August, 2018

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Skills That Every CIO Needs To Have

The Accidental Successful CIO

In order to lead an IT department, a CIO needs certain skills Image Credit: Gareth Williams. Congratulations on having your company make you the CIO. However, now what? As the person with the CIO job, you are going to have to use your skills to solve a range of challenging technical problems. However, you’re not going to be able to do this by yourself.

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Five Ways To Plan For B2B Journey Mapping Success

Forrester IT

Journey mapping can be an energizing and eye-opening exercise in customer empathy. As advisors to B2B CX and Marketing Leaders in the Forrester Leadership Boards (FLB), we come along on many journey mapping “journeys”. The most common question we receive from executives is, “How do I ensure the journey mapping process is actionable and aligned […].

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Former CIA Officer Richards J. Heuer

CTOvision

Today we learned of the passing of Richards J. (Dick) Heuer. So many of us were influenced by Dick Heuer and his writings. His first public writing on the discipline of intelligence analysis began in 1979 upon his retirement from the CIA. Later he would pull together his many articles to form the basis of […].

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Process to FIX SCCM Client Health Issues

Anoop

Computers running the SCCM client are the clients of SCCM server infra. When the SCCM clients are unhealthy or are reporting problems with accessing SCCM server infra, your SCCM infra is not providing much value. In this post, I will share the process to fix SCCM client health issues affecting client assignment, deployment, status, and […]. The post Process to FIX SCCM Client Health Issues appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Twelve Things I Learned from One Year After Publishing Driving Digital

Social, Agile and Transformation

I'm celebrating the one year anniversary of Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology. Since then, it's been a wonderful year of speaking, writing, advising and consulting on everything tied to digital transformation from strategy to agile, devops, data governance, low code, AI, product development and other related topics.

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IDG Contributor Network: Security serves as an essential component to growing an enterprise with SD-WAN

Network World

As enterprises endeavor to expand domestic and global footprints, agile network infrastructure connectivity across geographies continues to prove an ongoing challenge. In particular, ensuring that data shared over these networks is protected from unauthorized access is a primary directive in today’s evolving cyber threat landscape. These often-contradictory demands call for IT decision makers to invest in innovation that will facilitate network flexibility and agility without compromising securi

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Bad CX Surveys? Not With This Checklist!

Forrester IT

CX surveys are the butt of jokes in dinner party conversations and comedy sketches. On social media, people gleefully tweet examples of surveys gone wrong. Just type the three words CX, survey, and fail into a Twitter search… But this is no laughing matter if you are in a CX role. Bad CX surveys create […].

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Make Way for Cobots

CTOvision

Czech writer Karel ?apek first coined the term ‘Robot’ in his 1920 play R.U.R. about a dystopian future in which artificial, manufactured “roboti” act human-like and perform tasks in servitude to their human masters, only to later to form a rebellion that leads to the extension of the human race. Many of the visions and […].

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How to Setup SCCM Cloud Management Gateway as cloud DP

Anoop

SCCM 1806 onwards you can eliminate Cloud DP from your SCCM infra. In this post, I will explain the process to configure SCCM CMG into Cloud DP. Learn how to Setup Cloud Management Gateway as cloud DP. You can learn how to download content using Cloud Management Gateway. Content:- What are the advantages of using […]. The post How to Setup SCCM Cloud Management Gateway as cloud DP appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Five Way to Finding the Citizen Data Scientists in your Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

You don't become a data driven organizations by hiring a handful of PhD's and setting them loose on your big data platforms and data sets. Oh you may get tremendous insights, competitive advantages, and even new product offerings through this approach. But becoming data driven is an inside out transformation. And that requires changes in mindset, culture, roles and responsibilities, and.

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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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Stop Talking Gobbledygook to the Business

Information Week

For all of the promise that AI and machine learning have for an enterprise, you won't realize the technology's potential if data scientists blather in data science speak.

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Why Do CIOS Pick The Wrong Person?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Despite trying very hard, CIOs sometime pick the wrong person Image Credit: Jamwhy. The person with the CIO job has a lot of responsibility on his or her shoulders. They have to understand the importance of information technology and keep the company’s IT systems up and running while at the same time keeping one eye on the future in order to determine what is coming their way.

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Why You Need To Know About Low-Code, Even If You’re Not Responsible For Software Delivery

Forrester IT

Whether you’re responsible for software or are a business leader whose team uses software, you know this: You need customized software, and traditional software development can’t keep up with your demands. Conventional development methods take too long and require a special set of skills that are in short supply. This has been a problem for […].

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Do Companies Need a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)?

CTOvision

The short answer to the above question is “no”. But let’s get into the specifics. Clearly for many companies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the range of Cognitive Technologies are strategic to their businesses and organizations. Indeed, for many companies, AI is as fundamentally important to their long-term well being as their IT organizations and finances.

