Fri.Jun 14, 2019

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Dun & Bradstreet Moves Up The Value Chain With Intent To Acquire Lattice Engines

Forrester IT

Yesterday, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) announced its intent to acquire Lattice Engines. Both of us have covered these companies from a number of different perspectives, and we agree that the move makes sense for two primary reasons. First, adding advanced analytics and data management capabilities from Lattice accelerates D&B’s evolution into a comprehensive data platform […].

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What's Driving the Tech Sector's Extreme Turnover Rate?

Information Week

The answer is multifaceted, but two of the biggest reasons for employee turnover in tech are lack of scope for career development and flat salaries.

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Supercharge Your Employee Experience With Video

Forrester IT

Enterprises have heard their employees’ calls for increased flexibility, and now more than 25% of US information workers work from home at least weekly. But with subpar technology solutions and little face-to-face interaction, home or remote workers end up frustrated and out of the loop. Video provides a platform to engage, train, and communicate effectively […].

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Report: Mirai tries to wrap its tentacles around SD-WAN

Network World

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear. That specific equipment – VMware’s SDX line of SD-WAN appliances – now has an updated software version that fixes the vulnerability, but by targeting it Mirai’s authors show that they now look beyond enlisting security cameras and set-top boxes

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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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Best Colleges for Information Technology in 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Colleges for Information Technology in 2019 - Information Technology Blog. The world of information technology is changing rapidly and if you want to get into the IT industry, you had better be one of the best. Although information technology colleges essentially teach the same thing, there are certain institutions which will give you a far better education and more practical exposure than others.

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Report: Mirai tries to hook its tentacles into SD-WAN

Network World

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear. That specific equipment – VMware’s SDX line of SD-WAN appliances – now has an updated software version that fixes the vulnerability, but by targeting it Mirai’s authors show that they now look beyond enlisting security cameras and set-top boxes

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Three Critical Ingredients in Systematic “Problem-Solving” Formula

Future of CIO

Fundamentally, running a business is an iterative business problem-solving continuum. Behind every problem is a relationship dynamic out of alignment. In today’s complex business setting, problem-solving usually has a very wide scope and takes the interdisciplinary approach. People have to know how to connect the dots with the hyperconnected business ecosystem, think systematically, holistically and inclusively, comprehend dynamic; master induction or deduction; understand variables, interfaces,

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The 10 Most Common Logo Design Mistakes Most Businesses Make

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - The 10 Most Common Logo Design Mistakes Most Businesses Make - Information Technology Blog. All businesses whether they are large or small know the importance of a logo. It states their story by representing the company and is the symbol of their brand identity for the world. Viewed by potential customers and clients daily, it can make a business attain the top notch and it can even ruin the company if its design is poor.

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The New Book “100 IT Charm” Introduction: Chapter 3 Strategic IT

Future of CIO

Digital transformation implies the full-scale changes in the way the business is conducted. Thus, simply adopting new digital technology is not sufficient. There is a fundamental shift happening with the emergence of the converging technologies that impact the business through cross-departmental collaboration. Therefore, nowadays, it’s important to run IT as the strategic business partner to drive change and catalyze digital transformatio n.

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Cloud First is Often a Mistake. Here's Why.

Nutanix

For some enterprises, a “cloud-first” policy can seem like a no-brainer, especially when compared to the quagmire of traditional datacenter infrastructure. Yet new software-defined infrastructure solutions like hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) also offer IT agility, as well as greater security and control than what’s available in a public cloud.

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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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The Monthly “100 Digital Pitfalls” Book Tuning: Avoid The Traps and Impasse on the Journey of Digital Transformation June 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is a mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of the digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to mak

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5 must- have proctoring tips for a developer assessment platform

Hacker Earth

Amidst a plethora of solutions crowding the developer assessment space, how do you choose the best one? It boils down to one crucial factor: The quality of the screening process itself. Proctoring or anti-cheating mechanisms cement the foundation of an excellent screening process. A proctored assessment ensures that candidates taking a test do not cheat.