Mon.Mar 08, 2021

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Push-Down Query Capabilities: Five Questions To Ask Your Cloud BI Provider

Forrester IT

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost. Ultimately, elasticity requires both application and data components (compute and store) to be elastic, […].

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Anduril Gets Subcontract from Palantir

CTOvision

Irvine-based defense and border protection company Anduril Industries said it has received a subcontract award from Palantir Technologies for the hardware system design for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting […].

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How Many Products Can A B2B Sales Rep Sell?

Forrester IT

Mergers and acquisitions and other major changes can place enormous pressure on frontline sales organizations. Learn when the strain becomes too much in this B2B Summit session preview.

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Chinese app Meitu buys $40 million worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum

CTOvision

Meitu, a Chinese company that makes a photo editing app, has purchased bitcoin and ether, becoming the latest firm to buy cryptocurrencies. The Hong Kong-listed company said on Sunday it bought […].

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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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Targeting Better Together: Six Insights-Driven Best Practices For Sales And Marketing Leaders

Forrester IT

There is enormous power in building a proprietary set of insights that drive sales and marketing to the best-fit and most lucrative targets.

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Bloomberg Terminal Adds Price Data for Chainlink and Several Other Coins

CTOvision

Bloomberg Terminal, a platform that allows professional traders to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data, has added price tracking for six new cryptocurrencies, according to an announcement shared with […].

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Virtuous Teaming: Palantir And AWS Team Up For ERP Suite

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies Inc announced Friday its new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with Amazon.com, Inc. cloud service platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be available to all AWS customers. What […].

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Bosch’s Cultural Transformation Offers Lessons For Other Businesses

Forrester IT

Listen to how Bosch is carefully weighing issues such as the speed of its cultural change and the impact on its brand image as an innovator against the value of its existing culture. And learn how to avoid obstacles, such as when old product development models are colliding with innovation.

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With Aerospike Trade Desk Achieves Hyperscale for Real-time Bidding

CTOvision

The Trade Desk is an advertising technology company that provides a self-service platform through which media buyers can purchase digital advertising. Aerospike runs at the edge as a cache for real-time […].

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CX Pros: The Technology Convergence Continues

Forrester IT

Medallia just announced its intent to acquire digital experience analytics vendor Decibel. This move underscores an important fact: Companies need more than just customer feedback to determine where customers struggle and how experiences can be improved. Decibel helps brands understand their digital experiences by measuring experience quality and providing a digital experience score.

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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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5 Ways Vision Statements Drive Achievable Digital Transformations

Social, Agile and Transformation

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post describing why your organization's digital transformation may be floundering. Digital transformations are not "moves to the cloud, CI/CD pipelines, or centralized data lakes," but do "use culture, collaboration processes, and new technologies to change the business model." Now most of the CIO and IT leaders that I speak to have a pretty good idea of.

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From Awareness to Accountability: How to Close the Gender Gap in Tech

Association of Information Technology Professional

As the gender gap remains an issue in technology jobs, it's become critical to increase the accountability of programs aimed at bringing more women and underrepresented populations in the industry. Find resources designed to encourage women in tech.

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WAN challenges steer auto-rental firm to SASE

Network World

Latency and reliability concerns set car rental company Sixt on a path to rearchitect its WAN. That led the global company, which has locations in more than 100 countries, to become an early adopter of the network-security architecture dubbed secure access service edge ( SASE ) by research firm Gartner. Tech Spotlight: Security. 4 ways to keep the cybersecurity conversation going after the crisis (CSO).

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Just Like Clockwork: How Technology Makes Daylight Saving Time Better

Association of Information Technology Professional

Daylight Saving Time is coming up this weekend, and technology helps keep us on time even when the clocks change. Wondering how it all works? Keep reading.

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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 future of infrastructure: The tech tools that will be needed for IT and end users

Tech Republic Cloud

Predicting the future is tough, but these experts agree that the cloud will play a huge part in delivering business solutions.

