Tue.Oct 18, 2022

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The role of configuration-based platforms in increasing service flexibility

TM Forum

Brendan O'Brien, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, Aria Systems shares his perspective and insights on growth opportunities in B2B telco services with Mark Newman, TM Forum's Chief Analyst and how the need for flexibility impacts communication service providers (CSPs)' systems. They also discuss how a cloud-delivered, configuration-based model can help CSPs prepare for the future and pivot their strategy where required. image.

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The B2C CMO’s Environmental Sustainability Blueprint

Forrester IT

Despite the massive opportunity in today’s green market, many B2C CMOs don’t know where to start. Learn the six keys to activating sustainability in your B2C marketing and communications.

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Microsoft Windows Vulnerable to BYOVD Attacks for Three Years: Report

IT Toolbox

Microsoft has reportedly failed to address deficiencies in Windows security that could allow attackers to carry out bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver (BYOVD) attacks. The post Microsoft Windows Vulnerable to BYOVD Attacks for Three Years: Report appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Introducing The Green Market Revolution

Forrester IT

The green market revolution gives businesses an historic opportunity for new environmentally sustainable products and services for everything. Learn more in this blog post.

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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 Governance Act: A Unique Opportunity to Enhance Data

IT Toolbox

Here’s how to benefit from the Data Governance Act while maintaining data privacy and compliance. The post Data Governance Act: A Unique Opportunity to Enhance Data appeared first on Spiceworks.

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What Crashing My Bike Taught Me About Cybersecurity Incident Response

Forrester IT

(special thanks to my colleague Jess Burn who assisted with this blog) Faithful readers of my infrequent Forrester blog posts might remember my penchant for using analogies to discuss specific cybersecurity issues. I am pleased to continue that tradition, so I am going to discuss how crashing a bike is relevant to cybersecurity incident response. […].

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How The Green Market Revolution Will Change What We Eat

Forrester IT

The green market will reshape everything we do. And that includes what we eat; food production accounts for more than 25% of all global carbon emissions. Find out more in this blog post.

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How to Attract and Retain Independent Workers in the Gig Economy

IT Toolbox

Here’s how contract work allows for greater flexibility within organizations. The post How to Attract and Retain Independent Workers in the Gig Economy appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The Green Market Revolution Will Totally Transform How We Make Things

Forrester IT

The green market is not just about risk or renewable energy. Decarbonization will impact everything we do, including how we make things. Learn how new materials, techniques, and mindsets will drive positive climate action.

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Adopting IIoT, OT Security in 2022: Interconnectivity Makes Work Easier and Security Harder

IT Toolbox

Find out how to make interconnectivity work and avoid security pitfalls. The post Adopting IIoT, OT Security in 2022: Interconnectivity Makes Work Easier and Security Harder appeared first on Spiceworks.

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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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Five Findings from Forrester’s Digital Experience Review of Retail Mobile Sites

Forrester IT

More than half of US online adults use smartphones to research and purchase products and services, making retail mobile websites an integral part of the shopping journey. In our newly published The Forrester Digital Experience Review™: US Retail Mobile Sites, Q4 2022, we reviewed the mobile websites of 10 retailers to find out how effectively […].

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What Is Configuration Management? Working, Tools, and Importance

IT Toolbox

Configuration management maintains a product’s functionality and performance throughout its shelf life. The post What Is Configuration Management? Working, Tools, and Importance appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The Green Market Revolution Encompasses The Hundreds Of Billions Needed For Climate Adaptation

Forrester IT

Adapting to the new reality of climate change will mean massive investment from governments and corporations. Here’s nine categories where that investment should go.

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5 Ways to Analyze Employee Engagement with Benefits

IT Toolbox

Although healthcare needs have changed during the pandemic, the basics of what employees need have not. The post 5 Ways to Analyze Employee Engagement with Benefits appeared first on Spiceworks.

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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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Global Green Finance Saw Record Growth In 2021, Exceeding US$720 Billion

Forrester IT

Find out why financial services firms have launched a wide array of green finance products and experiences recently and what the future outlook is for the market.

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What Is NoSQL? Features, Types, and Examples

IT Toolbox

NoSQL databases are non-tabular and handle data storage differently than relational tables. The post What Is NoSQL? Features, Types, and Examples appeared first on Spiceworks.

