Wed.Sep 23, 2020

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Consumer Energy Fizzles To A New Low As Consumers Approach Q4

Forrester IT

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that we’ve been measuring precisely how the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing consumer appetite for commercial exchange — we do this by applying Forrester’s Consumer Energy Index, our data-driven framework that captures how ready and willing consumers are to reach out to brands. After […].

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Remote IT Jobs: How to Get One and What to Expect

Association of Information Technology Professional

Wondering what it’s like to have a remote IT job? Read about the daily expectations and hear how to get one, from seasoned IT pros.

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Welcome To The Year Of The Customer Marketer

Forrester IT

One major trend we see is an amped-up focus on retention — keeping customers and ensuring they achieve value.

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WVD Deep Dive Technical Videos from Microsoft Ignite 2020

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Here are some of the WVD Deep Dive Technical Videos from Microsoft Ignite 2020. I will update the post as soon as possible. So this will be one stop shop for all Microsoft Endpoint Manager videos! Related post – ConfigMgr Intune Deep Dive Videos from Ignite 2020 How to deploy Windows Virtual Desktop and secure […].

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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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Merchant Payment Providers: Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave (Q3 2020)

Forrester IT

For our latest evaluation in the merchant payment provider space, Forrester identified ten leading vendors and spent the last four months analyzing their offering via a combination of briefings, demos, capability assessments and customer reference checks. Specifically, we evaluated ACI Worldwide, Adyen, Cybersource, Fiserv, Global Payments, J.P. Morgan, PayPal, Stripe, Worldline, and Worldpay from FIS. […].

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Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud

Network World

The mainframe has been declared “dead”, “morphed” and “transformed” so many times over the years sometimes it’s sometimes hard to believe the Big Iron still has an identity in the enterprise world. But clearly it does and in a major way, too. [ Lessons on diversity in IT: 10 professional organizations focused on diversity in tech • Being Black in IT: 3 tech leaders share their stories • Gender gapped: The state of gender diversity in IT • M?

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FBI warns of cybercriminals spreading false info about 2020 election results

Tech Republic Security

Bad actors could create or change websites and social media content to discredit this year's electoral process, cautions the FBI and CISA.

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Lead-Based Measurement Is Older Than The Smartphone: It’s Time To Update How We Measure Marketing Impact

Forrester IT

Setting up buying groups to operationalize the Demand Unit Waterfall™ is easier than you think, and you probably already have the systems you need.

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How to combat cyber threats amid the shift to remote working

Tech Republic Security

Some 85% of CISOs surveyed by Netwrix revealed that they sacrificed cybersecurity to quickly set up employees to work remotely.

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CIOs Seize An Opportunity To Redesign The Workplace

The Accidental Successful CIO

Changes in the workforce have permitted changes in the workspace Image Credit: Paintzen. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, all of sudden everyone who had been coming into the office started to stay at home. That left a lot of workspace wide open. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity got the people in the CIO position thinking. How could the workplace be made better for everyone in the IT department so that they could share the importance of information technology?

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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 cyberattacks are targeting video gamers and companies

Tech Republic Security

Game players are affected by phishing campaigns, while gaming companies are getting hit by DDoS attacks, says Akamai.

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IT Leader Profile: Upgrading ERP During a Pandemic

Information Week

Mukul Agrawal serves as global head of ERP and IT services at Vistaprint. Here's a look at what he's done and what he has been working on lately.

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Experts discuss ways IT can maximize budget amid COVID-19 shrinkage

Tech Republic Security

With revenue down, CIOs are rearranging their technology spending to prioritize return to office needs and security, executives say.

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Oracle's new cloud infrastructure roadmap is all about high-performance computing

Tech Republic Cloud

Announcements include NVIDIA A100 general availability, Arm for Linux cloud instances, and a new tier of elastic computing.

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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 rogue TikTok accounts are promoting malicious mobile apps

Tech Republic Security

The accounts are pushing games, wallpaper, and other apps designed to deploy adware scams toward iOS and Android users, says Avast.

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A closer look at the Xbox Series X controller and 1TB expansion cards

The Verge

Expandable storage on the Xbox Series X. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Microsoft has previously detailed the new Xbox Series X controller and optional 1TB expansion cards, and now we’ve been able to get a closer look at both. After taking a first look at the Xbox Series X earlier this month , The Verge now has a working Xbox Series X unit with a 1TB expansion card and Microsoft’s updated controller.

