Tue.Nov 12, 2019

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The 64 Best Channel Podcasts Of 2019

Forrester IT

By Jay McBain and Rob Spee If you haven’t listened to a podcast yet, you’re now in the minority. According to Podcast Insights, 51% of the US population has listened to at least one podcast. Since the first podcast came on the scene in 2004, there are now over 750,000 podcast shows with […].

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Is Cloud AI a Fad? The Shortcomings of Cloud Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Christopher Tozzi explain the shortcomings of cloud artificial intelligence on IT Pro Portal : Want to build artificial intelligence (AI) into your app, but don’t want to have to collect your own data or train your own models? The cloud has a solution for you. Cloud-based AI services have emerged as one of the […].

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New “Prescriptive” Low-Code Segment Emerging

Forrester IT

Developers deliver major types of business applications many times faster with low-code platforms than they can by coding alone. How will low-code vendors keep raising software-delivery speed? I see two big sources of innovation: 1) applying AI to low-code development and operations and 2) embracing a new approach I’m calling “prescriptive low-code.” Four vendors embrace […].

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AI development has major security, privacy and ethical blind spots

CTOvision

Read why O’Reilly says that security, privacy and ethics are low-priority issues for developers when modeling their machine learning solutions on Help Net Security : Security is the most serious blind spot. Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of respondents indicated they don’t check for security vulnerabilities during model building. More than half (59 per cent) […].

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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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RPA Impacts Employee And Customer Experiences — And That’s A Big Deal

Forrester IT

Customer service organizations use robotic process automation (RPA) as a tactical and short-term approach to digitize common agent tasks. There are two forms of RPA: unattended and attended RPA. A task can start with an agent and be supported by attended automation, which can kick off unattended RPA to complete the process. Customer service leaders […].

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When AI is a tool and when it’s a weapon

CTOvision

Read Seth Colaner explain how artificial intelligence can either be a tool or a weapon on Venture Beat : The immense capabilities artificial intelligence is bringing to the world would have been inconceivable to past generations. But even as we marvel at the incredible power these new technologies afford, we’re faced with complex and urgent […].

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Windows Updates Ramblings SSU WUA UUP CU WaaS SCCM Many More

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows update mechanism changes in the recent past are most confusing for me. I don’t think anyone is very clear about Microsoft’s strategy about Windows 10 updates. In this post, I will share some tips about service Stack Updates, Windows Update Client, etc.

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Enterprises Need Plans For Both Climate Sustainability And Adaptation

Forrester IT

Last week, more than 11,000 scientists signed their name to a statement declaring a climate emergency and warning of “untold suffering due to the climate crisis.” The declaration calls for governments, institutions, and individuals to take drastic steps to slow the rapidly accelerating pace of the climate crisis. This comes on the heels of weeks of climate protests around the globe and the near constant stream of new scientific reports warning that “it’s worse than we […].

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IBM social engineer easily hacked two journalists' information

Tech Republic Security

A member of IBM's X-Force Red team hacked two CBS reporters for three weeks. Find out what information she gathered, as well as what phishing entails.

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In The Fast-Growing ePurchasing Software Market, Best-Of-Breed Apps Hold Their Own Against Suites

Forrester IT

Which is the right choice: best-of-breed apps or application suites? This is a perennial question CIOs and business partners face in selecting application software. Forrester’s data on the ePurchasing software market — software that helps firms choose, contract with, buy from, and manage suppliers — shows that both options remain competitive. Indeed, it may well […].

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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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Robotic Process Automation: 4 Key Considerations

Information Week

Project sponsors and managers of automation initiatives should carefully consider building these elements into their projects from the outset.

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A Timeline Guide For Your 5G Strategy

Forrester IT

The rollout of 5G is much more evolutionary than the rollout scenarios of previous cellular standards.

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Reasonable doubt: Only 17% of CISOs believe their stack is "completely effective" against attacks

Tech Republic Security

An overabundance of confidence can lead to blind spots, but a Nominet report finds widespread doubt in organizations' security posture.

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Best Laptops Under 200 And 300 Dollars

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Laptops Under 200 And 300 Dollars - Information Technology Blog. Laptops had been taking a big chunk of your account a few years back. However, we have seen that with the surge of smartphones, laptop craze has been declined to some extent. To some, laptops are still a huge luxury, but for many of us, the budget is a priority.

