Thu.Oct 04, 2018

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The Day Of The Machine Is Here: Are We Human Enough To Seize It?

Forrester IT

You’re an executive, an employer, or maybe an up-and-comer in your organization, but either way, you have surveyed the moment and you know that big things are poised to happen. Unlike the big things of the past — the Internet or mobile — the change won’t be the result of consumers embracing a shiny new object or buying into a […].

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Is Cognitive Technology a Better Term than Artificial Intelligence?

CTOvision

One of the challenges for those tracking the artificial intelligence industry is that, surprisingly, there’s no accepted, standard definition of what artificial intelligence really is. As Rodney Brooks puts it starkly in the recently released “This is AI” video, “artificial intelligence doesn’t mean one thing… it’s a collection of practices and pieces that people put […].

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Digital Legacy: The New Big Mistake

Forrester IT

The extensive industry activity and commotion about digital transformation — mobile, IoT, machine learning, cloud, APIs, microservices, and on and on — is all well and good, but while everyone is happily going along with the next new and way cool digital thing, most are making a big mistake. Digital is great — and necessary — […].

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Defending Against Insider Threats, Innovative Organizations Increasingly Rely on Deception

CTOvision

We live in a world where breaches are now inevitable. Few would argue with this statement, yet many enterprises have not adapted their broader cyber security strategy to reflect our new shared reality—the need for cyber resilience. Last year, the Ponemon Institute found 56 percent of organizations have suffered a data breach of some sort that was caused […].

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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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Ask A Flowchart: What Should I Name My Marketing AI?

Forrester IT

Artificial Intelligence is a big deal in marketing technology. Forrester sees strong potential in AI as an enabling technology for marketing, and it’s great to see many vendors embracing AI to enhance existing offerings and as the basis for new solutions. But for vendors, mastering AI technology alone isn’t enough to get to the top. […].

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You have always known there is a threat of hardware attacks: Get ugly details here

CTOvision

It is important to remember the threat of hardware based attacks. They have always been a threat vector, but hardly ever in the news. Now that part has changed. Bloomberg Businessweek has just run a well researched story into a hardware attack that is incredible in scope. The overall theme of the attack will not […].

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CompTIA Names Top 10 Emerging Technologies

Information Week

New technologies keep on coming, but which are better to invest in now versus later? CompTIA's recently released a prioritized list of top 10 emerging technologies. We compared it with CompTIA's latest State of the Channel Report.

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It’s Past Time To Prepare For A No-Deal Brexit; Spend The Money And Hope It’s A Waste

Forrester IT

Center-right politicians from Scandinavian countries aren’t prone to hyperbole. But on 17 August, Danish Minister of Finance Kristian Jensen told the UK’s BBC Radio 4 that he pegged the odds of a ‘No-deal’ Brexit at 50-50. This, coupled with the UK government’s publication of its No-deal Brexit guidance collection on 23 August, means that if […].

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IDG Contributor Network: Identity awareness: it’s more than just a packet

Network World

It was about 20 years ago when I plugged my first Ethernet cable into a switch. It was for our new chief executive officer. Little did she know that she was about to share her traffic with most others on the first floor. At that time being a network engineer, I had five floors to be looked after. Having a few virtual LANs (VLANs) per floor was a common design practice in those traditional days.

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Do You Need Help With Your Innovation Approach?

Forrester IT

Businesses turn to innovation consulting services vendors to strengthen their own innovation capabilities. These businesses want to strengthen their own competencies to drive sustainable innovation over the longer term.

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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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The Internet's Micro-Platform Economy

Information Week

You might be surprised to learn that the driving force in growth of the Internet economy isn't the number of buyers, but the number of sellers.

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Invest in Virtual Care Now to Ensure Relevance in Tomorrow’s Healthcare Ecosystem

Forrester IT

Virtual care is about to radically change the way that healthcare organizations deliver care. The US population is changing quickly, and within the next decade, the number of adults age 65 and older will increase by 41% compared with 5% for the population under age 18[i]. With this shift comes a rise in chronic conditions […].

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4 Ways to Reach Global Markets

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 4 Ways to Reach Global Markets - Information Technology Blog. If your company has a good understanding of the domestic market and has performed well there, it’s time to consider going global. However, the rules and procedures that worked for you locally will not be the same when the international market is concerned. Keeping this in mind, here are a few ways you can learn how to reach global markets.

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ADP Harnesses Data for HR Insights

Information Week

ADP has created a data benchmarking service for salary, compensation, and other HR needs.

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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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Guide to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft Online

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Guide to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft Online - Information Technology Blog. “We are not as safe as we think we are when we are online” Most of us believe that using server security software (75 percent) or antivirus software (62 percent) is enough to protect against online identity theft. Identity theft is a serious and frequent crime in the United States.

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How to monetize your data in the right way

Dataconomy

In the face of overwhelming evidence, consumers can no longer ignore the fact that major tech and social media companies engage in mass data harvesting and the selling of user information to third parties – one need only look to the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal (which impacted not only the users. The post How to monetize your data in the right way appeared first on Dataconomy.

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4 Ways IoT Has Changed Everyday Life

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 4 Ways IoT Has Changed Everyday Life - Information Technology Blog. Take a moment to consider how prevalent technology is in your everyday habits. The chances are that like everyone else, you have a mobile phone that you keep close to you most of the time. Your work may even rely on a computer, or at the very least you use it for various other reasons when you are at home.

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When Social Tech Socializes: Brandwatch + Crimson Hexagon Make A Logical Match

Forrester IT

Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, two social listening platforms, announced their merger today. The company will maintain the Brandwatch name with Brandwatch founder and CEO, Giles Palmer, at the helm. At Forrester, we’ve been pushing for the next evolution in the social listening space. Our recent The Forrester Wave™: Social Listening Platforms, Q3 2018 evaluation uncovered […].

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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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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter VII Avoid Pitfalls to Run Dynamic Digital IT

Future of CIO

The world is becoming more complex but smaller every day, as the consequence, every successful business has to sooner or later step into the uncharted water and blurred business territories. It brings both significant opportunities and unprecedented risks. IT needs to avoid the pitfalls on the way, move up the maturity level, in pursuit of effectiveness and performance by having governance in place with a long-term focus to get digital ready.

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Nutanix AOS 5.9 is Here!

Nutanix

The Nutanix AOS 5.8 release back in July 2018 unleashed many new security enhancements with a focus on encryption and identity management. We are excited to let you know that AOS 5.9 is here and available for you to download from the portal.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/5/2018

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 5000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society.

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Three Critical Underpinning for Running a Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Organizations today are hyperconnected with their business ecosystem because today, the geographical, functional, business or even industrial borders are blurring. Digitalization is not just about single dimensional technology upgrading, it has to expands to almost every dimension of the business. At the high maturity level, companies need to embed digital into the very fabric of the business and explore digital transformation in a structural way.

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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.