Sat.Jun 09, 2018 - Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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The commercial impact of IoT insecurity

CTOvision

Introduction A hacker recently shut down Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s public city bikes system, forcing employees to hunt down and manually reboot the Android tablet attached to every bike. The company said that restoring all bikes to working order would "take some time". Naturally, the costs of restoration will be significant. This is just one example of [.].

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How Do You Get The Right Help With Design In 2018?

Forrester IT

The design market is hotter than ever — especially for human-centered design, which is the right way to do it. There are more jobs, more spending, and more executive interest. But what if your company doesn’t really get design? Or what if you need help because you can’t support a full design team? Or what […].

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CIOs Need To Learn How To Become Futurists

The Accidental Successful CIO

Futurist keep their eyes fixed on what may be coming our way Image Credit: ADiamondFellFromTheSky. I’ve got a quick question for you: how good is your ability to predict the future? If your skill in this area is anything like mine, you find yourself being constantly surprised by things that you simply didn’t see coming. As the person with the CIO job, you really can’t allow this to happen to you.

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Machine learning risks are real. Do you know what they are? 

Eric D. Brown

Machine Learning Risks are real and can be very dangerous if not managed / mitigated. Everyone wants to ‘do’ machine learning and lots of people are talking about it, blogging about it and selling services and products to help with it. I get it…machine learning can bring a lot of value to an organization – but only if that organization knows the associated risks.

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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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AI & Blockchain: Double the Value or Double the Hype?

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the only technology that’s getting a lot of media and investor attention these days. Blockchain is emerging as a technology in its own right separate from the much-hyped rise in value of cryptocurrencies. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way [.].

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Use Text Analytics Technologies To Handle Mountains Of Unstructured Data

Forrester IT

Enterprises are sitting on mountains of unstructured data – 61% have more than 100 Tb and 12% have more than 5 Pb! Luckily there are mature technologies out there that can help. First, enterprise information architects should consider general purpose text analytics platforms. These are capable of handling most if not all text analytics use […].

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Automation critical to scalable network security

Network World

Securing the business network has been and continues to be one of the top initiatives for engineers. Suffering a breach can have catastrophic consequences to a business, including lawsuits, fines, and brand damage from which some companies never recover. To combat this, security professionals have deployed a number of security tools, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW) such as Cisco’s Firepower, which is one of the most widely deployed in the industry.

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Tech as a Career Gains Ground, Microsoft’s Sinks Data, SAP Does Blockchain

CTOvision

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Apple and Samsung have been accusing each other of copying or stealing patented tech but Google has seldom been involved in such accusations. But Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept thinks that Google is copying his tech. Duda says that the search [.].

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Platform Economy Myth #4: If You Build A Platform, Developers And Customers Will Come

Forrester IT

We’ve been analyzing the sacred myths of the platform economy and revealing the real practices that platform businesses have mastered. This is work from our report, “Earn Your Place In The Platform Economy.” Myth #4: If you build a platform, developers and customers will come. Reality: Every day, you must earn the trust and investment of customers and […].

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How to Remove Bulk Facebook Profile Content

Mick's IT Blog

Here is a video guide on how to remove bulk Facebook content from your Facebook profile. Some will just say to delete the profile and create a new one. That can be rather troublesome, especially if you have a lot of Facebook contacts and/or are well known in certain areas of expertise. In the video, I go through the easiest way I found to delete Facebook posts and likes.

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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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Setting up HTTPS MP SUP SCCM Site Systems for Co-Management

Anoop

Once you have completed PKI certificates pre-requisites, ready to configure SCCM MP and SUP site systems components to use SSL/HTTPS. HTTPS MP and HTTPS SUP configurations are explained in this post via video tutorial as well as by step by step instructions. All these configurations are explained with SCCM 1802 production version infrastructure. Content of this […].

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Yes there are dark sides to AI, but what if it keeps us safer? Does that make Google the bad guy? (again?)

CTOvision

We Built A Powerful Amazon Facial Recognition Tool For Under $10 Ever since it was announced, the Amazon's powerful facial recognition tool has been in news for all the wrong reasons. Forbes took a behind the scenes look at how Amazon Rekognition can be used to build facial recognition tools at incredibly low cost by [.].

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Are You Modernizing Your B2B Go-To-Market Strategies?

Forrester IT

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at a dinner event with 20+ senior marketers and business partners that InsideView sponsored. We wanted to explore how well marketing and sales are facing up to new go-to-market challenges associated with buyer behavior change in general, ABM specifically. To get the conversation going, Tracy Eiler, InsideView’s […].

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Office 2016 Outlook Cannot Log On Upon the First Launch

Mick's IT Blog

While building the new Windows 10 image with Office 2016 along with exchange 2016 on the backend, I got the following error message every time I tried to open up Outlook for the first time. What was so frustrating about this issue was that if I went into Mail, within the control panel, and deleted the existing profile, Outlook would open and configure with no problems.

