Register to download the full eBook: http://ibm.co/13VRAxh
This interactive eBook describes how virtualization is not a device to implement, but rather a journey to realize greater and greater gains. Featuring cases from midsize companies around the world, Chapter 4 of the eBook details how your company can go beyond virtualization and experience the full benefits.
Virtualization is becoming the IT infrastructure of the enterprise�s datacenter. This presentation discusses the advantages of utilizing this infrastructure for WAN optimization deployments. Learn the benefits of virtualization, WAN optimization deployment options, virtualization and WAN optimization in the remote branch and VDI and WAN optimization.
Virtualization Management With Quest V FoglightChris Roberts
Whether the need is for Physical, Virtual or Cloud solutions your IT infrastructure is changing to support the needs of the business – and you’ve got to squeeze every drop of value from your investments. When it comes to delivering efficiency and optimizing computing capacity, no IT management software company does that better than Quest. Our integrated portfolio of solutions simplifies the management of your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
How to Deliver Maximum Citrix Performance and User SatisfactioneG Innovations
Join Citrix and eG Innovations performance experts in this webinar and learn how to deliver the highest levels of user satisfaction and productivity in virtualized Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop environments:
• Get the most of your existing Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop investments
• Gain complete performance visibility of all IT domains impacting user experience
• Preemptively detect and resolve issues before users are affected
• Accelerate issue resolution and rapidly restore service levels
• Optimize current infrastructure usage
Go beyond one-dimensional performance monitoring to accelerate IT and cut operational costs by reducing infrastructure complexity with insight into virtual environment performance. Foglight for Virtualization provides the insight to know now, with end-to-end performance monitoring, and the flexibility to do now, with powerful operations management. Take control of your virtual environment with capacity, resource utilization, and configuration management, as well as chargeback, showback, automation, and optimization tools.
Get the power to Visualize, Analyze, and Optimize your heterogeneous virtual environments to enable rapid implementation of virtualization and cloud computing initiatives.
SLA Playbook: The New MSP Service Level AgreementMidmarketIBM
Service level agreements for hybrid cloud deployments require diligence. Steve Groom, CEO of Vissensa, a managed service provider, discusses what he's found to be important when creating SLAs for customer hybrid cloud deployments.
10 Tips To Help Boost Your Midsize Organization's Computing PerformanceMidmarketIBM
The document provides 10 tips for midsize organizations to boost their computing performance. The tips include taking inventory of servers and services, locating redundant licenses, simplifying infrastructure whenever possible, considering hardware designed for open systems software that can provide twice the efficiency of traditional systems, thinking outside the box in terms of operating systems, and discovering additional tips in the full IT Manager's Journal.
Securing Mobile Devices in the Workplace - Six Tips For Midsize BusinessesMidmarketIBM
The document provides six tips for securing mobile devices in the workplace for midsize businesses in the era of bring your own device (BYOD). The tips are to 1) apply mobile device management software to gain control of employee devices, 2) rethink perimeter security strategies to accommodate different user types and assets, 3) classify data and user roles to identify critical information and restrictions, 4) identify important business information and start security efforts in controlled areas, 5) conduct functional exercises to determine secure access policies for different asset types, and 6) prepare for lost or stolen devices by enabling remote wiping and strong security practices.
Virtualization is becoming the IT infrastructure of the enterprise�s datacenter. This presentation discusses the advantages of utilizing this infrastructure for WAN optimization deployments. Learn the benefits of virtualization, WAN optimization deployment options, virtualization and WAN optimization in the remote branch and VDI and WAN optimization.
Virtualization Management With Quest V FoglightChris Roberts
Whether the need is for Physical, Virtual or Cloud solutions your IT infrastructure is changing to support the needs of the business – and you’ve got to squeeze every drop of value from your investments. When it comes to delivering efficiency and optimizing computing capacity, no IT management software company does that better than Quest. Our integrated portfolio of solutions simplifies the management of your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
How to Deliver Maximum Citrix Performance and User SatisfactioneG Innovations
Join Citrix and eG Innovations performance experts in this webinar and learn how to deliver the highest levels of user satisfaction and productivity in virtualized Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop environments:
• Get the most of your existing Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop investments
• Gain complete performance visibility of all IT domains impacting user experience
• Preemptively detect and resolve issues before users are affected
• Accelerate issue resolution and rapidly restore service levels
• Optimize current infrastructure usage
Go beyond one-dimensional performance monitoring to accelerate IT and cut operational costs by reducing infrastructure complexity with insight into virtual environment performance. Foglight for Virtualization provides the insight to know now, with end-to-end performance monitoring, and the flexibility to do now, with powerful operations management. Take control of your virtual environment with capacity, resource utilization, and configuration management, as well as chargeback, showback, automation, and optimization tools.
