Sat.Dec 22, 2018 - Fri.Dec 28, 2018

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The Trust Formula

Future of CIO

Trust = Communication +Transparency + Delegation + Reciprocity + Verification High performing teams succeed because they are corporate in nature. There are many definitions of trust and what trust entails including role-based trust, vulnerability-based trust, and reciprocity. No blind trust or trust too little. There is no returning to the days when organizations expected and received unconditional loyalty.

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Data Governance in the Age of Exponential Technology

Information Week

The emerging data-hungry and data-generating technologies demand two types of data governance: security, and the need for holistic, enterprise-wide governance, rather than governance on a silo-by-silo basis.

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Race To Innovate CX In Brokerage And Wealth Management

Forrester IT

Recently, Forrester published our CX predictions for 2019. Our first prediction was that stagnating CX quality will cause short, destructive price wars. We cited Fidelity’s two new zero-fee investment funds as an example of how this is already starting to play out. We also noted that Vanguard responded to Fidelity by highlighting its many funds […].

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AI in cyber security: a help or a hindrance?

CTOvision

With a disappearing IT perimeter, a widening skills gap and the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, it is not surprising that many enterprises are struggling to deal with the current cybersecurity landscape. It’s not just the continued data breaches that have hit the media headlines this year, but it’s the nature of the data – […].

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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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SCCM 1812 Upgrade and Feature Overview – Live

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I did upgrade my SCCM technical preview lab environment to SCCM 1812. SCCM preview 1812 version is the latest preview version of Configuration Manager. I rarely use the word Configuration Manager as it’s so complicated for me to pronounce (ConfigMgr is better) ??

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6 Top Emerging Technology Jobs for 2019

Information Week

Get your career ready for the future. These 6 top emerging technology jobs are ready for big growth in 2019.

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The Future Of Big Data Is In The Hybrid Cloud

CTOvision

Read Kunal Agarwal take a look at the future of big data in the hybrid cloud on Forbes : Earlier in the year, I attended the Strata Data Conference in New York. It was an exciting event, and my conversations with customers, reporters and influencers underscored how rapidly big data adoption has grown over the past […].

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Top 10 Posts & Videos of 2018 – SCCM Community Tips

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. It was the great year 2018 for other authors of this blog and me. Hope you also had a fantastic year. Trust the blog posts are helpful. In this post, you will see our top ten (10) posts and videos of the year. Top 10 SCCM Posts and videos of 2018! We have another video […].

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Wishing you a "People First" Happy Holiday!

Social, Agile and Transformation

Wishing you and your family much joy and laughter this holiday season I look forward to helping you make 2019 exciting and successful! ol li { padding-bottom: 15px !important; } ul li { padding-bottom: 15px !important; } I hope you spend the holiday week with family and friends. It's a time to reflect on how you impact the people that you care about and work with every day.

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How to Transition to DevOps in Less Than 30 Days

Information Week

It doesn't take long to lay the foundation for an agile enterprise. Get the initiative going and sort out the bumps along the way.

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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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6 steps for mitigating healthcare cybersecurity threats

CTOvision

Data breaches and other cyber attacks occur far too frequently in healthcare organizations. Hospital IT departments tend to invest in their readiness against healthcare cybersecurity threats by ensuring they have tools and procedures in place to block a threat from getting into their systems in the first place. However, they often fall short of preparing themselves […].

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Top Innovative Technologies in the Hemp Industry

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Top Innovative Technologies in the Hemp Industry - Information Technology Blog. Hemp products are gaining popularity all over the world, especially in developed countries like the United States and Canada. With an increase in demand, and recent federal legalization in the United States, innovative technology is shaping the industry for good.

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Mainframe Synergies for Digital Transformation

Cloud Musings

In Jul of 2018, Broadcom announced its intentions to acquire CA Technologies. In the press release , Hock Tan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom, said: “This transaction represents an important building block as we create one of the world’s leading infrastructure technology companies. With its sizeable installed base of customers, CA is uniquely positioned across the growing and fragmented infrastructure software market, and its mainframe and enterprise software franchises will a

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AI Surveillance Is Coming: How will it Change Your Workplace?

Information Week

There isn't much you can do to stop AI surveillance's encroachment on your life, but you can equip yourself with better understanding and more appropriate skills and behaviors.

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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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Social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach

CTOvision

Read why Ellen Tannam says that social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach by many times on Silicon Republic : 2018 has been a year dominated by data breaches. Companies from Facebook to Google and Marriott all fell victim to data breaches in the past 12 months. The incidents exposed personal […].

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What is the future of data-driven advertising?

Dataconomy

The digital advertising market has doubled in size over the past five years, with the total ad spend in Europe approaching €50 billion, according to the IAB. The success and continued growth of the market is reliant on the massive volumes of data produced each day – an estimated 2.5 quintillion. The post What is the future of data-driven advertising?