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How the Microsoft Exchange hack could impact your organization

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals are racing to exploit four zero-day bugs in Exchange before more organizations can patch them.

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Ignite 2021 March Edition Intune Videos | Endpoint Manager Content

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Ignite 2021 March Edition Intune Videos | Endpoint Manager Content appeared first on HTMD Device Management by Anoop C Nair.

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Ways to Take Representation of Women in Tech to New Levels

Information Week

Despite ongoing efforts to further diversify who fills the ranks of tech jobs, seeing real results is taking a protracted amount of time.

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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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Cybersecurity in 2021: Stopping the madness

Network World

The challenges are greater than ever. But security pros have learned a lot – and with luck, the right strategic defenses can help even the highest-value targets withstand severe attacks.

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DARPA taps Intel to help build the holy grail of encryption

Tech Republic Security

DARPA's project could allow encrypted data to be used without ever having to decrypt it.

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These Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads When They Want a New Body

Gizmodo

Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t your average gastropods. First off, they’re members of sacoglossa, a clade of slugs known for taking the algae from marine plants and integrating the chloroplasts from that algae into their own cells,… Read more.

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EU approves Microsoft’s $7.5 billion Bethesda acquisition

The Verge

The European Commission has approved Microsoft’s $7.5 billion deal to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Doom and Fallout studio Bethesda Softworks. Microsoft’s deal has been approved by the EU without conditions, as it “does not raise serious doubts as to its compatibility with the common market.” The acquisition required EU approval before Microsoft could finalize the Bethesda deal and bring future games to its Xbox Game Pass subscription.

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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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Brown Paper Tickets to pay $9M to event organizers and consumers in resolution with Washington AG

GeekWire

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (GeekWire File Photo). Seattle-based ticketing company Brown Paper Tickets will pay back approximately $9 million to an estimated 45,000 event organizers and ticket purchasers as part of a resolution reached with Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The AG’s office filed a consent decree (read in full at bottom) in King County Superior Court on Monday, five months after Ferguson filed suit against the 11-year-old company.

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Why adding neurodiversity to the cybersecurity world is a win-win for companies and employees

Tech Republic Security

SAP and IBM have changed the hiring and onboarding process to open up more jobs to non-traditional candidates.

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Health savings account custodian HealthEquity acquires Seattle transportation startup Luum

GeekWire

Luum CEO Sohier Hall. (Luum Photo). HealthEquity , a publicly-traded administrator of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), has acquired Luum , a Seattle startup that helps employers manage commute benefits for their workers. Founded in 2012, Luum works with hospitals, universities, tech companies, and more, offering software that facilitates parking management and integration with mobility apps, among other features.

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Rodney Ascher: Why A Glitch in the Matrix feels so real

Venture Beast

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. A Glitch in the Matrix is a new film by Rodney Ascher about simulation theory, which is a fascinating confluence of science fiction and fact. It’s about people who believe that we are living in a computer simulation, and that nothing about reality is re… Read More.

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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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How vaccine-related phishing attacks are posing a greater threat to organizations

Tech Republic Security

Scammers are launching more malicious campaigns designed to take advantage of the anxiety and confusion over the COVID-19 vaccines.

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BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses

GeekWire

A student with the Youth Web Design program working on her website. (Image from Youth Web Design video). Mama Sambusa Kitchen was recently saved from potential financial ruin by a high school student. Through a new program offered by the Seattle Office of Economic Development and the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle , Mama Sambusa was matched with student Lucy Richardson who built the restaurant a website, providing the business — which has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic — with a mea

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Security chaos engineering helps you find holes in your cyber defenses before hackers do

Tech Republic Security

This approach is all about data and resilience, not deliberately sabotaging your own network, according to two cybersecurity experts.

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Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler

Gizmodo

That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover made its historic landing last month has been named “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late sci-fi author. Read more.

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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.