Sat.Jan 20, 2018 - Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Which Technologies Will Help Usher in Big Data?

CTOvision

Big Data and Technology Become Intertwined The technology revolution has arrived and it is only going to grow and grow. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the dissemination of information grew at an incredible rate. Equally important was the printing press’ ability to store information. Informational repositories can be tapped for many additional uses.

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SCCM Status Summarizers and Health Monitoring Details

Anoop

SCCM ConfigMgr CB health monitoring connected well with SCCM Status Summarizers. All the monitoring solutions like custom scripts and SCOM management pack for SCCM are using SCCM Status Summarizers to get the detailed health status of your SCCM infra. In this post, we will see details of SCCM Status Summarizers and Health Monitoring. I uploaded […].

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If data is the new oil, we’re still digging wells

Social, Agile and Transformation

Amazing to watch how much data technologies and practices have evolved over the last 10-15 years. Despite a myriad of new nosql, big data, self-service BI, data governance, data prep, machine learning, and now artificial intelligence platforms that have come to market over this time frame, the fact is many organizations are still in early stages of maturing modern data management practices.

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The moving target of IoT security

Network World

As the explosive growth of IoT tech continues; businesses, vendors and consumers all have to confront the issue that the world is more connected than ever before, with potentially gigantic consequences. The central problem with IoT security is that there is no central problem – IoT is a more complicated stack than traditional IT infrastructure and is much more likely to be made up of hardware and software from different sources.

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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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Big Data’s Impact on Advertising

CTOvision

Big data is a megatrend, and one that has bulldozed its way into a variety of industries and causes. It’s not just a small chain of disruptions, but rather a complete evolution. Healthcare, aviation, education and job training are all excellent examples of how big data is changing the current landscape. Healthcare, in particular, will […].

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CIOs Need To Change How Their Department Deals With Sexual Harassment

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable, what’s a CIO going to do? Image Credit: Christopher Porter. Any CIO that has been reading the newspaper, watching TV, or listening to the discussions that have been going on lately has picked up on a theme – sexual harassment in the workplace. There have been some big names that have been exposed as being harassers and they have fallen and been removed from their positions.

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The Ascent of Object Storage

Cloud Musings

Over the past few years, the data storage market has changed radically. The traditional hierarchy of directories, sub-directories, and files referred to as file storage has given way to object storage , individual storage objects. While file storage was designed to help humans interact with data, object storage is all about automated efficiency. User expectation of data usage drives file storage repository design.

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How Towing Companies are Advancing with Technology

CTOvision

Towing is one of those industries where people imagine that every company is behind the times when it comes to technology. This might come from the stereotypical image of the past. However, today tow companies are using technology to make them perform better, faster, and cheaper. Companies in this industry that don't follow suit could […].

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2017 Year in Review

Spearline Testing

We upgraded our platform from V4 to V5. This was a major program with a resultant upgrade in performance, functionality and outputs. The look and feel changed, providing users with more control and simplicity in managing campaigns and numbers. This created a stepped approach with the ability to filter and add standard elements such as time groups and numbers.

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Use Intune to Restrict NON Patched Windows Devices from Accessing eMail

Anoop

Security patching is vital to every organization. Now with Intune, you can restrict Windows 10 devices which are not patched with latest patches. Non patched devices are risky to the organization. Use Intune to restrict non patched Windows devices from accessing mail. There are two options to limit Windows devices from connecting to the corporate […].

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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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Checking if a laptop is docked

Mick's IT Blog

While writing this package for the BIOS updates on our systems to negate the Spectre and Meltdown, we decided we wanted all laptop systems to be docked. This is an extra precaution we are taking, along with deployment during the early hours of the morning, to minimize the possibility of the BIOS update being interrupted during the installation process by human error.

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CTOvision Tech News Update

CTOvision

Tech news over the last week confirms many trends you are already no doubt tracking. Globally, cybersecurity incidents show a continued evolution of tactics, techniques and methods, but the most sinister still seem to involve old fashioned deception tactics. Deception tactics are now being used to attack cryptocurrency wallets. If you have your own cryptocurrency […].

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Taking Back Ownership of Your Data

Dataconomy

The internet has long been a consummate environment for collecting immense amounts of data from large swathes of the population. With the increased use of cookies and other data mining tools, the internet is, essentially, a bottomless trove of useful data. This collected information is highly prized by companies and marketers, who. The post Taking Back Ownership of Your Data appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Mingis on Tech: 2018 – the year blockchain breaks out

Network World

Blockchain continues to evolve and grow, as more companies test it out. It's now seen as the heart of a new global shipping platform that could save companies billions of dollars and as the underpinning for a P2P cloud storage endeavor.

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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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Using Docker Machine with Azure

Scott Lowe

I’ve written about using Docker Machine with a number of different providers, such as with AWS , with OpenStack , and even with a local KVM/Libvirt daemon. In this post, I’ll expand that series to show using Docker Machine with Azure. (This is a follow-up to my earlier post on experimenting with Azure.). As with most of the other Docker Machine providers, using Docker Machine with Azure is reasonably straightforward.

