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6 key considerations for selecting an AI systems vendor

CIO

Many IT leaders are responding to C-suite pressure for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by increasing the organization’s AI investment in 2024. They’re finding that AI success is a complex task, and they need all they help they can get. Choosing the right AI systems vendor – one with the right capabilities – won’t solve all these issues. But it can simplify achieving your AI goals.

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Avoiding Conflicts: Corporate Culture vs. Local Culture

N2Growth Blog

Corporate and local cultures consist of several dimensions, and this is not limited to any of our global headquarters, which, like many global firms, can experience challenges aligning with foreign branches. Even our headquarters in the Netherlands, which have domestic offices, face challenges in maintaining consistency in their operations. Ernst Gleijm , Senior Partner at N2Growth, notes that operating from the same perspective with a unified message is essential, avoiding communication disturb

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CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

CIO

Amid the turbulence of AI, technologies are emerging rapidly, startups are clamoring for attention, and hyperscalers are scrambling to corral market share. It’s an environment that taxes the decision-making skills of the even the most savvy CIOs. But ready or not, choices with far-reaching repercussions must be made. And standing still is not an option.

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Executive Search in Life Sciences: Identifying Leaders Aligned to Innovation and Growth

N2Growth Blog

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences. As an experienced talent leader in professional services and executive search, and having come from years of experience working within and advising in the sector, I know how crucial attracting top

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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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ASUS unveils powerful, cost-effective AI servers based on modular design

CIO

For successful AI deployments, IT leaders not only need the latest GPU/CPU silicon, they also need artificial intelligence (AI) servers that establish a foundation. That means hardware designed from the ground up for maximum performance, data center integration, AI development support, optimal cooling, and easy vertical and horizontal scaling. ASUS’ collaboration with AI chip leader NVIDIA makes this all possible.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO

We’re at a critical time for digital transformation. Every business in some form or another is looking to adopt and integrate emerging technologies—whether that’s artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud architectures, or advanced data analytics—to help achieve a competitive edge and reach key operational goals. But while there’s plenty of excitement and change underway, security risks and vulnerabilities have continued to follow right alongside that innovation.

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Simplifying AI in the Enterprise: The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies announces the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, the industry's first end-to-end enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to address the complex needs of enterprises.

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Technology’s role in social sustainability

CIO

Technology has a critical role to play in any organization’s social sustainability strategy. And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. In North America, 59 percent of C-suite executives surveyed said digital innovation is essential for achieving their social sustainability goals.

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From Misunderstanding to Mastery: Four Dimensions to Transform Your Cross Cultural Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. You can achieve these outcomes when you recognize the challenges and focus on four dimensions of team collaboration. That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization.

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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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SAP and Nvidia expand partnership to aid customers with gen AI

CIO

SAP and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership today with an eye to deliver the accelerated computing that customers need in order to adopt large language models (LLMs) and generative AI at scale. Under the partnership, SAP is integrating Nvidia’s generative AI foundry service, including the newly announced Nvidia NIM inference microservices, into SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), RISE with SAP, and SAP’s enterprise applications portfolio.

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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The results are always disappointing: a lot of creative ideas, but a failure to deliver meaningful growth. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. To succeed, corporate innovation needs to be bounded by a clear set of strategic priorities that matter to the business.

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ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On

CIO

Brea, California, February 26th, 2024, Cyberwire The current large surge in cyber threats has left many organizations grappling for security so ThreatHunter.ai is taking decisive action. Recognizing the critical juncture at which the digital world stands, ThreatHunter.ai is now offering their cutting-edge cybersecurity services free of charge to all organizations for 30 days, irrespective of their current cybersecurity measures.

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How to Fix Your Company’s Culture of Overwork

Harvard Business Review

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees. In her new book, Never Not Working, Malissa Clark offers a three-step process for organizations to reverse this unhealthy relationship: 1) Assess your company’s baseline level of overwork and its origins; 2) Plan for incremental change by targeting places where change will be most effective soonest; and 3) Execute a trial experiment, learn, and iterate.

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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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L’attenzione dei CIO verso l’espandersi del SaaS

CIO

Dopo anni di strategie incentrate sull’adozione di soluzioni cloud point, i CIO si trovano sempre più spesso a dover gestire un conto in sospeso: la razionalizzazione, la gestione e l’integrazione di una serie sempre più ampia di offerte SaaS, molte delle quali non sono state introdotte da loro stessi nel patrimonio cloud dell’azienda. Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub e ServiceNow sono solo alcuni dei molti vendor, le cui “nuvole” costituiscono oggi la nuova spina dorsal

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A VC Firm Tracked 200+ Startups Through The Chaos Of Growing Fast. Here’s What It Found.

Crunchbase News

How do successful startup founders scale their companies during the hectic, fast-growth early days between zero and 1,000 employees? To answer that question and offer guidance to startup founders on how to grow their businesses through that tumultuous early period, venture firm Index Ventures tracked 210 startups as they grew to their first 1,000 employees.

