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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, And Mixed Reality Do Bring Value To Industry

Forrester IT

Back in August of last year, I asked for good examples of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality, and mixed reality (MR), all together known as extended reality. Unsurprisingly, I saw plenty of examples of the type my original post complained about: visually stunning but almost entirely useless for anything other than showing off. Then there […].

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Automation in the Office: Different Ways to Do It

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Automation in the Office: Different Ways to Do It - Information Technology Blog. Office automation can deliver a number of benefits , such as the reduction of operating expenses, streamlining processes, improving productivity, and enhancing efficiency, among other things. Often, this will require investment, but this should not be seen as an unnecessary expense as the cost can be justifiable.

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Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places

CTOvision

At first, technologists issued dystopian alarms about the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to destroy jobs. Then came a correction, with a wave of reassurances. Now, the discourse appears to be arriving at a more complicated understanding, suggesting that automation will bring neither apocalypse nor utopia, but instead both benefits and stress alike. […].

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Join Top Social CIO at the First #CIOChatLive!

Social, Agile and Transformation

If you're a CIO, CISO, or CTO and want to connect with the brightest, most socially vocal group of CIOs then please join us for the first ever #CIOChatLive in Boston on March 14-15th! If you are not familiar with #CIOChat, it's a twice per week gathering on Twitter that you can follow with this hashtag. On Thursday at 2pm ET, moderator Myles Suer sends out 4-5 questions around a topic while.

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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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Redefine “Digital Transformation” In The Era Of Technology-Driven Innovation

Forrester IT

What does the term “Digital Transformation” mean to you? Is it about digital customer experiences? Digital operations? Transforming business models? Leveraging software ecosystems? Is it a floor wax? A dessert topping? “Digital Transformation” as a term loses meaning when it involves everything under the sun. Over the past few years, we’ve seen companies label anything and everything as “Digital Transformation”.

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Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education

Kitaboo

The education sector has undergone significant changes in the last decade. It has also evolved rapidly with the changes taking place in the digital world. Today, you would find most of the schools and universities using digital aids in classrooms. By incorporating technology into K-12 education model, institutes are aiming to improve the teaching and learning processes in schools and universities.

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Desktop Support Network Troubleshooting Tips for Beginners

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This post is a continuation of my old post “How to Learn Desktop Support Engineer Skills“ Desktop support engineers are an integral part of the IT support world. In the IT support world, the real heroes are Desktop Support Engineers. In this post, you will learn troubleshooting skills for IT support with the help of […].

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Pragmatism Rules Finovate Europe 2019

Forrester IT

Finovate Europe is back in full swing, so we wanted to share our impressions of day one. Here are Benjamin’s thoughts: And some further reflections by Aurélie and myself.

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5 Ways to Create Effective Interactive Training Content

Kitaboo

Employee training is no longer limited to sitting back and watching PowerPoint slides. L&D teams are looking out for interactive training content so that the employees can learn and retain the information effectively. Interactive training content, as the name suggests, requires interaction between the trainer and the employee. But today, as mobile-based training is on the rise, the interaction now has to be between the course module and the learner.

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What the New U.S. Intelligence Strategy Says About Cyber Threats

CTOvision

The United States intelligence strategy for 2019 has been released, covering seven specific themes. Here’s how the United States Intelligence Community will deal with cyber threats: “Despite growing awareness of cyber threats and improving cyber defenses, nearly all information, communication networks, and systems will be at risk for years to come.

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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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Azure IaaS Learning Opportunity Webinar?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I have explained the Azure learning process in the previous post. This post will give you an opportunity to “Keep yourself updated – Virtual Networking” as I explained in the above post. How to Start Azure Learning? You can start Azure learning from the Microsoft learning portal.

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Engaged Employees: You Can’t Get There Without Them

Forrester IT

Truth is, in most of the reports we write about on how to prepare your company for the future, two major recommendations always come out: Get your C-level leaders on board and cultivate a culture that can transform your business. The first is crucial yet obvious and I’ve grown tired of writing it. The second, […].

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IBM Takes Watson AI to AWS, Google, Azure

Information Week

IBM is leveraging Kubernetes to enable its Watson AI to run on public clouds AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. The move signals a shift in strategy for IBM.

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Cybersecurity and the Need for SSL Monitoring

CTOvision

Read why Kameerath Kareem says that SSL monitoring is a must for app security for every organization on DZone : The cybersecurity industry is constantly striving to stay well prepared and well ahead of new threats. Data protection was in the spotlight all through 2018. It’s a common practice for applications to collect user data like […].

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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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That VPN may not be as secure as you think

Network World

If you’re a VPN subscriber and have ever wondered just how secure the supposedly encrypted pipe that you’re using through the internet is — and whether the anonymity promise made by the VPN provider is indeed protecting your privacy— well, your hunches may be correct. It turns out several of these connections are not secure. Academics say they’ve discovered a whopping 13 programming errors in 61 separate VPN systems tested recently.