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North American Firms Are Filling Roles But Flail On Climate Action

Forrester IT

Learn the two key differences in the sustainability goals of the top 50 North American corporations as compared to peers in other geographies.

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Middle and Bottom Funnel 101: How To Help Prospects and Close More Deals

IT Toolbox

Learn from Margaret Wise how marketers can help prospects in the middle and bottom of the funnel make informed decisions and close deals. The post Middle and Bottom Funnel 101: How To Help Prospects and Close More Deals appeared first on Spiceworks.

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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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Cisco launches 10-year plan to train 25 million people in IT skills

Network World

As Cisco celebrates the 25 th anniversary of Cisco Networking Academy, the company on Tuesday announced two new certifications and a plan to provide networking, cybersecurity and general IT training to 25 million people over the next 10 years. The training will be done through the company's networking academy, an IT skills-to-jobs program that provides IT courses, learning simulators, and hands-on learning opportunities, supporting instructors and learners in 190 countries.

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How AR Enables Enterprises to Adopt a Proactive Service Model

IT Toolbox

AR is a key enabling technology that gives enterprises the power to switch their maintenance models. The post How AR Enables Enterprises to Adopt a Proactive Service Model appeared first on Spiceworks.

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The US Shopper And Environmental Sustainability: Are Consumers Really Eco-Conscious?

Forrester IT

Learn how US consumers’ attitudes and behaviors are impacting their environmentally sustainable shopping habits.

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Insolating Your Businesses to Be Recession-Ready

IT Toolbox

Here's how businesses can make their operations more efficient amid recession. The post Insolating Your Businesses to Be Recession-Ready appeared first on Spiceworks.

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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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In Just Two Years, The Environmental Sustainability Action Of Top Companies Has Leapt Ahead

Forrester IT

Learn how the sustainability goals of the Fortune Global 200 firms have changed in the past two years.

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4 tips for preparing to migrate to a new iPhone

Tech Republic Cloud

Here’s how to easily and efficiently migrate only the data you want so that you can be ready for your new iPhone 14 upgrade. The post 4 tips for preparing to migrate to a new iPhone appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Cybersecurity 2022: Opportunity Knocks for the Channel

Association of Information Technology Professional

The cybersecurity landscape is changing leaving the channel with myriad opportunities. CompTIA's research has identified four areas of cybersecurity focus for companies to zero in on: policy, process, people and products.

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A Product Marketing Tech Stack for B2B SaaS

Fountainhead

I’ve always been a proponent of organizing Product Marketing using the Product/Market Fit framework – thinking about marketing as a set of inside-out components, as well outside-in components. And each component has its own set of technologies, as well as a set of outcome-based goals/metrics. I’ve expanded on this model using a few different approaches and ultimately found it useful to organize marketing technologies as well.

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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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Helping CIOs Close Skills Gaps Amid Digital Transformation in Financial Services

Information Week

Here are four key dimensions that need to be addressed to build organizational digital capabilities, providing a solid foundation for long-term readiness and innovation.

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How telcos are working to standardize access models across multi-technology networks

TM Forum

For decades, the combined network access technologies of copper coaxial cable, fiber optic and fixed wireless have formed the backbone of modern communications infrastructure nearly everywhere. But this composite infrastructure can cause problems for customers and CSPs alike. Uneven deployment of these technologies (whether from regulatory requirements, geographical impediments or organizational incentives) and the resulting culture of differentiating the offering by technology means customer ch

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How to Tackle Cyberthreats in the Metaverse

Information Week

With the development in the metaverse still in early stages, security concerns need to place consumer protections front and center if adoption is to thrive.

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Modernizing mainframes in a cloud-native world

TM Forum

Kyndryl is a global IT services firm that was spun out of IBM in 2021. It employs more than 90,000 skilled professionals, and customers include 75 of the Fortune 100 companies. In the telecoms sector, Kyndryl is partnering with CSPs as they migrate their legacy IT systems and mainframe computer applications and workloads to cloud and cloud native. In this Q&A TM Forum chief analyst Mark Newman talks to Hemang Davé,, Client Technical Leader and Chief Technology Officer at Kyndryl MCE, ab

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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.