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Data Monetization in a Pro-Privacy World

Dataconomy

For over the last decade, some of the most successful companies on earth have made their riches by mining user data and selling it to advertisers. The big question is whether this will continue to be a sustainable business model with the ever-mounting scrutiny on data privacy and if not. The post Data Monetization in a Pro-Privacy World appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Will CEOs Honor Their Pledge? Here Are Five Ways Corporations Could Keep Their Commitments

Forrester IT

Last week, nearly 200 chief executives representing large American corporations pledged to fundamentally change the purpose of a corporation. Their goal is to redefine the role of business in society, pushing back against mounting criticism from both the left and right of the political spectrum. No longer is it enough for corporations to maximize shareholder […].

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Potential Malicious Use Of IT By NASA Astronaut While On Orbit: Thought provoking but probably not hacking

CTOvision

Have you been numbed by constant reports of breaches? They get old for sure, especially since so many have at their core common issues that could have been avoided by application of best practices. Now here is an interesting/new story: A NASA astronaut is accused of hacking her estranged spouse’s bank account from space I […].

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Microsoft VDI Story WVD Concept Setup Guide Myths Known Issues

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I thought of sharing my experience with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) in the world of Citrix VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure). I will also cover the WVD SCCM and Intune support, WVD Setup, WVD known issues, and WVD myths in this post. Introduction Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a new VDI offering from Microsoft.

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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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How to Prepare for, and Survive, Hurricane Dorian

Association of Information Technology Professional

Hurricane Dorian could strengthen from a Category 2 hurricane to a Category 4 hurricane over the weekend and will threaten parts of the Bahamas and the southeastern U.S. over Labor Day weekend. Mike Semel of Semel Consulting shares valuable resources to prepare for a hurricane.

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Asia Pacific To Drive Global Social Ad Spend In The Next Five Years

Forrester IT

Forrester expects global social advertising spend to reach $165.6 billion in 2023, up from $75 billion in 2018 — a CAGR of 17.1%. Asia Pacific and the rest of world will grow fastest, capturing the US and Europe’s share of global social advertising spend. Asia Pacific’s share of global spend will increase from 30% in […].

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Windows Virtual Desktop Microsoft WVD FAQs from AMA

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Following is my quick notes from AMA organized by Microsoft WVD product team. It was super useful to me. I thought it would be helpful for you as well. Let’s have a quick walkthrough of the questions and answers which I wanted to highlight. You can go through all the WVD AMA discussion from the […].

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Overheard in August: Cybersecurity Skills, Customer Experience Rules, Tech Naming Trends and More

Association of Information Technology Professional

In August, CompTIA podcasts provided insight into today’s most talked about tech topics—from what the customer experience means in the IT channel to the importance of soft skills in cybersecurity, overused tech terms, women in SaaS, and more.

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The Security Snapshot: Shaping The New Cybersecurity Culture

Forrester IT

All managers understand that both recruiting top talent as well as crafting a winning team and company culture is crucial to high performance. However, 22% of security decision makers note their team being understaffed as one of their biggest security challenges. A further 20% list the unavailability of employees with the right skills as one […].

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Top 5 IoT networking security mistakes

Network World

Even though Brother International is a supplier of many IT products, from machine tools to head-mounted displays to industrial sewing machines , it’s best known for printers. And in today’s world, those printers are no longer stand-alone devices, but components of the internet of things. That’s why I was interested in this list from Robert Burnett, Brother’s director, B2B product & solution – basically, the company’s point man for large customer implementations.

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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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SCCM 1906 Known Issues – List of Fixes

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM 1906 is in slow ring now and SCCM 1906 update will be available for all SCCM infrastructure with online Service Connection Point. Also, you should have versions SCCM 1806 or SCCM 1810, or SCCM 1902. In this post, you will learn more about SCCM 1906 known issues. Related Posts – SCCM 1902 known issues & SCCM 1810 Known […].

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Your Next Move: Server Support Technician

Association of Information Technology Professional

If you like to keep things running and troubleshoot problems that could affect many people, as well as install new technology and keep people online, then a career as a server support technician could be for you.

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How To Become Self-Aware of your B2B eCommerce Digital Maturity

Forrester IT

Nearly half of businesses are digital beginners. The other half are eating their lunch. Find out where you stand and what you need to do to defend yourself. The B2B C-suite is demanding you accelerate your digital transformation. This means you face more pressure to show progress and benchmark your maturity. My newly released […].

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How to Create and Deliver Cost Effective Remote Training

Kitaboo

You must at some point have sat through a conference or a video call where you struggled with getting the screen connected, or the audio wasn’t clear, with frequent interruptions from your or the other end like “your voice is breaking off”, or “the screen went black, we can’t see you”. Typically, around 10-15 minutes are then lost in fixing the issue, with wires being pulled and pushed to check if they are properly connected, opening and closing tabs, reconnecting the session etc.

