The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 27, 2019

CIOs have to be able to anticipate the worst Image Credit: josef.stuefer. CIOs at banks have a great deal to worry about. Simply because their companies have so much valuable data and money, the bad guys are always trying to break in and steal things. As though this wasn’t bad enough, every bank is connected to every other bank. What this means is that if something bad happened to a connected bank, then your bank could also suffer.

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CTOvision

MARCH 19, 2019

Everyone who has ever worked on a software project knows that you don’t just simply put code and content out to your customers, employees, or stakeholders without first testing it to make sure it’s not broken or dead on delivery. Quality Assurance (QA) is such a core part of any technology or business delivery that […].

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Forrester IT

MARCH 22, 2019

Microsoft has announced support for macOS in its rebranded Microsoft Defender ATP product, taking this product from being an offering that could be considered an add-on for hardening its own operating system to a multiplatform security solution. While this is an early release, it is a clear signal of the investment Microsoft is making to […].

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 25, 2019

Sponsoring self-service BI where business users are empowered to develop their own dashboards and instrumenting data governance are not conflicting objectives. In fact, they are complementary and both are necessary to enable data driven organizations. Don't believe me? Go count the number of Excel spreadsheets or GSheets are on your network. Try to count how many duplicate data sources are.

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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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Anoop

MARCH 18, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this series of posts, I will explain and share tips to make application packagers life easier. You will find out whether there is any need for Modern Application Packaging Tool from this post. In most of the organizations, application packaging team is also part of the extended SCCM team.

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Information Week

MARCH 27, 2019

Plenty of young organizations may be cloud native with public services, but many incumbents cannot go that route.

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CTOvision

MARCH 19, 2019

Like the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence had created hype and it was thought that by 2020 everything would be driven by A.I. Nikolas Kairinos, CEO and Founder, Fountech discusses how far artificial intelligence (AI) has come over the years and whether it has lived up to the hype surrounding it on Open Access Government […].

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Forrester IT

MARCH 25, 2019

When was the last time you answered a phone call from a phone number you didn’t recognize or opened an email from an unfamiliar sender? Like, never? Same here. The sad truth about most modern marketing tactics is that they’re too cheap and too easy. When anyone can do it, everyone will — which also […].

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 19, 2019

How many times have you followed a recipe while cooking something in the kitchen and had the result turn out not to be quite what you expected? If you’re like me, more times than not. Sure, the result is edible (usually) but isn’t quite what you expected or what was described in the recipe. Recipes don’t always work. Recipe’s are great starting points for cooking great food, but a good cook will tweak that recipe to create something that is perfect for them / their

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Anoop

MARCH 11, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. IT is focusing on different ways to speed up Windows 10 upgrade process. As we all know installation time is a critical parameter in the Windows 10 feature upgrade process. Hopefully, you will learn an easy way to speed up Windows 10 upgrade process from this post. NOTE!

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Information Week

MARCH 7, 2019

For organizations that are having trouble recruiting IT professionals with in-demand skills, some options have become available in the cloud and gig economy.

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Network World

MARCH 29, 2019

The Russian censorship agency Roskomnadzor has ordered 10 VPN service providers to link their servers in Russia to its network in order to stop users from reaching banned sites. If they fail to comply, their services will be blocked, according to a machine translation of the order. RELATED: Best VPN routers for small business. The 10 VPN providers are ExpressVPN, HideMyAss!

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CTOvision

MARCH 6, 2019

Read why Michael Spencer says that artificial intelligence regulation is nearly impossible on Forbes : Artificial intelligence is a tool humanity is wielding with increasing recklessness. We say it’s for our common good with machine learning hype equal to business profits. But what happens when we don’t have the code of ethics, laws, government accountability, corporate transparency […].

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Forrester IT

MARCH 11, 2019

My colleagues J.P. Gownder, Craig Le Clair, and I just published the results of a year-long study to answer the question “What happens when digital business systems and physical-world processes come together?” The answer: Atoms get their revenge. By that we mean that so much of our attention has been focused on digital business over […].