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Data replication holds the key to hybrid cloud effectiveness

CIO

At the heart of every business decision, regardless of industry or sector, is data. It’s what business leaders rely on to show them where gaps in knowledge and opportunities for growth exist within their own organizations. As more businesses look to carve out an advantage in an increasingly competitive market, many are turning toward cloud computing—particularly hybrid cloud approaches that blend the power of the mainframe with the innovation of the cloud—to make the most of their data.

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Is Your AI-First Strategy Causing More Problems Than It’s Solving?

Harvard Business Review

The problem with an AI-first strategy lies not within the “AI” but with the notion that it should come “first” aspect. An AI-first approach can be myopic, potentially leading us to overlook the true purpose of technology: to serve and enhance human endeavors. Instead, the author recommends following 3Ps during an AI transformation: problem-centric, people-first, and principle-driven.

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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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Nvidia AI Enterprise adds generative AI microservices

CIO

Version 5.0 of Nvidia’s enterprise-spanning AI software platform will feature a smorgasbord of microservices designed to speed app development and provide quick ways to ramp up deployments, the company announced today at its GPU Technology Conference. These microservices are provided as downloadable software containers used to deploy enterprise applications, Nvidia said in an official blog post.

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Dell PowerEdge AI Acceleration Announcements at NVIDIA GTC

Dell EMC

Dell PowerEdge announcements at NVIDIA GTC include new eight-way GPU options, Ethernet AI fabrics and a peek at Dell's first ARM CPU.

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Exposure to new workplace technologies linked to lower quality of life

CIO

Exposure to new technologies such as trackers, robots, and AI software in the workplace work is linked with lower quality of life for workers, a UK study has found. The Institute for the Future of Work surveyed over 6,000 people and examined how four types of technologies that are becoming more common in the workplace affected their well-being. The researchers discovered that workers who used three of these technologies — AI and machine learning software, wearable trackers for surveillance, and

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I’m So Old: Web Edition

David Walsh

Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still remember my first day at my first coding job, then my first day at my second coding job, and then my first day at Mozilla. I still remember my first day coding for MetaMask. This year marks my 20th year as a professional software engineer and it’s happened in the blink of an eye.

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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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Indian government asks genAI developers to self-regulate

CIO

Developers of risky generative AI models are now free to release them without government approval, but are being encouraged to self-regulate by adding labels to the output of their models warning of their potential unreliability. In a reversal of its previous stance , The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued a fresh advisory on March 15, abandoning a requirement mandating government approval for AI models under development.

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Evaluating databases for sensor data

InfoWorld

The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, including cars, factory machinery, turbine engines, and spacecraft, continuously collect data that developers leverage to optimize efficiency and power AI systems. So, it’s no surprise that time series—the type of data these sensors collect—is one of the fastest-growing categories of databases over the past five-plus years.

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Gen AI’s ultimate potential? Hive mind teamwork

CIO

Under a sun-bleached tent outside Baghdad, we came to a grim conclusion: Our elite counterterrorism teams (JSOC) — composed of the best-equipped forces in history — were losing to an enemy armed with tech you could fish out of a bargain bin. This enemy could form a plan, execute it on the battlefield, and be onto their next target before we knew what was happening.

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Integrating Snowflake With Trino

Dzone - DevOps

In today's discourse, we delve into the intricacies of accessing Snowflake via the Trino project. This article illuminates the seamless integration of Trino with Snowflake, offering a comprehensive analysis of its benefits and implications.

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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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3 Ways Your Enterprise Commerce Platform Can Make You More Money

CIO

Too many enterprise businesses have been held back by their commerce technology. Increasing tech debt, disparate sales channels, costly innovation to improve customer experiences, and worst of all: a high total cost of ownership (TCO). It’s time to put an end to that era. Modern enterprises require a cost-effective, high-converting platform to outpace competitors.

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False Smiles, Real Consequences: The Impact of Toxic Positivity

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Explore the shift from toxic positivity to authenticity in the workplace, fostering genuine connections and a culture of empathy. Today’s guest post is b y Satyen Raja, Leadership Coach and Founder of WarriorSage. In an era where the corporate mantra often echoes the need for unwavering positivity, we find ourselves grappling with the unintended consequences of this singular focus.

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Aembit Announces New Workload IAM Integration with CrowdStrike to Help Enterprises Secure Workload-to-Workload Access

CIO

Silver Spring, Maryland, January 30th, 2024, Cyberwire Aembit Becomes the First Workload IAM Platform to Integrate with the Industry-Leading CrowdStrike Falcon Platform to Drive Workload Conditional Access Aembit , the Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform that enables DevOps and security teams to discover, manage, enforce and audit access between workloads, today announced the availability of a new integration with the industry-leading CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to give enter