Wed.Nov 08, 2023

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Testing the Limits of Firewall Performance and Flexibility

Palo Alto Networks

5 New Firewall Platforms Extend the Palo Alto Hardware Portfolio for New Use Cases Cyberthreats are increasing in volume and complexity, making it difficult for network defenders to protect their organizations. Threat actors are evolving their tools and techniques, finding new ways to avoid detection and exploit vulnerabilities. More than ever, cybersecurity innovation is needed, and Palo Alto Networks has never been in a better position to deliver for our customers.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. Additionally, 58% of these organizations use between two and three public clouds, indicating a growing trend toward multi-cloud environments. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 1 The rapid migration to the public cloud comes wit

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Agility Meets SAP

Xebia

The modern business world is characterized by continuous change. In this era of digital transformation, companies face the challenge of quickly adapting to changing market requirements while implementing complex enterprise solutions like SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing). What is an SAP business process? A typical SAP business process consists of various steps aimed at achieving specific operational goals.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7% in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Nonprofit Executive Search Firm: Your Ally in Mission-Driven Hiring

N2Growth Blog

What is a Nonprofit Executive Search Firm? A nonprofit executive search firm is a specialized recruitment agency that finds and places top-level talent within nonprofit organizations. These firms understand the unique challenges and needs of the nonprofit sector and have extensive experience in identifying candidates who possess the specific skills and values required for success in mission-driven roles.

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Assessing to Ascend: The Value of Executive Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

The Strategic Advantage of Executive Leadership Team Evaluations & Assessments Executive leadership team evaluations provide a critical strategic advantage for organizations. By assessing the effectiveness and alignment of executive leadership teams, these evaluations offer valuable insights into the dynamics and performance of top leadership groups.

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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO

For companies whose business units have traditionally operated independently, centralizing IT operations under one strategy can reap significant benefits — especially when it comes to offering a holistic customer experience and establishing a unified data foundation for leveraging the latest emerging technologies. That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies

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Building a Legacy: How Our Coaching and Consulting Solutions Foster Success

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of Coaching and Consulting Services in Legacy Building Coaching and professional consulting solutions play a vital role in the process of building and sustaining a legacy. As a trusted advisor and expert in leadership development, I have witnessed first-hand how these services have transformed organizations into powerhouses of success.

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How a tech model at Univeris fosters team building with empathy

CIO

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Toronto, Univeris has over $450 billion in assets under administration in 12 countries. And with tech as a central enabler, Manas Khanna, the company’s associate VP of global technology operations, has a complex, dynamic, and ever evolving portfolio to manage, including all aspects of infrastructure and its operations, SaaS site reliability, DevOps, implementing IT cybersecurity measures, and supporting compliance efforts.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery.

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50 Shades of Vulnerabilities: Uncovering Flaws in Open-Source Vulnerability Disclosures

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers evaluated the vulnerability disclosure process for tens of thousands of open-source projects and found flaws in the process. These flaws allowed harvesting the vulnerabilities before they were patched and announced. This could enable attackers to exploit security holes before the project's users are alerted.

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How to Become a Better Strategic Thinker

Harvard Business Review

A common piece of developmental feedback is the need to move from tactical to strategic thinking. But what does that look like? The author, who has coached thousands of leaders to help develop their strategic thinking capabilities, has identified three core behaviors to work on: acumen (thinking), allocation (planning), and action (doing).

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Generative AI: Some Parts of the Future Are Cool

DevOps.com

Using generative AI for code creation is a game-changer, and Don MacVittie advises learning how to do so as quickly as possible.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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The Leap from Project Manager to CEO Is Hard — But Not Impossible

Harvard Business Review

Project managers who aspire to be CEOs are often surprised to learn that their skills, while highly valuable, do not directly align with those needed for positions of executive leadership. Why isn’t successful management of high-stakes projects and organizational resources sufficient to ascend to the top ranks of the business? In this article, the author explores the subtle, yet significant, differences in career trajectories of PMs and CEOs as well as nine attributes PMs should develop to incre

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Top 10 Web3 business ideas that could turn into a great startup

Openxcell

As Web3 is the next big leap in the web, there is a lot of discussion and interest around web3 business ideas. A technology called the blockchain powers this decentralized and peer-to-peer internet evolution, enabling more direct and peer-to-peer interactions. A Web3-based solution could enhance the user experience by giving users more control over their data and digital assets.

