Sat.May 19, 2018 - Fri.May 25, 2018

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Everyday Threats That Can Fool Even The Savviest Of Techies

CTOvision

If you consider yourself an expert in cybersecurity - or even if you’re somewhat knowledgeable about how to protect yourself online, you probably won’t fall for the standard Nigerian prince email scam. Enter your bank account information below, and we’ll send you a whole bunch of money. Those kinds of tricks are old news, and [.].

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The Data Digest: The Dangerous Contradictions Of Consumer Reviews

Forrester IT

The American showman P.T. Barnum understood the value of online consumer reviews well before the arrival of the internet when he said, “Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.” While consumer reviews generate buzz, they stop just short of being a circus because they’ve won immense levels of consumer trust. But two of the […].

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Beginners Guide Setup Windows AutoPilot Deployment

Anoop

I’m not expert in SCCM OSD and tried to spend time on OSD. So I never invested time to test Windows Autopilot deployment. Windows Autopilot is the buzzword, and most of the device management folks are talking about Windows AutoPilot. I don’t know whether AutoPilot is going to replace OSD or not. But, I can […]. The post Beginners Guide Setup Windows AutoPilot Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Leading Digital Transformation: Finding the right velocity in driving organizational change

Social, Agile and Transformation

I was recently asked, "Isaac, what keeps you up at night?" My answer is simple. In transformation programs, going too slow can lead to your business being disrupted. If your competitors are putting out great experiences, are more competitive winning business by leveraging data, or are demonstrating strategic business impacts with AI, blockchain, or IoT then your business is at risk.

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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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Intelligent Process Automation: The 4 Levels of AI-Enablement

CTOvision

Today’s knowledge workers are like the office workers of yesterday. They spend their time in email, on the phone, in various desktop and online apps and websites dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, partners, and internal stakeholders. Much of the time is spent dealing with various systems to shuffle information from one place to another, or [.].

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Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed…

Forrester IT

The EU has always stated when it comes to Brexit “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”. Time is running out to come to agreement on a wide range of issues including security and defense cooperation. In my first report for Forrester “Brace Your Security Organization For Post-Brexit Challenges” I look at the challenges that […].

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Fix for FAILURE (9705): Unable to find USMT file, cannot capture/restore user state

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, I upgraded to the new MDT 6.3.8450.1000. It was a fresh install of the new MDT product in which I created an entirely new MDT share for our Windows 10 build. I had done an upgrade to the other MDT share that contains the Windows 7 builds, and it busted all of them at which point I had to do a restore. After creating the new task sequences, applications, drivers, OS, and packages, I went to capture my first Windows 10 image and got the error below.

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Automation is Not Intelligence

CTOvision

You know you’re in the middle of a hype cycle when every industry has products that use some buzzword, regardless of whether or not they have the technical merit or legitimacy to actually use that buzzword. This is where we currently are with regards to the market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) products and services. Cognilytica [.].

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Too Fast To Fail

Forrester IT

There’s an old mantra which no-one really believes any more: Too big to fail. Tell that to the dinosaurs. In the last 20 years business has undergone a critical pivot. We’ve moved from the age of scale, where the winners were vertically integrated monoliths with vast purchasing power, through the age of information, to a […].

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Windows 10 OSD Best Practices with SCCM

Anoop

Windows 10 OSD and migration are today’s hot topic. I think, all the organizations are started Windows 10 projects. If not, they might already be completed their migration projects. You should be very careful about Windows 10 OSD deployments. I read about another probable “Human Error” and which made the whole bank down. Content:- How […].

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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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22 essential Linux security commands

Network World

There are many aspects to security on Linux systems – from setting up accounts to ensuring that legitimate users have no more privilege than they need to do their jobs. This is look at some of the most essential security commands for day-to-day work on Linux systems. sudo. Running privileged commands with sudo – instead of switching user to root – is one essential good practice as it helps to ensure that you only use root privilege when needed and limits the impact of mistakes.

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Seems Like We Should All Thank Cloudera, Tamr, Zoomdata, Trifacta, Kinetica For Helping GSK Help Humanity

CTOvision

Jessica Davis just published a piece at Information Week reviewing an architecture Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) put in place to help make drug development and fielding faster. Creating new drugs always takes years, and after they are created it takes years more to get them fielded. Mark Ramsey is the chief data officer at GSK. [.].

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Platform Economy Myth #1: Every Platform Business Is A Marketplace

Forrester IT

Over the next few weeks, we’ll analyze the sacred myths of the platform economy and reveal the real practices that platform businesses have mastered. This is work from our report, Earn Your Place In The Platform Economy: Adopter, Participant, Or Leader? Here’s Your Blueprint For Platform Business Success. Myth #1: Every platform business is a marketplace. […].

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Dynamically Deploy Security Policies Apps to Windows AutoPilot Devices

Anoop

I explained about Windows AutoPilot deployment in the previous post. In this post, we will see another useful tip for enterprise implementation of AutoPilot. We have an option to create Azure AD (AAD) dynamic device groups based on Windows AutoPilot profiles. Windows AutoPilot Profile AAD Dynamic Device Groups are helpful to deploy application and security […].

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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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Artificial Intelligence and the Project Manager

Cloud Musings

Organizations use teams to create wealth, market share, customer service, competitive advantage, and organizational success. Effective teams accomplish their assigned end goals by engaging in collaboration as a joint learning activity. Enhanced effectiveness is why collaborative tools are so critical to the project manager, and 7 out of 10 IT professionals see collaboration as essential to their organization.

