Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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Opportunity Lost: Data Silos Continue to inhibit your Business

Eric D. Brown

According to some estimates, data scientists spend as much as 80% of their time getting data in a format that can be used. As a practicing data scientist, I’d say that is a fairly accurate estimate in many organizations. In the more sophisticated organizations that have implemented proper data integration and management systems, the amount of time spent sifting through and cleaning data is much lower and, in my experience, more in line with the numbers reported in the 2017 Data Scientist Report

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Data commercialization isn’t easy – and many initiatives will fail.

Forrester IT

The hype around big data got several things right: data volumes are big and growing quickly. Digital transformation – as well as the growing adoption of IoT and the ubiquity of the device (aka “mobile phone”) that we all carry with us – has accelerated the growth of data. Having successfully put that data to […].

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What it Takes to Succeed in Tech; Lessons from an Accidental CTO

Information Week

To really find success in business, let curiosity lead you and never stop learning.

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New Quantum Machine Learning Algorithm Could Crush Big Data

CTOvision

Read Zayan Guedim explain how a new hybrid system combines classical machine learning techniques with quantum computation to optimize the management of the power grid on Edgylabs blog : Strategically deployed across the grid, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are sensor devices that measure currents and voltages at a particular time. PMUs generate huge amounts of data that help […].

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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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What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

Network World

Despite the goal of keeping Web communications private, flaws in the design and implementation of Transport Layer Security have led to breaches, but the latest version – TLS 1.3 – is an overhaul that strengthens and streamlines the crypto protocol. What is TLS? TLS is a cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end communications security over networks and is widely used for internet communications and online transactions.

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Predictions 2019: Transformation Goes Pragmatic

Forrester IT

Our Predictions 2019 guide, “Transformation Goes Pragmatic,” is live. What do we mean by pragmatism? A sense of realism, practical steps, a desire for tangible outcomes. It’s a good description for what we are seeing in a market that carried ambitious strategies into 2018 but ran afoul of internal headwinds. Don’t get me wrong, the […].

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AI in the Context of Digital Transformation

CTOvision

In the enterprise, no buzzword is as buzzy as the term “digital transformation”. If you spend any amount of time reading whitepapers, analyst research, or attending webinars you’ll see the term digital transformation used in conjunction with a wide range of enterprise-focused technologies ranging from data centers to application development, to enterprise architecture and AI […].

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Five Ways to Justify your DevOps Investment

Social, Agile and Transformation

Nothing in life and business is free. In the case of DevOps, you'll have to invest in new practices, technologies and culture change in order to get the benefits. For some of you working in traditional organizations, this may require you to justify the investment - maybe not in financial terms - but in clear delivery, operational excellence, and other KPIs that are meaningful to the business.

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Predictions 2019: Automation Will Become Central To Business Strategy And Operations

Forrester IT

Automation will be central to the next phase of digital transformation, driving new levels of customer value such as faster delivery of products, higher quality and dependability, deeper personalization, and greater convenience. Last year, Forrester predicted that automation would reach a tipping point — altering the workforce, augmenting employees, and driving new levels of customer value.

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Is an Internet Bill of Rights Necessary?

Information Week

Would new restrictions help safeguard Internet users or simply give the government unnecessary control over thoughts and services? Opinions vary.

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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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How Businesses Can Get The Most From Artificial Intelligence With Purpose-Built “AI Infrastructure”

CTOvision

In a new report, IDC states that the days of a single architecture dominating all compute in the datacenter are over. Artificial intelligence initiatives have become priorities for businesses, and most of the standard infrastructure being used in the datacenter is not suitable for the data-intensive nature of AI workloads. The performance and I/O of your […].

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Device Configuration Profile Settings View-Intune Troubleshooting

Anoop

I stumbled across another useful Intune troubleshooting option. Have you notices an option in Intune troubleshooting blade to get into each set of device configuration profile? Intune Device Configuration profile settings view helped me to troubleshoot restriction policy deployments. Basics of Intune Troubleshooting There are two (2) phases in Intune device restriction policy troubleshooting.

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Predictions 2019: Customer Experience Comes Under Fire

Forrester IT

Let’s face it: 2018 was not a fabulous year for customer experience. On average, CX quality was flat, with Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) scores showing little movement for the third year in a row. And what little movement that did happen was toward the middle of our scale, where 62% of brands bunched up in […].

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CIO Strategies for AI Business Success

Information Week

Your AI program should have short-term and long-term goals and milestones. Here's how CIOs can reset executive expectations and deliver results with their artificial intelligence programs.

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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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How The Internet Of Things Is Keeping Us Safe

CTOvision

We enjoyed seeing Forbes write on how IoT is contributing to safety in cities and airports: Preventing bad things from happening—whether intentional or accidental—has become a shared responsibility for all of us. “If you see something, say something” has become a mantra many of us are familiar with. Public buildings and private business locations have been […].

