Wed.Mar 14, 2018

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The GDPR and The B2B Marketer: Ready or Not, Here I Come

Forrester IT

The deadline for compliance with the GDPR is May 25, 2018, but the preparations of many B2B marketers range from nonchalant to indifferent. In our research interviews and inquiries about the GDPR, we find that many B2B marketers don’t think the regulation is a relevant concern because they think the GDPR doesn’t apply to business […].

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Pause And Take Note Of The Remarkable Engineering In AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge

CTOvision

In a recent conversation with a friend in AWS I was reminded of the very interesting capabilities of AWS Snowball and the even more capable Snowball Edge. Snowball is a data transport solution that is designed to get large quantities of data from one place to another. It can move petabytes from legacy datacenters into […].

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Mobile World Congress 2018 Felt More Telco-Centric Again

Forrester IT

Now that the dust has settled from Mobile World Congress 2018, it is possible to get a better feel which mobility themes will set the tone for the coming year of mobility. These observations are of course subjective; they only reflect my observations over three days at the world’s leading mobility event. To start, the […].

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Challenges That CIOs Face In The Upcoming Year

The Accidental Successful CIO

Being a CIO is even harder to do right now Image Credit: Greg on the Run. There is a certain thrill that runs through all of us when we assumed the CIO position. Finally, we are going to be in a position of power from which we can make the changes that we’ve always known needed to happen in order to maximize the importance of information technology.

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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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Palo Alto Networks acquires cloud monitoring and workload management specialist Evident.io

Forrester IT

Palo Alto Networks (PAN) today announced plans to acquire Evident.io, a predominantly API-based cloud monitoring vendor for a cash purchase price of $300m. Evident.io has a large mindshare with Forrester’s end user clients and is also mentioned by other cloud workload security management (CWS) vendors regularly as a viable competitor.

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What do ogres, onions and SD-WAN security have in common? Layers!

Network World

Remember this scene from the movie Shrek? The big ogre was explaining to Donkey that ogres are very complicated, and like onions, they have layers. Donkey, of course, didn’t like the analogy because not everyone likes onions and would have preferred cake as everyone likes cake, but he did seem to understand that ogres did indeed have layers after it was explained to him.

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The Performance, Profit, and People Elements for Running Digital IT

Future of CIO

Digital IT is a paradigm shift in role, responsibility, attitude, and aptitude. We have more computing power, greater connectivity, more information, greater potential empowerment of the workforce etc. Nowadays. IT plays a crucial role in achieving both operational excellence and improving business competency. However, different IT organization and their companies are at the different stage of the business maturity.

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13 flaws found in AMD processors, AMD given little warning

Network World

It’s probably a good thing AMD didn’t rub Intel’s nose in the Meltdown and Spectre flaws too much because boy, would it have a doosy of a payback coming to it. A security firm in Israel has found 13 critical vulnerabilities spread across four separate classes that affect AMD’s hot new Ryzen desktop and Epyc server processors. However, the handling of the disclosure is getting a lot of attention, and none of it good.

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The “Futuristic” Digital Board

Future of CIO

Vision is an integral part of the directorial role, it is something you engage in as a matter of continuous practices. When we jump into the digital future of “VUCA” new normal –Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, the digital leadership today must be able to steer the organization in the right direction. Corporate boards today mostly composed of seasoned business executives are no longer just the controller to ensure business compliance, they should have a clear business vision t

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The Popular Change Quotes of “Digital Master” Series II 2018

Future of CIO

“It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zon e. ” - Pearl Zhu "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (22+ books ) i s to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.

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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.