Wed.Dec 12, 2018

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Get Ready for Edge Computing’s Rise In 2019

Forrester IT

Every company needs edge computing on its technology roadmap starting in 2019. While many of you may see edge as exclusive to IoT, its value is much wider and will prove as critical to driving up customer experience as content delivery networks (CDN) were in the early days of the Web. Which explains why you […].

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After another massive Google+ data breach, you should probably delete your profile right now

CTOvision

Google+ may be a punchline in the social network world, but there’s something seriously wrong with it. For the second time in as many months, Google has announced that Google+ has been hit with another data leak, and this one is way worse than the last. According to a blog post, some 52.5 million users are […].

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Farming Innovation And Climate Change Adaptation

Forrester IT

Every company will face disruption from new market entrants and innovations that seek to solve some of the world’s most difficult issues. To get a sense for the potential impact of such innovation, a new Forrester report, “Disruptive Innovations Are Happening In Every Industry” by James Staten and Michele Pelino is a must-read for CIOs […].

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Why are we still at risk from email hacking?

CTOvision

Email remains the main communication tool for businesses. If an email account is hacked it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive, or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email and to send and receive as the legitimate owner. With advances in medicine […].

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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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Video Drives Online Display Advertising Spending But With Some Limitations

Forrester IT

Online video offers marketers and media firms an immersive and interactive form of communication with targeted user groups. Google is constantly refining its content acquisition and delivery tools to grow its YouTube revenue. Three Chinese digital giants — Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT) — are investing aggressively on their online video platforms, namely Baidu’s iQiyi, […].

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Senzing: AI powered entity resolution to find who is who and what is what in your data

CTOvision

If you have data you very likely have entity resolution challenges. Entity resolution is the task of figuring out who is who and what is what in your data. It encompasses finding duplicates, correlating, disambiguation and understanding the relationships between people, objects and key metadata. Entity resolution is a key part of many workflows including […].

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Sextortion Emails Force Payment via GandCrab Ransomware

CTOvision

A sextortion scam that doubles its chances of success by planting ransomware on the computing device of its target victims has emerged, and as is often the case the attackers want to be paid in bitcoin. According to researchers at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, the sextortion campaign, which is mostly targeting residents of the United States, is […].

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The New Job Description for Data Scientists

Information Week

As new tools help to automate data collection and cleaning, the role of data scientists is evolving into one where they deliver more value to their organizations.

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You think your business is primed to deal with any cyber threat – but what if it’s an inside job?

CTOvision

We have written quite a bit about the Insider Threat and know it is a topic with many views. Here is another: The possibility that a breach or a cyber attack could be down to an employee or former employee is growing all the time. It could be a malicious attack from a disgruntled member of […].

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How To Avoid Having Unengaged Employees On Your Team

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you really want is for the members of your IT department to be engaged Image Credit: Ged Carroll. When you have new people join your department, they generally do so with a great deal of excitement – they understand the importance of information technology. There are a lot of things that they want to accomplish and they are looking forward to learning many new things.

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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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IT firms, telcos among dozens hacked in new info-stealing malware attack

CTOvision

A cyber espionage group is deploying a new type of trojan malware against telecommunications, information technology, and government organisations. Dubbed Seedworm, the group has been operating since at least 2017, and although it predominantly looks to infiltrate organisations in the Middle East, organisations based in Europe and North America have also been targets.

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Top 10 Tech Predictions for 2019

Information Week

How will trends like cloud computing, AI, IoT and robotics shape enterprise IT in the coming year?

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Exploring the future Ep5: Considering uncertainties in the future of infrastructure

Trends in the Living Networks

I recorded this episode of my vlog when I was at the Building Nations Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand to give a keynote on ‘Making the Future Real’ Infrastructure is highly tangible, and those involved in infrastructure tend to be highly grounded. Yet infrastructure decisions have an impact over a longer timeframe than any other industry.

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Secure Solutions: The 6 Biggest Advantages of IT Outsourcing

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Secure Solutions: The 6 Biggest Advantages of IT Outsourcing - Information Technology Blog. As a business, you’ll already understand the importance that IT has and what using it can bring to your business. However, so many businesses will try to manage and handle all their IT applications and processes internally, which means owning all the equipment and hiring and training all the staff.

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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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LAPS Privileged Access Management for Windows 10

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is just one part of a larger credential theft mitigation and monitoring strategy. But it’s an important pillar in your credential thread mitigation strategy. LAPS provides a centralized storage of local admin account passwords in Active Directory without additional servers.

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How Local SEO Can Help Increase Organic Leads For Your Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How Local SEO Can Help Increase Organic Leads For Your Business - Information Technology Blog. The business arena is fast-paced, competitive and almost saturated. A lot of businesses in different niches are already operating today – which makes it difficult for neophytes to stand out. Without a detailed plan and thorough understanding of the market, it’ll be hard for new and small business to thrive and succeed.

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7 technologies that CIOs can’t ignore in 2019

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: As technology evolves, it plays an increasingly important role in the business world. More than ever, the modern CIO must stay ahead of the ever-changing technology curve, and understand how new technologies might affect their business. What technologies could have the biggest impact on the business world in the coming year? In this article, we explore a few more technologies that the modern CIO cannot afford to ignore.

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IT ‘Mix and Match’ – Can We Make It Work?

Dataconomy

“Mix and match” might work for products on sale at the supermarket, but it’s not necessarily the best strategy for an IT department. In this case, the “mixing” involves adopting cloud solutions along with in-house IT systems, with the IT team managing the relationship between the different systems. The issue. The post IT ‘Mix and Match’ – Can We Make It Work?

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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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The Digital Management Formula

Future of CIO

Digital Management = Goal + Principle + Process + Practice + Training + Metrics The digital paradigm has many dimensions, with hyperconnected nature and lots of moving pieces. The digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with many mixed parts. It consists of the interlocking function of making corporate policies, organizing, planning, controlling, and directing the organization’s resources in order to achieve the objectives of that policy.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is our fifth European Region, joining Dublin, Frankfurt, London, and Paris.

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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: Reboot IT to Get Digital Ready Dec. 2018

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.

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6 steps to create a recruiting budget (Template Included)

Hacker Earth

As the new year approaches, most of the organizations, before closing their finances, are looking at managers across teams to collaborate and share the most optimized recruiting budget for the coming year. Here is a 6-step guide to creating the most detailed recruiting budget sheet for your organization. Also attached is a sample sheet for your reference.

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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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Creative Competency

Future of CIO

Creativity is a contextualized competency. Creativity comprises a combination of “flavored ingredients” that work together, flow, fluctuate, in harmony, in order to generate creative energy. You can pull it out of the box and look at it through different lenses. Everyone possesses a certain level of creativity, but how does creativity manifest itself, and what’re critical components of shaping creative competency?

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KubeCon 2018 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 (Wednesday) keynotes at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA. For additional KubeCon 2018 coverage, check out other articles tagged KubeCon2018. Kicking off the day 2 keynotes, Liz Rice takes the stage at 9:02am (same time as yesterday, making me wonder if my clock is off by 2 minutes). Rice immediately brings out Janet Kuo, Software Engineer at Google and co-chair with Rice of the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon event program.

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