Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Broadcom Buys Symantec’s Enterprise Biz.: Good News For Investors; Bad News For Enterprises

Forrester IT

Yesterday, Broadcom announced a definitive deal to acquire the enterprise business of Symantec for $10.7 billion in cash. This deal caps weeks of speculation that Symantec was in play, initiated in May 2019 following the sudden resignation of Symantec CEO Greg Clarke in May and a downward revision to Symantec’s FY20 revenue guidance earlier in […].

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5 Takeaways from ChannelCon 2019: Tech Support, Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity Included

Association of Information Technology Professional

The IT Pro Track at ChannelCon 2019 offered insights (and continuing education units (CEUs)!) on topics including tech support, cloud computing, cybersecurity and more.

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Is SD-WAN a Better Bet for Unified Communications?

Information Week

As momentum continues to build for managed services with SD-WAN, providers try to make the case to migrate communications to these networks.

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5 Reasons why you still need to use printed marketing materials in your business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 5 Reasons why you still need to use printed marketing materials in your business - Information Technology Blog. It’s a digital era whereby almost everyone is using the internet more compared to other forms of printed media. Social media is the fastest way of getting the news that goes viral within seconds. Many brands are embracing social media and search engines to do their marketing.

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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 Practices for Deploying Data Lakes

Information Week

With data changing and growing so rapidly, the need to get value out of your data is even more urgent. Here's some advice about how to approach data lakes.

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Which Industries Reap The Biggest Benefits From Predictive Maintenance And Why

Dataconomy

When considering the growth and productivity of organizations in different fields, it doesn’t take too much time to see a pattern on how maintenance strategies are common throughout all consistently thriving operations. Predictive maintenance is amongst the most impactful of strategy plans because it centers itself on forecasting issues before. The post Which Industries Reap The Biggest Benefits From Predictive Maintenance And Why appeared first on Dataconomy.

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The Magic Cycles of Breakthrough Innovation

Future of CIO

Innovation is the new way to do things. Breakthrough Innovation is disruptive and will change the business in many fields.You need new technology, new processes, new customers, new knowledge may be a new business model. Breakthrough innovation perhaps help to lift up the business to the next level of performance. The real challenge is to understand where and how to get the biggest effect.

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Technical recruitment is now easier with the new HackerEarth and Workable integration

Hacker Earth

We’re pleased to announce that HackerEarth has added yet another ATS to its list of integrations. This time around, we’ve added an integration with Workable , a leading hiring platform that enables recruiters and hiring managers to source and identify the right talent for their teams. HackerEarth+Workable: Identify top talent, faster . The integration between HackerEarth and Workable facilitates an efficient way for recruitment teams to screen candidates and streamline the technical recruitment

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The Best “Sensation” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

" 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.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Business Gets Personal: Why Executives Cannot Decouple Individual Values From Company Values

Forrester IT

Equinox and SoulCycle are feeling the burn. When headlines broke that Stephen Ross, chairman and majority owner of the fitness brands’ parent company, is hosting a fundraiser to support President Trump, consumers and celebrities vehemently called for boycotts. In response, Ross has tried to assume a moderate view by stating that he and Trump “agree […].

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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 “Change Insight” Book Tuning: Nonlinearity & Change Management Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change life cycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and up-going change continuum.