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How to Get Hands-On with Machine Learning

Information Week

If you really want to understand the capabilities and limitations of machine learning, you have to get hands-on. Here's a short list of options for beginners.

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Digital Process Automation: An Important Part Of Your Digital Transformation Strategy

Forrester IT

Driving successful digital transformation will require developing a lot of software – much more than we’ve ever had to in the past. One strategy is to use a digital process automation solution with strong low-code development tools to meet the demand.

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7 Technologies You Need to Know for Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence. Everybody wants it. Everybody knows they need to invest in pilots and initial projects. Yet getting those projects into production is hard, and most companies still aren’t in with both feet. If you aren’t hands-on with the projects yourself, you may have heard a lot of different terminologies. You may be wondering what it […].

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The Importance of eBooks in a Flipped Classroom

Kitaboo

Flipping the classroom has become a hot topic in educational circles in recent times. The idea is that students first learn course content online, usually at home, and the time in the classroom is devoted to what used to be traditionally homework, with the teacher’s assistance. Many articles have been written on how the idea of a Flipped Classroom has gained currency with the advent of eBooks and digital learning content.

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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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7 Technologies You Need to Know for Artificial Intelligence

Information Week

Artificial intelligence is actually a term that encompasses a host of technology and tools. Here's a closer look at some of the more important ones.

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How To Prepare For The Coming Recession

Forrester IT

How To Prepare For The Coming Recession: Become An Adaptive Enterprise Recessions are notoriously hard to predict; the timing, severity, and characteristics of recessions are often missed, even by top economists. Yet rumblings about a 2020 recession are growing louder: 40% of top economists expect the Federal Reserve Bank to cut interest rates in response to a […].

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Amazon Aurora development team wins the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award

All Things Distributed

A few months ago, I wrote the post " Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed acloud-native relational database ," and now I'm excited to share some news about the people behind the service. This week, the developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award.

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TCS Taps Cornell Tech for Digital Transformation Ideation

Information Week

Unveiling of the new TCS Pace Port at the Tata Innovation Center reveals plan to work with academics and startups to find new hires and help industries evolve.

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Goodbye Smart, Hello Insights-Driven: Insights-Driven Cities Deliver Effective Governance

Forrester IT

I’ve always struggled with the term “smart city.” The word “smart” can mean a million different things. Getting smart with someone isn’t necessarily a good thing — as in a mother admonishing a child, “Don’t get smart with me!” Being a “smart aleck” in school can get someone sent to the principal’s office or beaten […].

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8 steps to recover quickly (and well) from a data breach

CTOvision

The most important thing to do prior to breach is to plan. Despite best efforts to protect the organization’s health information, a hacker has breached the walls and now client files are encrypted, ransom demands have been made to restore health records and more malware may have been placed on the network. An article from […].

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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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Review Office365 Backup Solution from Altaro – Part 2

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn how to restore Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes using Altaro Office365 backup solution. Also, you will learn more configuration options of Altaro Office365 cloud backup solution. [Related Post – Altaro Office365 Backup Guide Step by Step Video Part 1] Introduction I’m using the 30 days FREE trial version of Altaro Office365 Backup solution in this […].

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Database Deployments Moving to the Cloud

Information Week

Of the top five database vendors by revenue, four are also cloud service providers -- Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM. The future of DBMS is in the cloud.

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What Is Your X1?

Forrester IT

Customer experience has stalled. Over the past 24 months, some of the stars of Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), such as JetBlue and BMW, have shown no improvement in their CX. Other former standouts, like Etsy and USAA Credit, have experiences that are going backwards. Why? Every customer journey has many “peaks” — experiences […].

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Smart home maker leaks customer data, device passwords

CTOvision

A company that makes a smart home management platform is leaking data about its customers and their device passwords via an ElasticSearch server that it left exposed on the internet without a password. The server belongs to Orvibo, a Chinese company based in the city of Shenzen, which runs SmartMate, a platform for managing smart appliances […].

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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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Ecommerce Security Issues – 5 Ways to Tackle Them

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Ecommerce Security Issues – 5 Ways to Tackle Them - Information Technology Blog. The online world is both amazing and vulnerable, all at the same time. While eCommerce solutions have brought immense convenience to the masses, they have also put customer data at risk. After all, cyber crimes are very prevalent. Data breaches are common.

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A Practical Guide to DevOps: It's Not that Scary

Information Week

Here's a collection of information to help IT leaders and professionals learn more about how to embrace DevOps in their enterprise organizations.