Get the power to Visualize, Analyze, and Optimize your heterogeneous virtual environments to enable rapid implementation of virtualization and cloud computing initiatives.
SLA Playbook: The New MSP Service Level AgreementMidmarketIBM
Service level agreements for hybrid cloud deployments require diligence. Steve Groom, CEO of Vissensa, a managed service provider, discusses what he's found to be important when creating SLAs for customer hybrid cloud deployments.
10 Tips To Help Boost Your Midsize Organization's Computing PerformanceMidmarketIBM
The document provides 10 tips for midsize organizations to boost their computing performance. The tips include taking inventory of servers and services, locating redundant licenses, simplifying infrastructure whenever possible, considering hardware designed for open systems software that can provide twice the efficiency of traditional systems, thinking outside the box in terms of operating systems, and discovering additional tips in the full IT Manager's Journal.
Securing Mobile Devices in the Workplace - Six Tips For Midsize BusinessesMidmarketIBM
The document provides six tips for securing mobile devices in the workplace for midsize businesses in the era of bring your own device (BYOD). The tips are to 1) apply mobile device management software to gain control of employee devices, 2) rethink perimeter security strategies to accommodate different user types and assets, 3) classify data and user roles to identify critical information and restrictions, 4) identify important business information and start security efforts in controlled areas, 5) conduct functional exercises to determine secure access policies for different asset types, and 6) prepare for lost or stolen devices by enabling remote wiping and strong security practices.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
Product Design Trends in 2024 | Teenage EngineeringsPixeldarts
The realm of product design is a constantly changing environment where technology and style intersect. Every year introduces fresh challenges and exciting trends that mold the future of this captivating art form. In this piece, we delve into the significant trends set to influence the look and functionality of product design in the year 2024.
How Race, Age and Gender Shape Attitudes Towards Mental HealthThinkNow
Mental health has been in the news quite a bit lately. Dozens of U.S. states are currently suing Meta for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by inserting addictive features into their products, while the U.S. Surgeon General is touring the nation to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The country has endured periods of low national morale, such as in the 1970s when high inflation and the energy crisis worsened public sentiment following the Vietnam War. The current mood, however, feels different. Gallup recently reported that national mental health is at an all-time low, with few bright spots to lift spirits.
To better understand how Americans are feeling and their attitudes towards mental health in general, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey of 1,500 respondents and found some interesting differences among ethnic, age and gender groups.
Technology
For example, 52% agree that technology and social media have a negative impact on mental health, but when broken out by race, 61% of Whites felt technology had a negative effect, and only 48% of Hispanics thought it did.
While technology has helped us keep in touch with friends and family in faraway places, it appears to have degraded our ability to connect in person. Staying connected online is a double-edged sword since the same news feed that brings us pictures of the grandkids and fluffy kittens also feeds us news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, the dysfunction in Washington, the latest mass shooting and the climate crisis.
Hispanics may have a built-in defense against the isolation technology breeds, owing to their large, multigenerational households, strong social support systems, and tendency to use social media to stay connected with relatives abroad.
Age and Gender
When asked how individuals rate their mental health, men rate it higher than women by 11 percentage points, and Baby Boomers rank it highest at 83%, saying it’s good or excellent vs. 57% of Gen Z saying the same.
Gen Z spends the most amount of time on social media, so the notion that social media negatively affects mental health appears to be correlated. Unfortunately, Gen Z is also the generation that’s least comfortable discussing mental health concerns with healthcare professionals. Only 40% of them state they’re comfortable discussing their issues with a professional compared to 60% of Millennials and 65% of Boomers.
Race Affects Attitudes
As seen in previous research conducted by ThinkNow, Asian Americans lag other groups when it comes to awareness of mental health issues. Twenty-four percent of Asian Americans believe that having a mental health issue is a sign of weakness compared to the 16% average for all groups. Asians are also considerably less likely to be aware of mental health services in their communities (42% vs. 55%) and most likely to seek out information on social media (51% vs. 35%).
AI Trends in Creative Operations 2024 by Artwork Flow.pdfmarketingartwork
Creative operations teams expect increased AI use in 2024. Currently, over half of tasks are not AI-enabled, but this is expected to decrease in the coming year. ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool currently. Business leaders are more actively exploring AI benefits than individual contributors. Most respondents do not believe AI will impact workforce size in 2024. However, some inhibitions still exist around AI accuracy and lack of understanding. Creatives primarily want to use AI to save time on mundane tasks and boost productivity.
