CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Fail fast is a frequent maxim in business, but what about reverse engineering that concept? We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Here is the main the question we posed: If you were writing your own book on how to lead, what advice would you impart to other technology executives?

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Xebia

MAY 7, 2024

If you work in the Tech industry, whether you provide a service or deliver a product, you have probably heard of the new Internal Developer Platform or Platform Engineering trend. Platform Engineering revolves around enabling self-service for developers by providing tools and workflows and integrating them into an IDP. You might be one of the lucky ones who is adopting the trend in your organisation and seeing first-hand the results of that adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

Leaving a company that’s been your professional home for years, or decades, is a major shift that can feel both thrilling and perilous. In this article, the authors outline six challenges that often come up when making this transition: 1) Ruminating and second-guessing; 2) Feeling guilty; 3) Being afraid of losing status; 4) Needing to adapt; 5) Managing the perceptions of your new colleagues; and 6) Balancing opposing emotions.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 7, 2024

New capabilities enable customers to counter AI with AI, secure AI by design and simplify security. AI Is already transforming every enterprise. AI has been driving productivity for over a decade, but over the past 18 months, it has hyper accelerated with broad adoption of generative AI. This has fueled AI adoption across the entire enterprise with employees finding uses for GenAI in every department.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). By infusing gen AI functionality across its portfolio, Red Hat aims to reduce the complexity of enterprise IT and help platform engineers and developers be more accurate a

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

The FTC’s new noncompete rule adopts a comprehensive prohibition on the use of noncompete clauses in any U.S. industry with any worker, including those at senior executive levels. The rule is promulgated using the FTC’s authority to determine practices that are unfair methods of competition. For those who have long argued against the use of noncompetes, this moment has been a long time coming.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

Global venture capital funding reached just over $22 billion in April 2024 — flat month over month and up a few percentage points year over year — Crunchbase data shows. The slowdown in venture funding has continued despite the AI technology wave that has washed over startups in the past few years. Of the $22 billion invested in startups globally last month, around $2.4 billion, or 11%, went to about 1,000 seed-stage companies.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Martin Bayer: At the moment, user companies are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing, but also SAP’s RISE and GROW programs, especially in Germany. Last year’s message that certain core innovations would only be offered in the cloud has also caused some resentment among users. How do you want to take your customers with you on their journey? Christian Klein: I understand there’s some reluctance among [German-speaking SAP user group] DSAG and some other customers to embrace the cloud.

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CEO Insider

MAY 6, 2024

Last week, in my CEOWORLD Magazine piece, The Best CEO Forum Hack? Preparation., I shared that most CEOs participating in forums or peer advisory groups admit to being woefully unprepared for their forum meetings. I stated that preparation is the number 1 hack because it not only helps CEOs bring their best selves to the […] The post Best CEO Forum Companion Hack?

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

While there’s been a recent string of disappointing macroeconomic data, in reality, these developments are signs of the U.S. economy’s strengths, not weaknesses. The economic pessimism of the last few years has often been rooted in a misreading of the U.S. consumer. Too often, they are cast as financially squeezed, burning through their pandemic-era savings, and reeling from the real income cut that inflation has inflicted on them.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 6, 2024

Going public sometimes works out badly. This has been particularly true for companies that took the SPAC route to public markets around the peak of the last boom. Dozens of companies once valued in the billions have seen their valuations wither and their share prices nosedive to penny-stock territory. In response, a growing number are choosing to exit public markets and try their luck once again as private companies.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

Atos has received proposals from four different groups to inject new money into the company to keep it running, it said Monday. One group wants to redefine Atos as a more integrated IT services powerhouse, leveraging the company’s many activities to restore customer and employee confidence, while another wants to focus on the provision of data centers as a service, cutting costs and cranking up profitability.

