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Are You Dedicating Unnecessary Funding to IT?

CTOvision

You may view your company’s IT department as indispensable, especially as the workers within it troubleshoot issues with slow page loading times for a web browser, keep employees’ computers free from viruses and protect your network for interior or exterior threats. However, you also might have unnecessary expenditures associated with the IT department.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Computer Weekly

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Can IoT help make the enterprise more secure?

Network World

It’s no secret that the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) presents massive new security challenges. Heck, I’ve written about the issue here more than once. But one company claims that enterprise IoT also shows promise for addressing key security issues. Also on Network World: Is the U.S. finally about to take IoT security seriously? and The time to deal with IoT security is now.

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2017 SCCM ConfigMgr Intune Community Around Me

Anoop

As David James mentioned in his tweet here, the summery of 2017 for SCCM is 3 production releases (SCCM CB 1702, 1706, and 1710).12 Tech Preview releases of SCCM CB. 100s of new features, 14k code check-ins + bug fixes and now managing >100 million endpoints. In this post, we will see more about 2017 SCCM […]. The post 2017 SCCM ConfigMgr Intune Community Around Me appeared first on Anoops.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Three Big Trends in 2018 That Will Matter When Doing Business in Europe

CTOvision

Having a crystal ball that predicts future trends would be immensely helpful for American tech CEOs to plot the optimum course and avoid speed bumps when it comes to doing business next year. So consider this a start in that direction by identifying three developments that will be a challenge unless companies are aware and […].

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updates: the tonsils tyrant, the old job gossip, and more

Computer Weekly

Here are updates from four people whose letters were answered here in the past. 1. My boss is insisting I get my tonsils out. My situation has change dramatically. I visited my doctor again and told her about my manager’s demands. My doctor told me she’d support me in taking a few mental health days off work when I thought I needed them.

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The Future Happens in the #NOW

Network World

N OW is where the future happens. In this moment we will take action that will affect our future or we will not. All we have is now. In #NOW , Max McKeown asks us the think about our now. He says that “for most people, most of the time, it is better to lean towards action than inaction.” People who grab opportunities that are available now, who don’t waste time looking back, and are regret-minimizers, are what McKeown calls Nowists.

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Event Design Trends: Ideas for Trade Show Booths, Food and Beverage, and Personalized Event Experiences

Future of CIO

The new year is coming and with it some new event design trends. We’re not just talking about jaw-dropping displays here. After all, design doesn’t just mean just putting up something beautiful. It also means creating something that meets both your own event goals and your attendee’s goals for the event. With that, here are a few ideas to stir up your creativity during the holidays.

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The Similarities and Differences Between Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile

Computer Weekly

With the digital age we live in today, it’s easy to think platforms like LinkedIn have completely diminished the importance of a traditional resume. While there are plenty of benefits to having a great LinkedIn profile , it was not created to replace your resume. There are actually more differences between the two than similarities, although they can be used in the same ways at times.

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10 Ways to Use Business Intelligence Software in Your Organization

Dataconomy

Business intelligence, or BI, plays a key role in the strategic planning of organizations and is used for multiple purposes, including measuring performance progress toward business goals, performing quantitative analysis, reporting and data sharing, and identifying customer insights. Business intelligence involves the use of computing technologies to identify, discover and.

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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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13 most popular articles of 2017

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: With 2018 approaching, let’s take a look back at the most popular articles published on this blog over the last year. Learn about dashboard tips, digital transformation, ways to maximize data value, and much more. As we say goodbye to 2017, let’s take a look back at the last year. Over the last 12 months, we’ve explored topics surrounding a few common themes: Business data, emerging technologies, and IT challenges.

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Pay it Forward Project (Exponential Growth)

Future of CIO

A common core standard for Grade 8 states “Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions.”. No matter how you approach this standard, students seem to struggle with how abstract the concept is and why they need to learn it in the first place. Last year, I decided to show them the importance of learning exponents by introducing them to the concept of exponential growth through inquiry, and then go back to showing them the need to simplify exponent

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GDPR Readiness Part 2 : Transparency is Key

Computer Weekly

As we discussed in Part 1 , the best way to familiarize yourself with the GDPR is to read it. Then take appropriate steps, preferably with trained legal counsel , to make sure all your systems and data across the entire hiring process have been examined, and changed if necessary, to comply with a privacy-first approach. The next thing you need to do is: Review and update privacy policy to ensure transparency.

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How is Data Impacting HR?

Dataconomy

Today, professionals in HR departments are being forced to adapt to technological innovation – whether it’s in recruitment, hiring, payroll, or even the management of benefits. But if we look closely at what’s garnering the most attention right now, it’s one thing: data. HR managers must begin to understand the. The post How is Data Impacting HR?