Organizational culture includes values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits that influence employee behaviors and how people interpret those behaviors. It is important because culture can help or hinder a company's success. Some key aspects of Netflix's culture that help it achieve results include hiring smartly so every position has stars, focusing on attitude over just aptitude, and having a strict policy against peacocks, whiners, and jerks.
PEPSICO Presentation to CAGNY Conference Feb 2024Neil Kimberley
PepsiCo provided a safe harbor statement noting that any forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and are subject to risks and uncertainties. It also provided information on non-GAAP measures and directing readers to its website for disclosure and reconciliation. The document then discussed PepsiCo's business overview, including that it is a global beverage and convenient food company with iconic brands, $91 billion in net revenue in 2023, and nearly $14 billion in core operating profit. It operates through a divisional structure with a focus on local consumers.
Content Methodology: A Best Practices Report (Webinar)contently
This document provides an overview of content methodology best practices. It defines content methodology as establishing objectives, KPIs, and a culture of continuous learning and iteration. An effective methodology focuses on connecting with audiences, creating optimal content, and optimizing processes. It also discusses why a methodology is needed due to the competitive landscape, proliferation of channels, and opportunities for improvement. Components of an effective methodology include defining objectives and KPIs, audience analysis, identifying opportunities, and evaluating resources. The document concludes with recommendations around creating a content plan, testing and optimizing content over 90 days.
How to Prepare For a Successful Job Search for 2024Albert Qian
The document provides guidance on preparing a job search for 2024. It discusses the state of the job market, focusing on growth in AI and healthcare but also continued layoffs. It recommends figuring out what you want to do by researching interests and skills, then conducting informational interviews. The job search should involve building a personal brand on LinkedIn, actively applying to jobs, tailoring resumes and interviews, maintaining job hunting as a habit, and continuing self-improvement. Once hired, the document advises setting new goals and keeping skills and networking active in case of future opportunities.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Sylwia Rytel, Social Media Supervisor, 180heartbeats + JUNG v MATT (PL), Sharlene Jenner, Vice President - Director of Engagement Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA), Alex Casanovas, Digital Director, Atrevia (ES), Dora Beilin, Senior Social Strategist, Barrett Hoffher (USA), Min Seo, Campaign Director, Brand New Agency (KR), Deshé M. Gully, Associate Strategist, Day One Agency (USA), Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT), Trevor Crossman, CX and Digital Transformation Director; Olivia Hussey, Strategic Planner; Simi Srinarula, Social Media Manager, The Hallway (AUS), James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink (CN / UK), Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director; Pedro Rojas, Social Media Manager; Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH), Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO), Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK), Gaby Arriaga, Founder, Leonardo1452 (MX), Shantesh S Row, Creative Director, Liwa (UAE), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer; Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead; Leonie Mergulhao, Account Supervisor - Social Media & PR, Medulla (IN), Aurelija Plioplytė, Head of Digital & Social, Not Perfect (LI), Daiana Khaidargaliyeva, Account Manager, Osaka Labs (UK / USA), Stefanie Söhnchen, Vice President Digital, PIABO Communications (DE), Elisabeth Winiartati, Managing Consultant, Head of Global Integrated Communications; Lydia Aprina, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Nita Prabowo, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Okhi, Web Developer, PNTR Group (ID), Kei Obusan, Insights Director; Daffi Ranandi, Insights Manager, Radarr (SG), Gautam Reghunath, Co-founder & CEO, Talented (IN), Donagh Humphreys, Head of Social and Digital Innovation, THINKHOUSE (IRE), Sarah Yim, Strategy Director, Zulu Alpha Kilo (CA).
Trends In Paid Search: Navigating The Digital Landscape In 2024Search Engine Journal
The search marketing landscape is evolving rapidly with new technologies, and professionals, like you, rely on innovative paid search strategies to meet changing demands.
It’s important that you’re ready to implement new strategies in 2024.
Check this out and learn the top trends in paid search advertising that are expected to gain traction, so you can drive higher ROI more efficiently in 2024.
You’ll learn:
- The latest trends in AI and automation, and what this means for an evolving paid search ecosystem.
- New developments in privacy and data regulation.
- Emerging ad formats that are expected to make an impact next year.
Watch Sreekant Lanka from iQuanti and Irina Klein from OneMain Financial as they dive into the future of paid search and explore the trends, strategies, and technologies that will shape the search marketing landscape.
If you’re looking to assess your paid search strategy and design an industry-aligned plan for 2024, then this webinar is for you.