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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language popularity is being attributed to the growing importance of numerical or mathematical computing. Fortran returned to the top 10 in the index for April 2024 and retains the 10th place in the index for May 2024. The rating for Fortran did slip a bit, from 1.47% last month to 1.24% this month.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2024

In a business environment that requires companies to adapt on an almost continuous basis, burnout is a real risk for many companies. This article describes the four key steps companies embarking on transformation initiatives should take if they are to make sure they don’t fall victim to burnout on the way: 1) understand the organization’s change capacity; 2) measure and manage disruption meticulously; 3) recognize and reward success; and 4) expand change capacity.

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DevOps.com

MAY 6, 2024

With built-in end-to-end encryption, OpenTofu is a natural DevSecOps fit.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. Now, CDOs find themselves under additional pressure to make sure organizational data is accurate and complete, as companies launch AI projects hungry for clean and easy-to-access data.

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Prisma Clud

MAY 7, 2024

Generative AI's acceleration of software delivery is straining current approaches to cloud security, making scaling nearly impossible because, as Gartner points out , organizations don’t have the skilled resources to take it all on. For those counting on AI to drive innovation, this is a problem. How do you keep safe? Here’s where Palo Alto Networks Precision AI TM comes in — a proprietary AI system that helps power Prisma Cloud Copilot.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2024

Over the last 20 years, there have been dramatic gains for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S.: gay, queer, and trans individuals fought for and won equal treatment at work, legal marriage, the freedom to raise children, and the ability to openly serve in the military, and more. But now, many of these new-won rights are at risk. Many countries (mostly in the Middle East and Africa) continue to brutally repress LGBTQ+ individuals.

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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather than human operators.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Digital transformation remains top of mind worldwide. According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognised as a keystone for future growth.

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DevOps.com

MAY 7, 2024

Oracle today revealed it is developing a generative artificial intelligence assistant that leverages multiple large language models to create Java and SQL code, in a way that is tuned to the existing code bases and best practices that an organization employs.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 6, 2024

Dr. Sam Adeyemi offers insight to business executives and C-suite professionals on the next generation of leadership development planning. Today’s guest post is b y Dr. Sam Adeyemi, author of Dear Leader: Your Flagship Guide to Successful Leadership. How would you describe the up-and-coming leaders within your organization? Dynamic? Global? Inspiring?

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Crunchbase News

MAY 7, 2024

In the investment community, a consensus has long been that products, especially those with a recurring business model, hold a definitive edge over services. This perspective is often reflected in valuation practices, where product-based revenue typically commands higher multipliers than service-based revenue. This preference underscores an inclination toward the scalability and predictability that products can offer.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

In recent years, technology has changed pretty much everything. From the way we pay our bills to the way we communicate, shop, and even get our driver’s license renewed, not much looks like it did 10 or even five years ago. Why then do enterprise teams manage technology planning and funding like they did when client/server was all the rage? While it seems hard to believe, it’s true: In many organizations, technology planning and funding are run the same way they have been for decades.

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InfoWorld

MAY 6, 2024

No one thinks software development is easy, but who would have thought it could be hard in so many different ways? Evans Data estimates there are 26.9 million software developers globally. Recently more than 100 of those developers weighed in on Ali Spittel’s question , “What’s the most difficult part of your job as a developer?” I expected the answers to mostly coalesce around a few key themes, but the responses were highly varied.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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The Daily WTF

MAY 6, 2024

While poring through some VB.Net code, John noticed some odd things in their datamodel. For example, a different process would scan files, and log any "suspicious" files into a database. The program John supported would then report on that data. One of their classes had a property which looked like this: Public ReadOnly Property SuspectedItem As SuspectFileDataItem Get Return Me End Get End Property Now, there are many reasons why a method might return a reference to the instance- builde

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Dell EMC

MAY 7, 2024

Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift empowers organizations to implement impactful AI initiatives quickly and easily.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

Last month I had the opportunity to provide a comprehensive update on our new Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners, and since that time, the response from our partner community has been tremendous. Many VCSP Pinnacle Partners have announced their expanded relationship with Broadcom, and hundreds of our partners have signed up for the Broadcom Advantage Program Premier and Registered tiers.

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