Tue.Oct 05, 2021

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Cybersecurity Advice for MSPs: Keep the Car Doors Locked

Association of Information Technology Professional

When it comes to defending the SMB market, just making sure that your doors are locked can go a long way for managed service providers to prevent most successful cyberattacks.

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Build Or Buy A Sales Methodology? What You Need To Know Before You Decide

Forrester IT

When confronted with the price tag for implementing a commercial sales methodology, many B2B sales and sales enablement leaders consider the option of building one in-house. The reasoning being: We are completely unique, and no off-the-shelf methodology would work here; plus we know our customers, we know our sales process, and we have sales learning […].

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Prevent Users From Installing Printer Drivers using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Prevent Users From Installing Printer Drivers using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Participate In A Forrester Research Report On Infrastructure-As-Code

Forrester IT

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) isn’t the latest but a prime and pertinent technology topic that gets more eyeballs every passing day. App developers, infrastructure owners, and enterprise architects alike expect IaC to be a liberating technology. I’m excited, as I am kicking off a new research report that’s focused on all IaC vendors — offerings, problems it […].

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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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Windows 11 ADK Versions List Download Options

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Windows 11 ADK Versions List Download Options appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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We Played Minecraft At Work – Here’s How It Went

Forrester IT

Here at Forrester, over the past 18 months, we’ve been helping customers build and operate more effectively in hybrid working and remote working environments. However, there’s remained a gap – teambuilding. One of the inevitable side-effects of remote work is loss of emergent and informal interactions. So, we’ve been looking for ways to help remedy […].

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Your IT-Led API Strategy Is Doomed To Fail: Use API Product Management

Forrester IT

As I round out my first year as a Forrester analyst, a trend I’ve noticed in my inquiries is frustration with making API programs successful. Common complaints: API documentation is poor Adoption remains low because APIs aren’t reusable There are too many APIs because IT keeps creating new duplicative and similar APIs Of all the […].

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Phishing campaigns against Chase Bank customers are on the rise

Tech Republic Security

Throughout the summer of 2021, the number of phishing URLs designed to impersonate Chase jumped by 300%, says security firm Cyren.

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The Five Things Your Mobile Development Team Needs To Know About The Ecosystem

Forrester IT

A few years ago, you had a big system if you had a thousand simultaneous users. Today, it means you have a moderately successful app or website. Your users place additional demands on your ecosystem now — in large part due to the limitations of the mobile devices they have. What does this mean for […].

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Enabling an MEC application marketplace over a 5G hybrid network

TM Forum

This Catalyst aims to help communication service providers (CSPs) find practical business models to support applications that need edge compute. The CSP may be a supplier to the application provider, providing connectivity everywhere combined with edge compute in an easy to consume way, or it might play an aggregator or channel role and provide the applications along with connectivity and compute to the customer.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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The Five Things Your Mobile Development Team Needs To Know About Devices

Forrester IT

Mobile devices aren’t just computers you can carry around. They’re extensions of your personality. For some people, they’re the only entry point to their digital lives. Seasoned vets of the mobile space must learn: The device your customer has is not the one you tested. It doesn’t matter how many devices you decided to use […].

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Telecom Argentina builds agile business on Cloud Foundation

TM Forum

At Telecom Argentina we have been building a public cloud-based digital ecosystem that is today making connectivity a competitive edge when we serve our 29 million customers. But we have had to overcome several obstacles along the way. One of our biggest challenges when setting out to become a digital services provider is that we are the fruit of a merger between three companies with different origins, technologies, and cultures (fixed mobile and Pay TV).

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Sales Enablement Leaders Must Emphasize Role-Specific Enablement In 2022

Forrester IT

Buyers expect sellers to partner with them and not only demonstrate a deep understanding of their market, industry, and role — but also to anticipate their next steps. Sales enablement leaders need to ensure that reps have the content, credibility, competency, and confidence to deliver.

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Exploiting 5G slicing to support remote medical care

TM Forum

This Catalyst aims to enable service delivery to medical facilities internationally via virtual 5G slices. The project addresses artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the use of virtual intelligent counselling agents (VICA) in use cases including remote patient care. 5G networks offering low latency and high performance are crucial to support these services.

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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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Product Management Leaders Should Make 2022 The Year Of Customer Value

Forrester IT

There will be KPIs to achieve and roadmap goals to hit, but customer-centric approaches will be critical to product management leaders' success.

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Is BSS ready to monetize enterprise 5G?

