Fri.Oct 04, 2019

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The Client Book Club

Forrester IT

This week, Forrester’s Board of Clients was in Cambridge. This amazing group advises the company on strategy, new products, and improving our service. Over the years, they have had a big influence on how we work and where we are going — this year, the discussion was particularly valuable. I always host a dinner with […].

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AWS billing is broken and Kubernetes won't last, says irreverent economist Corey Quinn

Tech Republic Cloud

The Duckbill Group's outspoken co-founder Corey Quinn shares his thoughts on the cloud industry, Walmart's paranoia about AWS, why Docker is nearly out of money, and why Larry Ellison "is not people.

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A Lesson On Facial Recognition, Privacy, And GDPR From The Far North

Forrester IT

(Jeremy Vale coauthored this post.) All eyes may be on on Hong Kong right now and its use of facial recognition to identify protesters, but a far more enlightening case — for those fortunate to have less antagonistic relationships with local authorities — can be found in the small Swedish town of Skellefteå (“sche-left-eye-o“), […].

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Three vital ethical issues highlighted by the vast potential of neural interfaces

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week I participated in a TV panel discussion on the implications and ethics of neural interfaces , together with the fascinating cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and Oxford University neuroethicist Stephen Rainey. A video of the full program is below. I was delighted to participate in the conversation as I am increasingly turning my attention to the evolution and implications of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) as one of the most important developments for the future of humanity.

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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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The Key To Your AI Transformation: Think Like A Supervillain

Forrester IT

Want to take over the world using AI? Contrary to popular belief, AI isn’t going to design a plan for AI-enabled world domination for you. (And don’t hold your breath, it won’t be doing so anytime soon.) Instead, it is on you to identify the untapped, world-changing business opportunities that best leverage AI’s unique strengths […].

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A Quick Look at ManageEngine’s Enhanced Add-on for SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post let’s go ahead and check ManageEngine’s enhanced add-on for SCCM current branch. This is the sponsored post by ManageEngine to get more details about their new features of the Patch Connect Plus! Introduction Patch Connect Plus aids in patching with Microsoft SCCM by completely automating third-party application patching.

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What Financial Firms Want in Cloud Adoption Strategies

Information Week

Lead technologists from three financial institutions shared their infrastructure transformation needs at New York Enterprise Tech Meetup.

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Zero Trading Fees Are Here – So Are Significant Market Cap Losses

Forrester IT

The bottom line: while this appears to be a typical price war among industry incumbents, what we’re seeing is a broader fight for trading volume and relevance started by digital disruptor Robinhood who used technology to upend the status quo. The correct response to digital disruption is not to engage in price wars but to […].

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Changing Mindsets on IT Automation

Information Week

Enterprises are not fully on board yet and in some cases stuck in manual mode. Here are four key areas to consider to get on the road to automation.

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Recording Upskill SCCM Admins Webinar SCCM in Cloud Era

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Many of you attended the Webinar on upskilling the SCCM admins in the Cloud Era. This post is the follow-up post to let you know the details about the Webinar. If you are interested in watching the recording of the Webinar, you are in the correct place. SCCM in Cloud Era!!

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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How ingress/egress charges ruin any benefit of multicloud (and how to fix it)

Tech Republic Cloud

Dumping workloads in the cloud and running analytics on it is a really quick way to run up a gigantic bill.

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Using AI to Automate Customer Service

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Using AI to Automate Customer Service - Information Technology Blog. Improving quality of service provided to the customers is a top priority for any company these days- regardless of aspects like segment and size of the business. With customers becoming more demanding and choosier than the past, the businesses have no other choice than enhancing their service quality.

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How OEMs can steer channel partners toward XaaS

Tech Republic Cloud

As XaaS solutions become more popular, OEMs must deliver, but they need channel partners to be on board. Here's how to make that happen.

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How To Stay Safe When Gaming Online

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How To Stay Safe When Gaming Online - Information Technology Blog. Any action we take online requires being alert and taking security seriously. Whether browsing, downloading any file, sending an e-mail. Also when we play online we must exercise caution. In this article we are going to talk about how to stay safe when gaming online.

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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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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth

Technology has evolved drastically over the last decade and is only expected to continue transforming. With the changing landscape, the skill sets that organizations look for in tech professionals is also changing. A survey of 42,300 employers across 43 countries and territories found that the demand for IT skills has skyrocketed. However, it is a known fact that there are more jobs than candidates in the IT industry. .

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The Virtue of Systems Thinking

Future of CIO

Every system is like three sides of a coin, this side, that side and the integrative relationship between them. Systems Thinking is a way of understanding complexity, the interconnectivity between the parts and the whole. Every system is a construct of the mind. Systems Thinking is a cognitive process to embrace holism and nonlinearity. Here are some virtues of Systems Thinking.

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Hardest tech roles to fill (+ solutions!)

Hacker Earth

Technology has evolved drastically over the last decade and is only expected to continue transforming. With the changing landscape, the skill sets that organizations look for in tech professionals is also changing. A survey of 42,300 employers across 43 countries and territories found that the demand for IT skills has skyrocketed. However, it is a known fact that there are more jobs than candidates in the IT industry. .

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The Best “Clarity” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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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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Customer Retention Strategies

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Customer Retention Strategies - Information Technology Blog. Increasing customer base is a priority for any company but it is also important to focus on retaining existing or loyal customers. Studies have shown returning customers spend more than new customers and for the companies, retaining existing shoppers is cheaper than getting new ones.

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Build Digitally Competitive Organization Oct. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital