Sat.Jun 09, 2018 - Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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Use Text Analytics Technologies To Handle Mountains Of Unstructured Data

Forrester IT

Enterprises are sitting on mountains of unstructured data – 61% have more than 100 Tb and 12% have more than 5 Pb! Luckily there are mature technologies out there that can help. First, enterprise information architects should consider general purpose text analytics platforms. These are capable of handling most if not all text analytics use […].

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The commercial impact of IoT insecurity

CTOvision

Introduction A hacker recently shut down Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s public city bikes system, forcing employees to hunt down and manually reboot the Android tablet attached to every bike. The company said that restoring all bikes to working order would "take some time". Naturally, the costs of restoration will be significant. This is just one example of [.].

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CIOs Need To Learn How To Become Futurists

The Accidental Successful CIO

Futurist keep their eyes fixed on what may be coming our way Image Credit: ADiamondFellFromTheSky. I’ve got a quick question for you: how good is your ability to predict the future? If your skill in this area is anything like mine, you find yourself being constantly surprised by things that you simply didn’t see coming. As the person with the CIO job, you really can’t allow this to happen to you.

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Machine learning risks are real. Do you know what they are? 

Eric D. Brown

Machine Learning Risks are real and can be very dangerous if not managed / mitigated. Everyone wants to ‘do’ machine learning and lots of people are talking about it, blogging about it and selling services and products to help with it. I get it…machine learning can bring a lot of value to an organization – but only if that organization knows the associated risks.

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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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Amazon Is A (Big And Scary) Red Herring

Forrester IT

Amazon is on the tip of the tongue when folks analyze the retail sector or try to craft strategies to save or reenergize retail brands. Sure, Amazon is reshaping the retail sector, causing turmoil for most and devastation to some. But that point is misleading and dangerous to brands looking for a single villain or […].

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AI & Blockchain: Double the Value or Double the Hype?

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the only technology that’s getting a lot of media and investor attention these days. Blockchain is emerging as a technology in its own right separate from the much-hyped rise in value of cryptocurrencies. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way [.].

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Automation critical to scalable network security

Network World

Securing the business network has been and continues to be one of the top initiatives for engineers. Suffering a breach can have catastrophic consequences to a business, including lawsuits, fines, and brand damage from which some companies never recover. To combat this, security professionals have deployed a number of security tools, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW) such as Cisco’s Firepower, which is one of the most widely deployed in the industry.

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Are You Modernizing Your B2B Go-To-Market Strategies?

Forrester IT

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at a dinner event with 20+ senior marketers and business partners that InsideView sponsored. We wanted to explore how well marketing and sales are facing up to new go-to-market challenges associated with buyer behavior change in general, ABM specifically. To get the conversation going, Tracy Eiler, InsideView’s […].

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Tech as a Career Gains Ground, Microsoft’s Sinks Data, SAP Does Blockchain

CTOvision

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain Apple and Samsung have been accusing each other of copying or stealing patented tech but Google has seldom been involved in such accusations. But Jarek Duda, inventor of ANS video compression concept thinks that Google is copying his tech. Duda says that the search [.].

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How to Remove Bulk Facebook Profile Content

Mick's IT Blog

Here is a video guide on how to remove bulk Facebook content from your Facebook profile. Some will just say to delete the profile and create a new one. That can be rather troublesome, especially if you have a lot of Facebook contacts and/or are well known in certain areas of expertise. In the video, I go through the easiest way I found to delete Facebook posts and likes.

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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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Setting up HTTPS MP SUP SCCM Site Systems for Co-Management

Anoop

Once you have completed PKI certificates pre-requisites, ready to configure SCCM MP and SUP site systems components to use SSL/HTTPS. HTTPS MP and HTTPS SUP configurations are explained in this post via video tutorial as well as by step by step instructions. All these configurations are explained with SCCM 1802 production version infrastructure. Content of this […].

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How Do You Get The Right Help With Design In 2018?

Forrester IT

The design market is hotter than ever — especially for human-centered design, which is the right way to do it. There are more jobs, more spending, and more executive interest. But what if your company doesn’t really get design? Or what if you need help because you can’t support a full design team? Or what […].

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Yes there are dark sides to AI, but what if it keeps us safer? Does that make Google the bad guy? (again?)

CTOvision

We Built A Powerful Amazon Facial Recognition Tool For Under $10 Ever since it was announced, the Amazon's powerful facial recognition tool has been in news for all the wrong reasons. Forbes took a behind the scenes look at how Amazon Rekognition can be used to build facial recognition tools at incredibly low cost by [.].

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Office 2016 Outlook Cannot Log On Upon the First Launch

Mick's IT Blog

While building the new Windows 10 image with Office 2016 along with exchange 2016 on the backend, I got the following error message every time I tried to open up Outlook for the first time. What was so frustrating about this issue was that if I went into Mail, within the control panel, and deleted the existing profile, Outlook would open and configure with no problems.

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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 Spanish cybercriminal underground operates | Salted Hash Ep 30

Network World

Host Steve Ragan reports from the RSA 2018 conference, talking with Liv Rowley, an intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, about Spanish cybercrime, an underground community that poses persistent security risks.