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Customer Experience: France Is Lagging Behind

Forrester IT

After New York City, San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, and London, Forrester hosted its first event dedicated to customer experience in Paris, France. It was a great pleasure for me to host about 150 leaders in a unique venue, the Parc des Princes (PSG’s football stadium!!), for a networking event to discuss CX trends and best […].

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Wells Fargo’s CIO Drops The Ball

The Accidental Successful CIO

Wells Fargo outage results in customers not being able to access to accounts Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you were the CIO of a major bank responsible for the importance of information technology, what do you think that your #1 job responsibility would be? If you are guessing “keep the bank’s systems secure” then good news, you’d be close, but you’d still be missing the point.

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One in three enterprises can’t protect themselves from data breaches

CTOvision

One in three enterprise companies do not believe they have the capabilities required to fend off a cyberattack leading to a data breach, research suggests. According to a survey involving over 600 cybersecurity professionals in business conducted by Balbix on behalf of the Ponemon Institute, organizations are having severe difficulties in implementing modern security solutions to […].

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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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Red Hat announces container flaw CVE-2019-5736

Network World

Red Hat announced a vulnerability this morning – one that can be exploited if a user runs malicious or modified containers. The flaw in runC (a lightweight portable container runtime) and Docker that this vulnerability exposes allows an attacker to escape a container and access the underlying file system. That might sound bad, but there's more. The good news is that this vulnerability cannot be exploited if SELinux is enabled and that this is the default on Red Hat systems.

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Introducing Forrester’s Guide To Employee Experience Technology

Forrester IT

Employee experience (EX) is top of mind for today’s companies. As we detailed in our report “Why EX? Why Now?” investments in EX yield both tangible and intangible business results such as reduced recruiting costs, lower attrition, higher employee work performance, and increased discretionary effort. The question still remains, though: What elements should businesses focus […].

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How 3 Companies Increased Deployment Speed for their Oracle Tools by Up to 8x

Flexagon

The speed of software development and release today would have been almost unimaginable ten years ago. In 2018, over half of developers wanted to deploy builds more frequently than every week, with 16 percent saying they’d prefer to release builds every hour.¹ As deployment timelines speed up across the market, companies need to reduce. Read more. The post How 3 Companies Increased Deployment Speed for their Oracle Tools by Up to 8x appeared first on Flexagon.

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Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow

CTOvision

Want to dive earnestly into artificial intelligence (AI) development, but find the programming piece of it intimidating? Not to worry — Uber has your back. The ride-hailing giant today debuted Ludwig, an open source “toolbox” built on top of Google’s TensorFlow framework that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write […].

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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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IoT providers need to take responsibility for performance

Network World

Last year saw the continued growth of enterprises adopting internet of things solutions, with companies harnessing the power of wireless data collection, analytics and connectivity to enhance productivity and efficiency in ways we could previously not imagine. Analysts expect corporate spending on IoT in the U.S. to approach $200B in 2019, with global spending exceeding $800B.

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Top 5 ABM Planning And Execution Pitfalls To Avoid

Forrester IT

Extra, extra! Read all about it! TOPO declares that“86% of account-based organizations report improved close rates and 80% say it is driving increased customer lifetime value!” TribalVision channels the ITSMA when it reports, “Companies that implement ABM strategies typically see 171% increase in annual contract value!” Really? Wow.

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How do Push Notifications Work in Web Applications?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How do Push Notifications Work in Web Applications? - Information Technology Blog. There is no shortage of communication alternatives for modern-day marketers. From emails, SMS, social media post to live chat, each of the mediums possesses some unique abilities that others lack. This is the only reason why so many marketing tools exist in the market.

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Identifying, Understanding & Combating Insider Threats

CTOvision

Read Ilan Paretsky’s article about how organizations can identify and combat insider threats on Dark Reading : Most, if not all, organizations are vigilant about safeguarding against threats that can penetrate endpoint systems via email, websites, and other known and unknown pathways. But what about threats that come from within your organization?

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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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Loss of Bluetooth Connectivity Resolved via PowerShell

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, we ran into the issue of users replacing their keyboard and mouse with Bluetooth devices. What happened was they would lose connectivity and the error below would appear in the event viewer logs. While researching the issue, we found that the user could open up the laptop that was docked and get connectivity back by hitting any key. The culprit was the Power Management setting of the Bluetooth device.

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Get Ready To Tackle CCPA

Forrester IT

California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now.

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TaylorMade IT Spin-Off Taps Cloud Database

Information Week

When TaylorMade Golf spun off from Adidas, it had to separate all its operations, including IT, and used the opportunity to try the Oracle Autonomous Database.

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10 cyber insurance selling points

CTOvision

Read Elana Ashanti Jefferson list top ten reasons why companies, small and big, should buy cyber insurance on Property Casualty 360 : In a move that reflects the growing urgency for companies, organizations and institutions worldwide to proactively face down and mitigate cybercrime, Beazley, a longtime cyber insurance market leader, announced recently that it has […].

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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.