Tue.Dec 01, 2020

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Corporate Climate Action Technologies Heat Up

Forrester IT

The impacts of climate change are already affecting people and businesses today. Even if we meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the world will still face unprecedented changes – from more extreme weather to rising sea levels to biodiversity loss – forcing us to adjust to the physical effects of climate change and embrace […].

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Amazon: Here’s what caused the major AWS outage last week

CTOvision

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has explained the cause of last Wednesday’s widespread outage, which impacted thousands of third-party online services for several hours. While dozens of AWS services were affected, AWS […].

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Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams

Forrester IT

In its largest acquisition to date at approximately $27.7 billion, Salesforce has announced that it intends to acquire Slack in a move to add collaboration to its portfolio. Slack is a best-of-breed, cloud and channel-based messaging platform used for business communications. It has a sizeable fanbase in the software developer community. Its open APIs allow […].

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How To Ensure Your NIST Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Isn’t Too Little, Too Late

CTOvision

We are huge believers in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. But more excited when we hear Gaurav Banga of Balbix discuss it! The NIST Cybersecurity Framework has become quite popular in […].

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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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Healthcare Spotlight: Accelerating International Market Growth With Product-To-Audience Transformations

Forrester IT

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts that describe how B2B healthcare leaders are driving results with innovative marketing, sales, and product strategies.

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Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm achieve 5G speed record

CTOvision

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm Technologies have announced that they achieved the world’s fastest 5G speeds on a commercial network in Finland by delivering 8 Gbps for the first time serving […].

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Couchbase ‘edges’ upwards with offline-first control

CTOvision

Read explain how Couchbase with Couchbase Lite and Couchbase Sync Gateway for mobile and edge computing applications version 2.8 is helping organizations move to offline-first control on Computer Weekly: No […].

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Top 5 New Features of SCCM 2010 | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s have a quick look at the Top 5 new features of SCCM 2010 (a.k.a ConfigMgr). Microsoft released the newest version of Configuration Manager 2010 on 30th Nov 2020. The following are my top 5 picks of ConfigMgr 2010 new features. I think these features are really helpful for SCCM admins with day to day […].

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Ghost 4 is a Multi-Function Vertical take-off landing (VTOL) small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS)

CTOvision

Ghost 4 is a new autonomous vertical take-off landing (VTOL) small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) developed by Anduril Industries, a defence artificial intelligence and autonomous solutions provider. The sUAS is […].

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9 myths regarding the use of Android in Enterprise

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Last week, with Evolution of Android management for Enterprise use, I tried to present how Android has evolved over the years to present itself as a more mature platform for enterprise uses-cases, to help you understand the relevance of Android Enterprise and why to move to Android Enterprise for the better.

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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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Macedon Technologies Recognized As A UiPath Gold Partner

CTOvision

Macedon Technologies (Macedon), is a UiPath Gold partner. In a release they stated: The Gold Partner status is a global quality level granted by UiPath and affirms our strong partnership […].

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How to protect your personal data from being sold on the Dark Web

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals can use stolen information for extortion, scams and phishing schemes, and the direct theft of money, says Kaspersky.

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FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce: Build and Deploy Salesforce DX Apps

Flexagon

FlexDeploy is an Enterprise DevOps platform with fully integrated support for Salesforce apps, metadata customizations, integrations and more. This is the fourth article in a blog series that will help you understand what makes FlexDeploy a perfect choice to implement DevOps, CI/CD, and release automation with Salesforce. Here is a summary of the FlexDeploy Loves Salesforce series.

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Every Major Bank Has Now Ruled Out Funding Arctic Drilling

Gizmodo

We got another one. On Monday evening, Bank of America said that it will no longer finance fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic, joining Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Chase, Wells Fargo, and CitiBank, which all announced similar policies this year. That means no major U.S. bank will fund oil and gas production in… Read more.

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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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Microsoft is selling an ugly MS Paint sweater and part of the proceeds benefit Girls Who Code

The Verge

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft is getting into the holiday spirit a bit early today by offering an MS Paint-themed “ugly” sweater for sale on its online store , with a portion of the proceeds from each sale donated to Girls Who Code. The company made Windows XP and 95 sweaters in the past to give to influencers and super fans, but this marks the first time the company is selling a sweater directly to customers.

