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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. By creating a general-purpose system for constructing context-specific identity systems, the metasystem represents a universal trust framework. Imagine you are planning to meet a friend for lunch. You arrive at the restaurant on time and she’s nowhere to be found.

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Have a Failing Big Data Project? Try a Dose of AI

Information Week

A growing number of AI experts are turning their attention to big data. Will that be enough to save doomed projects?

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Adulting - CIO Style

CIO Musings

I love the Urban Dictionary. I'm not sure why, I guess it makes me feel hip to read through some of the posts. I have contributed a few along the way like the term "Camel Up", my proudest moment. The Urban Dictionary defines "adulting" like this. I like the part about being a fully developed individual. Recently I was in a difficult steering committee meeting for a major enterprise project.

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Channel Marketers Need To Become Community Marketers – Here’s How

Forrester IT

A lot has changed in the 25+ years I have spent in the technology channel. New technologies, partner business models, shifting demographics, expanding communication vehicles, and most recently, new technology buyers with different psychology, behavior, and journey have created a whirlwind of change for vendors, distributors, and partners alike. The one constant is the […].

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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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Getting IT Certifications and Help Desk Experience with an Apprenticeship

Association of Information Technology Professional

The students running the IT help desk at Christian Brothers High School weren’t necessarily the school’s techiest. But a new apprenticeship program gave them a life-changing opportunity to get hands-on experience … and IT certifications.

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Agile Planning Business Roadmaps, Architecture Standards, and DevOps Releases

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile planning doesn't end when stories are written, accepted by the team, sized, and ready for development. Story writing is one aspect of agile planning, but it's not the only one. At StarCIO, agile planning is done at several levels depending on the complexity of the requirement. require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.

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Product Teams For Infrastructure And Operations

Forrester IT

As an analyst at Forrester, I talk to a lot of IT professionals. One of the most common inquiries lately goes something like this: “We’ve piloted DevOps and Agile and like the results. However. ” and then come the “what-abouts.” What about ITIL, the NOC, the auditors, the service desk, and perhaps […].

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SaaS Revenue Opportunities Flourish with New Vertical Applications

Association of Information Technology Professional

“There is a real opportunity for MSPs to plug in more advanced services and be a resource to their clients,” said Marc Haskelson, president/CEO, Compliancy Group, LLC, a member of the CompTIA Business Applications Advisory Council panel at ChannelCon 2019.

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SCCM Task Automation Application Deployment Updates – Patch My PC Review 2

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This post is the continuation of “SCCM Application Creation Automation – Patch My PC Review 1.” In this post, Review #2, you are going to see more details from the SCCM side. Let’s see how Patch My PC can help with SCCM automation activities like third-party software updates and application creation.

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VMware spends $4.8B to grab Pivotal, Carbon Black to secure, develop integrated cloud world

Network World

All things cloud are major topics of conversation at the VMworld user conference next week, ratcheded up a notch by VMware's $4.8 billion plans to acquire cloud development firm Pivotal and security provider Carbon Black. VMware said during its quarterly financial call this week it would spend about $2.7 billion on Pivotal and its Cloud Foundry hybrid cloud development technology, and about $2.1 billion for the security technology of Carbon Black, which includes its Predictive Security Cloud and

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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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The Importance Of Defining Event ROI In The B2B Marketing Mix

Forrester IT

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This question, first attributed to philosopher George Berkeley in 1710, raises questions about observation and perception.* Both are important to consider when assessing the value that physical events deliver. While you can attribute some ROI […].

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Tech for Good: IoT Solution Helps Brings Clean Water to Sub-Saharan Africa

Association of Information Technology Professional

Using emerging technologies, such as IoT, business intelligence and automation, Britehouse is helping farmers improve their communities for the better by producing healthier crops and ensuring there’s plenty of water to drink.

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Addressing Risk: Data Security Questions for CIOs

Information Week

Position your organization not just for legal and regulatory compliance, but also for safer and more effective use of information assets. Here are five questions to ask.

Security 142
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Cisco: 6 critical security alarms for UCS software, small-biz routers

Network World

Cisco today warned its Unified Computing System (UCS) customers about four critical fixes they need to make to stop nefarious agents from taking over or attacking their systems.The problems all have a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System ( CVSS ). The critical bugs are found in the Cisco UCS Director and UCS Director Express for Big Data packages.

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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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Collective Bargaining: Your Biggest Risk In The Age Of The Customer

Forrester IT

Social media has created customer groups that coalesce around a brand — in effect, a union. They collectively can and will change your corporate policy. With collective bargaining, business as usual is no longer acceptable. Are you ready for the empowered, technically savvy, and motivated customer? It’s the age of the customer: What are you […].

