Mon.Jun 10, 2019

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Salesforce buys Tableau to actualize data-driven engagement

Forrester IT

Salesforce announced today its’ intent to acquire Tableau Software. This move adds a robust data visualization and insights solution to their customer engagement portfolio. Unlike other acquisitions, Tableau will operate under its own brand post acquisition. Tableau Software offers an enterprise BI solution to access, combine and cleanse data from disparate sources.

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Recorded Future Posts Assessment on Geopolitical and Supply Chain Risks From the Huawei Monoculture

CTOvision

I’ve been reading cyber threat intelligence assessments since the beginnings of the digital age. Not sure if I’ve seen a million of them but it sure seems like I have. I feel like the one I just read by Priscilla Moriuchi at Recorded Future is one of the best and I would like to endorse […].

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Forrester’s Take On Salesforce’s Acquisition Of Tableau: What It Means For Customers

Forrester IT

Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau is no big surprise. Despite the massive price tag, it fits perfectly with the SaaS giant’s ambition to be come an insights-rich platform for all things customer. Watch this video to hear our take on what it means for customers. (I realize this video looks like it was shot from inside […].

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Immersive Wisdom: Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality for Real-Time Collaboration

CTOvision

Immersive Wisdom provides a virtual, mixed, and augmented reality software platform for multi-user geospatial collaboration and real-time intelligence. Their solutions serve diverse industries including government, financial services and logistics. Immersive Wisdom enables real-time geospatial collaboration and intelligence across both disparate users and data sources.

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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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Future Of Retail: How Social Communities Will Impact Brands And Retailers In 2019

Forrester IT

Here’s what retailers and brands can expect and should focus on regarding social communities and social media for the rest of 2019.

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GitLab: A single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle

CTOvision

GitLab is a single application for the entire software development lifecycle. From project planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security. For an overview see: And for more see: gitlab.com.

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Amazon on how businesses can implement AI

CTOvision

This succinct video by AWS gives a high level overview of AI, with a focus on machine learning and deep learning. It hits both opportunity and challenges head on and gives tips on how more businesses can leverage AI via AWS. Several use cases are also provided. For more see our Guide to AI.

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Chase Closes Finn: Lessons For Other Digital Banks

Forrester IT

On June 6, JPMorgan Chase announced it would be closing its digital-only bank Finn, a little under a year after it was launched. Digital banking is a tough business, and we’ve seen far more examples of failures than successes over the past two decades. The closure of Finn does bring up some important lessons for […].

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Forge.ai: Fueling Machine Intelligence

CTOvision

Forge provides a platform of technology that performs real-time monitoring of global information. It is then transformed and enriched by NLP technology and parsed into a knowledge base before being syndicated into structured and machine-readable data feeds. For a video overview of their approach see: From their website: Our technology is designed to process […].

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BI vendor landscape is going through significant changes – what can you do to protect your investments?

Forrester IT

The Business Intelligence (BI) market is going through a round of significant consolidation. Earlier this month Sisense acquired Periscope Data, last week Google announced its intention to acquired Looker, and today Salesforce announced the intention to acquired Tableau Software. A smaller company, LogiAnalytics has also been on an acquisition spree, acquiring Zoomdata today and Jinfonet […].

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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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BlackBag Technologies: Forensic software for analyzing Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android Devices

CTOvision

Blackbag has been developing innovative forensic acquisition & analysis software solutions for Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone since 2003. They also provide webinars and training around use of their solutions. For an overview of their approach see: For more see: BlackBagTech.com.

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Empowering IT: Revealing a More Powerful DevOps Strategy

Social, Agile and Transformation

I like to ask DevOps teams and engineers what should be a simple question, "What is your devops strategy and what are your priorities?" The answer I get is often a mix of what they are working on now (often CI/CD) and a word or two about the importance of a DevOps culture. I rarely get an answer that sounds like the leadership, team or engineers have articulated a strategy and roadmap.