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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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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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Defeat of Bathroom Bill Saved $7.4 Billion Tourism Economy, Says VisitDallas CEO

Future of CIO

More than 26.7 million people visited Dallas in 2016, adding an estimated $7.4 billion to the city’s economy. Event professionals bring their groups for the world-class restaurants, museums and super-sized facilities. Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center alone offers more than 1 million sq. ft. of space. But when VisitDallas President and CEO Phillip Jones presented his annual report, he credited one more key feature for his group’s success in attracting meetings—the absence of a “bathroom bil

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2017 Holiday Seasons Greetings From Server StorageIO

Storage IO Blog

2017 Holiday Seasons Greetings Greetings from Server StorageIO wishing you, your data infrastructures as well as friends and family’s all the best for a safe, merry happy 2017 holiday season. Btw, if you have not done so lately, check out storageio.tv to view various videos, podcasts and images. Some of the storageio.tv content is data […] The post 2017 Holiday Seasons Greetings From Server StorageIO appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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ItemMaster Names Product Innovator Kishore Rajgopal as Chief Technology Officer

Cloud Musings

Chicago, IL. – December 27, 2017 — ItemMaster , the leading product content management solutions provider for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retailers alike, announced that it has named Kishore Rajgopal as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Rajgopal will oversee ItemMaster’s accelerated investment in its platform, enabling an all-commerce retail experience.

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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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My year in books 2017

Anoop

Reading this year has been so many things for me. An escape. A way to educate myself. A way to see my own struggles in a different way through another’s story. A way to understand the struggles of others. A way to better understand where I came from. This year I think I’ve read more than I had in any other year since college. I read 16 of the 22 books I’d hoped to read this year , which feels like an accomplishment.

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The Digital CIO’s Three “ALWAYS” to Make IT COOL again and Get Digital Ready

Future of CIO

ALWAYS, ensure doing the right things before doing them right. Traditional IT organizations are often perceived as the cost center or support function only. Although technology is more often than not, the disruptive force for business and industry innovation, IT organizations seem to have a tendency to align with the slow changing parts of the organization.

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The “Digital Master” Book Series- The “Master Pieces” of “Digital Master”

Future of CIO

Digital Masters are the organizations or individuals that have rich digital insight and high-level digital capability. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (21+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vi

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CIOs as Chief Improvement Officer: How to Take The Walks to get Digital Ready

Future of CIO

Digital CIOs should have a leg in both business and IT world and take all those important walks for getting digital ready. In today’s digital dynamic and technical environments where IT is being used more and more around the globe for revenue generating initiatives and the business is becoming IT. Digital IT needs to become more dynamic and innovative.

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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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Three Aspects to Reach the Next Level of IT Maturity

Future of CIO

IT organizational maturity is achieved via harmonized communication, relentless innovation, and flawless performance with continuous delivery. Either at the individual or organizational level, maturity is the state of ripeness, quality, fluency, balance, and resilience. IT is moving up its maturity from functioning to firm to delight, running full speed with less friction.

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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Balance” Understand Two Sides of Coin to Strike Digital Balance Dec. 2017

Future of CIO

Striking the right digital balance is a never-ending business life cycle. We are experiencing the dynamics of the most significant business transformation since the industrial revolution. The majority of us will work in an organization that is somewhere between old and new; at both industrial speed and digital speed; It is more critical than ever to maintain the right level of digital balance.

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The “Digital Master” Book Series- The Board Directorship Core

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards have to laser focus on the most critical perspectives to steering the business toward the right decision. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (21+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way.

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CIOs as “Chief Improvement Officer”: How to Avoid Three Measurement Pitfalls

Future of CIO

Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives. A performance measurement system is a necessary foundation for continuous improvement. It defines how you will measure success in meeting the business purpose and vision. Metrics help stakeholders understand what is going on. Without measurements, it can be hard to tell whether attempted improvements make the situation better or worse.

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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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Improving IT maturity via Practicing “More & Less”

Future of CIO

CIOs should figure out their own set of “More & Less,” to focus on improving IT performance and maturity. As technology influences every aspect of the business and the CIO continues to become a critical and integral member of the C-suites, IT holds the key to making the company more competitive and successful in the long-term. In reality, business opportunities and risks coexist, disruptions, roadblocks, and pitfalls are around every corner.

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The Monthly "100 Creativity Ingredients" Book Tuning: Practice “Out of the Box” Thinking to Celebrate Holidays Dec. 2017

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, and creativity is all about expanding thinking boxes and connecting the wide dots. The holiday season is not just the time to open gift boxes, but also the perfect time to open your thinking box for practicing creativity. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations.

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The “Digital Master” Book Series- IT Leadership Core

Future of CIO

Due to disruptive nature of technologies and exponential growth of information, IT leadership has to be continually reimagined, refined, refreshed and re-energized. “Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (21+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way.

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Digital IT Reflection and Resolution

Future of CIO

IT reflection needs to focus on strengthening its strength and improving its weakness. IT resolution should focus on innovation, improvement, and digitalization. Digital is the age of people and innovation. The main barriers to innovation are the static mindset, silos, rigidity, inflexibility, or bureaucracy, etc. Technology is often the disruptive force behind the digital transformation.

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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.