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Do Channel Vendors Need Public Relations Anymore?

Forrester IT

The communications industry is facing a perfect storm of converging forces, from COVID-19 to the rise of influencer marketing and even AI. At Forrester, we research around 10,000 global technology vendors that utilize indirect sales and often get asked about the value of PR in the channel. A trend that is affecting many channel leaders […].

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Agile Transformation Everywhere! - Winning over Stakeholders

Social, Agile and Transformation

One of my favorite workshops that I do is called Agile for Stakeholders. Now there are books, frameworks, and tools to help agile product owners, scrum masters, and leads, including StarCIO Agile Planner, but there are limited resources for stakeholders. Stakeholders are anyone that contributes to priorities, requirements, and business cases to product owners as input to the vision and.

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Use These First Principles To Succeed With Robotic Process Automation In 2020

Forrester IT

Let’s just say that one measure of the hype that surrounds any emerging technology is the amount of new (and largely superfluous) jargon that it generates. Enterprise automation market needs pragmatic advice The market for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been in hypergrowth for a while now. RPA, and its extension into intelligent automation (IA), […].

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Deploy Windows 10 2004 Using SCCM | ConfigMgr | MEMCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, You will learn about bare metal deployment using the configuration manager (Windows 10 2004 Using SCCM). The bare metal scenario occurs when you have a blank machine you need to deploy or an existing machine you want to wipe and redeploy without needing to preserve any existing data.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Retailers And Brands: Tap Drop-Ship Programs For New Selling Opportunities

Forrester IT

At its core, commerce relies on bringing together willing customers with the products they want. With more places for customers to find those products, drop-shipping models fuel many of the largest retail and marketplace websites. The result: more goods in more places (extended assortment for retailers and expanded sales channels for suppliers), which has benefits […].

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How AI and Machine Learning are Evolving DevOps

Information Week

Artificial intelligence and ML can help us take DevOps to the next level through identifying problems more quickly and further automating our processes.

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62% of IT leaders are considering downsizing infrastructure in favor of the cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

The sudden shift to remote work has accelerated digital transformation strategies for many organizations, Citrix study finds.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Brands Pledge To Stand With The Black Community In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, citizens are taking to the streets to protest institutionalized racism. Brands are speaking out too, because, as Netflix tweeted, “to be silent is to be complicit.” Netflix joins brands like Google, Peloton, Nike, and Target (whose stores were looted) in taking a vocal anti-racist stance.

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Data and Analytics Pros Navigate Job Market Changes

Information Week

Data scientists, machine learning specialists and other data and analytics pros are seeing a changes to the job market in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. What will the lasting impacts be?

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Microservices: A cheat sheet

Tech Republic Cloud

If you want to build software that is more resilient, agile, and faster, you can do just that with microservice architecture.

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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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48% of employees are less likely to follow safe data practices when working from home

Tech Republic Security

According to a Tessian survey, data protection concerns go out the window for remote employees.

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96% of IT pros say COVID-19 has changed the way they think

Tech Republic Cloud

A new report from Yellowbrick examines the impact the coronavirus has had on the technology industry.

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How to Cop-Proof Your Phone Before Heading to a Protest

Gizmodo

At some point, everyone reaches a limit where they can no longer sit back and stay silent about injustice in the world. However, if you do plan on attending a protest— even a peaceful one —there are some important precautions you should take with your phone before you go. Read more.

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Spotify to add 8:46-minute moment of silence to playlists and podcasts in honor of George Floyd

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Spotify will add an 8 minute and 46-second moment of silence to select playlists and podcasts on the platform to honor George Floyd. The length of the moment of silence is equal to the amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd down by the neck with his knee , resulting in Floyd’s death and sparking universal outcry and demonstrations in US cities and around the world.

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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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Zoom plans stronger encryption on video meetings for these customers

Tech Republic Security

Schools, paying customers and potentially high-risk users could be offered stronger encryption for video meetings under new plans being explored by Zoom.

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Google’s latest Pixel features include a ‘safety check’ for when you’re walking alone

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Google is today announcing the next batch of new software features coming to its Pixel smartphones. After adding car-crash detection last year, the company is expanding upon its personal safety features with a new “safety check” tool that’s designed to make sure you’re okay if you’re out somewhere alone — for a walk or run, perhaps.

