Fri.Jan 19, 2024

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12 data science certifications that will pay off

CIO

Data scientist is one of the hottest jobs in IT. Companies are increasingly eager to hire data professionals who can make sense of the wide array of data the business collects. If you’re looking to get into this lucrative field, or want to stand out from the competition, certification can be key. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts employment of data scientists will grow 35% from 2022 to 2032, with about 17,000 openings projected on average each year.

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How to Interact With a Highly Sensitive Person

Xebia

In a world that seems to be constantly buzzing, it’s normal to feel busy and stressed. But if you feel tired, overwhelmed, and overstimulated most of the time, you might have sensory-processing sensitivity. Hi, I’m Rachèl, and I’m a Highly Sensitive Person. I’m not embarrassed to admit that because it’s actually my superpower.

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Yogurt maker stirs in SAP to boost its demand planning capability

CIO

In 1919, Isaac Carasso was on a mission. Using cultures from the Pasteur Institute, he created yogurt to help improve the health of children with gut issues in Barcelona. At that time, yogurt was not widely known in the region as a food item. Instead, he sold his product as a medicine to pharmacies. Over the years, Carasso’s mission turned into a global, diversified business named Danone that today offers products such as yogurt, soy milk, water, and early life and medical nutrition to consum

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Agile doesn’t create future-proof organizations

Xebia

Authors Riët Broekhuizen and Ellen Barree A fourth industrial revolution is happening, challenging organizations to implement radical change. The fusion and exponential growth of technologies that allow man and machine to "merge" will impact society, organizations, and people in ways we can barely imagine. Consider, for example, the impact of smart devices in your home, voice control, self-propelled trucks, robot receptionists, and AI.

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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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Stakeholder management: Your guide to influencing project outcomes

CIO

Stakeholder management is vital to project success. When key individuals are informed and on task, projects run smoothly. But when those impacted by or have an impact on a project are left out, the project can fall apart. Many project managers struggle to implement effective stakeholder management, despite its importance. Often, this is a top-down issue, starting with the CIO.

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CISOs are not just the keepers of our data – they must be its custodians

CIO

The frequency and sophistication of cybercrime have risen enormously in recent years. According to Deep Instinct’s research , 75% of security professionals observed an increase in cyberattacks in 2023, with 85% of them attributing the rise to generative AI. These attacks come in various formats, often including accessing private data through phishing, which AI is making harder and harder to detect.

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Deploy an Astro Site to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions

Xebia

Astro is a modern front-end framework for building fast, optimized websites. It allows you to write components using your favorite JavaScript framework (like React, Vue, or Svelte), but renders them as static HTML at build time for faster page loads. Additionally, Astro offers server-side rendering capabilities, and integrates well with popular tools and frameworks, enhancing performance and SEO.

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Game on: The evolution of gaming through generative AI innovation

CIO

You step forward into a dark, lush forest, steeped in fog. Except for the trees, you are alone–and without tools or resources. You must create your very own reality and adventure, using your hands to build a virtual world by relentlessly punching the trees. You take a deep breath and begin…BAM! If you’re a video gamer or gaming company, you can likely relate to this scene.

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Remote Team Building: How Do I Stay Connected with My Virtual Team?

Let's Grow Leaders

Remote Team Building Insights from the Muppets Are you struggling with remote team building? You’re not alone. Even Kermit the Frog (or someone with an uncanny resemblance) faces this challenge. He’s #AskingforaFriend , but we know it’s a common query: How do you foster remote team building and bonding? If you’re like so many for whom remote work and hybrid teams is the new normal, here are a few fun and practical tips to keep your remote teams engaged and connected is mo

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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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The NIS2 Directive: why cyber-resilience is the new normal for European organisations

CIO

Due to be adopted as law by member states by October 2024, the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS2) Directive is the most important cybersecurity legislation ever enacted across member states. While the original NIS1 Directive of 2016 was viewed as a major evolution in cybersecurity regulation, a lot has changed since then, particularly assumptions about the risk posed by an expanding range of cyberattacks.

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7 Steps to Repair a Damaged Business Partnership

Harvard Business Review

No long-term partnership — personal or professional — is without challenges. Getting key issues on the table in a timely way and having open, direct, and respectful conversations can reduce frustrations and facilitate needed change. In this article, the authors outline seven steps to take if your business partnership has gotten rocky.

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Start your zero-trust journey with ZTNA over VPN

CIO

Zero trust is a cybersecurity framework that assumes that no user should be automatically trusted. By 2025, Gartner analysts predict that 60% of organizations 1 will be adopting zero-trust principles. Yet, it can be difficult to implement a full blown zero-trust architecture because IT teams often must first retool systems and deploy many new components.

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AI Breakthroughs and Promising Partnerships: What You Need to Know

Ooda Loop

We have separated the wheat from the chaff in the AI ecosystem, surfacing and highlighting some of the most prescient AI/ML breakthroughs, partnerships, and evolving threats for the OODA Loop readership. Details here.

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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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How to Vet a Corporate Intelligence Vendor

Harvard Business Review

Demand for intelligence vendors is substantial and increasing. In 2022, global cyber threat intelligence was estimated to be a $4.93 billion industry, and U.S. security services was a whopping $48.1 billion. Geopolitical and security risk intelligence is an unquantified but essential and rapidly growing part of the story. But how do you know whether an intelligence vendor aligns with your company’s needs, risk tolerance, and ethics?

