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More Thoughts from a Seasoned IT Professional and Security Rookie

CTOvision

Note: I've been asked to post this from a reader that asked to remain anonymous but would like to inject some thoughts into our dialog here. This is the second in this series (the first was here). If you have thoughts you would like to insert into the discussion feel free to contact us. -mj […].

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Don't write another line of code without reading this

Social, Agile and Transformation

Every once and awhile I get to review other people's code. One year it was 1.4 million lines of PERL code running a SaaS website developed in the late 1990s. There was another time that I ended the relationship with a BI vendor because the platform required several hundred lines of code to produce a very basic bar chart. I once reviewed a homegrown ERP developed with tens of thousands (and.

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Azure AWS Beginners Guide for IT Professionals

Anoop

AWS and Azure are most comprehensive cloud platform. Amazon and Azure own Microsoft owns AWS. Recently, I have gone through a video which explains fundamentals of Azure and AWS cloud platform. If you are AWS professional, then your knowledge of AWS platform makes it easier for you to start your journey with Azure. The learning […]. The post Azure AWS Beginners Guide for IT Professionals appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog.

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Are CIOs Ready For The Arrival Of Chatbots?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Chatbots may change how we communicate, are you ready? Image Credit: John Pasden. One of the biggest challenges that any CIO has is trying to stay on top of all of the different buzzwords that seem to spring up daily in the world of IT in order to remain tapped into the importance of information technology. Well guess what, yet another one has just shown up on the scene: chatbot.

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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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The Most Demanded Data Science and Machine Learning Jobs in 2018

CTOvision

While Information Technology fields in general have healthily grown in the past decade, there's an emerging sector in the market that's taking off in ways unrivaled by traditional computer science. Machine learning and data science are two exciting sections of tech where job growth is phenomenal as new and more advanced techniques to collect, store, […].

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Foto Friday – Sunrise colors over Sedona

Eric D. Brown

A few weeks ago, I traveled to Sedona Arizona for a few days. While there, I was able to sneak out and get a few sunrise photos. Here’s the first of a few that i’ll be sharing over the next few weeks. Captured with Sony a7R III and Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM. Purchase a print of Sunrise colors over Sedona here.

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Gr8 People – Our Newest Investment

The Investing Edge

By: Baiyin Zhou and Luke Burns — As software continues eating the world, it has certainly changed the recruiting department in a big way. We aren’t the only investors excited about investing in and supporting this space – more than $1 billion was poured into HR technology in 2017. HR Tech: A Brief History. Modern HR technology started in the form of online job postings in the early 1990s, which allowed recruiters to more easily source candidates, and provide more options for candidat

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Boston Dynamics RoboDog Has A New Skill: Terrifying, But Potentially Lifesaving

CTOvision

The evolution of Boston Dynamic's robots continues at a brisk pace. The latest example to hit YouTube features a pack of their robot dogs that work together to assess a situation and take action. The action? Escape from the lab! Check them out here at: Jokes are easy with this one. Like "I for one […].

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Check if RSAT is installed with this one-liner

Mick's IT Blog

You are installing RSAT in a build, and you want to check if it is installed if it is included in the windows updates. Recently, there has been the issue in Windows 10 where RSAT cannot be found in the Windows Features. It is also not found in the Win32_OptionalFeature. To work around this, I have this one-liner incorporate checking for the feature first and if that turns up nothing, it then checks for the active directory module, which exists if RSAT has been installed.

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True Control Center for SCCM Admin and L1 Teams

Anoop

Facilitating the SCCM console access to support teams is essential decision during the design work. The decision making of SCCM console access is not easy. We need to consider several options like installing a terminal server for console access or publishing SCCM console in Citrix environment. Publishing SCCM console to Citrix is a good option. […].

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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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Managing open-source mobile security and privacy for activists worldwide | Salted Hash Ep 18

Network World

Nathan Freitas, who heads The Guardian Project, talks with host Steve Ragan and senior writer J.M. Porup about the group's easy-to-use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices being used around the world.

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Thiel, Hoffman, and Spiderman Ethics

CTOvision

The tech world is great for those that love to learn. Things are changing fast so learning is critical. One of the great ways to learn is to track the words of the creators of tech. Two of the great tech investor/creators, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, recently sat down for a discussion moderated by […].

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Predictive Maintenance: Why It’s Important and How To Implement It

Dataconomy

For those companies who have been collecting machine data for years, an incredible opportunity exists in making this data actionable. Utilizing actionable data can offer an invaluable competitive advantage by enabling companies to streamline operational processes, optimize demand forecasting and better understand their customers’ propensity to buy. In particular, predictive.

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New SCCM CB 1710 Rollup Update KB4088970 for Co-Managed Devices

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM team released new rollup update KB 4088970. Is the KB 4088970 not available in your updates and servicing node? Don’t worry. Your SCCM infra is fine without this rollup update. Rollup update is applicable when your SCCM infra satisfies following conditions (prerequisites). Prerequisites to get KB 4088970 in SCCM CB 1710 SCCM CB 1710 […].