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Sony postpones PlayStation 5 event to let ‘more important voices’ be heard

Venture Beast

Sony is postponing its first major PlayStation 5 event on June 4 because of ongoing protests in opposition to the racist killings of black people by police. Read More.

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Leak shows AMD "Ryzen C7" SoC for smartphones with impressive specs

TechSpot

Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and Huawei's HiSilicon are among the largest chip makers for smartphones, tablets, and wearables. There are also smaller companies like Rockchip who have been trying to compete, and now it looks like AMD is getting ready to test these waters as well.

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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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NASA’s Dragon riders capture the flag, nine years after it was left on the space station

GeekWire

NASA astronaut Doug Hurley shows off the U.S. flag that was left aboard the International Space Station in 2011 by the last space shuttle crew. Hurley and Behnken, at left, will take the flag back to Earth with them aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The space station’s current commander, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, is at right. (NASA via YouTube).

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More Than 500 Vertebrate Species Are on the Brink of ‘Biological Annihilation’

Gizmodo

A new study finds further evidence that humans are driving the world’s sixth mass extinction. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Monday, this research focuses on terrestrial vertebrates—amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles—and found that more than 500 species are “on the brink of… Read more.

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Pico Neo 2 Eye hands-on: The 4K, eye tracking, enterprise Oculus Quest

Venture Beast

Facebook scored a hit with the all-in-one consumer VR headset Oculus Quest, and now Pico has an enterprise-focused alternative with some big improvements. Read More.

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Microsoft Azure, 5G and hybrid cloud: What you need to know

Tech Republic Cloud

5G technologies are key to providing the low-latency last mile that Microsoft's 'intelligent edge' needs.

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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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How Purism takes a lo-fi approach to secure laptops for shipment

Tech Republic Security

Are you concerned someone might intercept your newly-purchased mobile device during transit and do bad things with it? Purism is aware this happens and takes a lo-fi approach to the problem.

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Microsoft is blocking the Windows 10 May 2020 Update on lots of devices

The Verge

Microsoft is preventing a large number of devices from updating to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. While the software company released the update last week, Microsoft has quietly acknowledged that there are a number of known issues preventing the update from being installed on a variety of PCs. Microsoft has a list of 10 issues it’s currently investigating, and 9 of them have resulted in a “compatibility hold” which stops the Windows 10 May 2020 Update from being installed via Windows Update.

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iOS 13.5 is causing major issues for some iPhone and iPad users

TechSpot

iOS 13.5 brings several updates to Apple’s operating system, including contact-tracing API, changes to Face ID unlock, and Group FaceTime calls. But, as is often the case with OS updates, it’s causing issues for some who install it.

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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

Protesters demonstrate against police brutality and the death of George Floyd outside the St. Louis City Justice Center and City Hall on June 1, 2020 in St Louis, Missouri. | Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images. If you’ve been participating in the recent protests and want to do more, or if you’re unable to participate and want to do something , one way to help is to donate your money or your time.

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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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Some advances in AI have been exaggerated

TechSpot

Davis Blalock, a computer science graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and some of his colleagues recently compared 81 pruning algorithms – tweaks that make neural networks more efficient. “Fifty papers in,” he said, “it became clear that it wasn’t obvious what the state of the art.

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Users discover wallpaper that can crash some Android phones

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A bug in Android means that setting a certain image as your phone’s wallpaper could be enough to crash it. The issue gained widespread attention over the weekend after leaker Ice Universe tweeted the image that causes the issue, and the bug has since been verified by 9to5Google and Android Authority. Ice Universe says that the bug affects Samsung handsets in particular, but it’s also been replicated on Google Pixel phones, among others.

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Deloitte: Enterprises say 5G and Wi-Fi 6 will be ‘critical’ in 3 years

Venture Beast

Businesses are planning to supercharge their wireless networks to transform their cloud apps, data analytics, AI, edge processing, and IOT deployments. Read More.

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Setting this image as a wallpaper bricks some Android phones

TechSpot

Prolific leaker Ice Universe highlighted the issue on their Twitter account. It seems to affect most Android devices, especially Samsung's. Android Authority writes that setting the image as the wallpaper didn’t affect a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, but it did crash a Pixel 2. It also crashed a Pixel 3.

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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.