5 Public speaking tips from TED - Visualized summarySpeakerHub
From their humble beginnings in 1984, TED has grown into the world’s most powerful amplifier for speakers and thought-leaders to share their ideas. They have over 2,400 filmed talks (not including the 30,000+ TEDx videos) freely available online, and have hosted over 17,500 events around the world.
With over one billion views in a year, it’s no wonder that so many speakers are looking to TED for ideas on how to share their message more effectively.
The article “5 Public-Speaking Tips TED Gives Its Speakers”, by Carmine Gallo for Forbes, gives speakers five practical ways to connect with their audience, and effectively share their ideas on stage.
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Virtualization Realized: Chapter 4
1. Virtualization Realized
4 How to optimize
virtualization.
There’s a lot more to virtualization than just servers.
The underlying concept of virtualization — abstracting
the logical from the physical — is not just limited to
server virtualization. If you extend it into other IT domains
such as storage, desktop and network virtualization,
you’ll have more control and visibility, along with
increased agility and security. And with proper workload
management, you’ll increase cost efficiencies and
minimize human errors as well. Let’s examine each of
the virtualization environments in detail.
Case studies:
> Fondazione MAXXI
> Dutch Cloud BV
> Herold
> RoGrid
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Storage virtualization. Desktop virtualization.
Logic dictates that if virtual workloads are IT can now have more control over end users’
increasing, IT’s approach to storage must parallel computers and the maintenance and repair of those
the on-demand, instant scalability and high-density units. With desktop virtualization, the desktop “lives” IBM has noticed that
attributes of server virtualization. Otherwise, storage on the server and the end user device (laptop, PC, many midmarket
is at risk of becoming a costly operational tablet, etc.) becomes an interface and display
bottleneck. If designed and managed effectively, mechanism. End users benefit from having a organizations
storage virtualization can deliver business benefits
in many areas, including:
seamless workflow among devices. IT benefits by
swapping out corporate-owned desktops and
only go so far with
laptops with thin-computing devices that cost less, virtualization,
• Object centralization require less maintenance and consume less
electricity. With all the advances in desktop
resulting in a failure
• File synchronization and version control virtualization over the last three years, businesses to realize the benefits
• Electronic collaboration should include desktop virtualization as a “must
have” solution to desktop computing and
of a truly virtualized
• utomated storage provisioning and
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data placement management. environment.
• lignment of storage costs with
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performance priorities
• Support of business analytics
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Network virtualization. services and resources are automatically and happens, costs are reduced by enabling resource
Whether in a server room or a high-end data transparently provisioned in the most cost-effective decisions to be made faster than manually possible.
center, server-to-server and server-to-storage and reliable manner. Here, IBM’s growing portfolio Human errors are reduced, too. Automation also
communication will increase with virtualization. of cloud services can help form the foundation for directly supports regulatory requirements. For any
Server-based desktop virtualization further adds optimized self-service delivery. and all automation needs, IBM has just the right
to network traffic on local area networks and products and services.
wide area networks, as end users access their In the next portion of the virtualization journey, the
desktops through a network. While workload goal is to automate the delivery of applications and What IBM has done for others we can also
performance is critical to monitor and manage in services to the business, independent of platforms do for you.
this dynamic web of communication flow, it is not or operating systems. To reach this goal, the link To make the most of virtualization, look how these
the only manageable attribute. Cost efficiency in between business priorities and IT operations must other midsize companies optimized delivery and
the use of networks is also possible if networks are entail a high level of process automation. When this automated processes.
constructed with the same adaptability principles
as other forms of virtualization.
To make the most of virtualization,
optimize delivery and automate processes.
Worth a tweet
Optimizing delivery means equipping the user
community to serve themselves—it’s a self-service Optimize #virtualization by ensuring resources are automatically
model. To optimize the delivery of your virtualized
environments, the business side must first define its and transparently provisioned.
needs. Next, IT must ensure that the business
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Modern museum in Rome makes art more accessible,
updates more convenient.
The Challenge:
Manual processes inhibit customer satisfaction. The Results:
The Story: • The app had more than 1,250 downloads in
Fondazione MAXXI operates the MAXXI National the first week of availability.
Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. Dedicated
to contemporary art, they wanted to offer new • ondazione MAXXI expects the number of
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services that would enrich visitor experiences via a museum visitors to rise by 20% in the first
smartphone application. To accomplish that, they few months of the app’s release.
needed a partner who offered both software and
accessibility solutions. • he museum no longer has to produce
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new content for their audio guide. Now,
Working together with IBM accessibility services, they simply update the app through
Fondazione MAXXI created a smartphone app that their data server.
guides visitors through the museum and uses smart
integration for automatic detection of rooms — all in
multiple languages. In addition, the museum can now
update the app automatically based on information
they enter into their DB2® Enterprise data server.
