Forrester IT

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2019 retail series. Retailers (and consumers) have been talking about all things holiday for months, but the “official” kick-off of the highly anticipated shopping season took place this past weekend. By many counts, it was a success. The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported that a record breaking 189.6 […].

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Join Matt Devost, CEO & Co-Founder of OODA LLC. and Tony Cole, CTO of Attivo Networks for an in-depth discussion on cyber deception and how it plays into the OODA loop, the cycle of observe–orient–decide–act. Attackers and defenders may not realize it however both operate within an OODA loop where in a world without deception […].

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Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this year, we had a non-critical SQL server to crash. Come to find out, the backups were successful every night, but the data in the backup was corrupt. Needless to say, the server had to be recreated from scratch. Thankfully it was a non-critical server. We wanted a way to automatically verify SQL backups are valid. Using PowerShell, I wrote the following script that runs RESTORE VERIFYONLY against the latest backup contained in the designated directory.

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Anoop

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In my previous article, I tried to explain the working mechanism of Bitlocker encryption, the internal OS components involved and most importantly – why it is necessary and how it helps secure the OS platform from cold boot attacks. I would urge you to give it a read here if you have not seen it […].

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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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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ten years ago I released my map of the 2010s , consisting of 14 “ExaTrends” (Exa being the cube of Mega). Click through on the images for the full size pdf. The complete text describing the ExaTrends on pdf is also on the post below the images. What are your thoughts on how well I did at anticipating the decade just past? Overall the themes seem to be pretty accurate, though the pace of some may have been a little off, and among other misses, the key theme of social polarization, whi

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Commentary: The last decade has been open source's most productive by far. Find out why Matt Asay considers it a Cambrian explosion of choice and innovation.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mark Bowker at ESG reacts to keynotes delivered at AWS re:Invent 2019, focusing on how Amazon's interests in on-premises and edge solutions impact enterprise compute.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Learn how iCloud Keychain can help you keep track of your app and website passwords.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2019

During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works. Today, I'm happy to share some exciting news about our HPC solutions.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Mark Bowker at ESG reacts to keynotes delivered at AWS re:Invent 2019, focusing on how Amazon's interests in on-premises and edge solutions impact enterprise compute.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 5, 2019

For those looking to put their best foot forward or get unstuck from a career plateau, we've collected tips from IT pros who have navigated a successful career.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Find out how Salesforce's Philanthropy Cloud uses AI to provide one and a half million ways for employees to engage in corporate philanthropy.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Here is a look at what a CDO means to your organization and what are the skills you need to hunt for while hiring them. The last decade alone has seen exponential growth in organizational data. Whether by accident or design, the amount of data available to every business has. The post Bridging the CDO talent gap: Top Three skills a CDO needs appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Data visualization is a key component of Salesforce's Sustainability Cloud, which helps customers track their impact on the environment.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Summary: As technology evolves, it plays an increasingly important role in the business world. More than ever, the modern CIO must stay ahead of the ever-changing technology curve, and understand how new technologies might affect their business. What technologies could have the biggest impact on the business world in the coming year? In this article, we explore a few more technologies that the modern CIO cannot afford to ignore. photo credit: sntgmdm via photopin cc We’re living in a time of rap

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Language is an art in its own right. " 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 Man

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Summary: The latest revision of the Sovrin Governance Framework is aimed squarely at showing how the Sovrin identity metasystem is compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations. Compliance is an important part of adoption and creating "identity for all.". Yesterday the Sovrin Board of Trustees approved the latest revision to the Sovrin Governance Framework (SGF).

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to building a security career, as evidenced by the diverse range of educational, professional, and personal experiences that its many practitioners have. It’s also impossible to predict which projects will teach you lessons you’ll use later in a future security role. You could learn to better communicate with clients while working […].

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Linux Academy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The final day of AWS re:Invent, 2019. In our final day at AWS re:Invent, and last overview piece, we’re covering the final keynote in-depth. Overview of Werner Vogels Keynote: The Power of AWS Nitro. Under the hood, AWS continues to innovate and improve the performance of the latest generation of EC2 instances. AWS EC2 Nitro now supports 36% faster Amazon EBS-Optimized Instance bandwidth up to 19 Gbps for the all-new C5/C5d/C5n, M5/M5d/M5n/M5dn, R5/R5d/R5n/R5dn, and P3dn instances now sup

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Almost all small and medium-sized businesses in America have executives who are living in fear of a cyber-attack from foreign adversaries, according to new research published today. The Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey by Zix-AppRiver found that 93% of SMB executives believe that as foreign adversaries attempt to breach national security or wage cyber-war, they […].

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2019

During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works. Today, I'm happy to share some exciting news about our HPC solutions.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure named “BlackDirect” that allows attackers to take over the Azure user’s accounts and creating the Token with the victim’s permissions. The vulnerability specifically affected Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 applications that allow malicious attacker access and control a victim’s account. “OAuth is a protocol for authorization that is commonly used […].

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Flexagon

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In FlexDeploy 5.2.0.2, new Blueprints are added for Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle API Platform, File Deployments, SQL Files, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle MDS, Oracle JET. FlexDeploy Blueprints help users get up and running quickly by automatically configuring FlexDeploy based on build and deploy common practices. Blueprints use a quick-start wizard to configure source control and.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A data breach at Mixcloud, a U.K.-based audio streaming platform, has left more than 20 million user accounts exposed after the data was put on sale on the dark web. The data breach happened earlier in November, according to a dark web seller who supplied a portion of the data to TechCrunch, allowing us to examine […].

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Publishers need to adapt to the changing industry trends followed by an acrobatic digital book/ebook publishing strategy. Digital publishing has become the new norm for publishers today. Every print edition is almost always accompanied by its digital version. While digitization has definitely benefited publishers, it has also brought along an overwhelming number of competitors in the market.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Creativity has many forms and manifestations; it is a long-term endeavor. Everyone possesses a certain level of creativity. Creativity relates to intelligence, empathy, idealism, and process understanding. There are many unique ingredients to make “creativity formula” with a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic elements to ignite creativity. And it’s important to leverage specific systems, thought processes, and continuous practices to harness creativity multidimensionally.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Publishers need to adapt to the changing industry trends followed by an acrobatic digital book publishing strategy. Digital publishing has become the new norm for publishers today. Every print edition is almost always accompanied by its digital version. While digitization has definitely benefited publishers, it has also brought along an overwhelming number of competitors in the market.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2019

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