Wed.Nov 28, 2018

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Deep Dive Into Data Commercialization At Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights 2018 Forum

Forrester IT

I’m often asked the question, “What’s my data worth?” And my immediate (and somewhat provocative) response is “Nothing!” Data is, without a doubt, valuable. But when stored in vaults and locked down, it is not. As the American inventor Thomas Edison asserted, “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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The Growing Importance Of Cyber Security Skills

CTOvision

As data breaches have become the order of the day, Adi Gaskell explains the growing importance of having cyber security talent in your company on Forbes : Cybercrime costs the UK several billion pounds per year. Indeed, a recent government report showed that 46% of all businesses identified at least one cyber attack in the last […].

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Healthcare In 2019: Five Bold Predictions

Forrester IT

The healthcare industry is experiencing some much-needed transformation and disruption. Looking ahead to next year, we made five bold predictions. Watch the video below to learn what is in store for the future of healthcare. Check out the full report here, and join our webinar on December 3 for a more in-depth understanding of our predictions. Click here to […].

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Is This Negligence? Atrium Health data breach exposed 2.65 million patient records

CTOvision

We wonder sometimes how much reporting we should do on breaches. We are all already numb by the overwhelming size and frequency of the continuing breaches. This one is yet another in a long line. But in our view it is notable. Why? It shows enterprises are still not taking the steps required to keep […].

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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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Evaluating Digital Experience Agencies In Asia Pacific — Providers Have Deep But Diverse Capabilities

Forrester IT

Firms across Asia Pacific are actively leveraging digital experience (DX) agencies to design, build, and manage digital customer experiences (CX). But to fully access these benefits, you need to carefully select from a diverse set of providers that vary by size, functionality, geography, and industry focus. Your options include agencies, consultancies, and tech providers that […].

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GoDaddy Highlights Small Business Cybersecurity Paradox

CTOvision

Earlier this week, reports said two researchers from Bloomsberg University of Pennsylvania made their case for safe harbor rules and overall easing of regulatory penalties for small businesses hit by a cyber attack. Their argument, reports in the Wall Street Journal said, is that small businesses are held to the same standards as large corporates […].

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Good Writing By Krebs: Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the SSL Padlock

CTOvision

We liked the way Krebs put this: If you thought that the green padlock appearing before the URL meant safety from intruders and hackers, think again. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link] Till now you were once advised […].

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Curing the Patient Data Security and Privacy Epidemic

Information Week

If the modern Hippocratic Oath states, "I will respect the privacy of my patients," shouldn't that statement extend to protecting patient data?

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Expert Commentary On The Atrium Health Breach from Bill Evans, VP of Marketing at One Identity

CTOvision

Further to our report on the Atrium Health Breach, Bill Evans, VP of Marketing at One Identity provides this expert commentary: In yet another cybersecurity incident, Atrium Healthcare announced that they had experienced a data breach exposing some 2.65 million patient records including dates of birth and social security numbers. As of right now, the […].

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It's a Business, not Tech Transformation

Information Week

Your digital transformation strategy isn't primarily about technology but about rethinking the future of the business.

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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 To Choose The Right Tech For Your Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How To Choose The Right Tech For Your Business - Information Technology Blog. Technology is what every business needs to use if it is going to succeed. Gone are the days when a simple piece of paper and a pen were enough to see you through a meeting with clients or when looking for a new supplier. Now it is much more important to be able to use technology in every aspect of your business as far as possible.

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Pac-12 Gets Public Cloud Assist for Big Score

Information Week

Pac-12 Networks has expanded its partnership with public cloud provider AWS as part of its ongoing mission to engage with and best serve Pac-12 fans.

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Website Conversions Can Be Boosted By The Color Psychology, Here’s How You Can Do That

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Website Conversions Can Be Boosted By The Color Psychology, Here’s How You Can Do That - Information Technology Blog. Isn’t it interesting to think of the usage of different colors in order to make your marketing effort more influential for your different group of customers? This is very unique idea to use and select the colors, which can change your marketing efforts and have a strong impact on your customers buying behavior as well as their response towards the

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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions

ComputerWorld IT Management

IDC analyst Joe Pucciarelli shares insights on the most relevant global trends and key predictions impacting CIOs, IT professionals and their organizations.

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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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Running Creative, Persuasive, and Logical IT

Future of CIO

Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. With the exponential growth of information and often technology-led digital disruptions, IT is being elevated to the “light power” of the business for identifying business opportunities and obstacles, navigating changes, and climb the learning curve ahead of the rest of organization.

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Introducing Xi Epoch by Nutanix

Nutanix

We are excited to announce the general availability of Xi Epoch, a universal observability and monitoring service for modern cloud applications. Xi Epoch enables DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to gain end-to-end visibility into application infrastructure, service interactions, and dependencies.

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Playing an Innovation Oddball: Celebrate Failures

Future of CIO

Innovation in the digital era is coming at seemly a much faster pace, more change, and more potential disruptions, with a broader scope, scale, and impact on the business’s surviving and thriving. However, in most companies, the risk-allergic minds dominate the workplace and protect the interests of narrow-short-sighted benefit. Keep in mind though, innovation comes with a risk of failure; many say that innovation won’t happen without enough failure.

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Xi Frame – Desktop as a Service (DaaS) at Your Service

Nutanix

The Xi Frame team just completed a week at Autodesk University, where Xi Frame powered the hands-on-labs and certification labs. This was the second year that Xi Frame was the delivery platform of choice for delivering full versions of AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, and more for Autodesk University attendees to use for their conference labs.

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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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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Quality”: The Digital Quality Readiness Nov. 2018

Future of CIO

Organizational excellence is achieved by delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality is defined by a number of factors such as efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, innovation, or maturity, as a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. The Digital Quality Readiness The Digital Quality Readiness Quality has both tangible and intangible characteristics.

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Fuel Your Business with an Intelligent Edge

Nutanix

We are excited to announce the general availability of Xi IoT to the public. It’s a simple, scalable, and secure intelligent edge platform for real-time analysis delivered as a part of Xi Cloud Services.

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How To Write Copy That Google Will Rank and People Will Love

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How To Write Copy That Google Will Rank and People Will Love - Information Technology Blog. So, you know all there is to know about SEO and all there is to know about copywriting. But how about writing content that Google will rank high and people will adore? Here are some tips: Create Great Headlines. “Headlines are the first thing people see of your content.

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AWS Transit Gateway: What it is, benefits, and limitations

Nutanix

Among the announcements, AWS re:Invent 2018 attendees are buzzing about is the AWS Transit Gateway designed to simplify network management. IT fraternity seems to love the number 1 (one click, one view), and this new tool continues that theme, merging cloud resources and on-prem datacenters into one network topology.

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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.