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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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Counterterrorism expert: Small healthcare companies are the new ransomware targets

Tech Republic Security

MonsterCloud CEO says RYUK attacks can be fatal for businesses that can't afford to pay the ransom or to get help from experts.

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10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2020

Information Week

Data and analytics are permeating all parts of the digital enterprise. Here are the trends you need to watch in the years ahead.

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What happens when your healthcare data is stolen or held for ransom? It depends

Tech Republic Security

Hospitals are reluctant to disclose attacks, and regulations don't offer clear advice about what to tell patients.

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What is the Difference Between – USB 3.1 vs USB 3.0 vs USB Type – C

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between – USB 3.1 vs USB 3.0 vs USB Type – C - Information Technology Blog. You might have noticed that the market is loaded with advanced USB Type-C devices. Here, it helps charge your devices at ultra-fast speed. While you might also have used USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 before, you should know the difference between all three.

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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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How firewall automation can help prevent breaches caused by wrong configurations

Tech Republic Security

A majority of IT staffers polled by firewall management service FireMon said they still use manual processes to manage changes.

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SASE is more than a buzzword for BioIVT

Network World

It seems the latest buzzword coming from those analysts at Gartner is SASE (pronounced “sassy”), which stands for “Secure Access Service Edge.” Network World has published several articles recently to explain what SASE is (and perhaps isn’t). See Matt Conran’s The evolution to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is being driven by necessity as well as Zeus Kerravala’s article How SD-WAN is evolving into Secure Access Service Edge.

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How Cybercrime Can Kill Your Website

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How Cybercrime Can Kill Your Website - Information Technology Blog. You’re a smart business owner. You understand the importance of cybersecurity. You use a great email scanner and anti-virus program. You run regular security awareness training sessions with your employees. And you’ve enabled two-factor authentication.

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13 Mind-Blowing Things Artificial Intelligence Can Already Do Today

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr list 13 mind-boggling tasks artificial intelligence can perform on Forbes : By now, most of us are aware of artificial intelligence (AI) being an increasingly present part of our everyday lives. But, many of us would be quite surprised to learn of some of the skills AI already knows how to do. […].

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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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The Multitude of Hybrid Digital Management Disciplines

Future of CIO

We are experiencing a major shift from the industrial machine age with information scarcity to the digital era with knowledge abundance. Traditional top-down linear management style is often criticized for its silo, inflexibility, bureaucracy, unresponsiveness, or lack of innovation. The rate of change has accelerated, indicating that business leaders must learn how to break through the industrial constraints and limitations, bring greater awareness of the intricacies and the systemic value of o

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OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share

CTOvision

The research lab OpenAI has released the full version of a text-generating AI system that experts warned could be used for malicious purposes. The institute originally announced the system, GPT-2, in February this year, but withheld the full version of the program out of fear it would be used to spread fake news, spam, and disinformation. […].

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The Best “Doubt” Quotes of “Digital Master” Nov. 2019

Future of CIO

The right dose of doubt stimulates critical thinking and human progress, but too much doubt causes conflict and close mindedness. " 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.

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K8s Deployment Strategies – BlueGreen to A/B

Flexagon

We’ve all been there. An update is rolling out, all pre-flight checks are green, and yet everything falls apart after the update is released. Anyone in this position then inevitably asks the common question: “How can we avoid this?” Enter K8s Deployment Strategies. Check out the FlexDeploy integration if you already have a handle on.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: Expand IT Innovation Horizon Nov. 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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K8s and FlexDeploy – Deployment Strategies and More

Flexagon

With the release of FlexDeploy 5.2, we now have the ability to automate K8s Deployment Strategies as well as more native support for K8s. Because of this, we unfortunately have to say goodbye to the Helm Tab to make room for K8! This blog will require you to have a working knowledge of K8s and. The post K8s and FlexDeploy – Deployment Strategies and More appeared first on Flexagon.

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Download Recruitment dashboard template

Hacker Earth

The post Download Recruitment dashboard template appeared first on HackerEarth Blog.

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Using Kustomize with Cluster API Manifests

Scott Lowe

A topic that’s been in the back of my mind since writing the Cluster API introduction post is how someone could use kustomize to modify the Cluster API manifests. Fortunately, this is reasonably straightforward. It doesn’t require any “hacks” like those needed to use kustomize with kubeadm configuration files , but similar to modifying kubeadm configuration files you’ll generally need to use the patching functionality of kustomize when working with Cluster API manif

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.