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Microsoft will remove user names from ‘Productivity Score’ feature after privacy backlash

GeekWire

Bigstock Photo. Microsoft says it will make changes in its new Productivity Score feature, including removing the ability for companies to see data about individual users, to address concerns from privacy experts that the tech giant had effectively rolled out a new tool for snooping on workers. “Going forward, the communications, meetings, content collaboration, teamwork, and mobility measures in Productivity Score will only aggregate data at the organization level—providing a clear measur

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Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack for $27.7 billion

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Cloud computing giant Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The deal, rumblings of which began surfacing last week , marks one of the most consequential acquisitions in the business software industries in recent years and Salesforce’s biggest purchase ever.

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Tech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is ‘not the city it was’

GeekWire

Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland, Wash. (Tanium Photo). Orion Hindawi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and helped build two successful companies there. But the 40-year-old co-founder and CEO of Tanium — a fast-growing cybersecurity company valued at more than $9 billion — is done with his hometown.

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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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AWS re:Invent Day 1: Top 5 announcements include machine learning, storage innovations, and container capabilities

Tech Republic Cloud

CEO Andy Jassy covered 24 new product announcements in his three-hour keynote on the first day of the virtual Amazon Web Services event.

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Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud for the first time ever. New Mac mini instances will be available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing developers to create apps for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more all on AWS. Amazon’s introduction of macOS instances is significant for developers. They now have a big cloud provider that will let them run Xcode and Swift development tools in the cloud, moving away from having to maintain and patch dedi

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Seattle startup Flexe raises $70M as e-commerce rise fuels demand for flexible warehousing platform

GeekWire

The Flexe team, pre-pandemic. (Flexe Photo). Flexe is raising more capital ahead of schedule as the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom spurs faster-than-expected growth for its warehousing technology platform. The Seattle startup announced a $70 million Series C round led by new investor T. Rowe Price, with participation from existing backers Activate Capital, Tiger Global, Madrona Venture Group, Redpoint Ventures, Prologis Ventures, and others.

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These Stunning Miniature Sea Creatures Keep the Oceans in Balance

Gizmodo

Never underestimate the power of one cell. That’s how many cells foraminifera—little sea creatures with striking shells—have. But boy can they do a lot with it. They’re the world’s tiniest geochemists, tinkering with the ocean. Read more.

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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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Startup founded by ‘Love Lab’ experts releases new platform and tech tools to assess relationships

GeekWire

(Affective Software Image). Affective Software Inc., the startup founded by the leaders of the famed Gottman Institute , is releasing a new portal and products to harness technology in assessing and improving relationships. The startup, which first revealed its plans back in May , has raised $400,000 in new funding from angel investors, adding to previous seed funding and bringing the company’s total to date to $2.9 million.

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Ways to Make IT a Profit Center

Information Week

While the idea of monetizing IT and converting it into a profit center is attractive, there are plenty of elements that should be thought through before deciding to go forward.

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Amazon Web Services to offer macOS on-demand in the cloud, in new appeal to Apple developers

GeekWire

Dave Brown, Amazon EC2 vice president, announces the new Mac Instances on Monday night. Amazon Web Services will provide software developers with access to macOS on-demand in the cloud for the first time, promising to speed up the process and reduce the cost of making software for Apple’s computers and devices. Announced on the eve of the AWS re:invent conference Monday night, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances represent an unexpected expansion beyond Linux and Windows for AWS.

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Research: Multicloud deployment increases among enterprises

Tech Republic Cloud

A recent TechRepublic Premium poll shows that 81% of respondents currently use or plan to use services from multiple cloud vendors in the next 12 months.

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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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HTMD Meetup Telegram WhatsApp Community Links | Rules

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s go through the HTMD Meetup Telegram WhatsApp Community Links | Groups and join the online community. IMPORTANT Use HTMDForum.com to ask questions and questions stay on the website itself. It won’t get removed automatically. HTMD Meetup Community Link Join [link] Terms of using this HTMD Web sites and Groups are also linked together [link] […].

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Rival Peak aims to be a massive game-like reality show with AI characters

Venture Beast

Genvid Technologies and Pipeworks Studios are unveiling Rival Peak, an interactive show on Facebook that is part game and part reality show. Read More.

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Delivery scams surge to ring in the holiday season

Tech Republic Security

November saw a spike in phishing emails spoofing shipping companies such as DHL, Amazon, and FedEx, says Check Point Research.

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Salesforce acquires Slack for $27.7 billion

Venture Beast

Salesforce has confirmed that it's buying team collaboration platform Slack, shortly after rumors first emerged that a deal was imminent. 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.