March, 2020

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Agile, DevOps, and COVID-19

Forrester IT

Every other Friday, we have a meeting of the “DevOps Theme Team,” a group of Forrester analysts focused on next generation IT management approaches. We talk about Agile and DevOps, of course, but also extend into related areas like portfolio management and security. Today (unsurprisingly) the topic du jour was COVID-19 and its impacts specifically […].

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Enterprise AI Goes Mainstream, but Maturity Must Wait

Information Week

An O'Reilly survey illustrates how enterprise groups are moving more applications into production, but also how companies face cultural and talent focused barriers.

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Leading a Defensive to Offensive Transformation Strategy Post COVID-19

Social, Agile and Transformation

There is something quite magical watching pro athletes in a one on one situation. A soccer player defending a striker from getting by or a basketball player holding ground so that the point guard doesn't drive to the basket. These players are on their toes and ready to pounce left or right, depending on where they think the offensive player will drive.

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Can AI Predict Global Pandemics Like The Coronavirus?

Forrester IT

If you want to use ML to predict sparse events, then you are going to need a whole lot more sparse events. Maybe we don’t have the direct data to predict the big events like the coronavirus outbreak, but we are very likely to have the data to predict one or more proxy events for an outbreak.

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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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Should CIOs “Friend” People That They Work With?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Friending colleagues can be a tricky business Image Credit: Photo by Tim Bennett on Unsplash. So just exactly what is this “friendship” thing? For that matter how important is it? For most CIOs, friendship is very important. We’d all like to have as many friends as we possibly can. However, in this day and age we often indicate our friendship with someone by “friending” them in online social media sites.

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Getting the Most Out of Augmented Intelligence

Information Week

Looking for a way to help your organization work smarter and faster? Augmented intelligence is ready to provide added support, new insights, and a competitive edge.

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Think Twice Before Deciding To Use A Personal VPN: You could be getting some really bad advice

CTOvision

From the 1930s to 1950s (far too long) the medical community just would not wake up to the fact that cigarettes could cause harm (see More Doctors Smoke Camels). Why did they stick with this misperception for so long? When so many good people come to the wrong conclusion it probably means some deeply human […].

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Configure User Driven Installation UDI Using ConfigMgr | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s see how to Configure User Driven Installation UDI using ConfigMgr. In this guide, we will be covering how you can integrate MDT with Configuration Manager or MEMCM for creating a User Driven Installation (UDI) in SCCM OSD to provide the various deployment configuration information prior to performing the deployment for getting better end-user experience.

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Three Steps To Improving Customer Experience In The Middle Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

Forrester IT

Read the three essentials of customer experience that every organization should prioritize during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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CovidLock ransomware exploits coronavirus with malicious Android app

Tech Republic Security

The app promises access to a coronavirus map tracker but instead holds your contacts and other data for ransom, DomainTools found.

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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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5 New Ways DevOps Will Leverage the Cloud

Information Week

It's impossible to know what the future will bring for DevOps in the cloud, but the areas highlighted here are sure to play a role.

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CIO Must Pivot to a Safer-Smarter World

Social, Agile and Transformation

My boss used to say to me, "Isaac, read the tea leaves" to get a sense of what to present, share, and focus on depending on the business temperament. Just two weeks ago, I was keynoting to CIOs about investing in data governance, agile data practices, and changing the culture to prepare their organization for machine learning organizations. I reminded IT leaders that a competitive, digital.

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Technology and Leadership Lessons From Admiral Archie Clemins

CTOvision

I received word yesterday of the passing, far too young, of Archie Clemins. He passed after a two year battle with cancer. Upon hearing of this terribly sad news I was overcome with a rush of memories, some of which I want to capture here for their valuable leadership lessons. Including lessons in enterprise technology […].

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SQL Query All SCCM Applications with no Deployments | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Hello, this is my first post here, I have more than 13 years of experience in ConfigMgr. I’m going to start a series of posts related SQL and WQL queries (SQL Query) to help SCCM admins. Related post – SCCM Management Insights – Healthy SCCM Infra Introduction When it comes to your SCCM Infrastructure cleanup […].