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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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Move SCCM Intune Hybrid to Standalone – It’s Official Now

Anoop

How many of you are still managing Intune hybrid devices from SCCM console? This post is significant for those SCCM admins. Those SCCM admins have a great learning opportunity to migrate SCCM hybrid setup to Intune standalone. Microsoft announced their support details of SCCM Intune Hybrid to Standalone. [Related Posts – 8 Reasons to Select Intune […].

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VMware sharpens security focus with vSphere Platinum, ‘adaptive micro-segmentation’

Network World

VMware is expanding its security range with a new version of its virtualization software that has security integrated into the hypervisor. “Our flagship VMware vSphere product now has AppDefense built right in,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told the audience at VMworld 2018, which kicked off this week in Las Vegas. “Platinum will enable virtualization teams – you – to give an enormous contribution to the security profile of your enterprise.

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IaaS: Alternative Cloud Providers for the Enterprise

Information Week

There are alternatives to IaaS providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. Here are a handful of other providers that give enterprises more choices on price, stability, and ease of use.

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How Can CIOs Help Their Companies Use Algorithms To Set Prices?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Algorithms represent the next step forward in dynamic pricing Image Credit: x6e38. The reason that the IT department exists is to provide assistance to the rest of the company. A great deal of this assistance consists of background tasks such as keeping the email system running, setting up new servers, and protecting the company’s networks from hackers.

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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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The GDPR And The B2B Seller: Keep Calm And Sell On

Forrester IT

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. It’s been a few months and the repercussions are yet to be fully realized, leaving practitioners anxious and wondering if they have fully prepared. So far, GDPR compliance efforts have largely targeted customer data management, digital marketing, and security.

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Ethical Concerns of AI

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence is seen by many as a great transformative tech and the possibilities seem almost limitless to what it can eventually do. Will AI systems one day drive us around? Do our laundry? Mow our lawn? Raise our kids? Fight wars? Kill humans?

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Step by Step Guide Windows AutoPilot Process with Intune

Anoop

I had an opportunity to present end to end Windows AutoPilot process flow at Bangalore IT Pro user group meeting. I covered end to end process to provision Windows 10 devices via Windows AutoPilot service with Intune. It was great to have feedback from fellow IT Pros on modern management and Windows AutoPilot topics. [Windows […]. The post Step by Step Guide Windows AutoPilot Process with Intune appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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What is Nmap? Why you need this network mapper

Network World

Network administrators, IT managers and security professionals face a never-ending battle, constantly checking on what exactly is running on their networks and the vulnerabilities that lurk within. While there is a wealth of monitoring utilities available for network mapping and security auditing, nothing beats Nmap's combination of versatility and usability, making it the widely acknowledged de facto standard.

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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.

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How Mid-Size Firms Can Overcome DevOps Challenges

Information Week

Wedged between resource-rich global giants and nimble small firms, many mid-size enterprises struggle to achieve DevOps success. Here are the best ways of addressing this problem.

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Install Dell Command Configure in WinPE

Mick's IT Blog

Dell Command | Configure can be of great use in the WinPE environment. It allows you to configure and/or query the BIOS before an operating system is laid down. This is easy to do. The first thing is to determine the architecture of the WinPE environment. This will determine which Dell Command | Configure to use. If you use a 64-bit machine, you will have two folders under %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%DellCommand Configure.

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Beyond The Hype, AI Will Spark A Marketing Renaissance.

Forrester IT

Marketing technology (martech) vendors are heavily pitching AI. However, AI per se is not new and won’t solve CMO’s problems overnight. In fact, many marketers use AI without even knowing it, when they use AI-powered algorithms for programmatic ad buying! The reality is that AI will scale existing data-driven marketing approaches and give modern CMOs […].

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CTOvision Assessment on the Megatrend of Cloud Computing

CTOvision

There are seven key MegaTrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing. We succinctly describe Cloud Computing as the scalable delivery of computational resources. [.].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Troubleshoot Intune Managed Application Deployments Errors

Anoop

In this video, you will see the enhanced options of Intune Troubleshooting blade. Intune Managed Application troubleshooting options for Windows devices are explained in this post. This feature is still in Intune public preview. [Related Posts – How to Start Troubleshooting Intune Issues] [Related Posts – How to Troubleshoot Windows 10 Intune MDM Issues] Content Overview […].

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How the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability affects Linux systems

Network World

Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it? L1TF, L1 Terminal Fault, and Foreshadow.

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Four Easy Steps to Intelligent Automation Success

Information Week

If you are losing sleep over concerns about how to implement intelligent automation in your organization, you aren't alone.

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Serious About Your Business? Go Online

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Serious About Your Business? Go Online - Information Technology Blog. So, you’ve been running your own business for quite some time, and so far, it’s going well. You have an office set up and decided to get some additional workforce. Your business revenues are ticking over, but you look forward to more. What’s needed to be done?

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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.