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Flexport Raising $260M From Shopify — Report

Crunchbase News

Logistics giant Flexport is raising $260 million from partner and e-commerce titan Shopify after burning through hundreds of millions of dollars last year, per a report in The Information. The huge fundraising event is just the latest headline for the San Francisco-based startup that hit a peak valuation of $8 billion almost exactly two years ago after raising a massive $935 million round.

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Deep Dive into IBM Sterling Certified Containers and Cloud Solutions

Perficient

Many retailers are embarking on a digital transformation to modernize and scale their order management system (OMS) solution. Built on a modern architecture, the solution wraps Docker containers around order management business services. This architecture streamlines application management and the release of new functionality. The container technology also supports varying levels of technical acumen, business continuity, security, and compliance.

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AI Startup Cohere Reportedly Looking To Raise $500M To $1B 

Crunchbase News

Nearly three weeks into the new year, and there have been no huge rounds for any AI startups. That may be about to change, as Reuters reported Toronto-based Cohere is in discussions to raise between $500 million and $1 billion. The news comes just about a month after it was reported another AI startup, Anthropic , was in discussions to raise $750 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures.

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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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Generative AI Revolution: A Comparative Analysis

Perficient

In the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new era of large language models has emerged with the remarkable capabilities. ChatGPT , Gemini , Bard and Copilot have made an impact in the way we interact with mobile device and web technologies. We will perform a comparative analysis to highlight the capabilities of each tool. ChatGPT Gemini Bard Copilot Training Data Web Web Web Web Accuracy 85% 85% 70% 80% Recall 85% 95% 75% 82% Precision 89% 90% 75% 90% F1 Score 91% 92% 75% 84% Mu

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Unpacking the GigaOm Radar report on CWS: 5 insights every security leader should know

Lacework

The financial and reputational toll of a data breach or falling short on compliance can be severe. That’s why Cloud Workload Security (CWS) isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a must. CWS solutions are key in spotting vulnerabilities, reacting to threats promptly, and ensuring your organization stays on the right side of compliance. With threats constantly changing and technologies like AI becoming key players, it’s important to know who’s who in Cloud Workload Securi

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Quantinuum Locks Up Huge $300M Round On Promise Of Quantum Computing

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. The second full week of the new year proved to be pretty slow.

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What is RAG? More accurate and reliable LLMs

InfoWorld

In an exercise in dogfooding, I asked the GPT-4 large language model “What is retrieval-augmented generation?” using its Browse plug-in, which is one implementation of retrieval-augmented generation. This is what GPT-4 eventually told me, after I asked it to regenerate its answer: -- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI framework that significantly impacts the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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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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Revolutionizing Kubernetes With K8sGPT: A Deep Dive Into AI-Driven Insights

Dzone - DevOps

In the ever-evolving landscape of Kubernetes (K8s), the introduction of AI-driven technologies continues to reshape the way we manage and optimize containerized applications. K8sGPT, a cutting-edge platform powered by artificial intelligence , takes center stage in this transformation. This article explores the key features, benefits, and potential applications of K8sGPT in the realm of Kubernetes orchestration.

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Visual Studio upgrade boosts Code Search

InfoWorld

With the just-released Preview 3 of the planned Visual Studio 2022 17.9 upgrade, Microsoft has enhanced Code Search, also known as the All-In-One Search experience. The third preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.9 was launched January 17 and can be downloaded at the Visual Studio website. The improvements to Code Search allow Visual Studio users to search for any word or string of characters across their solution, supplementing file and symbol results from their codebase.

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Unlocking Accountability: How Real-Time App Monitoring Empowers Engineering Teams

DevOps.com

Real-time app monitoring is about fundamentally shifting your mindset toward a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

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Astro 4.2 boosts accessibility, image optimization features

InfoWorld

Following fast in the footsteps of the Astro 4.1 release , Astro 4.2 has arrived, bringing improvements to accessibility rules and the ability for remark plugins to customize image optimization. The Astro 4.2 release also introduces prerendering using the Speculation Rules API and reworked routing priority for injected routes, both experimental features.

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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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Exploring Automation Technologies in DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps, a software development paradigm emphasizing cooperation between development and IT operations, mainly depends on automation to optimize processes, boost productivity, and assure timely, dependable software delivery. Here’s an exploration of key automation technologies integral to DevOps: 1. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) In the DevOps landscape, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) stands as a pivotal approach, accelerating software delivery and enha

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Beware of hidden cloud fees

InfoWorld

Buy a used or new car recently? If you have, you understand the issues with “junk fees” that some dealers insist on tacking on. Junk fees refer to additional charges that car dealers may include in the purchase agreement. These fees are often unrelated to the actual cost of the car, and they can significantly inflate the overall price. I’m sure you’ve seen them before: administrative fees, document processing, and my favorite, advertising fees, meaning they want you to pay for their marketing ex

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Microservices Architecture: Navigating the Buzz

Dzone - DevOps

Lately I’ve been exploring what all the talk around "microservices architecture" is really about. From it popping up in every other social media debate to it increasingly becoming a must-have skill on job listings, what is it that has caused this strong divide between the proponents of the traditional monolithic approach and those who have embraced the microservices paradigm?