Sat.Aug 18, 2018 - Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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Pseudo-AI and AI Fakery

CTOvision

Even though artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive technologies have been around even longer than the electronic computer has been around, AI seems to get stuck in this perpetual trap where AI fantasy doesn’t meet reality. People’s hopes and visions for what AI can be are soon met with the reality of just how tough it […].

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Why Do CIOS Pick The Wrong Person?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Despite trying very hard, CIOs sometime pick the wrong person Image Credit: Jamwhy. The person with the CIO job has a lot of responsibility on his or her shoulders. They have to understand the importance of information technology and keep the company’s IT systems up and running while at the same time keeping one eye on the future in order to determine what is coming their way.

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Here is everything you want to know about Sports Analytics

Dataconomy

Analytics provide insights, analysis provide results, in real-time too! Every sport in the world today has some form of analytics programmed to it. If we’re talking about sports analytics, I have to bring up the “Moneyball” reference. Honestly speaking though, sports analytics has come a really long way from the. The post Here is everything you want to know about Sports Analytics appeared first on Dataconomy.

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How Are You Using IoT Technology To Drive Business Innovation?

Forrester IT

Over the past several months, I’ve spoken to dozens of Forrester clients about many emerging technologies. A common thread that I’ve observed is they all need help seeing around the corner, identifying the next “big thing” before it becomes the next big thing. Since I recently explored additive manufacturing and autonomous vehicles in depth, I’ve spoken […].

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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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Former CIA Officer Richards J. Heuer

CTOvision

Today we learned of the passing of Richards J. (Dick) Heuer. So many of us were influenced by Dick Heuer and his writings. His first public writing on the discipline of intelligence analysis began in 1979 upon his retirement from the CIA. Later he would pull together his many articles to form the basis of […].

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IDG Contributor Network: Security serves as an essential component to growing an enterprise with SD-WAN

Network World

As enterprises endeavor to expand domestic and global footprints, agile network infrastructure connectivity across geographies continues to prove an ongoing challenge. In particular, ensuring that data shared over these networks is protected from unauthorized access is a primary directive in today’s evolving cyber threat landscape. These often-contradictory demands call for IT decision makers to invest in innovation that will facilitate network flexibility and agility without compromising securi

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Your Next Brand Crisis Is Just Around The Corner

Forrester IT

Chipotle, Starbucks, Uber, Wells Fargo. the list of companies that have found themselves pounded by controversy is long — in fact, 50% of the Fortune 100 have had to deal with a crisis in the past three years. Check out this short overview of the new report Emily Collins and I coauthored. […].

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Google Duplex and the Problem with the Turing Test

CTOvision

The recent demonstration of Google Duplex by CEO Sundar Pichai has grabbed the world’s attention. The demo shows a pre-recorded, and supposedly realtime, interaction between an experimental Google voice assistant, called Google Duplex, interacting with a receptionist at a hair salon and having a back-and-forth conversation to book an appointment. Other demos linked on the Google […].

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IaaS: Alternative Cloud Providers for the Enterprise

Information Week

There are alternatives to IaaS providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. Here are a handful of other providers that give enterprises more choices on price, stability, and ease of use.

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Simple Tools for Driving Change in Your Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

I visited a bunch of companies over the last week and they all ask me the same questions one way or another. How do we change the culture? How do we apply self organizing principles but still have standards in our practices? How do I get more people to collaborate with the tools that I am putting out so that we have a better understanding of what people are doing?

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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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Tune In To The 10 Social Listening Platforms That Matter

Forrester IT

Once upon a time, most brands relied on 6+ week cycles of feedback through consumer surveys and expensive focus groups to listen to their consumers. Today, social listening platforms have become a staple in most brands’ marketing tech stacks because of their ability to give brands near real-time feedback and insight into conversations about their […].

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Microsoft spots hacking alleged Russian attempt, 16 year old pleads guilty to hacking Apple servers, Healthcare data breaches at record high, MacOS invisible mouse clicks flaw

CTOvision

How Microsoft spotted another Russian hacking attempt Microsoft said Monday that it had identified yet another attempt to hack political organizations and that the attack came from what it suspects is a group of professional hackers working for the Russian government. The tech giant spotted and neutralized websites that were attempting to impersonate the sites […].

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SCCM 1806 Production Version is Released in Slow Ring

Anoop

Microsoft released SCCM 1806 update via SLOW ring on 17th Aug 2018. If you have an online service connection point, the 1806 update will be available in SCCM console. There is no need to run the opt-in PS script anymore to make SCCM 1806 available. SCCM 1806 slow ring will be available only if your existing SCCM […]. The post SCCM 1806 Production Version is Released in Slow Ring appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Hype and Myths Surround RPA

Information Week

There's much more to implementing Robotic Process Automation than plugging in a software package. It's about the business as much as technology.