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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Data Security and its Importance on the Internet - Information Technology Blog. Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. Users are partly responsible for their own safety, and often the lack of security updates and knowledge of security protocol has made them vulnerable to malicious attacks.

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Looking Back: 2018 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

Over the last five years or so, I’ve shared with my readers an annual list of projects along with—at the year’s end—a “project report card” on how I fared against the projects I’d set for myself. (For example, here’s my project report card for 2017.) Following that same pattern, then, here is my project report card for 2018.

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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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Applying a Factory Model to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

CTOvision

Read Doug Cackett’s article about how we can apply a factory model to implement artificial intelligence on CIO : Advanced analytics techniques, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, provide organizations with new insights not possible with traditional analytics. To take advantage of these technologies and drive competitive advantage, organizations need to design and build solutions […].

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Not Accounting for Bias in AI Is Reckless

Dataconomy

I’ll never forget my “aha” moment with bias in AI. I was working at IBM as the product owner for Watson Visual Recognition. We knew that the API wasn’t the best in class at returning “accurate” tags for images, and we needed to improve it. I was nervous about the. The post Not Accounting for Bias in AI Is Reckless appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Happy Holidays 2018 From Server StorageIO

Storage IO Blog

Happy Holidays 2018 From Server StorageIO and Pictures Over Stillwater Seasons Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2018 From Server StorageIO and Pictures Over Stillwater. Some of you may be familiar with our IT Data Infrastructure (cloud, converged, container, server, storage, I/O networking, hardware, software, data protection) related site Server StorageIO also known as StorageIO(tm) […].

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The Linux Migration Series

Scott Lowe

In early 2017 I kicked off an effort to start using Linux as my primary desktop OS, and I blogged about the journey. That particular effort ended in late October 2017. I restarted the migration in April 2018 (when I left VMware to join Heptio), and since that time I’ve been using Linux ( Fedora , specifically) full-time. However, I thought it might be helpful to collect the articles I wrote about the experience together for easy reference.

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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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No Target is Too Small: Why SMEs Must be Cyber-Resilient

CTOvision

Read why Marc Wilczek says that small and medium enterprises need to invest in cybersecurity on Infosec Magazine : Cyber-attacks have hit, and hurt, companies of all shapes and sizes. The financial costs arise from the attack itself, fixing it, and addressing the reputational impact by re-fostering public trust, along with potential regulatory fines and […].

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Anticipation and Innovation

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of people and innovation. An essential aspect of creativity, both at the individual or group level, is the ability to challenge assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, to discover the new path, experiment the better way to do things. Innovation is change, the human element of change entails a people-centric approach to management style.

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10 most popular articles of 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: With 2019 approaching, let’s take a look back at the most popular articles published on this blog over the last year. Learn about dashboard tips, IT/business alignment stumbling blocks, low-code development, and much more. As we say goodbye to 2018, let’s take a look back at the last year. Over the last 12 months, we’ve explored topics surrounding a few common themes: Emerging technologies, application development, trends, business data, and IT challenges.

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Technology Short Take 108

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #108! This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2018, so here’s hoping I can provide something useful for you. Enjoy! Networking. Maish Saidel-Keesing has a 5-part series on replacing the AWS ELB. This is an older post (from August) that I’ve had in my backlog for a while, and I’m just now getting around to reading the series.

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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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3 Frameworks for Understanding the Promise of Smart Cities

CTOvision

Read Marc Bielas explain the three frameworks for understanding why smart cities are necessary on IoT for All : If you’re coming from my previous articles, What is a Smart City and Smart City Approaches in the Real World, you may be wondering how to begin building intuition about the Smart City industry. This article will […].

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How to Develop a Learning Mind

Future of CIO

At the individual level, being a continuous learner is no longer simply a choice one can make. It is a necessity and imperative; if one expects to add value, to compete for the future with authenticity and consistency. It is the foundation to stimulate creativity. At the organizational level, the always-on, hyperconnected global workplace opens a whole new world on how to build both creative and productive workforce; to put simply, how to shape a learning culture -from mindset to mind flow, groo

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Happy Holidays from mrc

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Happy Holidays from your friends at mrc! I’d like to give a sincere “Thank You” to everyone who has taken the time out of their days to read this blog over the past year. I hope you’ve found it useful and informative. If there are any topics you’d like to see covered in the coming year, please feel free to let me know in the comments. From all of us here at mrc, we wish safe travels and a very happy holiday season!

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Guide to Buy the Best Office Printers in 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Guide to Buy the Best Office Printers in 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Do not know what office printer to buy? Despite the fact that we are in the digital age and how much has been trumpeted about the end of the paper, today at home and at work, important amounts of written and graphic material continue to be printed.

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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.