Fri.Mar 22, 2024

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Don’t Wait for a Crisis to Reduce Costs

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who take a hard, holistic look across their cost base will find opportunities to reposition their companies for future growth. But they must act boldly and decisively to achieve a competitive cost position. In this article, the authors discuss five critical actions that CEOs and other executives can take to tackle cost challenges. Collectively, these measures help organizations sustain efficiency and redirect resources to invest in innovation, promote growth, and capture value.

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Deutsche Telekom calls on SAP for Rise all-in-one offer

CIO

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Deutsche Telekom intends to migrate systems used by its European operating companies to Rise over the next two years. It’s following in the footsteps of IBM and Microsoft, which like the German telco have an edge over regular companies contemplating a similar move to Rise in that they have their own clouds in which to host the applications and their own IT services divisions to make the move.

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Discover the Power of Meaningful Work in the Era of AI

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, you’ll join David Dye as he hosts Ed Hess, author of “Own Your Work Journey,” in a deep dive into discovering the power of meaningful work in the era of Ai. Ed explores the crucial role of critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and trade jobs in the era of smart technology. Ed gives you the tools to take ownership of your thinking, listening, and collaboration skills so you can thrive even during fast technological change.

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The big changes forcing PostNord to digitally restructure

CIO

Digitization is changing business models, particularly at PostNord, where it’s seen a continuous reduction in national letters sent that’s in line with the long-term digitization trend. For over 20 years, the volume of letters has dropped by 65%, which has led to delivery now only taking place every other day. By contrast, the growth of e-commerce has exponentially increased the number of packages.

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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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Executive Search Consultancy: Your Partner in Leadership Excellence

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Leadership Excellence in Organizations Effective leadership is the driving force behind an organization’s success, helping to steer it toward its goals and navigate the complexities of the market. It is the foundation upon which high-performing teams are built, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth. A strong leader inspires and motivates employees, creating a sense of purpose and commitment that leads to increased engagement and productivity.

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Navigating New Horizons: Leadership Skills for a Transforming World

N2Growth Blog

Facing a whirlwind of change in our era, the essence of leadership remains constant. It is embodied in the timeless mandate of “leading by example.” However, the landscapes by which leaders operate are anything but static as we enter 2024. The terrain is treacherous and ever-shifting, from the rise of right-wing politics to conflicts spanning continents and through the quicksand of global crises, including housing, migration, and energy.

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4 Experiments to Encourage Employees’ Career Progress

Harvard Business Review

The authors worked with 15 organizations and over 7,000 employees to experiment with ways to increase internal career development opportunities and prove promotion isn’t the only way people can advance. They found that when organizations enable ways to progress that go beyond promotion, it unlocks the flow of talent, skills, and strengths. Employees gain opportunities to grow, develop in different directions, and increase their career resilience.

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Building Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: A Look into N2Growth’s Executive Coaching

N2Growth Blog

Executive coaching, a synergistic alliance between a professional coach and an executive or a team, is designed to tap into the inherent potential of the coachee to enhance performance, learning, and development. Rooted in psychology, business, and organizational behavior, this unique approach enables individuals and teams to uncover their innate capabilities, challenges their perspectives, and fosters a culture of sustainable organizational growth.

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Fighting Loneliness on Remote Teams

Harvard Business Review

Remote work offers many benefits, but the lack of community – compared to in-person environments – can cause some workers to feel isolated and lonely. These feelings can impact job performance, sometimes significantly. This article will share four evidence-based strategies that leaders and managers can use to build community in their remote teams. These strategies include reflecting on what’s working for your team, recognizing your team in a meaningful way, providing support for career developme

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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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Cloudera’s RHEL-volution: Powering the Cloud with Red Hat

Cloudera

As enterprise AI technologies rapidly reshape our digital environment, the foundation of your cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. That’s why Cloudera and Red Hat , renowned for their open-source solutions, have teamed up to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) to Cloudera on public cloud as the operating system for all of our public cloud platform images.

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OpenAI Reportedly Prepares for Upcoming Launch of Advanced GPT-5 Model

Ooda Loop

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company led by Sam Altman, is reportedly preparing to release GPT-5, the next generation of its multimodal large language model, in the coming months. According to a Business Insider report citing two people familiar with the company, OpenAI could introduce GPT-5 sometime over the summer.

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Future of Authentication: What Enterprises Need to Know about Passkeys

IDC

Passwords are becoming obsolete; passkeys present a superior security alternative, yet their adoption faces hurdles, rendering a full transition improbable in the near term despite increasing acceptance.

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Edge Computing Requires DevOps at Scale

DevOps.com

The rise of edge computing will drive a long-overdue convergence of DevOps, data engineering, security, networking, OT and MLOps best practices.

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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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All Aboard! Visualize Business Impact with the Enterprise Cloud Transit Map

Perficient

Cloud modernization is the primary driver of digital transformation and impactful business value. Cloud platforms have evolved from core technology to disruptive ecosystems of strategic advantage. Migration and modernization are vital to reach new markets, deliver innovative products, improve resiliency, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences.