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5. Virtualization Realized
High-tech firm virtualizes to offer clients more,
better, faster — for less.
The Challenge: The solution? Dutch Cloud implemented IBM
Inflexible technology creates inflexible infrastructure, SmartCloud Provisioning software to simplify and The Results:
slowing company growth. standardize its cloud infrastructure and improve
efficiencies through dynamic provisioning and • utch Cloud can accurately capture and
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The Story: self-service capabilities. This virtualized environment analyze highly changeable customer
As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Dutch Cloud BV identifies customers on the network level versus the requirements on an ongoing basis to better
offers small and midsize businesses a range of service level, increasing security and flexibility to align with client needs.
cloud-based services, from fully managed IaaS to deliver any type of architecture within the service layer. • oving from the static model to highly
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disaster-recovery solutions. Their challenge focused dynamic service delivery, the company can
on three needs: offer standardization, along with provisioning,
that suits each client’s workloads.
1. Offer a balanced platform — standardized enough
for easy scalability, yet specific enough for different
Reduced time to provision • hey can now ensure that each customer
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200 virtual machines by over
90
types of workloads. environment runs securely and in isolation —
2. Enhance service levels for clients while keeping a priority in delivering true “private clouds.”
costs low.
• hey increased revenue six fold while
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3. Enable rapid provisioning of new cloud services
operational costs remained flat.
with a high degree of automation.
• he time needed to provision 200 virtual
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machines was reduced by over 90%.
• he company decreased administrative
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workload by 70%.
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Virtualization powers a rapidly growing
multimedia company forward.
The Challenge:
Buying more hardware to solve problems. The Results:
The Story: • erold can now deal with enormous amounts
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Herold is a provider of multimedia search and loca- of data and requests quickly and efficiently.
tion-based services, as well as a print-focused
directory services company. They’re the kind of • he company has enough computing power,
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business that must deliver innovative, highly scalable I/O and storage for the highest levels of
solutions at low cost and high speed. Which is why, availability and performance.
internally, they needed to help their teams develop
new software and generate new value — without
constantly buying more hardware. What they really
needed, however, was a partner, one that could offer
robust solutions and better capacity planning, and
relieve the constant pressure to procure hardware. With this standardized platform, it is easy to use
IBM tools, middleware and servers to build optimized
The solution was for IBM to host Herold’s entire
production environment in its data center. This
development, preproduction and production
keeps Herold ahead of their competition. And the environments.” – Jorg Weis, Herold Operations Management
pay-as-you-go model means they can add or remove
hardware based on need. No more buying
infrastructure just to solve issues with capacity.
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Researcher in Romania fosters scientific
advancement through virtualization.
The Challenge: resources, backed by fully virtualized data storage
Outdated IT delays progress. with highly parallelized access. As a result, RoGrid The Results:
can now scale resources up or down to meet
The Story: changing requirements in a completely seamless way. • oGrid can tackle major scientific, medical
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The Romanian National Grid Initiative (RoGrid) and engineering challenges for cutting-edge
delivers high-performance computing for research developments in aeronautics, seismology,
projects in medicine, life sciences, aerospace and
Our computing image analysis and other scientific arenas.
meteorology. Based at Polytechnic University of
Bucharest, the company’s projects produce many resources are now
• ompany can optimize its computing
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terabytes of data that must be made available for completely distinct and resources to meet each specific
high-speed analysis both during and after optimized for different computational requirement, with the flexibility
computation. They need superior performance,
tasks. Yet they’re all to orchestrate resources as required.
flexibility, reliability, cost-effectiveness — and the
ability to match different computational requirements managed in the same
• mproved system and storage performance
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to the most appropriate hardware architecture. way. BladeCenter ensures optimum responsiveness and
really enables diversity system availability.
Partnering with IBM, RoGrid established an IBM without unnecessary
BladeCenter supercomputing environment that now • nfrastructure is now consistent and easy to
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supports multiple-processor architectures, matching
cost or complexity.”
manage, saving admin time.
each different computational workload to the ideal — mil Slusanschi, Associate Professor,
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Computer Science and Engineering
platform. The solution also acts as a private cloud, • ong-term operational costs are low and
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providing an array of flexible virtualized computing cost effective.
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8. Virtualization Realized
The bottom line?
Virtualization simply works.
Coupling delivery optimization with process
automation can yield increased performance for
workloads and greater efficiency within your
infrastructure. Best of all, it better prepares you to
meet the demands of a growing business.
Learn more about how virtualization can help
you and your business. Download the full eBook
or call IBM at 1-877-426-2223.
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