best interest of our joint customers.

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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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Cisco releases a critical security patch for a virtualized automation tool

Network World

Cisco has released a patch for a critical vulnerability in software used to control large virtual environments. The weakness gets a 10 out of 10 severity score and is found in Cisco’s Elastic Services Controller (ESC), which the company describes as offering a single point of control to manage all aspects of Virtual Network Functions and offers capabilities such as VM and service monitoring, auto-recovery and dynamic scaling.

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Back to Basics

Nutanix

Not too long ago, the only available storage solution was direct attached storage (DAS). Compute was directly attached to its storage via ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, SAS, and in some cases fibre channel. The system admin was also responsible for managing the storage. Life was simple.

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Next-Generation Serviceability: The Four Keys from Nutanix

Nutanix

The serviceability of any product relies on four fundamental actions: (i) observe, (ii) inform, (iii) fix, and (iv) learn. While most products attempt to implement these in some form or another, very few get it right. Today I would like to share with you the secret sauce required to build the most serviceable system in the world.

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Take the First Step on Your Journey to the Enterprise Cloud

Nutanix

Leading IT organizations are moving to Nutanix Enterprise Cloud which combines the agility and simplicity of the public cloud, with the security and control you need in a private cloud.

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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.