Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2024

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Specifically, both B2C and B2B companies who view branding and advertising as a top two growth strategy are twice as likely to see revenue growth of 5% or more than those that don’t (67% to 33%). Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

IT industry researchers believe the biggest impact of gen AI this year will be in customer experience (CX), with organizations using vast amounts of data to communicate with consumers and resolve problems faster. Technology specialist Salesforce reports that more than two-thirds of service professionals believe gen AI will help them serve their customers better, while Forrester expects it to give CX teams a huge boost through 2024.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 6, 2024

When pair programming, it's important to rotate the pairs frequently, but many organizations that do pair programming are reluctant to do that. Gabriel Robaina and Kieran Murphy ask the question: “What if we rotate pairs every day?” and worked with three teams through an exercise of daily pair rotation. They developed a lightweight methodology to help teams reflect on the benefits and challenges of pairing and how to solve them.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Operational technology (OT) organizations face increasing challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. Manufacturing in particular has become a bigger target for bad actors; in fact, it was one of the sectors most impacted by extortion attacks, according to Palo Alto Networks’ 2023 Unit 42 Extortion and Ransomware Report. As Industry 4.0 continues to roll out, the internet of things (IoT) is expanding, and manufacturing organizations are using the latest technologies to scale.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

Professional relationships, like all interpersonal connections, tend to form between individuals who are similar to each other. And having a fixed belief that relationships tend to develop spontaneously can inhibit one from reaching out and building diverse relationships. A study indicates that embracing a growth mindset — believing that relationships can be cultivated through effort — can pave the way for boundary spanning networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2024

Visibility in the workplace isn’t nice to have, it’s a necessity. Being seen and recognized for your work can open doors to new opportunities and propel your career forward. But that doesn’t have to come at the cost of becoming someone you’re not. Even as an introvert, you can find ways to play to your strengths. In this article, the author outlines five strategies to boost your visibility: 1) Speak up early in meetings. 2) Take the pressure off. 3) Ditch self-deprecation. 4) Leverage async meth

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 6, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. Read previous interviews with General Catalyst , Bessemer Venture Partners , Accel , Insight Partners , Index Ventures , Sequoia Capital , Section 32 , M12 and Sapphire Ventures as well as highlights from these stories from 2023.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Hybrid and remote working have become a permanent feature for the majority of businesses, as shown by multiple studies. However, for IT teams changing working models represent a challenge. Security professionals must adapt controls to a world where the perimeter is distributed, and users can log into corporate resources from any network and any device.

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 6, 2024

As an OODAcon 2023 panelists notes: We are fast approaching a “tipping point” – when non-human generated content will vastly outnumber the amount of human generated content. A general quantitative validation has also been floating around: “90% of Online Content will be AI-generated by 2026”. We took the time to validate this quant and flesh out one of the sub-themes from the OODA Almanac 2024 - – The Anti-content Movement: “In the deluge of content generated by AI, the human element becomes a c

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Work has fundamentally shifted in today’s post-pandemic world. For example, 40% of employees no longer have a dedicated desk, according to research from Start Standing. In addition, a study by Harvard Business Review in 2023 found senior executives expect remote and hybrid work to continue to grow over the next five years. At the same time, hybrid work has also affected IT teams.

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Perficient

MARCH 6, 2024

In December 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services released a bulletin announcing additional compliance requirements for healthcare marketers when it comes to third-party trackers. The guidance lays forth expectations for how healthcare organizations collect data on activities that take place on their website and mobile apps. So, what’s the problem?

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

The concept of the circular economy has gained significant attention in recent years as the world continues to grapple with environmental issues. We currently exist in what’s known as a linear economy, where finite resources are extracted to make products that are used and then thrown away. In contrast, the circular economy is a system based on the regeneration of materials or products, especially as a means of continuing production in a sustainable or environmentally friendly way.

