February, 2020

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Where to Place Your Machine Learning and AI Bets

Social, Agile and Transformation

A few weeks ago, I published my 2020 predictions and stated explicitly that enterprises must demonstrate AI and Machine Learning wins. So, in this post, I survey several recent research surveys to determine where organizations should place their bets. I looked for three indicators: Is the timing right for medium and late adopters to get in the game, and how much must they wager?

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Should CIOs Kill Off Passwords?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Is there a better way to secure applications and websites? Image Credit: Mike Corbett. When your IT department creates a new website for users to access, how do they go about securing it? If you are like most IT departments, you require users to make use of a unique username and a password. That password may be a bit complex: it has to be so long, must contain upper and lower characters, has to have a special character in it, etc.

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Moving AI Forward: Why You Need to Slow Down Now to Scale Later

Information Week

Companies looking to truly take advantage of AI's full potential must first address the most common problems that again and again hold the industry back.

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How To Fight Bias In ML-Based Experiences

Forrester IT

Recently, I interviewed Carol Smith about AI and ethics — she’s a Senior Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, and she told me: “You’re bringing yourself to the projects you do at work, and we’re all biased and flawed. We must accept that building a fancy system doesn’t change that. We’re going to […].

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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CIOs And The Problem Of Social Engineering

The Accidental Successful CIO

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. So let’s pretend for a moment that you’ve switched sides. You are now a hacker that is trying to break into your company’s network because you understand the importance of information technology, want to get money from your company, or do something else that you really should not be doing.

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Delight Employees and Empower IT to Shine at ITSM

Social, Agile and Transformation

Wake up! No one likes opening service desk tickets or using ITSM tools. Employees expect self-service capabilities and easy to use technologies. Business leaders and managers assume that technology improves productivity and quality, and they believe that the service desk should operate like a genius bar. But the reality is that many service desks are short-staffed, and employees are raising.

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Setup Azure Bastion Connect to SCCM Server | ConfigMgr | MECM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This is very interesting and exciting for me to connect to ConfigMgr server using Azure Bastion solution. Let’s use Azure Bastion to connect to Configuration Manager Server hosted in Azure. Let’s Setup Azure Bastion Connect to SCCM Server. NOTE! – Azure Bastion connection uses SSL without any exposure through public IP addresses.

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6 Keys to Digital Transformation Success

Information Week

Nearly every enterprise is undergoing a digital transformation. Some are more successful than others. Here are 6 factors shared by the successful ones.

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No matter how different your business is, you are in CX

Forrester IT

GetWhen I describe what customer experience management requires to be able to transform a CX vision into reality, I often hear from my audience: “this is interesting, but we are different“ The nature of that difference is then often stated as: we are operating in B2B, not B2C; or we operate in a heavily regulated […].

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Upgrading to both Windows 10 1903 and 1909 with Configuration Manager

Mick's IT Blog

The time has come to do another creator update to the corporate systems. We skipped the 1903 upgrade because of the Windows 7 to Windows 10 deployment that completed just after the release of 1903. It was too soon to start another creator update project, so we waited until 1909. One of the new features we are wanting is the reserved space that was introduced in 1903.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Introducing! 5 Minutes with @NYIke

Social, Agile and Transformation

I'm trying something new and hope you'll enjoy my experiment with the 5 Minutes with @NYIke youtube video channel.

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A brief history of artificial intelligence

CTOvision

Read why Steven Nunez says despite huge advances in machine learning models, AI challenges remain much the same today as 60 years ago on InfoWorld : In the early days of artificial intelligence, computer scientists attempted to recreate aspects of the human mind in the computer. This is the type of intelligence that is the […].

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Windows 10 1909 Upgrade Using SCCM Task Sequence|ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Running Out of update….?? Its Time to Upgrade your Operating System to Windows 10 1909 Upgrade. Let’s learn how to create an upgrade Windows 10 Task Sequence. There are various Windows 10 deployment scenarios available to install latest version of Windows 10 1909.

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How to create a virtual machine in Google Cloud Platform

Tech Republic Data Center

The key component of cloud-based computing is the virtual machine. Creating a VM using Google Cloud Platform is simple, but there are some decisions to make.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Peachtree Corners – One of the Smartest Smart Cities

Forrester IT

This modern suburban city outside Atlanta, Georgia is driving one of the most empowering and successful Smart City initiatives on the planet. Curiosity Lab, founded in 2019, is driving Open Innovation efforts with everyone from large corporations to early stage startups investing in edge computing, 5G, IoT, autonomous vehicles (see the image below), robotics and more.

