Tue.Apr 19, 2022

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The Future of the IT Industry Is Now: 5 Ways MSPs Can Stay Ahead of the Curve

Association of Information Technology Professional

From security to culture, to diversity, equity and inclusion, learn how you can implement strategies to set yourself up to become your "business of the future.

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Calling On All Developers To Save The Earth

Forrester IT

(Part 1 of a two-part series) In celebration of Earth Day, we’d like to talk about the emerging concept of application sustainability. Application sustainability looks at the overall energy efficiency consumed both during the development of the application and the execution of it in production. The thesis is that we can help the environment by […].

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New Gartner report shows massive growth in the database market, fueled by cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Databases are supposed to be the last thing an enterprise considers changing, but the cloud is upending all that, for several reasons. The post New Gartner report shows massive growth in the database market, fueled by cloud appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Build Better Bridges: Introducing Forrester’s BISO Role Profile

Forrester IT

BISOs operate on behalf of the CISO, serving as an advisor to the business unit’s functional leaders. They also engage as a member of the business unit’s senior leadership team to understand, discuss, and advise on the intersection of strategic priorities and key IT and security risks.

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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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List of 43 SCCM Status Message Queries | Custom Query for SCCM Task Sequence Engine Status Messages

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post List of 43 SCCM Status Message Queries | Custom Query for SCCM Task Sequence Engine Status Messages appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides - Windows 11 | SCCM | ConfigMgr | Intune | AVD | Windows 10 | Windows 365 | Cloud PC by Anoop C Nair.

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Customer Marketers: It’s Your Time To Shine

Forrester IT

Customer marketing leaders, get ready for the spotlight. We’re having a “told you so” moment in customer marketing. As companies turn more attention to keeping their existing customers, the job of strengthening engagement, building loyalty, and developing advocates is front and center. A full 60% of marketing organizations plan to increase spend on customer engagement. […].

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Bridging the Digital Dexterity Skills Gap

Information Week

The digitalization process has focused on digitalizing information. Business processes have changed, too -- but often with organizations not getting the impact that they thought they would. Do employees have the digital skills they need?

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What progress has been made in transforming telco DNA?

TM Forum

Over the last two to three years, the term “telco to techco” has become part of our industry’s everyday language. But that does not mean the transformation it refers to is easy. Becoming a techco requires a communications service provider (CSP) to undertake a major reskilling and upskilling program, as well as an overhaul of its culture, its organizational structure and its operational systems and processes.?.

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LinkedIn was the most exploited brand in phishing attacks last quarter

Tech Republic Security

Phishing attacks aimed at stealing LinkedIn account credentials surged during the first quarter of 2022, says Check Point Research. The post LinkedIn was the most exploited brand in phishing attacks last quarter appeared first on TechRepublic.

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My API Story: Standardizing integration

TM Forum

Lejla Pljevljak-Rašidagi?, Chief Product Officer (CPO), ZIRA, explains how aligning Zira’s product integration principles with TM Forum’s Open API program enables it to rapidly integrate new services into digital ecosystems. Tell us about yourself and your company. I am responsible for the company’s product strategy and product development direction, promoting product excellence at the same time.

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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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Global Tech Policy Briefing: March 2022

Information Week

This month in global tech policy: cyber battles in the Ukraine War; bracing for a domestic energy crisis; and domesticating crypto through regulation.

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Lack of access to new technology impacts customer experience

TM Forum

Denying teams access to new technology that can solve old problems exacerbates a range of difficult business support system (BSS) and customer experience (CX) challenges for communications service providers (CSPs). For our recent report, Improving customer experience in B2B markets. , we surveyed more than 100 CSP experts across five global regions.

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IT Admins Need a Vacation

Information Week

It’s time to take a good, hard look at why IT admins are struggling, and think about how we as IT leaders can reverse the tide of frustrated, unhappy tech workers.

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Telco to Techco: CapEx/OpEx implications

TM Forum

How does a techco differ from a telco? And are all telcos on a journey towards becoming a techco? Hear an expert panel discuss how the spending habits of communications service providers (CSPs) are changing to reflect their future ambitions. We will examine: The CapEx/OpEx trends of the world’s 30 largest telecoms operators. The telltale characteristics of a would-be techcoNe.

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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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Protect Devices with Windows 11 Smart App Control

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Protect Devices with Windows 11 Smart App Control appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides - Windows 11 | SCCM | ConfigMgr | Intune | AVD | Windows 10 | Windows 365 | Cloud PC by Jitesh Kumar.