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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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Tenable

MARCH 6, 2024

Two vulnerabilities with publicly available exploit code in JetBrains TeamCity on-premises software could result in attackers bypassing authentication and achieving code execution. Background On March 4, JetBrains published a blog post regarding two security issues affecting TeamCity On-Premises , a software solution for build management. The issues were disclosed to JetBrains in February by the researchers who discovered these vulnerabilities.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

How is that five-year playbook you drew up 3 years ago looking today? Chances are that your projections for facilities, IT, staffing, and supply chain all turned upside down. The reality is that you need a whole new kind of blueprint today—not one that attempts to dictate a fixed future but rather one that prepares your business to thrive in this era of uncertainty.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 6, 2024

AISecOps, the application of DevSecOps principles to AI/ML and generative AI, means integrating security into models' life cycles.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

La quantità di aziende che hanno già implementato l’intelligenza artificiale generativa o che la stanno esplorando in modo attivo sta crescendo in maniera esponenziale. Se guardiamo al recente passato, nel novembre del 2022, il suo tasso di utilizzo era quasi, limitato com’era ai generatori di immagini o di testi, cioè gli unici strumenti allora disponibili.

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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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Cloudera

MARCH 6, 2024

As we enter into a new month, the Cloudera team is getting ready to head off to the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida for one of the most important events of the year for Chief Data Analytics Officers (CDAOs) and the field of data and analytics. We’re at a crucial point in time where the excitement and potential surrounding AI has elevated the importance of improving access to the mission-critical data that helps organizations implement it at scale.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

No matter where you conduct work – in the office, at a customer’s location, in your home or a combination of these settings – your computing devices must live up to your needs and expectations. That might mean, for example, that your laptop or PC should deliver: Long battery life to sustain lengthy video conferencing calls when you’re on the road Seamless connectivity with a webcam or printer High-quality audio and video functionality for virtual meetings with colleagues An attractive, easy fit

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Dell EMC

MARCH 6, 2024

Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike expand their partnership by adding CrowdStrike Falcon XDR to Managed Detection and Response.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Over the past few years, more businesses have adopted digital workspaces to enable a seamless and productive hybrid work experience. As a result, chief information officers (CIOs) and ITDMs have had to pivot their strategies so they can choose software to securely deploy and manage digital workspaces at scale. This is an IT reality that is unlikely to change.

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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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DevOps.com

MARCH 6, 2024

Paris, France, March 7th, 2024, Cyberwire Company Open Sources FHE Libraries to Build Privacy-Preserving Blockchain and AI Applications for the First Time. Investment secured to bring Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to the fore, giving developers the ability to address data privacy challenges across blockchain and AI use cases.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite growing interest in “as a service” consumption models for everything from infrastructure to storage, most enterprises have continued to procure, maintain, and manage endpoint devices in-house. But as the security threat landscape becomes more complicated, and hybrid and remote working models take root at scale, IT leaders are questioning this traditional approach to device management.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 6, 2024

Mainframes and containers represent two distinct yet impactful elements in today's modern computing architecture. Mainframes are powerful, centralized computing systems known for their reliability, scalability, and ability to handle massive workloads. While containers, on the other hand, have emerged as a lightweight and flexible solution for deploying, scaling, and managing cloud native applications across various environments.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

We may just have a time machine, for we are in the future! The stage is set, and the clocks are ticking down to India CIO Summit 2024, to be held at the JW Marriott, Aerocity in India’s capital New Delhi on March 14 and 15, 2024 by IDC and Foundry, heralding the theme, The Future of IT: Rethinking Digitalization for an AI Everywhere World. Industries are ramping up to new technology, as digitalization has brought challenges and opportunities galore.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 6, 2024

Salesforce has released Einstein 1 Studio , a set of low-code development tools that allow Salesforce admins and developers to customize the Einstein Copilot conversational AI assistant for CRM and embed AI functionality into apps. Einstein 1 Studio was unveiled March 6. The toolkit features Copilot Builder, for building custom AI actions to accomplish specific business tasks; Prompt Builder, for building custom prompts in the flow of work; and Model Builder, for building and managing AI models.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

The workplace has fundamentally changed. Rapid adoption of remote work during the pandemic proved that organizations could be successful and employees productive and happy while working outside of the office. But the long-term reality for many companies is that employees aren’t working exclusively in offices or at home. If a workplace is no longer a fixed, physical area, what is it?

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InfoWorld

MARCH 6, 2024

Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said their companies plan to add Java developers this year, while a bit less than half plan to increase their Java tool budget. These findings were included the 2024 Java Productivity Report from development tools provider Perforce Software, released March 5. Overall, the survey found that investments in Java tools and talent were on the rise.

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