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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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Four Phases Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forrester IT

In looking at the experiences of the Asian countries that entered the COVID-19 crisis in January, I believe that the pandemic will play out over four phases in the US. Phase One (Infection) ran from January through mid-March. In this period, there was no social distancing and no active management — the virus was passing […].

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Coronavirus challenges remote networking

Network World

As the coronavirus spreads, many companies are requiring employees to work from home, putting unanticipated stress on remote networking technologies and causing bandwidth and security concerns. Businesses have facilitated brisk growth of teleworkers over the past decades to an estimated 4 million-plus. The meteoric rise in new remote users expected to come online as a result of the novel coronavirus calls for stepped-up capacity.

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The Role of AI in the Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine

Information Week

AI can spot patterns in data and make predictions, and the hope is these tools could identify drug prospects to test on humans within months.

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What is DevOps in 5 Minutes with @NYIke

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile without DevOps can lead to conflict where agile teams want to deploy frequently but are slowed down by operations that preserve reliability over speed. DevOps without agile leads to teams focusing on systems, automation, and technology first and often at the detriment of capabilities and features required by customers and end-users. Transformation-driven organizations need both Agile.

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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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Needed: A Cybersecurity Good Samaritan Law

CTOvision

Read why Tom McAndrew says that we need legislation to protect the good hackers while dealing with cybersecurity on Dark Reading : The arrest and exoneration of two Coalfire employees caught breaking into an Iowa county courthouse in September 2019 highlight the challenges our legal system faces in addressing the fast pace of cybersecurity in […].

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Intune Third-Party Patching Automation | PatchMyPC | Review

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. PatchMyPC released a solution for Intune third-party patching automation using Win32 application management. Let’s see what are features of this solution and how to set this up. Introduction One of the challenging questions during modern management discussion is third-party patching.

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Responding To Coronavirus: A Playbook For Marketing And Communications

Forrester IT

Marketing and comms teams should take a leading role in supporting their organization’s response to the coronavirus. Read this post to understand the most critical actions to take now.

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667% spike in email phishing attacks due to coronavirus fears

Tech Republic Security

New data from Barracuda shows cybercriminals are taking advantage of people's concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Kaggle Competition Aims AI at COVID-19

Information Week

A challenge on the data science community site Kaggle is asking great minds to apply machine learning to battle the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Essential things to know about container networking

Network World

Containers have emerged over the past several years to provide an efficient method of storing and delivering applications reliably across different computing environments. By containerizing an application platform and its dependencies, differences in OS distributions and underlying infrastructures are abstracted away. Networking has emerged as a critical element within the container ecosystem, providing connectivity between containers running on the same host as well as on different hosts, says

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Five Core Virtues For Data Science And Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Aaron Burciaga list the five core virtues for data science and artificial intelligence on Forbes : Virtues should be digitized. As we speed toward reliance on machines to process more and more information and provide cognitive support for all types of decision-making, we must consider ways to imbue automated processes, data machinations and recommender […].

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Setup ConfigMgr LAB Infrastructure in Azure IaaS | SCCM | MEMCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. You can easily setup a ConfigMgr LAB Infrastructure in Azure IaaS. In this post, I try to help you with setting up an SCCM LAB in Azure (Setup ConfigMgr LAB Infrastructure). You need to have a valid Azure subscription to build the EndPoint Manager LAB environment in Azure.

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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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Getting Digital CX Right Amid The Pandemic

Forrester IT

Emotion is the most important dimension of CX quality — even for digital. Our CX Index™ data proves it. That goes double given the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read three ways to ensure you're delivering emotionally relevant CX during this difficult time.

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5G and IoT security: Why cybersecurity experts are sounding an alarm

Tech Republic Security

Without regulation and strong proactive measures, 5G networks remain vulnerable to cyberattacks, and the responsibility falls on businesses and governments.

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Coronavirus: 8 Tech Tips for Working From Home

Information Week

Here's a collection of tools, technologies, and tips to help you out in case you need to telecommute during the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Four Agile Workstreams in a Data Driven Organization

Social, Agile and Transformation

In this episode of 5 Minutes with @NYIke, I share a four-step process to start getting your organization more data-driven. You can start with any of the four steps. Still, most organizations I know start with the one that I shared in the video - getting data scientists - and especially citizen data scientists - to ask questions and explore data. Once you get started, the other steps will.

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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.