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Fighting the Coronavirus with Analytics and GIS

Information Week

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a global emergency. Here's how governments and the general public are using analytics to track the outbreak.

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What is Agile Planning in 5 Minutes with @NYIke

Social, Agile and Transformation

Why are some organizations stuck with fr-agile development processes? Hint: It's not because you need to "scale" agile. Many organizations succeed in getting an A-team practicing agile and then look to "scale" their best practices to the rest of the organization. And several frameworks are focusing on this scaling. But IMHO, the issue at many organizations is not about scaling agile.

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What Does “Artificial Intelligence” Really Mean?

CTOvision

Read Rob Toews explain what artificial intelligence means on Forbes : Years ago, Marvin Minsky coined the phrase “suitcase words” to refer to terms that have a multitude of different meanings packed into them. He gave as examples words like consciousness, morality and creativity. “Artificial intelligence” is a suitcase word. Commentators today use the phrase to […].

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Windows 10 WMI Explorer Details for Configuration Manager|Intune

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this series of posts, we discuss about Windows 10, SCCM Server, and SCCM Client related WMI namespaces & classes. WMI Explorer is the community tool helps to search through WMI classes. What is WMI? WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation. The WMI is the Microsoft implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

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Cloud misconfigurations cost companies nearly $5 trillion

Tech Republic Security

A DivvyCloud report finds 196 data breaches exposed more than 33 billion records due to environments without appropriate security.

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Three Sacred Myths Of The Hong Kong Digital Life Insurance Market

Forrester IT

Hong Kong (China) is one of the most sophisticated life insurance markets in the world which has attracted hundreds and thousands of customers from mainland China and many other places. In recent years, the emergence of digital-only insurers and tech giants brought new elements to the insurance fertile land and challenges much old thinking. Let […].

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81% of IT pros expect most data center and networking tasks will be automated by 2025

Tech Republic Data Center

As the cloud and artificial intelligence transform the enterprise, on-premise data centers predicted to be nonexistent in the next five years.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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5 Hot network-automation startups to watch

Network World

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic. Not only can automation help address these problems, they can also improve overall application-response time by anticipating and addressing looming congestion.

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How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

CTOvision

Imagine getting to a courthouse and seeing paper signs stuck to the doors with the message “Systems down.” What about police officers in the field unable to access information on laptops in their vehicles, or surgeries delayed in hospitals? That’s what can happen to a city, police department, or hospital in a ransomware attack. Ransomware is […].

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Intune Win32 App Deployment Challenges System32 Vs Syswow64

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Last year, I wrote couple of posts on Intune win32 based app deployment (Part 1 and Part 2). For both posts, many Intune admins shared their challenges. In this post, we are going to discuss the most common System32 Vs Syswow64 challenges with apps deployment (Intune Win32 App) and how to address it.

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How to use Restricted Shell to limit user access to a Linux system

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to prevent Linux users from executing certain commands and confining them to their home directory by employing rbash.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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The Three Ways Companies Value Customer Success Programs

Forrester IT

In the three years since publishing our first report on the customer success discipline’s relationship to customer experience management, I’ve had many conversations with Forrester clients about bringing customer success management into a business. While the topics of these discussions have ranged from nuts and bolts organizational questions (e.g. where should the program report) to […].

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Top Applications Businesses are Using

Information Week

A cloud data warehouse company came in first as the fastest growing application in a new report of the most popular business applications from Okta.

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Windows 10: Containers are the future, and here's what you need to know

Tech Republic Data Center

With two use cases for its containers, and five different container models, it would seem that Microsoft's container strategy is ripe for confusion. But that's not the case.

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97% of IT leaders majorly concerned by insider data breaches

CTOvision

An Egress study has found that 97% of IT leaders are concerned that data will be exposed by their own employees, leading to insider breaches. This finding from Egress‘s Insider Data Breach Survey 2020, conducted by Opinion Matters, spelled a lack of reassurance for decision makers regarding insider breaches over the past 12 months. Also, 78% of […].

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.