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Google expands its Flutter development kit to Windows apps

Venture Beast

Google has announced that Flutter, its open source UI development kit for building cross-platform apps from the same codebase, is now available for Windows. Read More.

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The gaming industry keeps failing miserably at selling its most important products

The Verge

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Why is it so hard to place an order for a next-gen console or new Nvidia graphics card? Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S preorders went live on Tuesday , capping a rough week of product rollouts that included similarly messy situations for preordering Sony’s PlayStation 5 and buying Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card.

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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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Next Year You'll Be Able to Use Microsoft Office Without a Subscription, Thank Goodness

Gizmodo

If there’s one thing we could do without next year besides, well (gestures at everything), it’s subscription services. Peacock. Xbox Game Pass. Disney+. Adobe Creative Suite. Apple Arcade. Stadia. HBO Max. CBS All Access. Netflix. Hulu. Spotify. Amazon Prime. Even our shoes aren’t safe from monthly payments. Kind of… Read more.

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PCIe 4.0 vs. PCIe 3.0 GPU Benchmark, Feat. GeForce RTX 3080 FE

TechSpot

With the launch of the new GeForce 30 series, PCI Express 4.0 performance has come up into the discussion. To find out exactly what we're talking about, we've taken a deeper look.

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Mastercard’s VP of AI talks bots, NLP, and why fintechs need AI for customer service (VB Live)

Venture Beast

Learn how FIs and fintechs can leverage AI, NLP, and voice technologies to dramatically improve customer service and boost efficiency at this VB Live event. Read More.

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Outreach founders lift the hood on their stealthy new remote work startup

GeekWire

Outreach co-founders Gordon Hempton (left) and Wes Hather are working together on a new startup called Spot. (Photo courtesy of Hempton). Outreach co-founders Wes Hather and Gordon Hempton are sharing a little more about their secretive new company. The entrepreneurs left Outreach over the past year and are now working together on Spot , a Seattle-based startup building a tool for remote work.

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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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Xbox One X sales skyrocket as people buy the wrong console

TechSpot

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the Xbox Series X followed the same path as the PS5 and RTX 3080 yesterday as the rush to secure pre-orders caused sites to crash. Microsoft’s machine was out of stock even faster than Sony’s, and it seems some people—or bots, hopefully—got the words “Series” and.

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California Bans Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars Beginning in 2035

Gizmodo

California has taken a dramatic step forward in its battle to combat its gradual slide into climate change hell. On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his signing of an executive order that will prohibit the sale of new cars with an internal combustion engine in the Golden State starting in 2035. Read more.

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Intel details chips designed for IoT and edge workloads

Venture Beast

Intel is targeting the IoT and edge computing market with new processor products, including the Atom x6000E Series, Pentium, Celeron N, and J Series. Read More.

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Record-Breaking Whale Stays Underwater for Mind-Bending 3 Hours and 42 Minutes

Gizmodo

Marine biologists are astonished after a Cuvier’s beaked whale held its breath for nearly four hours during a deep dive. The unexpected observation shows there’s much to learn about these medium-sized whales. Read more.

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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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Google adds threat detection to Chronicle cybersecurity platform

Venture Beast

Google is expanding its Chronicle cybersecurity platform into the threat detection realm, with the promise of "Google-scale threat analysis." Read More.

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Cybersecurity Perception Study shows increasing admiration for those in the profession

Tech Republic Security

The study by (ISC)² also finds a global shortage of 4.07 million.

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Google Maps adds an overlay of COVID-19 case trends

The Verge

Google. Google Maps will soon include information on COVID-19 spread in states, counties, and some cities. Toggling on the “COVID” layer in the app will show the seven-day average number of confirmed cases in each area per 100,000 people. Areas of the map will be color-coded based on case rate, and a label shows if cases are going up or down. The feature will roll out on Android and iOS this week.

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Amazon vets raise $4M from Madrona, Bezos Expeditions, others for AI2 spinout WhyLabs

GeekWire

The WhyLabs team. Company leaders know they need to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies within their businesses to stay ahead of the competition. But studies show that most organizations aren’t yet seeing an impact from AI investments and are increasingly wary of potential risks related to the burgeoning tech. WhyLabs CEO Alessya Visnjic.

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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.