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How to Explain AI, ML, and NLP to Business Leaders in Plain Language

Information Week

Your ability to explain artificial intelligence and its components to business leaders could mean the difference between acceptance and resistance. Here's how to do it.

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A huge tech company just killed the 9-5 workday for good

Tech Republic Cloud

Salesforce said it 'no longer makes sense' to expect employees to work in the office eight hours a day and still do their best work.

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Multilocal Firms Will Emerge

Forrester IT

The COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating preexisting trends, leading to a technology “splinternet,” protectionism, and local regulation. “With the rise of US-Chinese tensions, we risk entering a siloed world a bit like during the Cold War, with blocks living in autarky to preserve their sovereignty,” recently warned Jean-Marc Chéry, CEO at STMicroelectronics.

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Chainlink: Bringing data to the decentralized world of blockchains

CTOvision

Chainlink (LINK) is an Ethereum token that powers the Chainlink decentralized oracle network. This network allows smart contracts on Ethereum to securely connect to external data sources, APIs, and payment […].

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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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CompTIA Security+: Like a Driver’s License for Cybersecurity Engineers

Association of Information Technology Professional

After Jean-Pierre Nzabahimana earned his master’s in cybersecurity, he got CompTIA Security+ to prove to employers he was up to the task.

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How Do You Get The CIO Job?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What are the steps that it takes to become CIO? Image Credit: Matthew Hurst. The CIO job is the one that everyone in the IT department eventually wants to get. It can be a real challenge to line up an interview for this position and even more of a challenge to get selected for it. What everyone wants to know is what they need to be doing in order to someday make this happen for them so that they can share the importance of information technology with the rest of the company?

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Ethereum: A decentralized computing platform that provides programmable store of value and enables smart contracts

CTOvision

Ethereum is a decentralized computing platform that uses ETH (also called Ether) to pay transaction fees (or “gas”). Developers can use Ethereum to run decentralized applications (dApps) and issue new […].

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Celebrating 500 Posts on Driving Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

This is my 500th post on this blog, Social, Agile, and Transformation (and almost 700 across all websites), so I hope you will celebrate this milestone with me! I started this blog back in 2005 when a friend told me that my startup needed to be "plugged into the blogosphere." I interpreted that to mean that I should start a blog and called it CTOtoDevelopers.

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Why DevOps is Critical to Digital Transformation

Information Week

Organizations should focus on automation and efficiency to keep pace with pandemic-driven technology transformation.

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Meet Steve Turner, Forrester’s New Security Analyst

Forrester IT

Hello everyone! This January, I joined Forrester as an analyst on the Security and Risk team. I’ll be covering topics like Network Analysis & Visibility (NAV), Zero Trust Architecture, and the Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) ecosystem. I am extremely excited to join the team and make Zero Trust more accessible for organizations to understand 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 Graph Protocol: Enabling search for the new world of distributed ledgers

CTOvision

The Graph (GRT) is an Ethereum token that powers The Graph, a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains. Just as Google indexes the web, The Graph indexes […].

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AWS, IBM, Google, and Microsoft are taking AI from 1.0 to 2.0, according to Forrester

Tech Republic Cloud

A new report says that the hyperscalers are using reinforcement learning and transformer networks to make AI smarter and more mobile.

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FBI, Secret Service investigating cyberattack on Florida water treatment plant

Tech Republic Security

Local officials said someone took over their TeamViewer system and dangerously increased the levels of lye in the town's water.

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The Next Industrial Revolution Must Celebrate The Worker

Forrester IT

Writing in the Financial Times this week, Sarah O’Connor bemoans the dehumanization of work. She highlights examples like the autonomous robot, Chuck, which leads human pickers through warehouses at an apparently relentless pace. I’m sure we all have our own examples: The workforce tracking tools, originally deployed to identify (and rectify) shortcomings in staff training […].

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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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Today Every Company Buys Electricity, Tomorrow Every Company Will Buy Ethereum

CTOvision

If you were amazed at the moves by MicroStrategy and Tesla into Bitcoin, just wait till the really big companies start shifting part of their assets into this digital store […].