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Does Yesmail’s Sunset Mark The End Or The Beginning Of The Email Era?

Forrester IT

In mid-May, Yes Marketing, the email service provider division of marketing services provider, Infogroup, announced that was exiting the email technology business. It will support its proprietary Yesmail platform for the next 36 months while actively migrating current clients onto Adobe Campaign. This feels like the end of an era to me! Yesmail was one […].

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How to govern AI in your organization: 6 tips

CTOvision

Read Alison DeNisco Rayome list six tipis for organizations to implement AI optimally on Tech Republic : As more organizations adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into daily workflows, they must consider how to govern these algorithms to avoid inaccuracies and bias, according to KPMG’s Controlling AI report, released last week.

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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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Technology Short Take 116

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #116! This one is a bit shorter than usual, due to holidays in the US and my life being busy. Nevertheless, I hope that I managed to capture something you find useful or helpful. As always, your feedback is welcome, so if you have suggestions, corrections, or comments, you’re welcome to contact me via Twitter. Networking.

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Top 5 Issues Exhausting Your IT Team and How to Solve Them

Information Week

Chief information officers and IT leaders need to stay relevant and continually address the common problems that drag down their teams.

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Retail Mobile App Experiences: New Best Practice Series

Forrester IT

Mobile is the dominant digital touchpoint in retail and mobile apps play critical role – consumers who down load a retailer’s app are likely to be more loyal, but that does not mean they wont uninstall the app if it does not meet their expectations! To help retailers benchmark and prioritize improvements in their apps […].

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The fourth Industrial revolution emerges from AI and the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Big data, analytics, and machine learning are starting to feel like anonymous business words, but they’re not just overused abstract concepts—those buzzwords represent huge changes in much of the technology we deal with in our daily lives. Some of those changes have been for the better, making our interaction with machines and information more natural […].

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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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Whitepaper: Is voice latency impacting your business growth?

Spearline Testing

ITU research carried out in 2003 states that a one-way delay of 400ms should not be exceeded for “general” network planning, however demanding interactive tasks such as speech can experience issues with one-way latency values of 150ms. Where latency reaches 500ms the ITU states that nearly all users are dissatisfied. The Spearline platform provides advanced cloud-based monitoring and testing capabilities, helping many businesses ensure their global inbound and outbound communications

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How to Evaluate an IT Job Candidate as a Coach Would

Information Week

To create a winning IT team, it pays to treat job candidates like potential prospects for a sports franchise.

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Facebook’s Recent Moves Highlight The Grand Challenge Of Digital Ethics

Forrester IT

This blog is a summary of an interesting internal discussion we had among analysts. I’d like to extend my thanks to Brigitte Majewski, Martha Bennett, Sucharita Kodali, Benjamin Ensor, and Fatemeh Khatibloo, who all helped with the thinking. I’m merely putting the pieces together for you here, because connecting the dots is where I come […].

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Many VMware Products Affected by SACK Linux Vulnerabilities

CTOvision

Over 30 VMware products are affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness, two recently disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without authentication for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The security holes, discovered by a researcher working for Netflix, are related to how the kernel handles TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) packets with a low minimum segment […].

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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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Kicking Off Summer Together as a Company

Linux Academy

Linux Academy has grown immensely over the past year, so we decided to celebrate and kick off summer together as a company! We previously held a companywide meet-up in December but already a lot has changed! 1 year ago, we had 100 employees on the team. In 2019 today, we have 154 employees! Since April 1 of this year, we’ve hired 39 new team members.

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Retain Your IT Staff by Doing These 3 Things

Information Week

Your team relies on you, their IT leader, to help them manage their careers. If you're not doing it, someone else will do it for you. At another company.

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The Insights Beat: Light Up The Sky With Insights This July

Forrester IT

It’s nearly Independence Day in the United States—a day filled with parades; fireworks; family; and, of course, delicious food. The day honors something that we, like the Founding Fathers before us, hold dear in the research organization at Forrester: the agreed upon final wording of a document, devised by a team of thinkers, driven by a […].

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AI World Conference and Expo 23-25 Oct 2019 in Boston: The intersection of AI and Business

CTOvision

CTOvision and the due diligence consultancy OODA LLC will be sponsoring AI World 2019, the largest independent business event focused on the state of the practice of AI in the enterprise. Register with our discount code (see below) for deep savings. The AI World 3-day program delivers a comprehensive spectrum of content, networking, and business […].

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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.