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Vector Database vs. Knowledge Graph: Making the Right Choice When Implementing RAG

CIO

Generative AI (GenAI) continues to amaze users with its ability to synthesize vast amounts of information to produce near-instant outputs. While it’s those outputs that get all of the attention, the real magic is happening behind the scenes where complex data organization and retrieval techniques are allowing these connections between disparate data points to be made.

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Preparing Your Team for a Year of Intense Political Polarization

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, the year ahead is going to bring even greater levels of social and political conflict than 2023. Shaping an environment that allows people to productively exchange opposing views and maintain mutual respect in the face of deeply personal differences is no small task. Further, some of those delicate viewpoints may be your own. Figuring out how much you can personally share without tipping the team’s dynamics can be even trickier.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

CIOs on university campuses across the country have an obligation, as technology leaders, to provide the tools and expertise that staff, administration, and professors require to help fulfill the potential of students, and the university itself. But their commitment is becoming more demanding and complex as AI, in its many applications, rises to the top of the syllabus.

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Global AI Developers Need to Set Some Standards – Now

Ooda Loop

Too many times the world has been caught flat-footed by technological advances. With generative AI there has been ample expectation of its capabilities for both good and bad not to be prepared for what is already materializing.

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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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Why Jackson CIO Mike Hicks had to flip the script on his proven 100-day plan

CIO

What has your 100-day plan looked like historically? It’s evolved over my 25 years as a CIO, but in general my approach has been a “listen-plan-act” model. The first 30 days are about listening more than speaking, engaging my business stakeholders and IT team, and identifying people who will be trusted advisors on our transformational journey. During that time, I also learn the dynamics of the business and evaluate our overall technology capabilities.

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CIO

SAPの顧客は、2024年にナビゲートしなければならないことがたくさんある。多くの新製品や新機能の発表、レガシープラットフォームの顧客に対するSAPのコミットメント管理計画に関する疑問、SAP RISEなどの人気製品におけるジェネレーティブAIの加速は、SAPの顧客が今後1年間に把握しておく必要がある主要な問題のほんの一部に過ぎない。 以下は、今年SAPの顧客が直面するであろう5つの予測である。 1.

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Rice and Fertilizer are the Linchpins of Global Food Insecurity

Ooda Loop

Recent restrictions on rice exports by India prompt this analysis of the on the ground conditions of global food insecurity, returning to some of the themes we explored in The Future of Food (In)Security and Agriculture Cybersecurity: Grain Hoarding, Rice Shortages and the War in Ukraine. In 2024, we are on the lookout for technological and geopolitical convergences.

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4 rischi che possono nascondersi in una strategia cloud aziendale

CIO

Mentre cercano di trovare l’equilibrio ideale tra il cloud e l’on-premise per i loro carichi di lavoro IT, non è raro che i CIO possano trovarsi ad affrontare sorprese che non avevano previsto, cioè quelle in cui le promesse della “nuvola” e dei suoi vendor non si sono rivelate all’altezza delle realtà dell’IT aziendale. Anche se quella sui rischi del cloud non dovrebbe essere diversa da qualsiasi altra analisi, molte imprese trattano la questione con più delicatezza, adottando un approccio meno

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Why Boards Fail

CEO Insider

Serving on dozens of boards – both for-profit and non-profit – over three decades has provided me a unique window into organizational governance. I have seen a lot of boards succeed and many that didn’t. Boards play an invaluable governance role for organizations but often underperform at their job. Frequently, board members serve either for […] The post Why Boards Fail appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Celebrating partners at the first annual Partner Kickoff

Lacework

Today is a big day for the Lacework Partner team. We launched our inaugural Partner Kickoff, celebrating all the amazing successes we achieved with our partners last fiscal year (FY2024). We could not be more proud of these achievements, and we’re excited to recognize our partners with several awards, including Channel Partners of the Year, MSP Partner of the Year, our Top Channel Contenders of the Year, Delivery Partners of the Year, and the Global CSP Partner of the Year.

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Tutorial 3 – Using Spring Boot – Publish Microservice to Eureka Server and Type of Client Components

Perficient

To access previous blog, click this link: – Tutorial 02 – Spring Cloud – Netflix Eureka Server Publish Microservice to Eureka Server Every Microservice must be published/ registered with Eureka Server (R&D Server) by becoming Eureka Client We must create a microservice using Spring Rest Controller to offer support. The @EnableEurekaClient annotation is not required anymore from spring 3.x onwards.

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Can MariaDB’s enterprise business be saved?

InfoWorld

A non-binding proposal to acquire MariaDB, the provider of the relational database management system (RDBMS) of the same name—a fork of the open-source MySQL database, has sparked speculations about the company’s future and what the acquisition would mean for its enterprise customers. The proposal was for MariaDB PLC, the firm that provides database services and SaaS offerings built on the core open-source database that is managed by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Extending General Link for Experience Editor Alternate Approach

Perficient

We have already seen the experience editor part in the Extending General Link for Experience Editor article in detail. Hence, in this article, we will explore how we can extend the general link for experience editor mode with an alternate code approach in Sitecore 10.2.0 to resolve the higher environment and performance issues that occurred after implementing the additional security certificates.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Can MariaDB’s commercial business be saved?

