Fri.Feb 21, 2020

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Top 3 Takeaways from the Kronos-Ultimate Merger Announcement

Forrester IT

The HCM technology market is a hotbed of M&A activity. So, to anyone who follows it, this merger shouldn’t be a huge surprise. In fact, when private equity firm Heller & Friedman acquired Ultimate Software around this time last year, the writing was on the wall. Kronos had already been taken private by Heller & […].

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Upgrading to both Windows 10 1903 and 1909 with Configuration Manager

Mick's IT Blog

The time has come to do another creator update to the corporate systems. We skipped the 1903 upgrade because of the Windows 7 to Windows 10 deployment that completed just after the release of 1903. It was too soon to start another creator update project, so we waited until 1909. One of the new features we are wanting is the reserved space that was introduced in 1903.

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RSA Conference Cancellations: Coronavirus Fears or Supply Chain Uncertainty?

Forrester IT

As 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco for the annual security pilgrimage that is the RSA Conference, more sponsors pull out of the event citing safety concerns over the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic.

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5 best practices for IIoT project success

Tech Republic Security

Based on years of pilot projects and proofs-of-concept, the Industrial Internet Consortium has detailed the best-practices organizations can use to ensure successful deployments.

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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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Computer Vision Joins The Fight Against Coronavirus

Forrester IT

The coronavirus epidemic broke out just before China’s New Year holiday — a period in which hundreds of millions of people visit their families, often in different provinces. Such large-scale population movements dramatically increase the risk of nationwide contagion. To help address this looming crisis, local tech companies have joined the fight to slow or […].

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Verizon bails on RSA: How the coronavirus is disrupting tech conferences worldwide

Tech Republic Security

Verizon is the latest to withdraw from the RSA conference in San Francisco as tech trade shows around the globe are impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Here's what you need to know.

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MGM Hotel breach highlights need for sophisticated cloud security

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals posted the information of more than 10 million customers on a hacker forum a year after the initial attack on a cloud server.

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How Retailers Evaluate Commerce Solutions (Hint: It’s Changing)

Forrester IT

Today’s consumers have high demands: They want a personalized shopping experience, attentive customer service, and they want the merchant to meet them where they are. That’s a tall order. Retailers are rapidly shifting their business models to meet those needs and expectations, but they can’t do it alone. Retailers have raised their demands of commerce […].

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70% of IT leaders say security concerns restrict adoption of public cloud

Tech Republic Security

While the concerns are legitimate, Barracuda also wants IT professionals to know that practical solutions exist.

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IT Disappoints Business on Data and Analytics

Information Week

Business groups inside organizations express their disappointment with IT in terms of data and analytics in a new survey that looks at priorities and areas at risk for failure.

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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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8 Outstanding Ways to Attract Students Using Instagram Marketing

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 8 Outstanding Ways to Attract Students Using Instagram Marketing - Information Technology Blog. If you are looking for the best platform to attract students on social media, very few come close to Instagram. The distribution of age on the platform shows that more than 70% of the regular user-population is aged 35 or lower.

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Compliance: Veritas tool adds intelligence and analysis to data supervision

Tech Republic Security

A new release leverages machine learning to help companies reduce the search time they need to remain compliant in regulated industries.

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Turn Failure Detection into a Team Sport

Information Week

Here's how Chaos GameDays and its spinoffs can enable enterprises to fortify their infrastructure resilience and detect failures before they occur.

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11 things you might not know about security operations center burnout

Tech Republic Security

Managers and industry leaders are beginning to address mental health in the IT world - and here are symptoms to look for and solutions to try.

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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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How to make data lakes reliable

Dataconomy

Data professionals across industries recognize they must effectively harness data for their businesses to innovate and gain competitive advantage. High quality, reliable data forms the backbone for all successful data endeavors, from reporting and analytics to machine learning. Delta Lake is an open-source storage layer that solves many concerns around data.

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92% of Americans would delete an app that sold their personal information

Tech Republic Security

Smartphone users don't want government encryption backdoors and would rather read "terms and conditions" than watch the movie "Cats.

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Episode 4: Why tech hiring based on skills should be your #1 priority ft. Stranger Things

Hacker Earth

Welcome to the last episode of #NetflixandHire ! Over the last couple of episodes, we’ve learned that sometimes what you see is not what you get, why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and why you need to think outside the box when it comes to tech screening and hiring. Doing this is a sure shot formula to reach those ambitious tech hiring goals you’ve set for yourself.

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“Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “contradictory” quotes in “Digital Master.” 1 A value added mindset with contradictory coherence can well orchestrate the key success factors to achieve such strategic advantage. 2 “Aha” moment refers to that exciting moment when what was perplexing and contradictory suddenly falls into place to create momentum - the thorny problems seem to get solved creatively. 3 The st

Future of CIO

The digital workplace is all about people-centricity, empathy, innovation, agility, and high-level business maturity. Digital organizations are always on, inter-dependent and hyper-connected, people are always the most important asset in any organization before, today, and future. In an ideal digital workplace, the organizational structure is solid enough to keep people or things in order; but fluid enough to keep information and idea flow.

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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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6 Time Management Tips for Project Managers

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 6 Time Management Tips for Project Managers - Information Technology Blog. It’s so easy to feel like a busy fool at work these days. In an increasingly connected world, we are never very far away from a distraction that can easily pull us away from completing a task and for busy project managers this can be tricky; creating chaos and disorganization as we flit from one task to another, never quite sure if we are prioritizing correctly and using our time efficientl

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Architecture, Design, and Engineering Aspects of People-Centric Organization

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of people and options, it provides opportunities to think new ways to do things, engage employees and delight customers. As the business ecosystem becomes hyper-connected, over-complex and interdependent, digital leaders should develop a people-centric organization so the positive energy can flow and collective human capabilities can really be transformed from architecture, design, and engineering perspectives.

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The “Contradictory” Quotes of “Digital Master” Feb, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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, provides advice 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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