Fri.May 08, 2020

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How The COVID-19 Crisis Will Impact Marketing Spend Between Now And 2022

Forrester IT

The current COVID-19 has crisis upended CMO priorities and budgets, leaving many scrambling for alternate revenue sources, and all asking: what in the world to I plan for now? To develop guidance in response to this question, Forrester forecast how CMOs would spend over the next two years on media and advertising, marketing technology, marketing […].

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Detecting and Mitigating IoT Breaches Require An “Inside-out” Approach to Security

CTOvision

Read why Dmitry Raidman says that detecting and mitigating Internet of Things data breaches requires an inside-out approach on Infosec Magazine : A 2020 Business Insider Intelligence research report predicts […].

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Accelerating Your Move To Cloud? Our Assessments Aid Your Choices

Forrester IT

As the Covid-19 crisis erupted in early March 2020, anecdotal evidence suggested public cloud services would play a big role in enterprise responses. The financial evidence arrived in late April (reflecting results in the first calendar quarter of 2020): Amazon Web Services (AWS) up 33%, Microsoft Azure up 59%, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) up 52%. […].

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GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach: What Customers Need To Know

CTOvision

The world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, with 19 million customers, has disclosed a data breach impacting web hosting account credentials. With more than 19 million customers, 77 million domains managed, and […].

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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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Quantifying COVID-19 For The Tech Channel — May 8 Update

Forrester IT

With COVID-19 still spreading and broad quarantines, shutdowns, and other measures to contain it continuing, it is still impossible to make definitive predictions of its impact on the tech channel. Instead, we are using three scenarios that take into account different recovery start times and shapes of recovery graphs. More detail around these scenarios, tech […].

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Air Force Magazine Provides Insights Inside Scramble To Enable Massive Scale Telework During COVID-19

CTOvision

A friend brought this article to our attention (Thanks Bob). Recommended reading to any in the national security sector since everyone is going through this now: Inside the Air Force’s […].

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Attackers Adapt Techniques to Pandemic Reality

CTOvision

Read Robert Lemos explain how cybercriminals have changed their tactic to attack post the coronavirus pandemic on Dark Reading : Attackers continue to use the theme of the coronavirus pandemic […].

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IoT Makes More Sense When You Break It Down Into Three Business Scenarios

Forrester IT

Business leaders always want more information about business operations and customer interactions than they have. The technologies of the internet of things (IoT) promise to provide sensing and remote control of physical things, like products or equipment. But the technologies, solutions, and use cases are also so diverse and complex that tech and business leaders […].

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Logistics giant Toll Group hit by ransomware for the second time in three months

CTOvision

For the second time in three months, Toll Group has become the victim of a ransomware attack that has led to the suspension of IT systems. Melbourne, Australia-based Toll Group is […].

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Managing Costs In Azure

Forrester IT

Cost management is a topic that consistently comes up in inquiry, regardless of whether the original question was about cost management or about other aspects of cloud strategy. Up until recently, cost management was exclusively served by third-party software offerings. Over the past two years, however, native cloud providers have started to invest in native […].

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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 a personnel security policy can combat the insider threat

CTOvision

The coronavirus has increased the numerous security threats organisations and business face every day, and these threats are likely to grow, the more extended the pandemic control measures. One of […].

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Phishing emails caught exploiting DocuSign and COVID-19

Tech Republic Security

A new attack discovered by Abnormal Security aims to steal account credentials from people who use the online document signing platform.

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Why and How to Transition Your Company to the Cloud

Information Week

Though motivations vary based on an organization's unique needs, there are several key common drivers for moving to the cloud.

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5 things developers should know about data privacy and security

Tech Republic Security

In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, developers are more important than ever to the data privacy and security of the software they build.

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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 CIOs Can Harness AI to Fight the Coronavirus

Information Week

Government and healthcare CIOs are on the front lines of deploying technology to fight COVID-19. Here are five places where artificial intelligence can help.

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4 ways to make sure your IoT sensors are secure

Tech Republic Security

With so many IoT devices in use today, security is a major issue. Here are some steps to make sure your data is safe.

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Most Google employees will work from home until 2021, CEO says

TechSpot

Moving forward, the search behemoth's employees will be working remotely through the remainder of 2020. This announcement came from Google CEO Sundar Pichai during an "all hands" meeting yesterday, according to a report from The Information.