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Platform Economy Myth #4: If You Build A Platform, Developers And Customers Will Come

Forrester IT

We’ve been analyzing the sacred myths of the platform economy and revealing the real practices that platform businesses have mastered. This is work from our report, “Earn Your Place In The Platform Economy.” Myth #4: If you build a platform, developers and customers will come. Reality: Every day, you must earn the trust and investment of customers and […].

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OODAloop nails it again with reporting on Bitcoin price manipulation

CTOvision

These are some of the cybersecurity and cyberwar stories we are tracking: Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say New York Times is reporting on a topic most readers will have already seen at OODAloop. OODAloop provided some great context on the manipulation of bitcoin prices in: Let’s be Honest…the Price of Bitcoin is [.].

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SCCM TP 1806 ? Upgrade ? Offload Office 365 Workload

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM product group released new preview version 1806. I have noticed that every TP version before production version of SCCM will have a number of features than other TP versions. SCCM TP 1806 is released with 13 new capabilities. My favourite one is the ability to Offload Office 365 workload to Intune. Do You […]. The post SCCM TP 1806 – Upgrade – Offload Office 365 Workload appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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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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Supermicro is the latest hardware vendor with a security issue

Network World

Security researchers with Eclypsium, a firm created by two former Intel executives that specializes in rooting out vulnerabilities in server firmware, have uncovered vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of Supermicro servers. Fortunately, it’s not easily exploited. The good news is these vulnerabilities can be exploited only via malicious software already running on a system.

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Mobile In-Store Retail Delivers Service, Efficiency and Convenience

Forrester IT

In-Store Mobile Delivers Service, Efficiency, and Convenience. Customer service through associate-assisted mobile scanning and checkout. Operational efficiency through associate mobility. Customer convenience through self-service mobile checkout.

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The 5 best self-service BI tools compared

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms are a staple of informatics for medium to large businesses. Visual-based data discovery has been a key component of BI since about 2004; this trend has moved the responsibility for analytics from IT to self-service by business analysts and managers, with support from data scientists and database administrators.

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Why Hire An Seo Agency For Optimizing Your Website?

Galido

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a marketing strategy with the help of which the ranking of a website is enhanced so that it appears in the front page of the search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. For any company, no matter whether big or small, it is very vital that their website appears on the front page of the search engine, especially on Google search engine.

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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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Examining X.509 Certificates Embedded in Kubeconfig Files

Scott Lowe

While exploring some of the intricacies around the use of X.509v3 certificates in Kubernetes , I found myself wanting to be able to view the details of a certificate embedded in a kubeconfig file. (See this page if you’re unfamiliar with what a kubeconfig file is.) In this post, I’ll share with you the commands I used to accomplish this task.

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Why We Use Tech Tools: To Coordinate Tasks

Forrester IT

This is an amazingly accelerated time to be alive. During my nearly fifty years on the planet, we have increased by many orders of magnitude the knowledge that we have about our own existence. Research into the ultimate origins and functions of things ranging from life itself to skills and traits like language or culture […].

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Spearline automated testing goes mobile

Spearline Testing

It’s exciting times here at Spearline. Our automated testing has just been supercharged with the roll-out of automated mobile testing to 22 countries. Increasingly, customers are using mobile phones to make most or all of their calls - in fact projections are that 169 billion mobile calls will be made to businesses by 2020 1. In-country testing from mobile phones.

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Importance and Key Benefits of Cloud Business Email Hosting for your Company

Galido

Having your business mail service became a necessity for your company; you can’t afford to start out your business with a free mail, you should show your professionalism and how serious you are to your clients and partners. If you use a free email to send product information or a newsletter it will give a very bad impression about your organization.

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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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Using Variables in AWS Tags with Terraform

Scott Lowe

I’ve been working to deepen my Terraform skills recently, and one avenue I’ve been using to help in this area is expanding my use of Terraform modules. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of Terraform modules, you can liken them to Ansible roles: a re-usable abstraction/function that is heavily parameterized and can be called/invoked as needed.

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Grocers Partner For Digital Growth

Forrester IT

Grocers Are Partnering For Digital Growth The last few months have been a watershed of new deals around grocery fulfillment. Walmart is partnering with DoorDash, Kroger is investing in Ocado, Target is acquiring Shipt, and Amazon is delivering groceries to consumer vehicles. Fulfillment has become the key parameter for grocers to grow their digital business. […].

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Why web application development projects fail (and what IT can do about it)

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Depending on the survey you read, anywhere from 25% – 68% of development projects fail. These failures often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, waste months (or years) of time, and usually lead to people losing their jobs. Why do these projects fail, and what can you do about it? We answer those questions (and more) in this article. photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc.

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Blockchain Found a Shortcut to the Universal Sharing Economy

Dataconomy

Today, we have the liberty to source an apartment space globally, with AirBnB, or to find a qualified person for manual labor via TaskRabbit. In spite of this accessibility, there are still gaping inefficiencies for users of these systems. It was blockchain that identified these flaws, and it will be. The post Blockchain Found a Shortcut to the Universal Sharing Economy appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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.