Fri.Jan 25, 2019

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The Billion-Dollar Healthcare Problem You Can’t Just Walk Off

Forrester IT

(Caleb Ewald contributed to this blog.) Super Bowl LIII is right around the corner, and we’ve begun reading the tea leaves and perusing injury reports to divine the future with precision. Will the Pats win another one? Will the Rams start a dynasty? While tea leaves are. well. tea […].

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Foto Friday - Pika Rocky Mountain National Park

Eric D. Brown

Pika Rocky Mountain National Park While in Rocky Mountain National Park last year, I stumbled upon an area perfect for Pikas. I sat myself down next to some rocks and waited. After about 15 minutes I started hearing the ‘squeeks’ that you’d hear from these cute little animals. Quickly thereafter, I started seeing the scurrying around and spend about an hour grabbing photos of them.

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Be Better Than Best-Guess Development

Forrester IT

Developers sometimes feel as though they work in the dark, writing code, pushing updates, and delivering features but remaining detached from the customers they serve. Often relying on feedback from internal experts and best guesses, dev teams rarely have an unobstructed view into how customers truly use their features and feel about their products.

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How SD-WAN can improve your security strategy

Network World

Data breaches and security threats are a top concern among IT leaders, yet it’s harder than ever to hire skilled security professionals. That has organizations looking for ways to more easily improve their security strategy. One option is to implement a software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at Apcela , to get his take on how SD-WAN affects security strategy.

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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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Foto Friday – Pika Rocky Mountain National Park

Eric D. Brown

Pika Rocky Mountain National Park. While in Rocky Mountain National Park last year, I stumbled upon an area perfect for Pikas. I sat myself down next to some rocks and waited. After about 15 minutes I started hearing the ‘squeeks’ that you’d hear from these cute little animals. Quickly thereafter, I started seeing the scurrying around and spend about an hour grabbing photos of them.

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Cisco patches serious SD-WAN software security holes

Network World

Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems. The first patch, called “Critical” by Cisco, fixes a vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution that could let an authenticated, remote attacker cause a denial of service (DoS) and execute arbitrary code as the root user, the company wrote

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Batten down the DNS hatches as attackers strike Feds

Network World

If enterprise IT folks haven’t taken a look at their DNS ecosystem recently now may be a good time. This week the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told all federal agencies to bolt down their Domain Name System in the face of a series of global hacking campaigns.

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How You Can Improve Customer Engagement

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How You Can Improve Customer Engagement - Information Technology Blog. Hearing customer feedback can be both incredibly rewarding and difficult to hear. However, engaging with your customers can encourage growth for both your company and the product or service you’re offering. Responding to their needs and emotions makes customers loyal and likely to recommend you to others.

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How SD-WAN can improve your security strategy

Network World

Data breaches and security threats are a top concern among IT leaders, yet it’s harder than ever to hire skilled security professionals. That has organizations looking for ways to more easily improve their security strategy. One option is to implement a software-defined WAN ( SD-WAN ). I recently talked with Hamza Seqqat, director of solutions architecture at Apcela , to get his take on how SD-WAN affects security strategy.

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How to Write the Perfect Returns Policy

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Write the Perfect Returns Policy - Information Technology Blog. Store owners, especially the new ones, can worry far too much about their return policies. Sure, we understand that it returns will cost you money but so does your merchandise, shipping, rent and marketing. That is just the principle of being in business, and we are well aware of the tight budgets that you have to work with, especially being a new company and often using money that you don’t ha

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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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Batten down the DNS hatches as attackers strike Feds

Network World

If enterprise IT folks haven’t taken a look at their DNS ecosystem recently now may be a good time. This week the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told all federal agencies to bolt down their Domain Name System in the face of a series of global hacking campaigns.

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Gadgets Every Developer Needs to Get Through the Day

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Gadgets Every Developer Needs to Get Through the Day - Information Technology Blog. Developers often have to beat deadlines, work in the same groups and environment for so long. This monotonous routine creates an environment that is not ideal for maintaining a healthy body and a sound mind. To ensure that developers stay bodily and mentally fit, it is important that they consider spending some cash on novelty developer gadgets to help them improve their day-to-day

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Cisco patches serious SD-WAN software security holes

Network World

Cisco has patched security vulnerabilities in four packages of SD-WAN Solution software that address buffer overflow, arbitrary file override and privilege access weaknesses that could have led to denial-of-service attacks or access problems. The first patch, called “Critical” by Cisco, fixes a vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution that could let an authenticated, remote attacker cause a denial of service (DoS) and execute arbitrary code as the root user, the company wrote

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Six Tips on How to Lead a Successful Panel Discussion

Information Week

Your first appearance in the IT spotlight should be a shining success, not a career cremation.

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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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What is a firewall? How they work and how they fit into enterprise security

Network World

Firewalls been around for three decades, but they’ve evolved drastically to include features that used to be sold as separate appliances and to pull in externally gathered data to make smarter decisions about what network traffic to allow and what traffic to block. Now just one indespensible element in an ecosystem of network defenses, the latest versions are known as enterprise firewalls or next-generation firewalls (NGFW) to indicate who should use them and that they are continually adding fun

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Challenge Accepted: An Adventure in Linux — Part 1

Linux Academy

Hello once again, Linux Academy family! I hope you are all well and have not missed me terribly over the holidays. I am back and in a different role within Linux Academy. I have moved over to our community department, which means I get to spend even more time helping out in Slack, our community boards, and meeting you great folks at conferences. As a part of this move, I was lucky enough to get a brand new (to me) shiny laptop!

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Learn And Use These Tips From A Montreal SEO Company

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Learn And Use These Tips From A Montreal SEO Company - Information Technology Blog. Search engine optimization is the process of getting your website in a position where it will rank higher in search engine listings. Search engine users trust their search engines, so they are far more likely to visit a website that comes up on the first page of listings for particular search strings and keywords, and even more so for anything in the top half of the first page.

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Influence Officer” Jan. 2019

Future of CIO

The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. This book “ 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “ CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT ,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

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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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Discover Digital Landscape at the Vista Point

Future of CIO

The digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. Change is inevitable, and the speed of change is increasing. Continuous digital disruptions today allow for “new” energy to flow and bring with it something that would not be born without it. Today’s business leaders are capitalizing and operating on digital ecosystems that are expanding due to the confluence of digital technologies, broader scopes of communication and coll

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A Connective Mind Sparking Creativity

Future of CIO

Human minds are perhaps one of the most powerful but mysterious things in the universe, as they continue to imagine and invent things for changing the world. The fact is that the world now becomes more advanced, complex, hyperconnected, and dynamic than ever. Creativity is about connecting unusual dots, the connective mind which can connect dots freely is in demand to sparking creativity and foster innovation.

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