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Finally a GDPR email that was a pleasure to read (thanks Wickr)

CTOvision

We are all getting sick and tired of hearing about the GDPR. Everyone seems to be writing on this. Every consultancy has lists of steps they recommend, and every vendor articulates why their tech is the one to buy to help you get compliant. Even CTOvision has done our share of writing on this very […].

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SAP Leonardo Is Growing Up

Forrester IT

Here are a few thoughts from the SAP Leonardo Center launch in Singapore in early May. The good news: since we last reported on Leonardo, SAP is clearer about what Leonardo actually is, and has more mature messaging and interesting customer examples to share. Leonardo itself, though, continues to be a work in progress. So, […].

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Reset Windows 10 1803 Fix Operating System Related Issues

Anoop

Windows 10 1803 comes with an option to reinstall the OS with or without removing the personal files from the device. I would recommend keeping all the personal files in the cloud storage instead of the local hard disk of the machine. There could be many reasons to reset or reinstall or rebuild windows 10 […]. The post Reset Windows 10 1803 Fix Operating System Related Issues appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Asigra evolves backup/recovery to address security, compliance needs

Network World

As backup and recovery products and solutions evolve, they are beginning to intersect with security and compliance. Online backup and recovery software company Asigra has announced a new version of its software that addresses the risks posed by ransomware and non-compliance with Article 17 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Nearly 500,000 routers infected by Russian malware, Apple’s privacy portal, New LocationSmart scandal

CTOvision

Cyber firms, Ukraine warn of planned Russian attack Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit says 500K+ routers in dozens of countries have been infected by Russia-linked malware and could be used to attack Ukraine. Cisco Systems Inc warned on Wednesday that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with [.].

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Magento Acquisition Finally Moves Adobe “Beyond Marketing”, But It’s Just The First Step

Forrester IT

Monday, Adobe announced their $ 1.68B acquisition of Magento. By adding eCommerce capabilities, Adobe is better able to compete with SAP Hybris, Salesforce and Oracle. Why Magento? A number of commerce-centric offerings exist on the market… but none of them are like Magento. Magento has not only shown demonstrable growth, but they also boast a vibrant community of developers and customers and […].

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Technology Short Take 100

Scott Lowe

Wow! This marks 100 posts in the Technology Short Take series! For almost eight years (Technology Short Take #1 was published in August 2010), I’ve been collecting and sharing links and articles from around the web related to major data center technologies. Time really flies when you’re having fun! Anyway, here is Technology Short Take 100…I hope you enjoy!

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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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How deception technologies use camouflage to attract attackers | Salted Hash Ep 26

Network World

Host Steve Ragan reports from the show floor at RSA 2018, where talks with Chris Roberts, chief security architect at Acalvio Technologies, about the benefits and misconceptions of deception technologies.

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Event: Cybersecurity: Internet of Things The Cost of Convenience in the Digital Age

CTOvision

On Tuesday June 5th from 6:30-8:30pm an event focused on cybersecurity of the Internet of Things will feature an interesting discussion by three panelists who know the many nuances of this critically important topic. The discussion topic is "The Cost of Convenience in the Digital Age" Speakers include Camille Stewart, a cyber and technology attorney, [.].

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VIVA TECH 2018

Forrester IT

From Thursday to Saturday, more than 70.000 visitors will attend the third edition of VIVA TECH in Paris, one of the largest digital and tech conferences in Europe. The aim is to celebrate innovation and to help start-ups and businesses to grow. The line-up of speakers is pretty impressive starting with Mark Zuckerberg, who will […].

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Quick Post: Parsing AWS Instance Data with JQ

Scott Lowe

I recently had a need to get a specific subset of information about some AWS instances. Naturally, I turned to the CLI and some CLI tools to help. In this post, I’ll share the command I used to parse the AWS instance data down using the ever-so-handy jq tool. What I needed, specifically, was the public IP address and the private IP address for each instance.

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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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5 (more) IT trends to watch in 2018 and beyond

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: As technology evolves at an ever-increasing pace, it brings major changes to the IT department. In this era, the IT department moves from a back-office function to a true business partner. What trends are driving this change, and how must your IT department adapt? In this article, we examine 5 more trends to watch in the near future. photo credit: Unsplash via pixabay cc The role of the IT department is changing.

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How the Enlightenment Ends, Realeyes’ AI powered camera, AI Risks, Microsoft’s AI foray, Google’s secret AI boot camp and Bank of America’s AI powered Erica assistant

CTOvision

How the Enlightenment Ends It seemed strange seeing an article on a technology topic from Henry Kissinger. But his piece is a very good read. He argues that "Philosophically, intellectually—in every way—human society is unprepared for the rise of artificial intelligence." The 5000 word article provides context from a historian and a strategist, and is [.].

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The Forrester Summer Book Club

Forrester IT

Forrester’s Board of Clients was in Cambridge last week for an amazingly productive two days of co-creation. Ideas that have come out of the Board in previous years include: the weekly Forrester Podcast, the Forrester iPhone app, and Industry Waves. The dinner tradition is that clients recommend their favorite books — there are a bunch […].

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Posts from the Past, May 2018

Scott Lowe

This month—May 2018—marks thirteen years that I’ve been generating content here on this site. It’s been a phenomenal 13 years, and I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to share information with readers around the world. To celebrate, I thought I’d do a quick “Posts from the Past” and highlight some content from previous years.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.