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ConfigMgr Integrate Power BI Reporting Server with SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Hello, folks let me share my experience, how to integrate Power BI reporting server with. Read More ConfigMgr Integrate Power BI Reporting Server with SCCM. The post ConfigMgr Integrate Power BI Reporting Server with SCCM appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Debabrata Pati.

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Plex patches media server bug potentially exploited by DDoS attackers

Tech Republic Security

All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to UDP requests only from the local network and not the public internet.

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(Likely) First Cyber Intrusion Into An American Water Treatment System

Forrester IT

Yesterday, the city of Oldsmar, FL conducted a press conference to disclose that an unknown person had remotely accessed the city’s water treatment system. The public was never in danger since operators detected the breach quickly and reversed the changes made by the threat within moments. The change made to the system was ‘loud’ – […].

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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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Chainlink emerges as a promising cryptocurrency

CTOvision

Read why Connor McNeely says that Chainlink is a promising cryptocurrency that can take on Bitcoin and Ethereum on Old Gold & Black : For many, investing in cryptocurrency is […].

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Overcoming Digital Transformation Challenges With The Cloud

Information Week

Here's how cloud computing can enable the future of work, accelerate data strategies, integrate AI and cyber strategies, and innovate for social good.

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Why cybersecurity insurance may be worth the cost

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity insurance can compensate you in the event of a cyberattack. But how do you determine the right policy for your needs?

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Reflections on 2020: Cybersecurity Predictions Versus Reality

Forrester IT

You’re probably tired of hearing about 2021 cybersecurity predictions. This is something different. We’re taking a look back to what we predicted would happen in 2020, and grading our predictions. After all, why make predictions in the first place if we’re not going to reflect and assess ourselves afterwards? When we make predictions, we aim to identify what is different that we think will happen based […].

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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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Elastic to Announce Third Quarter Fiscal 2021 Earnings Results on Wednesday, February 24, 2021

CTOvision

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced that it will release its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2021 ended January 31, 2021 after the […].

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How COVID-19 is shaping enterprise networking

Network World

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the networking arena in a number of ways, including the rise of fully automated remote offices, the need to support a "branch of one," and the growth of new communications software tools. "One of the biggest trends we are seeing is business agility. That is, IT looking at the tech they have deployed and evaluating it not just in terms of speeds and feeds, but how agile it is to handle whatever's coming next," said Todd Nightingale, Cisco's Enterprise Networki

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How much is your info worth on the Dark Web? For Americans, it's just $8

Tech Republic Security

A Comparitech report found that Japan and the UAE have the most expensive identities available on illicit marketplaces at an average price of $25.

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GRC And IAM — Better Together

Forrester IT

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and identity and access management (IAM) are two separate disciplines with different reporting structures and distinct goals. And yet, like many of our favorite things (milk and cookies, peanut butter and chocolate, or Netflix and our sofa), when they work together, the benefits are greater than the sum of their […].

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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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Big Data Analytics Firm Palantir Adopts IBM’s Red Hat OpenShift

CTOvision

IBM and Palantir Technologies on Monday announced a new partnership consisting of IBM’s hybrid cloud data platform designed to deliver AI for business, with Palantir’s next-generation operations platform for building […].

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Cloud lock-in: Why the microservices cure might be worse than the problem

Tech Republic Cloud

Commentary: Microservices can be a great thing to drive enterprise agility, but it can also create all sorts of costs for those trying to avoid cloud lock-in.

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World Economic Forum calls cybersecurity one of the "key threats of the next decade"

Tech Republic Security

The Global Risks Report highlights the onslaught of cyberattacks and a failure of governments to stop them.

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Digital Business and the Role of Chief Digital Officer

Forrester IT

I recently talked with Sandeep Dadlani, Global Chief Digital Officer at Mars to hear his thoughts on becoming a digital business. We started our conversation discussing his role of as CDO. (10 Mins). Here are 3 key highlights of our conversation: Sandeep has focused his role on leveraging technology, analytics and experiences to drive the […].

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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.