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Hyper-V VM Restore and Boot from Backup

Anoop

I have recently written about Hyper-V backup using Altaro VM backup. You can Install, Configure, and Backup Hyper-V VMs with an Altaro VM backup using my step by step guide mentioned above. In this post, you will see 1. Hyper-V VM Restore and 2. How to Boot a Hyper-V VM from Backup using Altaro VM backup. […]. The post Hyper-V VM Restore and Boot from Backup appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Predictions 2019: Employee Experience Moves To Center Stage

Forrester IT

Companies and executives are paying attention to employee experience as never before. There are good reasons for this attention. Chief among them is the historically low unemployment rate, which gives employees options that they are taking advantage of. Employees are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate since 2001.[i] What’s more, companies that care about […].

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The Security Missing From 5G

Information Week

For all of the excitement about the coming 5G mobile networks, there are a few words of caution from security experts.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Spatial: This could very well be the future of collaboration

CTOvision

CTOvision analysts have seen 100’s of collaboration tools and 100’s of solutions that build collaboration into workflow, and have seen so many claim to be the future of human brain to brain connectivity that it pays to be skeptical here. But ever since we saw the demo video of Spatial we have been thinking about […].

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14 New Device & User Remote Management Apps from Cireson

Anoop

Cireson launched 14 new Remote Management apps for part of the existing Service Management Stream. Cireson Service Management extends the Microsoft Service Manager Console with these must-have Analyst and Administrator apps. This remote apps includes nine (9) device management and five (5) user management tools to improve the productivity of your business.

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Predictions 2019: Cloud Computing Comes Of Age As The Foundation For Enterprise Digital Transformation

Forrester IT

Last year, Forrester predicted that cloud computing would radically accelerate enterprise transformation everywhere. After a decade of powering small and medium business success — and giving disruptive companies the tools and technologies they needed to compete head on with the world’s largest firms — cloud was poised to drive significant enterprise change in the very firms being […].

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Why SaaS Cannot Be Ignored by Today's Businesses

Information Week

Now is the time for companies to transition to a SaaS model, if they haven't already done so.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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FBI and Intel Community Release Framework to Thwart Insider Threats

CTOvision

The multi-agency push to prevent illegal disclosures from the next Edward Snowden acquired some practical tools with the release on Nov. 1 of the “Program Maturity Framework” compiled by the National Insider Threat Task Force. The 19 “maturity elements” outline steps for senior management and line employees to implement in such areas as training, legal protections […].

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What Can A CIO Do About The Problem Of Airline Overbooking?

The Accidental Successful CIO

United’s CIO needs to solve their overbooking problem Image Credit: Teka England. Times have been tough for United airlines in the past. There was that event where a passenger was removed from a flight forcibly and everyone filmed it and put it on social media. A bit before that the airline had had to delay 500 of their flights because of a second glitch in two weeks of the computer systems that run the airline.

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Predictions 2019: This Is The Year to Invest in Humans, As Backlash Against Chatbots and AI Begins

Forrester IT

For some time, the burning question has been: Will robots replace humans? While the proliferation of robotic process automation (RPA) has reduced headcount in the back office, it’s a different story for customer service and sales. In a Forrester survey, 46% of companies said sales and marketing are leading the investment in and adoption of […].

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The Deadly 7: Why So Many IT Transformations Fail

Information Week

Solid planning and effective execution of that plan can help an IT transformation set the stage for a new era of enterprise success.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How IoT Is Transforming Business For SMEs

CTOvision

Read Joanne Phoenix explain how the Internet of Things are simplifying businesses for small and medium enterprises on Minute Hack: As Industry 4.0 – or the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) – thrives, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to revolutionize the world as we know it by strengthening the connection of the physical and digital […].

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Free SCCM Scripts Addons Tools – Download Tools from Console?

Anoop

Free SCCM Scripts, Extensions, & Addons are useful for device management admins. As I always mention, SCCM community is one of the best IT technical community. It continues to provide many valuable tools to make SCCM admins life easy. What is Opinion from Community Itself? What is the opinion from the community itself on free […]. The post Free SCCM Scripts Addons Tools – Download Tools from Console?

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Predictions 2019: The Internet Of Things

Forrester IT

Business stakeholders and CIOs in both B2B and B2C environments are planning and deploying IoT solutions to power digital transformation initiatives to revolutionize customer relationships, enhance operations, and differentiate products. IoT deployment momentum brings challenges. Firms must identify strategies and methods to secure, manage, and support the rapidly growing number of smart, connected IoT devices […].

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DevOps Vendors at the Forefront in 2019

Information Week

As DevOps becomes a widespread enterprise trend, vendors are expanding and improving tools to incorporate DevSecOps and further address cloud and open source needs.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.