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COVID-19 — Vendors Step Up To Help IT Manage Increased Digital Loads

Forrester IT

While employees work from home in response to the COVID-19 shutdown, IT leaders must deal with a surge in traffic across their digital infrastructure. Virtual meetings have become the norm. Customer traffic on digital channels is way up. In these conditions, preexisting minor application design flaws, or lack of infrastructure capacity that can scale with […].

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OODAcast – A Conversation with Dan Gerstein

CTOvision

With the need to postpone our in person “Future Proof” event, OODA is producing more virtual content to keep up an exchange of best practices and lessons learned in our community. This includes live web events (see the OODA Webinar – Managing Through COVID-19) and a new series of audio podcasts and web based conversations […].

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ConfigMgr 2003 Technical Preview Version Walkthrough | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. While we are all waiting for SCCM 2002 production release, Microsoft released another Technical Preview version 2003 of SCCM. Let’s see a walkthrough of ConfigMgr 2003 Technical Preview Version installation and features. Introduction I strongly recommend building a Technical Preview version lab for Configuration Manager.

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Future IT Teams Will Include More Non-Traditional Members

Information Week

Despite the rise of IT-related AI, automation and self-healing systems, companies are still facing IT shortages as they become increasingly digital.

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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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How CIOs Can Get Rid Of Their To-Do Lists

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs have to find a way to get things done Image Credit: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. If you are like most CIOs, you always have too much to do and not enough time in which to get it all done. Most of us deal with this challenge by creating lists of the things that we need to get accomplished so that we don’t forget anything. Creating a list and then marking things off as we complete them is what most productivity solutions are based on.

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The Robots Are Still Coming

Information Week

More people are needed for blue collar jobs in areas where AI-enabled automation was to have the most impact. So where are the robots?

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Holy Water watering hole attack targets visitors of certain websites with malware

Tech Republic Security

This campaign tries to trick users into accepting a fake Adobe Flash update, which then installs malware to give the attacker full remote access, says Kaspersky.

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Containers: Beginner-Friendly Basics

Linux Academy

The Containers Revolution. Container technology is currently in the process of transforming the way the IT industry does business. Industry pioneers have been using containers for years, and the technology is now becoming widespread. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes have nearly achieved buzzword status, a testament to the growing interest in container technologies on the part of IT professionals.

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COVID-19 pandemic impact pushing smart home voice control devices to predicted 30% growth

Tech Republic Security

Global shipments of smart home speakers will increase this year due to fear of coronavirus germs, according to ABI Research.

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Key Challenges That Healthcare AI Needs to Overcome in 2020

Dataconomy

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is finally being realized across a wide variety of industries. AI is now viewed as a crucial technology to adopt for enterprises to thrive in today’s business environment. Healthcare, in particular, has been one of the industries that AI advocates expect to be revolutionized. The post Key Challenges That Healthcare AI Needs to Overcome in 2020 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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 to prepare Office 365 and Windows for a disaster

Network World

With IT and security teams stressed due to the COVID-19 crisis, it’s more important than ever to make sure you’ve prepared your network for a disaster.

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Decomplexifying IT via Holistic Management Discipline

Future of CIO

Information Technology is the linchpin of contemporary business. Though by its nature, IT is complex, it doesn't mean IT should continue to complicate the matters or increase unnecessary complexity without discipline. The breadth and depth of IT management include people (skills & capability), process (workflow, effectiveness & efficiency), organizational architecture design, and IT portfolio management.

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How to prepare Office 365 and Windows for a disaster

Network World

With IT and security teams stressed due to the COVID-19 crisis, it’s more important than ever to make sure you’ve prepared your network for a disaster.

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The Corporate Board with High “PQ”

Future of CIO

The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” It is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right. With “VUCA” new normal, there are many concepts that seem to be opposite, indeed, they are complementary to keep the world balanced. A corporate board with high paradoxical intelligence (PQ) can set the tone to practice situational leadership, advocate changes, and strike the right balance of toughness and softne

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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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Turn your Database into a Service

Nutanix

A recent white paper written by Tony Baer of dbInsight, Turn your Database into a Service, leverages 25+ years of industry perspective to demonstrate how the cloud has provided an opportunity to drastically simplify database management and operations through DBaaS offerings.

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The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: IT Management Dashboard Apr. 2020

Future of CIO

compared to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here is a set of blogs for brainstorming on how to reinvent IT and improve IT performance to get digital ready.

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Turn your Database into a Service

Nutanix

A recent white paper written by Tony Baer of dbInsight, Turn your Database into a Service, leverages 25+ years of industry perspective to demonstrate how the cloud has provided an opportunity to drastically simplify database management and operations through DBaaS offerings.

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Turn your Database into a Service

Nutanix

A recent white paper written by Tony Baer of dbInsight, Turn your Database into a Service, leverages 25+ years of industry perspective to demonstrate how the cloud has provided an opportunity to drastically simplify database management and operations through DBaaS offerings.

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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.