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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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World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder

Storage IO Blog

World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder It’s that time of year again, World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder. In case you have forgotten, or were not aware, this coming Saturday March 31 is World Backup (and recovery day). The annual day is a to remember to make sure you are protecting […] The post World Backup Day 2018 Data Protection Readiness Reminder appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CTOvision Tech News 13 Feb 2018

CTOvision

News over the past week underscored the very interesting dynamics of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. One of the great tech champions from Silicon Valley recently summed this dynamic up very well. Peter Thiel said it this way: "Crypto is decentralizing, AI is centralizing. Or, if you want to frame it more ideologically, crypto is libertarian […].

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AI: Beyond the Hype and Into Reality

Dataconomy

Buzzwords are part of what makes the internet go ’round, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a more popular and controversial term today than Artificial Intelligence (AI). Once just an ethereal concept that interested the nerdiest among us, AI has become a very real obsession in all corners of the tech. The post AI: Beyond the Hype and Into Reality appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Some Tools to Help Learn Kubernetes

Scott Lowe

Kubernetes is emerging as the clear leader in the container orchestration space. This makes it an important technology to know and understand. However, like other distributed systems, learning something like Kubernetes can be challenging due to the effort involved in getting Kubernetes up and running. It’s not about learning to set up Kubernetes (although that comes in time); at first, it’s about understanding what Kubernetes does and how to use Kubernetes.

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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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Technostress is killing productivity. Culture is the cure.

ComputerWorld IT Management

Technology changes fast. With each new change, employees are forced to adapt. That process of adapting is painful — physically and psychologically. That’s why we seem to get a new health problem related to technology every few years. I want to tell you about the Mother of All technology-related health problems: technostress. But first, a history lesson.

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The New Book “Problem-Solving Master” Chapter 1 Introduction

Future of CIO

One of the biggest challenges for modern management is how to put the right people with the right capability in the right position to solve the right problem at the right time. Fundamentally, every job is to deal with problems big or small both from a long-term perspective and even on the daily basis. Sometimes, even you intend to solve problems but perhaps cause more serious problems later on.

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Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar

Storage IO Blog

Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud and Achieve global cloud data availability from an Always-On approach with Veeam Cloud Connect webinar. Feb. 28, 2018 at 11am PT / 2pm ET Windows Server and Hyper-V software defined data center (SDDC) based applications need […] The post Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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How the City of Seattle can improve its relationship with Amazon (and Microsoft, too)

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Amazon office buildings and cranes dot the Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy). Amazon is looking for a second headquarters city, “co-equal” to Seattle. Seattle’s city Leaders suddenly have an immense interest in their relationship with the city’s largest employer, a company which has ignited the largest economic boom here since the Klondike Gold Rush.

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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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CIO Leadership Live with John Hill, CIO at Carhartt | Ep 5

ComputerWorld IT Management

In this lively one-hour discussion, show host Maryfran Johnson talks with Carhartt's CIO John Hill about the evolving role of the IT leader, the quest for innovation game changers and how Carhartt tackled digital transformation by digitizing processes end-to-end.

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The “PURE” Traits of Digital Innovators

Future of CIO

Innovators have many traits such as vision, passion, determination, dedication, confidence, disobedience, and resilience. Innovators are not compromised with mediocrity and conventional wisdom or get less polluted by negative vibes. They can focus on thinking positively, creatively and being creative as a way of thinking, of imagining, of expression, of perceiving things, of inventing, of inspiring, etc.

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The CIO’s “Underdog Leadership” Practices at the Dawn of Digital and the “Year of Dog”

Future of CIO

There is no doubt that IT plays a more significant role in running the modern business today. Information brings about business ideas; business ideas generate lots of information. Information Systems are the backbone and provide valuable information for key decision making. However, in many organizations, CIOs still don’t get the seat at the big table, they are perceived as tactical managers and second class executives.

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Minding Critical Thinking Gaps Feb. 2018

Future of CIO

"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business ” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to bridge communication, knowledge and insight gaps and take a stepwise approach to make a

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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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Digital Change Pendulum, How Fast can it Swing?

Future of CIO

Digital means the increasing pace of changes. A changeable organization is to creating organizations where change is the norm and happens the whole time thereby delivering faster and increasing market share. There is the distinction between different types of organizational change - incremental or transformative; the scope, scale, and impact of the changes.

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The Underdog Leadership Quotes to Celebrate the “Year of Dog” 2018

Future of CIO

"Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (22+ books ) is to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” Here is the set of popular quotes about thinking, innovation, and underdog leadership to celebrate the ‘Year of Dog”.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” Feb., 2/16/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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The “LOVE” Ingredients of IT Digitalization

Future of CIO

With “VUCA” business new normal, the pervasive digitization brings both abundances of opportunities and unprecedented risks for the business’s surviving and thriving. IT is in the unique position to oversee the business function, possess the broadest view of the organization, and take charge of the invaluable business asset - information. IT needs to be telling businesses about the varying opportunities and possibilities, as well as risks or perils.

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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.