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AI and machine learning increasingly integral to business assurance

TM Forum

If I were to speak about “business assurance” to a room of executives five years ago, I would have had a room full of people understanding the concept in different ways. Much has happened since. Over time, the initial concept has transformed into a well-defined framework and been incorporated into TM Forum’s eTOM business process framework.

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Activision agrees to cooperate with insider trading investigation

TechSpot

Last week, Activision Blizzard said it would cooperate with insider trading investigations from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and federal prosecutors. Both groups are scrutinizing bets that three investors made on Activision shares days before Microsoft announced a deal to acquire the company for almost $70 billion. One of.

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Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Brave announced a new feature for its browser on Tuesday: De-AMP, which automatically jumps past any page rendered with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework and instead takes users straight to the original website. “Where possible, De-AMP will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from visiting AMP pages altogether,” Brave said in a blog post.

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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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US appeals court says web scraping is legal, despite what LinkedIn claims

TechSpot

The US Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruling is the latest chapter in a long-running battle between workforce analytics startup HiQ Labs and LinkedIn. The employment-focused social network sent HiQ Labs a cease and desist letter in 2017 demanding that it stop scraping its members' public profile data; something it did.

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The unfulfilled promise of automation: DNA matters

CIO Business Intelligence

The process automation, process mining, and integration categories are blurring. Vendors, by making indistinguishable claims about digital transformation and process automation, suggest similar outcomes. However, what differs are their fundamental approaches, which I call the “automation DNA” that dictates customer outcomes. In many cases, the outcomes are limited to efficiency.

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Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs. Core i9-12900K in 40 Games

TechSpot

A massive gaming benchmark comparison between the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and Core i9-12900K, pitting the two head to head across 40 games at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, from battle royale to real-time strategy titles.

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With Fedora 36, there might be a new gold standard for Linux distributions

Tech Republic

Jack Wallen kicks the tires of Fedora 36 and comes away seriously impressed. Find out why he believes the latest iteration of Fedora Desktop might be the new gold standard. The post With Fedora 36, there might be a new gold standard for Linux distributions appeared first on TechRepublic.

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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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DevOps teams worry CSPs are becoming competitors

Tech Republic Security

A Techstrong Research study of 531 IT professionals found that teams worry about losing IP to hyperscale cloud providers. The post DevOps teams worry CSPs are becoming competitors appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Official Nintendo GBA emulator for Switch Online leaks

TechSpot

On Monday, in-development emulators for the Game Boy and GBA leaked on 4chan. According to Twitter users Trash Bandatcoot and Oatmeal Dome, both were retrieved from Switch consoles and were developed by Nintendo Europe Research & Development. Last September, news circulated that Game Boy and Game Boy Color games were.

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Netflix just lost subscribers for the first time in over a decade

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Netflix’s struggle to boost its subscriber count took a dire turn in the first quarter of 2022. The company reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers globally compared to Q4, and it’s forecasting even bigger losses to come. Netflix estimates it could lose up to 2 million subscribers in the second quarter. “Our revenue growth has slowed considerably,” Netflix acknowledged in its letter to shareholders.

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Crypto wallet MetaMask warns iCloud users to disable backups after $650,000 phishing scam

TechSpot

Lacovone tweeted that the incident began last week with multiple text messages asking to reset his Apple ID password. He then received a phone call from Apple claiming there was suspicious activity on his account, as indicated by the messages.

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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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Why NFTs should be seen as worldbuilding opportunities for brands

Venture Beast

Here's what brands and marketers should learn from thriving NFT communities: NFTs are Web3 access keys to new worlds and franchises. Read More.

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YouTuber boosts Steam Deck battery life by capping the display to 40Hz

TechSpot

Playing full-fat PC games at 60Hz can drain the Steam Deck's battery substantially -- PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon managed to go from a full charge to a measly 20 percent just over an hour into a Deathloop session.

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The writing may be on the wall for sharing Netflix accounts

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Netflix announced in March that it plans to crack down on password sharing , and in its first quarter earnings letter to shareholders ( pdf ), it gave a big clue as to why. First, it’s increasingly clear that the pace of growth into our underlying addressable market (broadband homes) is partly dependent on factors we don’t directly control, like the uptake of connected TVs (since the majority of our viewing is on TVs), the adoption of on-demand entertainm

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Next-gen Xeon CPU leaks with 56 cores and 350W TDP

TechSpot

Intel's next generation of Xeon data center processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, just got leaked. Like Intel's consumer Alder Lake lineup, it will feature the chipmaker's Golden Cove architecture and Intel 7 process node, previously known as 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin.

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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.