InfoWorld

A non-binding proposal to acquire MariaDB, the provider of the relational database management system (RDBMS) of the same name—a fork of the open-source MySQL database, has sparked speculations about the company’s future and what the acquisition would mean for its enterprise customers. The proposal was for MariaDB PLC, the firm that provides database services and SaaS offerings built on the core open-source database that is managed by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Lucifer DDoS botnet Malware is Targeting Apache Big-Data Stack

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus has unveiled a new campaign targeting Apache big-data stack, specifically Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the attacker exploits existing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within our Apache cloud honeypots to execute the attacks.

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For Seed Startups, A Time Of Extended Adolescence And Extra-Large Financings

Crunchbase News

For some rites of passage — such as learning to drive or casting a vote — the age when one may begin is clear. For other stops on the path from youth to adulthood — like no longer ordering off the kids’ menu or trick-or-treating on Halloween — the delineation is fuzzier. One stops when it feels right. Among startups, maturing out of seed-stage looks much the same.

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Fast-growing Zig tops Stack Overflow survey for highest-paid programming language

InfoWorld

Zig has topped an annual Stack Overflow survey in the category of highest-paid programming technology, making the relative newcomer to the scene a solid investment for developers who are looking for gainful employment in application development. Developers programming in Zig—an all-purpose language that offers an alternative to C —earned upwards of $103,611 in 2023, according to the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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UScellular and Palo Alto Networks Join Forces to Secure 5G

Palo Alto Networks

Remember when securing your network meant throwing up a firewall and calling it a day? Well, the cellular network industry has evolved, and so have the threats. A decade back, UScellular’s quest for IT security solutions ignited a long-standing partnership with Palo Alto Networks. Now, UScellular and Palo Alto Networks are teaming up once again to tackle the ever-growing security challenges of LTE, 5G and Gi-LAN networks.

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Google stresses safety with Gemma open models

InfoWorld

Google has unveiled Gemma , a family of open models designed to assist developers and researchers enganged in responsible AI development. Google said the Gemma models were created from the same research and technology used to create its Gemini models. Described as a new generation of models, Gemma is a family of lightweight models developed by Google DeepMind and other teams across Google.

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DevOps: What’s the End Goal?

DevOps.com

Don MacVittie asks the existential question: What, exactly, are we trying to achieve through DevOps' integration with AI?

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Functional programming with JavaScript arrays

InfoWorld

JavaScript arrays are an incredibly flexible way to model collections using techniques from functional programming. This article introduces you to using tools like forEach() , map() , and reduce() for functional-style arrays. Traditional JavaScript arrays JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Great Leaders Balance Ambition with Humility

Harvard Business Review

How to find a better balance between our desire to achieve and the qualities that earn more respect from colleagues.

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What is NumPy? Faster array and matrix math in Python

InfoWorld

Python is convenient and flexible, yet notably slower than other languages for raw computational speed. The Python ecosystem has compensated with tools that make crunching numbers at scale in Python both fast and convenient. NumPy is one of the most common Python tools developers and data scientists use for assistance with computing at scale. It provides libraries and techniques for working with arrays and matrices, all backed by code written in high-speed languages like C, C++, and Fortran.

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The Impostor Syndrome in IT: 7 Tips to Overcome It

Apiumhub

If you are working in the IT industry, you have probably suffered from the Impostor Syndrome. The Impostor syndrome in IT is characterized by a persistent and irrational belief that one is not as competent as others perceive them to be. Individuals experiencing impostor syndrome in IT often doubt their skills, knowledge, and accomplishments, attributing their success to luck or external factors rather than their abilities.

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ChatGPT has meltdown and starts sending alarming messages to users

Ooda Loop

ChatGPT appears to have broken, providing users with rambling responses of gibberish. In recent hours, the artificial intelligence tool appears to be answering queries with long and nonsensical messages, talking Spanglish without prompting – as well as worrying users, by suggesting that it is in the room with them.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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How to Build — and Maintain — Relationships with Your Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Learn how to communicate with your investors to meet their needs — without needing to change your strategy.

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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture

Confluent

Discover how to build resilient data pipelines with Confluent Data Portal. Learn essential strategies for isolating upstream systems and empowering downstream consumers.

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How to Build Teams With the Right Mix of Skills

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Building a high-performing team involves hiring people with technical, functional, and cultural skills. As the leader of a high-performing team, you’re personally responsible for making sure your team has the required set of skills to succeed and execute against all the initiatives that you have on your prioritization list. You need to evaluate your team’s mission.

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