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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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Health Insurers Must Improve Member Experience Now or Be Replaced

Forrester IT

Improve Your Member Experience Now or Be Replaced Oscar Health is leading with a customer-centric business model and using technology to transform the future of health insurance. Alphabet’s continued investment in Oscar Health follows recent profit announcements from Oscar, firing a second warning shot to insurers. As Oscar shifts its focus to new populations including […].

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Facebook’s AI to make MRI results faster, China leading US in AI applications, Firefox’s AI driven Advance extension, 10 examples of AI helping us

CTOvision

How Facebook — yes, Facebook — might make MRIs faster Now that Google’s Deepmind AI has proven that it can detect up to 50 eye diseases which are comparable to human doctors, it is time for Facebook to take a leap into the AI in the health sector. Facebook has partnered with NYU’s medical school […].

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Backup Email OneDrive SharePoint Data with Veeam Backup O365

Anoop

Office 365(O365) is a SaaS solution by Microsoft. Many organization uses office 365 all around the globe. Veeam has an application to Backup Email OneDrive SharePoint Data. We will discuss the installation, configuration, and features of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 2.0 version in this post. And Also I have explained the features in […].

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How WordPress Provides the Perfect Platform for Augmenting Brand Visibility.

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How WordPress Provides the Perfect Platform for Augmenting Brand Visibility. - Information Technology Blog. With small and medium businesses slowly recognizing the value of an online presence, WordPress’s popularity is hitting the roof. It clearly reigns over other platforms with 30% of the top 10 million websites on the web being created with its help.

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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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Insights on cybersecurity from board members

Forrester IT

Over the past few weeks I’ve had the rare opportunity to meet with board members and discuss their views on cyber security. Many of the questions I posed were sourced from my LinkedIn community, where 25+ people suggested 50+ unique questions (eek!). Even in our short time together, I was left with a much deeper understanding […].

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Google’s China foray, Smart city technology, Arm’s roadmap to take on Intel, Blockchain tech is not easy to implement and why Europe’s startups are struggling

CTOvision

Google’s Brin Cops to Plan to Reclaim Lost Decade in China Even as the Google employees are protesting against it working on stripped down and censored Chrome browser for China, Sunder Pichai sees the opportunity to cash out on the lost decade in the Chinese cyber world. But all is not well in the Alphabet […].

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Requesting Help from IT Community towards Humanity

Anoop

This post is not related to IT and IT related stuff. If you are not interested to read more about this, please feel free to ignore. My home town is in Kerala. Thousands of people in the southern Indian state of Kerala were still awaiting rescue from the worst flooding in nearly 100 years. This is […]. The post Requesting Help from IT Community towards Humanity appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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5 Machine Learning Technologies You Should Know

Information Week

There's more to machine learning and AI than languages. Here's a look at five important libraries and frameworks.

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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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Introducing The Consumer Tech Stack For Europe

Forrester IT

In the past few months, my colleague James McQuivey has written several blogs about the exciting times we live in. In these posts he focuses on how technology is fundamentally changing the way we interact with the world around us and how that change is grounded in evolution. His research shows that our uniquely evolved […].

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How Augmented Reality Can Transform the Classroom?

Kitaboo

What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality (AR) refers to the integration of digital or computer-generated information with the real-world environment to provide an enhanced version of reality. Here, it is important to differentiate between Virtual Reality (VR) and AR. VR creates an artificial environment. AR, on the other hand, enhances the real environment for more participation, immersion, and interaction.

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Cryptocurrency in Comparison with Other Monetary Alternatives

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Cryptocurrency in Comparison with Other Monetary Alternatives - Information Technology Blog. The term “cryptocurrency” may sound a bit scary or seem difficult to understand, but it does not have to be confusing. Listed here, you will find some comparative information about cryptocurrency and other forms of monetary payment.

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Eliminating Performance Bottlenecks on Web-Based AI

Information Week

The end-to-end cloud ecosystem must mature rapidly to support enterprise deployment of AI and machine learning applications.

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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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Oracle’s ATP Raises The Bar On Database Administration

Forrester IT

Oracle recently launched Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service to complement its Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) offering. Similar to ADW, Oracle’s ATP service focuses on self-tuning, self-securing and self-managing but for OLTP databases. An important part of its autonomous database strategy is its Exadata appliance, which is an scale-out optimized database system.

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Populating New Namespaces Using Heptio Ark

Scott Lowe

Heptio Ark is a tool designed to backup and restore Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. As such, it enables users to do a bunch of very useful things like copy cluster resources across cloud providers or replicate environments for development, staging, testing, QA, etc. In this post, I’ll share a slightly different use case for Ark: populating resources into new Kubernetes namespaces.

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8 Ideas to Get More Downloads for Your App

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 8 Ideas to Get More Downloads for Your App - Information Technology Blog. What is the purpose of creating an app? The primary reason that led you to its creation was to have another channel for interacting with your customers, correct? Since most of them have mobile phones, an app can connect them to you in just a few clicks was what was on your mind when you decided to launch your app, right?

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Design Thinking is Key to Enterprise Adoption of AI

Information Week

Cross-departmental collaboration and design thinking are critical to next-generation AI success.

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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.