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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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Mick's IT Blog

MARCH 7, 2019

With the recent 1809, RSAT is now integrated into Windows, which is a major plus for the admin side. In my environment, I have the active directory PowerShell module enabled on all machines for two reasons. The first is I use it to move the machine in AD during the build process. The second is that I have an SCCM baseline that makes sure the Bitlocker key matches the one stored in AD.

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Anoop

MARCH 6, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, you will learn about the Microsoft 365 Certification exam in details. I have created a table to keep track of Microsoft certifications, exams, and training classes. I have a previous post which talks about latest SCCM certification (70-703). Intune device management certification is included in the Microsoft 365 certification path (you can […].

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Information Week

MARCH 26, 2019

Ford Motor Co. faces a future of autonomous vehicles, changing attitudes on car ownership, and new consumer expectations. Here's how Ford's IT group is supporting the company's vision.

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Network World

MARCH 28, 2019

Cisco has dropped 17 Security advisories describing 19 vulnerabilities in the software that runs most of its routers and switches, IOS and IOS/XE. The company also announced that two previously issued patches for its RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers were “incomplete” and would need to be redone and reissued. [ Also see What to consider when deploying a next generation firewall. | Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ].

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CTOvision

MARCH 25, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting a wide range of industries, and the food service and restaurant industry is certainly a good example. AI technologies are enhancing and changing the entire restaurant experience, from the ways in which we order food, to the way in which food is prepared and served, and how customers interact with […].

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Forrester IT

MARCH 26, 2019

Apple and Goldman Sachs are partnering to deliver a new credit card. The industry seems to be quick to dismiss the partnership, especially the rewards program – but we think they’re missing the bigger picture. There’s an awful lot more at stake here than credit card rewards. The bigger concern for digital banks, traditional banks, […].

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Kitaboo

MARCH 14, 2019

Every organization strives to create a healthy work environment in order to increase employee engagement. As it is widely believed that employee engagement and organizational growth are close interrelated to each other, organizational heads want to keep the engagement levels high at all times. In order to achieve this, employers deploy various employee engagement strategies.

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Anoop

MARCH 4, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM community Hub is the central location within your SCCM console where you can share useful SCCM objects with other admins. SCCM community hub is still in preview version. Note – There could be changes in production version of SCCM Community Hub What is SCCM Community Hub The Community Hub is a centralized location for […].

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Information Week

MARCH 15, 2019

There are four common traits of executives and organizations that will be successful with digital transformation.

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Network World

MARCH 8, 2019

VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds. Unlike perimeter firewalls that filter traffic from an unlimited number of unknown hosts, VMware says its new Service-defined Firewall gains deep visibility into the hosts and services that generate network traffic by tapping into into its NSX network management software, vSphere hypervisors and AppDefense threat-detection system.

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CTOvision

MARCH 30, 2019

No matter what the size of your business you should have a cybersecurity strategy. Yes that means if you run a part time business out of your home you need a cybersecurity strategy. And of course that also goes for every other business of every other size small to big. There are plenty of lessons […].

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Forrester IT

MARCH 1, 2019

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 took place in Barcelona.

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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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Mick's IT Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

One of the issues we have had is some users ending up being in the administrators group. There are circumstances to which we have to sometimes put a user in that group to install an application which is both user and computer-based. It can be easy to forget to take the user back out of that group. We don't allow the end users here to have local administrator privileges for security reasons.

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Anoop

MARCH 19, 2019

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this series of posts, I will share tips to make application packagers life easier. In part 1 of this series, you can learn about the future of packaging and modern packaging community. In this post, you will see how to setup smart package studio. Related Post – How to Make Application Packagers Life More […].

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Information Week

MARCH 4, 2019

There are ways organizations can simplify app creation if they do not have the resources to build them from scratch.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2019

One way to bolster your understanding of Wi-Fi security is to do some hacking yourself. That doesn’t mean you should infiltrate a company’s network or snoop on a neighbor’s setup. Rather, ethical hacking and legitimate Wi-Fi penetration testing – done in cooperation with the network owner – can help you learn more about the strengths and limitations of wireless security.

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