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Has Generative AI Peaked?

Harvard Business Review

We are moving towards a new digital landscape where genuine human content is increasingly rare commodity. And, as we all know from Economics 101, its value should therefore rise. This calls for a rethink of the incentives and economics surrounding human-generated content. The real bottleneck in generative AI might not be computation capacity or model parameters, but our unique human touch.

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Containerizing Ballerina GraalVM Executable

Dzone - DevOps

Welcome back to the series exploring the synergy between Ballerina and GraalVM. In the previous article, ‘ Ballerina Code to GraalVM Executable ,’ we delved into the seamless integration of Ballerina and GraalVM, witnessing how Ballerina applications can build GraalVM native executable and achieve improved performance and reduced memory consumption.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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Don’t Let Your Corporate Purpose Get Lost in the Daily Grind

Harvard Business Review

When leaders establish a clear line connecting individual jobs to an organizational purpose, it enables everyone to see their part in the larger whole. In their work on purpose activation with more than 150 firms, the authors have developed three strategies to help employees maintain that connection. The first is articulating the ripple effect of people’s work.

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Future AI Trends in Software Development

Invid Group

Future AI Trends in Software Development BY: INVID It is clear that our daily lives have been impacted by artificial intelligence (AI), which has changed the way we shop, communicate, and even drive. Although artificial intelligence has a noticeable effect on many facets of life, its substantial influence on software development is frequently less apparent but no less significant.

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Research: How Creative Collaboration Can Strengthen Relationships

Harvard Business Review

We know that creativity can lead to better products or services. But can it also help us get along with each other at work? A research study set out to answer this question and found that, indeed, when people are put in a position to be creative, they tend to view others more fondly because they recollect each person’s unique contributions to the process.

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Unleash the Power of Object Storage

Dell EMC

Drive AI and more with ObjectScale speed, sustainability and security. Now available as a turnkey, all-flash appliance.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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The Evolution of User Interfaces: From GUI To Voice And Gesture Control

Apiumhub

Introduction User interfaces (UIs) have come a long way since the dawn of computing. The way we interact with machines has evolved significantly over the decades, driven by advancements in technology and a desire to make technology more accessible and intuitive. From the early days of command-line interfaces to the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that dominate our computers and smartphones today, and now to emerging technologies like voice and gesture control, this article explores the fascinat

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Data is the Differentiator for AI

Dell EMC

Learn why proper data preparation and management is a game-changer for AI model training, fine-tuning and inference.

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Creating Chemistry Between the Members of Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Chemistry and trust are what differentiates an average team from a high-performing team. It’s great to have a clear vision and mission and a nice set of prioritized initiatives, and you’ve got all the right people. But what starts differentiating a team from a high-performing team is chemistry and trust between the members of that team. These intangibles are some of the most critical elements of building that team, but they’re also some of the most elusive ones to build and to

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How to Motivate a Demotivated Team

Harvard Business Review

Professor and author Richard Boyatzis takes questions from listeners who are struggling to keep their teams engaged.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Optimize AWS Costs With CloudWatch's Advanced Metrics, Dashboards, and Alerts

Dzone - DevOps

Understanding how to monitor your AWS costs is vital for businesses of all sizes. As your infrastructure grows, you must view your expenses to prevent budget overruns. Amazon CloudWatch provides an advanced solution, allowing detailed monitoring and customized dashboarding for cost metrics. In this blog, we dive deep into leveraging advanced dashboarding with Amazon CloudWatch to manage and analyze AWS costs efficiently.

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Corporate Governance Can Be a Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

In order to attract new customers across South America, private asset management firm Capital SAFI strengthened its governance.

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Perficient Awarded for Best Digital Leadership in Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Perficient

Perficient is pleased to announce that our work in health equity, diversity and inclusion has gained recognition in the 2023 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Our work in the healthcare industry emphasizes the importance of a well-planned and executed strategy for addressing health equity, diversity, and inclusion. This work creates a healthier and more welcoming environment for team members to build patient trust, elevate consumer satisfaction and drive higher-quality care.