Thu.May 17, 2018

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All Brands Need A Full-Fledged Digital Commerce Strategy

Forrester IT

The internet has enabled brands to sell more of their products to an ever-expanding universe of shoppers, but digital distribution has also added complexity to the relationship between brands and retailers and other channel partners. All brands need to set parameters around the digital sales of their goods, regardless of the type of brand or […].

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Facebook gives sensitive user information to advertisers, White House emails not protected, Discounted cyber insurance, Intel’s unethical conduct

CTOvision

These are some of the cybersecurity stories CTOvision is tracking. For others see our portal into all things cybersecurity and cyberwar. Facebook lets advertisers target users based on sensitive interests CTOvision has been tracking the Facebook data issues for quite a while and will continued to keep you in the loop (see The Ethics Of […].

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Who Should Care About Quantum Computing?

Forrester IT

The media has been all over quantum computing for a few years now, creating muddy waters for our clients as they try to understand this conceptually difficult emerging technology. I’ve been tracking quantum computers for about five years, but I’ve kept it off the research radar because I thought it was outside the “Should clients care?

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Cisco CEO trumpets Catalyst 9K advances, software business success

Network World

Industry bellwether Cisco revealed some important financial numbers this week – its revenues were $12.5 billion, up 4 percent for the third quarter year-over-year, with product revenue up 5 percent. But one of the of the more interesting tidbits is that the company said it was selling some 40 Catalyst 9000 systems a day in and has installed 2,700 of the big boxes this quarter bring the total to 5,800 since its introduction in 2017.

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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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The Base of the Consumer Tech Stack: Tools

Forrester IT

Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Consumer technology and all the disruption it continues to cause can’t happen without tools. True enough. But when I invoke the word tools, I am not referring to the tools themselves, I’m referring to our human habit of creating and using tools, even defining ourselves by those tools. The actual tools […].

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VC Due Diligence is a two way street

The Investing Edge

Borrowing an enterprise sales term, the “ funnel ” for startup opportunities at a venture firm starts very wide and ends up extremely narrow, and there are numerous stages along the way. From initial call or email to actual funding, there is a massive filtering process. The magnitude varies amongst firms, but to give you a sense, at Ascent, we see roughly 1,000 B2B business proposals throughout a given year, we meet with between 100 and 200, initiate diligence on 20 to 25, get really serious w

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VC Due Diligence is a two way street

The Investing Edge

Borrowing an enterprise sales term, the “ funnel ” for startup opportunities at a venture firm starts very wide and ends up extremely narrow, and there are numerous stages along the way. From initial call or email to actual funding, there is a massive filtering process. The magnitude varies amongst firms, but to give you a sense, at Ascent, we see roughly 1,000 B2B business proposals throughout a given year, we meet with between 100 and 200, initiate diligence on 20 to 25, get really serious w

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What is blockchain technology?

Network World

Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin has garnered most of the media coverage and hype to date, but keep your eye on blockchain – this new technology is poised to change IT in much the same way open-source software did a quarter century ago.

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VC Due Diligence is a two way street

The Investing Edge

Borrowing an enterprise sales term, the “ funnel ” for startup opportunities at a venture firm starts very wide and ends up extremely narrow, and there are numerous stages along the way. From initial call or email to actual funding, there is a massive filtering process. The magnitude varies amongst firms, but to give you a sense, at Ascent, we see roughly 1,000 B2B business proposals throughout a given year, we meet with between 100 and 200, initiate diligence on 20 to 25, get really serious w

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Take Interconnected Approach to Drive Digitalization

Future of CIO

The increasing pace of technological advances and exponential growth of information have clearly impacted the nature and scope of opportunity that the business could ever experience and risks the business exposes to. Business leaders have to understand what it means within their organization, but much more importantly, they have to understand the external changing connected business environment as well as the emerging digital ecosystem and take an interconnected approach to drive digitalization

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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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Explaining the %WINDIR%Installer Folder

Mick's IT Blog

While recently writing an MSI uninstaller script, I needed to be able to associate the GUID with the applications name. In the process, I was finally able to associate the MSI files inside the Installer folder with the application. You may wonder why you want to know this. Most of this is probably just for general knowledge, but there are a couple of instances I can think of on why you might want to know.

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Three Aspects of the Board Refreshment

Future of CIO

The digital paradigm is an emerging ecosystem of principles, policies, and practices that set limits or boundaries, also provide the guidance for problem-solving or creating something new under the digital rules. The high-performance board makes the disproportional impact on running a high-performance business through their invaluable oversight of the strategy and relentlessly inspiring changes and innovation.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/18/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 4600+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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