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New survey shows US adults split on COVID-19 cell phone tracking and data collection

Tech Republic Security

Governments and organizations are unleashing new technologies to fight the spread of the coronavirus, adding to privacy and data collection concerns.

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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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Washington state adds hundreds of WiFi hotspots with funding from Microsoft

GeekWire

(Washington State Department of Commerce Photo). Washington state is deploying more than 300 “drive-in” WiFi hotspots to help residents who are unable to access the internet due to the stay-home order. Microsoft and Avista Foundation helped fund the program; Microsoft contributed as part of its Airband Initiative. Together they have deployed 140 hotspots so far.

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Nintendo lawyers go after Super Mario 64 PC port

TechSpot

The publication notes that Nintendo has tasked its lawyers and representatives with scrubbing the Internet of any existence of the unauthorized Super Mario 64 PC port. One law firm, Wildwood Law Group LLC, filed a complaint with Google this week, stating that the reported file contains an unauthorized derivative work.

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Seattle venture capitalist Dan Levitan teams with his brothers to fight COVID-19 with unique project

GeekWire

The Levitan brothers, from left: Richard, Dan and Robert, during a family gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho, last summer. (Photo courtesy of Dan Levitan). The last time Dan Levitan worked on a project with his two brothers, Richard and Robert, they were in high school. In the time since, on opposite sides of the country, the Levitans have found individual success in venture capital, entrepreneurship and emergency medicine.

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5 things developers should know about data privacy and security

Tech Republic Security

In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, developers are more important than ever to the data privacy and security of the software they build.

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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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Tech avoids steepest job losses as US unemployment reaches historic peak of 14.7%

GeekWire

Seattle’s iconic Pike Place market stands nearly deserted. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). The U.S. unemployment rate soared to a record 14.7% in April according to the Department of Labor. It’s the highest jobless rate since the Great Depression and worst monthly job loss on record, AP reports. Though the entire economy is feeling the pain of pandemic shutdowns, the tech industry faired better than other fields.

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Nine-year-old Fortnite player handed four-year ban

TechSpot

For those who might not have heard of him, Zenon is a nine-year-old Fortnite player from Brazil who’s so good at the battle royale title that’s he’s competed in paid tournaments. Unluckily for him, the terms and conditions of these competitions state that entrants need to be at least 13.

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Alarming number of pharma executive login credentials available on the Dark Web

Tech Republic Security

A new report details major vulnerabilities among the executive suite at some of the largest pharmaceutical companies.

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Amazon and Microsoft are accusing each other of playing dirty to get JEDI contract

TechSpot

Last month, the DoD cleared Microsoft's JEDI contract award, after it couldn't find any wrongdoing in the whole process. This was the first result of legal action where Amazon, the company that came closest to winning the bid, argued that its offer had been turned down at the whim of.

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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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Amazon rips Microsoft for ‘spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis’

GeekWire

(Bigstock Photo). Amazon took a swipe at Microsoft’s cloud computing technology performance this week, calling out the company’s “spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis.”. The dig was part of the ongoing battle over the Pentagon cloud contract. Amazon is once again challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award the $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft.

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Facebook's new look begins rolling out for all desktop users

TechSpot

Indeed, Facebook's interface has been simplified so heavily that it's started to resemble competitor Twitter (as well as Facebook's own mobile app) in many ways. The icon design is similar, there are plenty of Twitter-like, bubble-shaped UI elements, and the top navigation bar bears some resemblance to Twitter's as well.

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What do the Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber layoffs mean for Seattle engineering outposts?

GeekWire

Inside Uber’s Seattle engineering office. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper). Silicon Valley engineering outposts have added an interesting dynamic to Seattle’s burgeoning tech community over the past 15 years. More than 125 of these centers now operate from Bellevue to Belltown, representing thousands of tech workers at companies such as Apple, eBay, HBO, Oracle and Sonos, according to GeekWire data.

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The complete CompTIA Certification is available again for 97% off

TechSpot

There are plenty of IT certifications around, but few carry as much weight as CompTIA’s. With the need for technicians that can work remotely poised to grow, the Complete CompTIA Certification Training Bundle will give the necessary boost to your resume, and it's on sale for a limited time.

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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.