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5 Kinds of Ownership Roles in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

One of the common unspoken tensions in a family business is the reality that different owners — and future owners — don’t all want to be involved in the same way. But too often those desires and expectations are not discussed or normalized. The author outlines five different types of family business owners, whose involvement ranges from passive to operational.

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Is Kubernetes worth it?

InfoWorld

I’ll go ahead and say it: When looking closer at the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with Kubernetes , more traditional development methods still have compelling advantages. As we’re wrapping up another KubeCon , perhaps it is time to dig into this. This is a rare position to take. I’ve used containers and Kubernetes since they first appeared on the cloud computing scene many years ago.

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Now Is The Defining Moment For The Tech Sector To Rebuild Trust 

Crunchbase News

By Lisette Paras It’s been a bumpy 2024 for the technology sector. Well over 30,000 tech workers have been laid off in the U.S. alone this year , adding to the nearly 200,000 workers affected in 2023. And when the majority of Americans believe that Big Tech has “too much power,” while crowds set fire to a Waymo driverless vehicle, it’s clear that trust in tech is ebbing.

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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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Java 22 brings security enhancements

InfoWorld

Java Development Kit (JDK) 22 , released by Oracle March 19 as the latest version of standard Java, offers a number of security enhancements, covering areas ranging from an asymmetric key interface to a new security option for -XshowSettings that allows developers to easily display security-related settings. In a March 20 blog post on Oracle’s inside.java web page , Sean Mullan, technical lead of the Java Security libraries team and lead of the OpenJDK Security Group, detailed the security enhan

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Integration of AI Tools With SAP ABAP Programming

Dzone - DevOps

As the landscape of enterprise technology evolves, the marriage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is reshaping the way businesses approach software development within the SAP ecosystem. This article delves into the groundbreaking integration of AI with SAP ABAP programming, exploring how this fusion is revolutionizing SAP development processes.

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Vue team releases VitePress 1.0 static site generator

InfoWorld

The developers of the Vue JavaScript framework have launched VitePress 1.0 , a static site generator (SSG) for building fast, content-centric websites. Built on top of Vue and the Vite build tool (pronounced “veet”), VitePress takes source content written in Markdown, applies a theme, and generates static HTML pages for deployment. VitePress 1.0, announced March 21, is the “spiritual” successor and replacement of the VuePress static site generator , Vue creator Evan You wrote in a blog post.

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An Explanation of Jenkins Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is paramount. Automating repetitive tasks is key to achieving faster delivery cycles and improved quality. This is where Jenkins comes in — a free and open-source automation server that has become synonymous with continuous integration ( CI ) and continuous delivery ( CD ). Jenkins, the open-source automation powerhouse, plays a pivotal role in the DevOps world.

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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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Time to Extend DevOps Visibility to the Network Edge

DevOps.com

Any comprehensive approach to observability needs to include an analysis of the internet services upon which organizations depend.

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Nutanix sues DBaaS startup Tessell for IP theft

InfoWorld

Datacenter and hybrid multi-cloud software provider Nutanix has filed a lawsuit against database-as-a-service (DBaaS) providing startup, Tessell, alleging that its products were built using Nutanix’s source code and other resources. The lawsuit , more significantly, is targeted at the three co-founders of the San Francisco-headquartered Tessell, including Bala Kuchibhotla, Kamaldeep Khanuja, and Bakul Banthia.

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Cloudera Recognized as a Great Place to Work in Ireland and Costa Rica

Cloudera

We’re excited to announce that Cloudera has been named the Best Medium Workplace in Ireland , one of the Best Workplaces in Costa Rica , and one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces for Women for 2024. These recognitions underscore Cloudera’s ongoing efforts to prioritize employee well-being, professional development, and collaborative work environments.

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Swarm Intelligence and Network Swarms: Future Scenarios

Ooda Loop

The concept of network swarms, particularly in the context of modern conflict and security, represents a fascinating and somewhat disorientating evolution in the dynamics of warfare and strategic operations. The implications of swarm intelligence also extend beyond these immediate scenarios in technology and defense. They challenge our traditional notions of intelligence, control, and organization, suggesting that in certain contexts, decentralized and distributed approaches can outperform cen

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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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Recognizing Our Partners’ Achievements: The Dataiku Partner Network Awards!

Dataiku

Earlier this month at our Dataiku Partner Network Virtual Kickoff , I had the pleasure to announce our 2024 Dataiku Partner Network Awards, a favorite event of the year for me! The past year has seen an explosion of AI interests in the market — particularly with the ever-evolving Generative AI advancements — and we at Dataiku feel incredibly honored to have such a thriving ecosystem of partners across our cloud, ISV, consulting, and reseller partners.

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In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent

Ooda Loop

When it comes to the artificial intelligence that powers chatbots, China lags behind the United States. However, when it comes to producing the scientists behind a new generation of humanoid technologies, China is pulling ahead.

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OpenTelemetry Project Maintainers Add Code Profiling Capabilities

DevOps.com

OpenTelemetry maintainers added profiling capabilities to enable DevOps teams to identify the root cause of issues down to a specific line of code.

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