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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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SCCM TP 1806 ? Upgrade ? Offload Office 365 Workload

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM product group released new preview version 1806. I have noticed that every TP version before production version of SCCM will have a number of features than other TP versions. SCCM TP 1806 is released with 13 new capabilities. My favourite one is the ability to Offload Office 365 workload to Intune. Do You […]. The post SCCM TP 1806 – Upgrade – Offload Office 365 Workload appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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OODAloop nails it again with reporting on Bitcoin price manipulation

CTOvision

These are some of the cybersecurity and cyberwar stories we are tracking: Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say New York Times is reporting on a topic most readers will have already seen at OODAloop. OODAloop provided some great context on the manipulation of bitcoin prices in: Let’s be Honest…the Price of Bitcoin is [.].

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Mobile In-Store Retail Delivers Service, Efficiency and Convenience

Forrester IT

In-Store Mobile Delivers Service, Efficiency, and Convenience. Customer service through associate-assisted mobile scanning and checkout. Operational efficiency through associate mobility. Customer convenience through self-service mobile checkout.

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The 5 best self-service BI tools compared

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms are a staple of informatics for medium to large businesses. Visual-based data discovery has been a key component of BI since about 2004; this trend has moved the responsibility for analytics from IT to self-service by business analysts and managers, with support from data scientists and database administrators.

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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 the Spanish cybercriminal underground operates | Salted Hash Ep 30

Network World

Host Steve Ragan reports from the RSA 2018 conference, talking with Liv Rowley, an intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, about Spanish cybercrime, an underground community that poses persistent security risks.

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Why Hire An Seo Agency For Optimizing Your Website?

Galido

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a marketing strategy with the help of which the ranking of a website is enhanced so that it appears in the front page of the search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. For any company, no matter whether big or small, it is very vital that their website appears on the front page of the search engine, especially on Google search engine.

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Why We Use Tech Tools: To Coordinate Tasks

Forrester IT

This is an amazingly accelerated time to be alive. During my nearly fifty years on the planet, we have increased by many orders of magnitude the knowledge that we have about our own existence. Research into the ultimate origins and functions of things ranging from life itself to skills and traits like language or culture […].

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Spearline automated testing goes mobile

Spearline Testing

It’s exciting times here at Spearline. Our automated testing has just been supercharged with the roll-out of automated mobile testing to 22 countries. Increasingly, customers are using mobile phones to make most or all of their calls - in fact projections are that 169 billion mobile calls will be made to businesses by 2020 1. In-country testing from mobile phones.

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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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Supermicro is the latest hardware vendor with a security issue

Network World

Security researchers with Eclypsium, a firm created by two former Intel executives that specializes in rooting out vulnerabilities in server firmware, have uncovered vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of Supermicro servers. Fortunately, it’s not easily exploited. The good news is these vulnerabilities can be exploited only via malicious software already running on a system.

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Importance and Key Benefits of Cloud Business Email Hosting for your Company

Galido

Having your business mail service became a necessity for your company; you can’t afford to start out your business with a free mail, you should show your professionalism and how serious you are to your clients and partners. If you use a free email to send product information or a newsletter it will give a very bad impression about your organization.

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RQ, The Measure Of Organizational Readiness For Automation And AI

Forrester IT

We’ve just released a major new report, RQ: Assess Your Readiness For Working Side By Side With Robots And AI. Automation technologies — from AI to robotic process automation (RPA), physical robotics, and more — are transforming business processes and operating models. But most companies don’t have the competencies to implement automation technologies successfully.

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Using Variables in AWS Tags with Terraform

Scott Lowe

I’ve been working to deepen my Terraform skills recently, and one avenue I’ve been using to help in this area is expanding my use of Terraform modules. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of Terraform modules, you can liken them to Ansible roles: a re-usable abstraction/function that is heavily parameterized and can be called/invoked as needed.

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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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Why web application development projects fail (and what IT can do about it)

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Depending on the survey you read, anywhere from 25% – 68% of development projects fail. These failures often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, waste months (or years) of time, and usually lead to people losing their jobs. Why do these projects fail, and what can you do about it? We answer those questions (and more) in this article. photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc.

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Blockchain Found a Shortcut to the Universal Sharing Economy

Dataconomy

Today, we have the liberty to source an apartment space globally, with AirBnB, or to find a qualified person for manual labor via TaskRabbit. In spite of this accessibility, there are still gaping inefficiencies for users of these systems. It was blockchain that identified these flaws, and it will be. The post Blockchain Found a Shortcut to the Universal Sharing Economy appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Tennis And Digital Transformation: Connecting The Dots

Forrester IT

Over the past two weeks, we’ve been inundated with the various highlight reels from the French Open, showcasing killer baseline winners, huge first serves, and wicked topspin shots — a constant reminder of how the game of tennis has evolved over the past 50 years. Today’s faster, more physical game is slugged out on the […].

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The Weekly Insight of the ?Future of CIO? 6/15/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 4600+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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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.