TM Forum

Is your business support system (BSS) ready for the advanced experiences, partner structures, charging models, on-demand activations at scale, and other processes that are part and parcel of the 5G services vision? Watch this webinar to find out: What a 5G-ready BSS for B2B entails and how it differs from traditional BSS. Which B2B markets and revenue models CSPs are focused on.

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Reinventing the Customer Experience, One Process at a Time

Information Week

Customer experience is at the core of all company functions. Organizations should look to new methods of transformation to uncover inefficiencies and drive new value.

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DTWS: Communication is the essence of modern society

TM Forum

Hear from Gil Rosen, Amdocs CMO & Division President, amdocs:next as he discusses how: The world start using existing technologies differently during the Covid-19 pandemic. Communication is the essence of modern society. Amdocs is addressing key issues in the telecommunications industry such as 5G roll out, cloud migration, automation.

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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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Qualys Ransomware Risk Assessment service aims to help you thwart potential attacks

Tech Republic Security

Free for the first 60 days, the new service is designed to help you better understand your organization's exposure to ransomware and automate the steps needed to reduce your risk.

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B2B revenues: Catalyzing new growth

TM Forum

Traditional telecoms service revenues have stagnated for almost a decade and communications service providers (CSPs) are looking to new B2B lines of business to catalyze revenue growth. Our latest research reveals solid growth in IoT, security and cloud services, and that the technologies used in those categories can kickstart a wealth of new B2B opportunities in the 5G era.

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Dell partners with VMware, NVIDIA, to build new multi-cloud services

Tech Republic Data Center

From managing workloads to an "industry first" enterprise AI platform, Dell had several VMworld announcements to pique the interest of companies using a multi-cloud model.

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DTWS: What the future digital service provider operations looks like

TM Forum

Hear from Aravind Parthasarathy, VP, Operations Services Practice at Prodapt as he discusses: What the future digital service provider operations looks like. The challenges or obstacles that most digital service providers struggle with when integrating AI into their operations. How digital twins are a quick win that digital service providers should go after.

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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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Amazon CEO: Relationship with Seattle City Council has become ‘rougher,’ but hope remains

GeekWire

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the 2021 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy admitted his company’s relationship with Seattle political leaders has become rocky over recent history, but added that he hopes it can improve in the years to come. Jassy, speaking Tuesday at the GeekWire Summit , said the online retail giant and the city council need to move beyond scapegoating and back to the collaborative culture that defined the compa

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Maximize 5G revenue potential

TM Forum

With more than 130 launches around the world, 5G is finally here. Yet the 5G promise is much more than the current state of a "faster 4G." 5G now provides an opportunity for communication service providers (CSPs) to shift their position. Find out how Amdocs' 5G Value Plane is empowering cutting-edge 5G monetization by exposing the network to both business and IT.

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How to run a basic vulnerability scan on your data center Linux servers with Nessus

Tech Republic Data Center

Are you certain your Linux servers in your data center are free from vulnerabilities? If not, you need to scan them immediately. Jack Wallen shows you how with Nessus.

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DTWS: 5G trends in development

TM Forum

Maurice Ma, President of Huawei Software Business, Huawei talks with TM Forum's Chief Analyst, Mark Newman on: 5G trends in development. What the major challenges are in carrier business support systems (BSS) during the development of 5G services and how Huawei is solving those issues. What the key features are of a BSS that will enable digital transformation for carriers in the future.

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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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Redfin partners with security giant ADT for program that lets buyers tour homes without an agent

GeekWire

Redfin’s Direct Access program enables buyers to tour a home by unlocking the door via an app and connected smart lock. (Redfin Photo). Tech tools such as video tours have increasingly helped power real estate transactions during the pandemic, decreasing the need for face-to-face interactions. Redfin will now build on its tech offerings by partnering with security company ADT to monitor homes in the real estate brokerage company’s Direct Access program, which enables buyers to tour homes w

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DTWS: What steps operators can take to accelerate 5G innovation

TM Forum

Hear from Ari Banerjee, SVP of Strategy at Netcracker as he discusses: What steps operators can take to accelerate 5G innovation. How operators can evolve with their BSS/OSS systems to support their 5G initiatives. What steps vendors should take to support continuous operations in a cloud-centric world.

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Windows 11 is now available, memory leaks and performance sacrifices included

TechSpot

Microsoft today opened the doors for Windows users to upgrade to Windows 11, which is a weird mix of various UI improvements, new and familiar features, missing functionality that was promised before release and security improvements, all with less legacy clutter.

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Gaming companies raised a record $71B in 844 deals so far this year

Venture Beast

Game industries deals surpassed an unparalleled $71 billion in the first nine months of 2021, according to a report by Drake Star Partners. Read More.

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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.