Category: Information technology

Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021

Enterprise organizations have embraced the ideas behind advanced analytics technologies over the past several years, beginning with buzz words like big data and moving onto topics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
With that in mind, during its recent Gartner IT Symposium , the analyst firm unveiled its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends in Data and Analytics, 2020, a list designed to take organizations “from crisis to opportunity,” as enterprises recover from the effects of the pandemic on business and IT initiatives.

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IT Employment Looks Up; Data, Cybersecurity Skills in Demand

IT Employment Trending Up; Data, Cybersecurity Skills in Demand There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for IT pros who have been keeping a close eye on the job market.
The four employment metrics tracked by CompTIA are IT sector (tech company) employment, IT occupation employment (IT jobs across all industry sectors), the unemployment rate for IT occupations, and employer job posting for new IT hires.

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Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption

The very flexibility that cloud provides means that enterprises must continuously make dynamic consumption decisions about which services and specifications are needed when and for how long.
The flexibility to consume cloud as needed and cost effectively places responsibility on enterprises to maintain a real-time view of their needs and continuously make deliberate decisions on how best to adjust consumption.

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IT Pivots: Survival Lessons From a Turbulent Year – InformationWeek

During its third-quarter earnings call on Monday, the company said it plans to roll out substantial changes to its mobile apps over the next year to integrate a range of new features, including enhanced direct deposit, check cashing, budgeting tools, bill pay, crypto support, subscription management, buy now/pay later functionality and all of Honey’s shopping tools.
According to Schulman, the company’s apps will be updated to include Honey’s shopping tools, like its Wish List feature that allows you to track items you want to buy, price monitoring tools that alert you to savings and price drops, plus its deals, coupons and rewards.

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AI Can Make Bank Loans More Fair

As banks increasingly deploy artificial intelligence tools to make credit decisions, they are having to revisit an unwelcome fact about the practice of lending: Historically, it has been riddled with biases against protected characteristics , such as race, gender, and sexual orientation .
It used AI to retroactively balance the data that went into developing and testing its AI-driven credit decision model by shifting the female distribution, moving the proportion of loans previously made to women to be closer to the same amount as for men with an equivalent risk profile, while retaining the relative ranking.

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COVID-19 Accelerates Digital Strategy Initiatives

Sixty-nine percent of boards of directors say that the effects of the pandemic crisis , the economic crisis and the social crisis are accelerating digital business initiatives, according to the Gartner Board of Directors Survey, conducted in May and June 2020.
Surveyed corporate directors increased the development of digital products and services to maintain and accelerate their customer engagement, and help them reach their revenue growth targets.

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At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell

This new Azure Migrate PowerShell module that is currently in preview, provides a set of PowerShell cmdlets that lets you migrate VMware virtual machines to Azure using the agentless migration method of the server migration tool.
In addition to the PowerShell module, we are also releasing a set of sample scripts that use this PowerShell module to automate the migration of VMware virtual machines to Azure.

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OT vs IT in the supply of IoT, and migration and consolidation in IIoT (Analyst Angle)

These are as follow: manufacturing companies will look to their enterprise providers for IIoT solutions; industrial companies will move into the software business using IoT technology; IoT systems will be used as a catalyst for ‘digital transformation’; and there will, invariably, be consolidation amongst the IoT providers
Following four years of research and interviews with leaders in the industrial IoT (IIoT) space, Cambashi has settled on nine ‘verticals’, or ‘connected market areas’ for IIoT applications.

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Federated API access to Amazon Redshift using an Amazon Redshift connector for Python

The process flow for federated authentication includes the following steps: The user logs in from a Python script using an Amazon Redshift connector.
This post shows you how to use the Amazon Redshift connector for Python and Okta to enable federated SSO into Amazon Redshift and query your data warehouse using a Python script.

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