Mon.Apr 22, 2019

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ABM: Flash In The Pan Or Here To Stay?

Forrester IT

At the SiriusDecisions 2019 Summit on May 5–8 in Austin, Texas, I will join two of my new colleagues from SiriusDecisions, Service Director Matt Senatore and Senior Research Director Bob Peterson, in presenting our POV on the future of account-based marketing (ABM). I have to say that, prior to Forrester’s acquisition of Sirius, I was […].

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Mozilla launches its WebThings smart home platform from incubation

CTOvision

For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been diligently chipping away at Project Things, an open implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web of Things standard for monitoring and controlling connected devices, and today, they reached a major milestone. Project Things is graduating from its experimental phase with […].

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Introducing Forrester’s Digital Competency Map

Forrester IT

Digital transformation is your opportunity to reimagine your company from the ground up – don’t mess it up with poor, missing, or misallocated talent. Business leaders involved in digital transformation say that finding the right people with the right skills is one of their biggest challenges. To help digital executives we developed the Forrester Digital […].

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JPMorgan Expanding Blockchain Project With 220 Banks to Include Payments

CTOvision

Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase is planning to expand an existing blockchain project to include settlement features as it seeks to fend off competition from payments upstarts such as TransferWise and Ripple. The blockchain-based Interbank Information Network (IIN), set up in partnership with Australia’s ANZ bank and the Royal Bank of Canada back in 2017, currently […].

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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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B2C Marketing Predictions So Far: Preference And Privacy Prove Powerful

Forrester IT

Our 2019 B2C Marketing predictions hone in on the impact of rising customer power. Forrester has been evangelizing the age of the customer for a decade, but the message is approaching a crescendo. This year, we called that consumer desire for better data control, better experiences (especially in social), and better connections to their values […].

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Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating system

CTOvision

Microsoft today announced that it’s acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for the internet of things (IoT) and edge devices powered by microcontroller units (MCUs), for an undisclosed amount. The Seattle company notes that Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS — which is designed to scale from resource-constrained, battery-powered […].

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5G May Be Holy Grail for Telecom, But Energy Sector Feels Much Anxiety Over New Network

CTOvision

Read why Dipka Bhambhani says that the U.S. energy sector feels anxiety over launch of 5G technology on Forbes : While telecom giants are boasting faster, unlimited wireless connectivity for their mobile phone users under the long-awaited fifth generation wireless network (5G), the energy industry is worried. Energy groups are warning regulators that a 5G rollout […].

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The Security And Privacy Implications Of Drones

Forrester IT

Over the past few years, drones have transitioned from military-only applications into a strategic asset that is transforming a range of industries such as construction, real estate, insurance, and agriculture. Yet while drones introduce a range of use cases, the growth of drones also represents a new physical threat that demands the attention of security […].

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Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon’s cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customers

CTOvision

As Apple and Amazon compete for a greater share of consumer dollars and attention, they also have a particularly intimate business relationship: Apple is spending more than $30 million a month on Amazon’s cloud, according to people familiar with the arrangement. Apple’s cloud expenditure reflects the company’s determination to deliver online services like iCloud quickly and […].

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A New Era, A New Digital Japan?

Forrester IT

A New Era, A New Digital Japan? On May 1, Japan will get a new emperor, and a new era — Reiwa — will begin. The transition is largely symbolic, as the emperor’s role is ceremonial, but the coming of the Reiwa era also marks the end of the Heisei era, sometimes known as “the […].

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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 A Streaming Music CIO Plans On Turning Things Around

The Accidental Successful CIO

Pandora’s CIO has plans to stop its loss in users Image Credit: Jenni Konrad. Having the CIO job at Pandora would put you right in the middle of a busy and challenging market. Streaming music is very hot right now and there are a lot of different companies that are involved in the market. This all means that there is a lot of competition. Pandora is one of those companies and just like everyone else they are finding themselves having to fight for your listening time.

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Boeing Case Reveals B2Bs Not Immune To Volatile Brand Crises

Forrester IT

Boeing is learning the hard way that B2B companies are no longer immune from brand crises that typically only affected B2C companies subject to empower customer scrutiny.

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Machine Learning at Scale: Highlights from The Artificial Intelligence Conference

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week I attended The Artificial Intelligence Conference in NY sponsored by O'Reilly and Intel. It's my yearly ritual to report on the latest academic research, industry trends, successes, and challenges as more organizations invest people, time, and money in machine learning. From last year's conference I reported here on this blog on my keynote takeaways, and on collaborative AI .

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Emotional Fitness: How It Feels To Be Ready For The Future

Forrester IT

Forrester Future Fit is a tool for measuring your readiness for the future. A simple, five-minute assessment lets us statistically project whether you are the high-, medium-, or low-fitness group. Take the survey at forr.com/futurefit to learn your score. Read more about future fitness here. You’ll find that there are 9 key attributes of future […].

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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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Data Privacy, Transparency Get New Weapon

Information Week

Osana and its browser plugin, Privacy Monitor, aim to provide consumers with transparency regarding consumer data privacy policies. The company will release data supply chain tools for companies later this year.

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WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: The Fastest and Most Powerful DVD Ripper – Giveaway

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: The Fastest and Most Powerful DVD Ripper – Giveaway - Information Technology Blog. If you are looking for reliable and powerful software to decode DVD, then you should definitely try WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. It’s a fast program with a myriad of conversion and customization options. Are you are movie lover with a large collection of DVD movies, then will probably need to be able to use backup copies of at least the DVDs you use most

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How to Operationalize Privacy and Data Governance for AI

Information Week

Enterprise approaches to data privacy and governance need a refresh when it comes to AI because things can go wrong at scale, fast.

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Proactively Identifying Compromised Passwords | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Happy Monday, and welcome back to Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure. Last week, we covered the importance of password policies and some points that should be covered by those policies. Hopefully, I was able to convey the importance of policies, and this is now on your to-do list or, better yet, on your to-done list! As this week’s title suggests, we’re going to identify how we can be proactive in identifying compromised passwords in an effort to head off attackers using them to

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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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Corporate Responsibility: A Key to Weathering a Breach

Information Week

How a company handles a breach speaks directly to its character during one of the most high-profile times of its history.

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The Boardroom's Feedback Feedforward Practices

Future of CIO

Digital has the “VUCA” characteristics - velocity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It implies both business opportunities and risks on the way. Board as a high-level governance body plays a crucial role in business advising and monitoring, as well as setting key tones in leadership and talent development. Corporate boards need to develop their own set of digital best and next practice to improve both the organizational performance and their own performance.

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Running IT as Innovative Achiever

Future of CIO

Businesses today face numerous challenges, fiery competitions and rapid changes either technologically or economically. Companies across the industrial sector are facing significant transformation. Many IT organizations are at the crossroad as well: Shall they continually be operated as a support center or become a business differentiator? It’s important to shape a harmonized vision about overall IT competency and organizational maturity; which role IT should or can play in the digital organizat

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The Monthly “Performance Master’ Book Tuning: Measure Things Matter to Drive Digital Transformation Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage, " legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.

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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.