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Fuzzbuzz: Fuzzing on autopilot

CTOvision

Fuzzbuzz is a platform that continuously tests your code for bugs and vulnerabilities with fuzzing. Internally, Fuzzbuzz uses AFL’s fuzzing algorithm, which has a proven track record of finding hundreds of critical bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzbuzz connects with tools like GitHub, and has an open API to allow for integrations with CI solutions such as […].

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How to Setup Automatic Intune Device Cleanup Rules

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this quick blog post, you will learn more details about how to setup Automatic Intune device cleanup rules. This cleanup task is similar to SCCM maintenance tasks. However, you don’t have same (like SCCM) control on Intune maintenance task. NOTE! – It’s not mandatory to set the cleanup rules within your Intune tenant because […].

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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 Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers

Flexagon

How Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers ~ It’s 2:30 on a sunny Friday afternoon. You’re just finishing up your day at work, a little tired and ready to bolt out of the office as soon as the clock strikes 3:00. Your computer is fading in and out of focus as you daydream about. Read more. The post How Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers appeared first on Flexagon.

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Four Things Modern CIOs Need to Know

Information Week

Chief information officers stand at the forefront of how companies make and adapt to technological change. Here are four takeaways from the MIT CIO Symposium that they should keep in mind.

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The History of Cryptography

Linux Academy

Have you ever sent a hidden message to someone? You probably have, in one form or another. Maybe you created a secret language as a kid or passed notes in class written in invisible ink. Today, you might use a common secure messaging service like iMessage. If any of these sound familiar to you, congratulations! You’ve used cryptography. What Is Cryptography?

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Will AI and Machine Learning Break Cloud Architectures?

Information Week

AI and machine learning are powered by lots of data, so much so that one futurist thinks today's cloud architectures aren't enough.

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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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Weekly Update 6-10-2019: What are Databases?

Linux Academy

This week, we’re all about databases; what they are, the different types of databases, and how to install them. While we go over what databases are and some of the various types of databases in this blog, we don’t go into how to work with them. To learn how to work with them, we suggest taking our course, Database Essentials , which goes into detail on what we cover in this blog, and also guides you through some hands-on labs where you install various databases like MongoDB, Couchbase, and

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Kubernetes Advantage: Considerations for a Multi-Cloud World

Information Week

As more IT leaders deploy Kubernetes into mainstream production environments, the ecosystem around Kubernetes will grow and drive innovation.

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A Leap into Learning Kubernetes

Virtualized Greek

So, it’s been awhile, right? I opened my big mouth and put it out there that I’d do a video series installing Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenFaaS on 3-Node Intel NUC cluster.

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Wireless Security | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Wireless security is not only a huge subject, but it’s also extremely important. Remember: Wireless signals are not contained to copper or fiber like a wired network — these signals leave your office and your building and travel a good distance. It’s very easy for someone to sit in a parking lot and practice some “wardriving” in an attempt to eavesdrop on your wireless communications.

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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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A Leap into Learning Kubernetes

Virtualized Greek

So, it’s been awhile, right? I opened my big mouth and put it out there that I’d do a video series installing Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenFaaS on 3-Node Intel NUC cluster. Of course, I’ve never installed K8s and other than knowing Alex Ellis , the leader of the open source project for OpenFaaS, I don’t know the first thing about running functions on containers.

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The Best “Gravitas” Quotes of “Digital Master” June 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises 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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Sharing.heart at.NEXT—in exciting new ways

Nutanix

This year at.NEXT, we saw people giving back to local communities and the world through the organizations featured at.NEXT through our.heart CSR program.

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The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: Embracing the Creative Side of IT June 2019

Future of CIO

Within abundant information and emergent digital technologies, IT is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The art of possible to reinvent IT in the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and doing more with innovation.

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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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Leverage Systems Thinking to Understand and Enforce Digital Characteristics

Future of CIO

The hyperconnectivity nature of digital organization breaks down the functional, geographical, or even organizational border. The businesses today become much more nonlinear, interconnected, and interdependent than ever. Systems Thinking has been emerged as a type of digital thinking to deal with unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, understand and enforce digital characteristics.

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