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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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Modern Management and Peer to Peer Technology

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn how to VMware Workspace ONE works with Windows 10. Windows 10 modern management is new mantra for all the organizations. More details about VMware’s management options. VMware Workspace One Following are main feature offerings from VMware on Windows 10 & modern device management.

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SCCM/MDT Windows Updates Installer

Mick's IT Blog

One of the issues I have had when moving the build process from MDT to SCCM has been windows updates. Windows updates are not available in the SCCM build if it does not already deploy the updates to machines. Except for servers, the user machines are configured to install updates pushed down by Microsoft as shown below. Before asking about managing the updates, I do have tools put in place to be able to quickly stop updates from installing and remove updates if issues come up.

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The CMO/CIO Paradox

Forrester IT

Over the past few years, countless articles have been published on the growing importance of CMO-CIO collaboration. Of course, it seems so evident that the relationship between CMO and CIO should thrive in a world imposed with such demand for innovation. Every business needs technology. Every product needs a brand. Every generation advances in its […].

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Are eTextbooks The Next Big Thing in K-12 Education?

Kitaboo

Ever seen one of those videos where a toddler is holding a phone upside down and pretending to talk? Well, they sure are cute, but what you need to really notice here is that they are already familiar with how to use a smartphone! They know they can talk through it and that when you press certain keys something moves across the screen, and there’s light and sound coming from within.

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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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Webinar – Learn How to Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I have written many posts about upskilling here. In this post, you will come to know about the upskilling opportunity for SCCM admins. I’m collaborating with Parallels to upskill SCCM admins in the cloud era. TL;DR You can jump directly into the registration links: 👉Sep 10th 10:00 AM Pacific Time – [link] 👉Sep 10th 4:00 […].

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Moving from Cybersecurity Point Solutions to a Platform Approach

Association of Information Technology Professional

There are many reasons that businesses reach for best-of-breed cybersecurity point solutions to combat specific threats. Today’s cybersecurity landscape, though, requires seeing the whole picture.

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Use Cloud Platforms To Drive Your Tech-Driven Innovations

Forrester IT

What’s next in tech-driven innovation? How can you stay ahead of the competition? Leverage these emerging technologies! Watch my video blog below to learn more. Recently, Will McKeon-White and I did a Tech-Driven Innovation — Cloud Empowerment webinar in which we dove deeper on some of these emerging technologies. In addition, look for a full […].

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What is phishing? Learn how this attack works

Network World

Phishing is a method of trying to gather personal information using deceptive e-mails and websites. Here's what you need to know about this increasingly sophisticated form of cyberattack.

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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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Do Self-Service and Low-Code Curb Shadow IT?

Information Week

Self-service may help reduce shadow IT, but it won't eliminate it. Business-IT relationships help.

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Get Certified and Get Promoted: How IT Certifications Can Propel Your Career

Association of Information Technology Professional

A recent IDC study shows that getting certified before starting work improves not just your job search, but your career moving forward. While not everyone necessarily has the chance to get certified before entering the job market – if you do, here are a few great reasons to go for it!

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How To Guarantee A New Generation Of Failure

Forrester IT

It’s back-to-school time, hurray! After the crazy nonstop shenanigans of the summer and having kids at home all day, it’s a bit like being paroled and finally seeing the sun again to have some quiet and be able to actually think. With school kicking off, I was surprised, nay, enthused, to see a course for […].

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Augmented Reality and the Network

Spearline Testing

Bob Dylan once said, “the times they are a’ changin” and that couldn’t be truer when it comes to the telco industry. The execution of VoIP , playing around with the idea of cognitive networks , the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), using enhanced features like A.I. and unleashing the power of 5G are all significant steps in the ever-running escalator of telecoms.

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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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Q&A: Labourey on CloudBees' DevOps Role, Google Partnership

Information Week

The host of DevOps World conference talks about the part his company plays in the evolution of DevOps and what a new partnership with Google Cloud will mean.

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Emerging Technology Adoption Is Here: Are You Ready for It?

Association of Information Technology Professional

After years of defining emerging tech trends, the attention has shifted to adoption. At ChannelCon's State of Emerging Tech Trends panel, three industry leaders offered a different perspective on the challenges involved with emerging technology.

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Security & Risk 2019: Peering Into The Crystal Ball – Security Edition

Forrester IT

Security and risk pros have the opportunity to shape the future of technology and business in ways we might have only dreamed of two years ago.

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Steps That Ensure Greater IT Efficiency

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Steps That Ensure Greater IT Efficiency - Information Technology Blog. Information technology is one of few occupations that provide real-world functionality, security, and other critical solutions to every job sector and niche of the economy. Regardless of industry, businesses that continue to grow will inevitably require a variety of IT solutions to operate effectively and efficiently.

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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.