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Security Awareness Training: How to Detect Phishing Attacks

Association of Information Technology Professional

After setting policies about how to choose passwords and when to update them, training end users on how to identify fake email addresses and URLs gives them the power to be vigilant against cybersecurity threats.

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Top 10 Sales Enablement Tools to Empower your Sales Force

Kitaboo

What is a Sales Enablement Tool? A sales enablement tool/ platform provides your sales force with all the resources they need to engage with prospective buyers and increase the chances of a sale. A sales enablement tool should provide useful information that will expedite the sales process and result in positive outcomes, which is, converting a prospect to a client.

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Extract SCCM WIM from ISO and Configure for WDS via PowerShell

Mick's IT Blog

One issue, more like a time-waster, I have had as we are migrating to SCCM from MDT is getting the boot image on the WDS server. SCCM is not configured to manage WDS because we use it for other things, so we manually upload the WIM. SCCM creates an ISO that needs to be mounted to extract the WIM for WDS. Thanks to this blog post , it is explained. I wanted the steps automated, so I wrote the following PowerShell script that will perform all of the steps needed to extract and configure the WIM.

Windows 125
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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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VMware Signals The End Of “Endpoint” Detection And Response

Forrester IT

The acquisition of Carbon Black by VMware was a bit of a surprise to me, but once put into perspective it makes sense. In this blog, I make a few observations from a value perspective. Carbon Black brings a strong brand and technology that warranted a leader position in my last Forrester Wave on the […].

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France Flying Solo with New Tax is Self-Inflicted Pain

Association of Information Technology Professional

France has enacted a digital services tax in an effort to hamper the growth of innovative companies based in the United States. Under the plan, those companies with at least $851 million in global revenue – of which at least $28 million is generated in France –would be slapped with a 3% tax, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2019.

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Netflix, Google Talk Continuous Delivery at DevOps World

Information Week

Members of the Continuous Delivery Foundation discuss the formation of the open source organization and the future of continuous integration and delivery.

Devops 139
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VMware spends $4.2B to grab Pivotal, Carbon Black to secure, develop integrated cloud world

Network World

All things cloud are certain to be major topics next week at the VMworld user conference, but VMware took things up a notch with plans to spend $4.2 billion to acquire cloud-development firm Pivotal, and security provider Carbon Black. During its quarterly financial call VMware said it would spend about $2.7 billion on Pivotal and its Cloud Foundry hybrid cloud development technology and another $2.1 billion for Carbon Black, which includes its Predictive Security Cloud offering and other endpoi

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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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Why Chatbots Can’t Read Your Mind

Forrester IT

By Will White and Ian Jacobs Chatbots — And Why They Can’t Read Your Mind Chatbots are cropping up everywhere, from customer service to internal help desks, but what makes them tick? When we interact with chatbots, we’re often coming in from the end-user side and confronting a chatbot window. When we ask a question, […].

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Family First Prevention Services Act Takes a Proactive Approach to Child Welfare

Association of Information Technology Professional

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) offers the framework to shift child welfare from a reactive to proactive system and underscores the important role of integrated family data.

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Three Tips for Laying the Groundwork for Machine Learning

Information Week

While machine learning may seem overwhelming and complicated, creating an infrastructure for ML projects is more achievable than many organizations think.

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8 tips on how to save your iPhone’s battery life 

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 8 tips on how to save your iPhone’s battery life - Information Technology Blog. The good news for iPhone users is there are a couple of tricks you can do to save your battery life on your beloved iPhone, actually in fact I know of 8 tips that can help you avoid running around looking for a place to charge up your device.

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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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The State Of Influencer Marketing: Growing

Forrester IT

For all the dramatic headlines about influencers, our research states that they’re capturing steadily larger proportions of marketing budget. For our latest report we interviewed more than 30 enterprise marketers who are responsible for their brand’s influencer marketing. And the data shows: investments continue to rise and marketers’ budgets for influencer marketing are growing in […].

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What Every Solution Provider Needs to Know About Apple’s New Security Sign-In

Association of Information Technology Professional

After Apple announced two-factor authentication recently, experts like Dr. Thad Phillips predicted more Apple tech in once-dominated Windows environments. That means plenty for solution providers, especially when it comes to cybersecurity.

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10 RPA Vendors to Watch

Information Week

Robotic process automation offers enterprises a way to leapfrog to the benefits of digital transformation. Here are 10 vendors that can help in your efforts.

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8 Ways to Keep Members of Societies Engaged in the Digital Era

Kitaboo

When we talk about organizations, the term employee engagement refers to the concept of keeping the employees interested at their workplace and in their work. To achieve employee engagement , you might use gamification techniques , enhance the training process, organize fun events etc. But when it comes to engaging members of a society or non-profit association, it means retaining them by making them believe in your cause.

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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.