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Digital Process Automation: An Important Part Of Your Digital Transformation Strategy

Forrester IT

Driving successful digital transformation will require developing a lot of software – much more than we’ve ever had to in the past. One strategy is to use a digital process automation solution with strong low-code development tools to meet the demand.

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NIST report on IoT security raises awareness on risks of connected devices

CTOvision

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a US physical sciences laboratory that promotes innovation and industrial competitiveness, has released a report to help organizations understand and manage cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with the internet of things (IoT). Mike Fagan, a NIST computer scientist and one of the authors of the report, said the […].

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How To Prepare For The Coming Recession

Forrester IT

How To Prepare For The Coming Recession: Become An Adaptive Enterprise Recessions are notoriously hard to predict; the timing, severity, and characteristics of recessions are often missed, even by top economists. Yet rumblings about a 2020 recession are growing louder: 40% of top economists expect the Federal Reserve Bank to cut interest rates in response to a […].

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The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat

CTOvision

Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance. It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. Other long-range biometric techniques include gait analysis, which identifies someone by the way he or […].

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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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Retail Mobile App Experiences: New Best Practice Series

Forrester IT

Mobile is the dominant digital touchpoint in retail and mobile apps play critical role – consumers who down load a retailer’s app are likely to be more loyal, but that does not mean they wont uninstall the app if it does not meet their expectations! To help retailers benchmark and prioritize improvements in their apps […].

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Google’s Mysterious Fuchsia OS Developer Site Debuts With New Fascinating Details

CTOvision

Google’s mysterious Fuchsia OS has been a skunkworks project at the company for years now, with only small glimpses of the new operating system, and lots of buzz in the media every time some new development takes place. Earlier this year, Google hired a prominent Apple software engineer to help bring the new operating system […].

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Exclusive: Intel launches blockbuster auction for its mobile portfolio

CTOvision

In what looks set to become one of the highest profile patent sales in years, Intel has put its IP relating to cellular wireless connectivity on the auction block. The company is seeking to divest around 8,500 assets from its massive portfolio. The news comes as the chip giant searches for a buyer for its 5G […].

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The Key to Successful Health: Tech-Driven Innovations

Forrester IT

My latest video is on how tech leader innovators, across all industries are ensuring and improving the health of their employees and customers. And through these efforts how they are both disrupting and partnering with health insurers and providers to deliver better customer health. For more insights, Forrester clients can check out the full report […].

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Top-10 Industries Being Transformed by Blockchain

CTOvision

After struggling to receive recognition of legitimacy within the mainstream zeitgeist during its sophomoric years, distributed ledger technology (DLT) now comprises the driving force behind a new wave of technological creative destruction. This report takes a look at some of the industries and processes that are most dramatically undergoing a transformation in response to the […].

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7 Technologies You Need to Know for Artificial Intelligence

Information Week

Artificial intelligence is actually a term that encompasses a host of technology and tools. Here's a closer look at some of the more important ones.

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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 Month of July: Monthly Update 7-1-2019

Linux Academy

Welcome to the first Weekly Update of July and the overview for the month We’ve got a lot coming up, so make sure to keep an eye out so that you don’t miss a thing. With a plan to launch over 55 new Linux Academy Hands-On Labs this month, you’re going to want to keep up-to-date and see what’s coming. Community. During July, we have some exciting new releases for our Community members, both paid and unpaid.

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Top 5 Issues Exhausting Your IT Team and How to Solve Them

Information Week

Chief information officers and IT leaders need to stay relevant and continually address the common problems that drag down their teams.

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Building a Dynamic Digital Organization by Overcoming the “Growth Pain”

Future of CIO

With “VUCA” digital new normal, a static organization is on its way out. Digital organizations are dynamic, informative, nonlinear, adaptive, and innovative, etc. The Greiner curve models described that there are several crisis points on the growth cycle of the organization. When the wind of change blows, some build walls; some build windmills. The crisis point is when change becomes inevitable.

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Nutanix Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company

Nutanix

In today’s competitive technology talent environment, culture is what makes a company stand out amongst the crowd. A strong culture helps us hire faster, bring more A-players on board and retain the team that has driven Nutanix’s past successes as a company.

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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 “Deep Listening” Practices in the Boardroom

Future of CIO

Evaluation, strategic oversight, and policy setting are always at the top list of the corporate board’s agenda. One of the biggest challenges in this complex, multi-polar world is the fact that we need different perspectives, the multitude of insights, dynamic knowledge, and alternative ways to solve emergent or old thorny problems. The digital-savvy board has to develop “deep listening” skill, gain digital awareness, shape multidimensional thinking, leverage five senses, and exercise the superv

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Answering Questions about Self-Sovereign Identity

Phil Windley

Summary: Identity professionals continue to have questions about self-sovereign identy (SSI). In this post, I answer a few questions that Susan Morrow raised about the commercial viability, security, privacy, and desired user experience of SSI. In Self-sovereign identity: 3 key questions (registration required), Susan Morrow asks some questions about the viability of self-sovereign identity (SSI).

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The Monthly “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Tuning: Business Model Innovation July 2019

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; at the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities.

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Tempered Networks simplifies secure network connectivity and microsegmentation

Network World

The TCP/IP protocol is the foundation of the internet and pretty much every single network out there. The protocol was designed 45 years ago and was originally only created for connectivity. There’s nothing in the protocol for security, mobility, or trusted authentication. The fundamental problem with TCP/IP is that the IP address within the protocol represents both the device location and the device identity on a network.

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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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Employee Spotlight – Alex Lozada, Product Designer

Linux Academy

The Linux Academy product team is a huge reason we are the #1 learn-by-doing multicloud training platform. They continuously listen to our students’ feedback and to make changes you ask to see. You can check out updates to our business platform here and below, meet Alex, one of our Product Designers, and see why he loves working at Linux Academy!

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