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How You Can Grow Your Business Enterprise by the Use of Technology

CTOvision

Many business enterprises from small companies to big corporations find it hard to know the right timing to incorporate digital tools in their operations since technology is advancing at a breakneck pace. However, it is critical for a business manager or owner to realize that lagging to far behind these technological innovations of even failure […].

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New Product Releases for 2018

Spearline Testing

After an amazing 2017 we’re very excited for what’s to come in 2018, so we want to share with you, a little preview of the new product releases being launched in 2018. We asked ourselves, ”how can we make it better for you as a customer?” How about full endpoint documentation for all our products. An API (Application Programming Interface) will enhance your utilisation of our platform.

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Tech Talk: The beginning of the end of the password in 2018

Network World

Hackers can crack them, and users are careless with them. Passwords have long been problematic, but they are getting renewed attention after a series of major breaches. Our panelists look at the coming technology to help with password security.

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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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An Update on Using Docker Machine with Vagrant

Scott Lowe

As part of a project on which I’m working, I’ve been spending some time working with Docker Machine and Vagrant over the last few days. You may recall that I first wrote about using these two tools together back in August 2015. As a result of spending some additional time with these tools—which I chose because I felt like they streamlined some work around this project—I’ve uncovered some additional information that I wanted to share with readers.

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Privoro: Advanced anti-surveillance platform for smartphones

CTOvision

Modern smartphones leak information everywhere they go. Those of us who track matters like this know it and try to minimize risk, but still it is a horrible choice we have to make. Do we bring the smartphone and give up privacy and allow ourselves to be tracked and monitored, or do we leave it […].

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How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports

Dataconomy

Imagine you’re a quarterback and you’ve just stepped off the field. Your team has lost. You could look at it as a failure and call it a day – or you could look at it as an opportunity to improve. How? Embedded in your jersey are sensors that have tracked. The post How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Tech Talk: IT trends for 2018 – passwords on the way out, blockchain evolves

Network World

Our tech panel envisions the end of passwords, looks at how blockchain is evolving, details why 'serverless' computing is a boon to devs and wonders why Apple's HomePod seems late to the game.

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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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CIO Leadership Live: Watch live on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 2 pm ET

ComputerWorld IT Management

Join host Maryfran Johnson on Twitter (@CIOonline) for an in-depth interview with CIO Joel Jacobs of MITRE Corp., a private non-profit research organization that provides consulting, engineering, and technical services for numerous federal government agencies. They will discuss how MITRE keeps innovating -- in everything from predictive analytics to mobile app development, plus Jacobs' unique combined role as CIO and CSO.

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Cisco Systems’ John Chambers Announces New VC Fund

CTOvision

John Chambers is widely known as one of the great visionaries of IT, helping us all better understand the power and potential of what can be. He led Cisco Systems through exciting periods as they helped the world smartly transform to take advantage of wave after wave of technology revolution and did so with style. He […].

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The Monthly “Lesson Learned”: Digital Management Pitfalls Jan., 2018

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. Digitalization is the thorny journey and digital management is both art and science.

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The people you call when you've had a breach | Salted Hash Ep 15

Network World

Rob Lee, faculty fellow at the SANS Technology Institute, talks with host Steve Ragan about his group's work to help companies out of sticky situations, plus the state of the security industry and predictions for 2018.

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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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Getting Access to the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery in Windows 7

Mick's IT Blog

Over the past three years, I have not had a need to use the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery on the Windows 7 machines. While working on the Spectre/Meltdown issue, it finally hit me that I needed to use it on the Windows 7 machines. It was kind of hard to find clear and concise instructions on installing it on those machines. Windows 10 is a breeze, but there were extra steps.

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3 Software Programs That Let Businesses Monitor Employees’ Computers

CTOvision

Perhaps you’ve decided to emphasize productivity more than ever in your workplace and want to know whether it’s legal to use software that tracks how employees use their computers. Below, we’ll investigate the laws surrounding that issue and why you might want to see what employees do — or fail to do — as well […].

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Digital Reinforcement Management Practices

Future of CIO

Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation which represents the next stage of business maturity and will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its digital ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. However, every business evolves digital with varying speed. There are stresses in business leadership because organizations must respond to continuous digital disruptions and the increasing pace of changes proactively.

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Data Infrastructure Resource Links cloud data protection tradecraft trends

Storage IO Blog

Data Infrastructure Resource Links Server Storage I/O Network By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com January 25, 2018 Various data infrastructure resource links. The following are a collection of server storageioblog data infrastructure resource links. Where to learn more politics and storage or storage in an election year v2008 sherwood becomes atrato updated look and feel chargeback […] The post Data Infrastructure Resource Links cloud data protection tradecraft trends appeared fir

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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.