Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly. This article identifies six core elements of the relationship code: where relationship building takes place, who can initiate relationships with whom, what kinds of relationships people attempt to form, what types of personal information people share, how

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CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Captive centers are on the rise. You’d be forgiven if you’re wondering whether you’ve stumbled on an article from 2016 , but, in fact, the practice of launching an offshore IT center wholly owned and operated by the enterprise it serves is back in vogue with notable twists. Everest Group, which monitors 8,500 captive centers around the world, counted 452 new setups in 2023.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Introduction Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a popular machine learning service. Azure ML provides a lot of predefined functionality for deploying machine learning model endpoints, which is great. However, when you are trying to create a more custom solution, it can be quite difficult! In this blogpost we’ll dive into such a custom solution.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Manufacturers are increasingly looking to generative AI as a potential solution to these and other challenges. Research from Avanade , a technology expert that specialises in the Microsoft ecosystem and partner solutions, suggests that 92% of manufacturers aim to be AI-first within a year. This is an ambitious target given that just 7% currently use AI on an hourly basis to inform their real-time operations.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often, organizations bring in outside firms to develop their growth strategies — resulting in a smart plan without the motivation, skills, and resources to get it done. Instead, the author argues, organizations should involve all stakeholders — including those who will need to execute the growth strategy — in its conception and development. Doing this well requires trusting your team, incorporating a strong educational component in your strategy work, giving the process ample time, and incor

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Microstresses are the accumulation of unnoticed small stresses from routine interactions, and often are so brief that we barely register them. Individually, these microstresses might seem manageable, but cumulatively they take an enormous toll. How can you identify and reduce them? This article, based on research and experiments at several Fortune 100 organizations, lays out five steps that will help you identify where (and from whom) your stress is coming from, and how you can proactively reduc

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock allows you to build performant and customized Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on top of AWS and third-party vector stores using both AWS and third-

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If I told you that there was a tool that could turn your people into superheroes, would you be interested? How about if I added that it costs little to nothing to do? Have I piqued your interest? The tool is appreciation, something so simple and straightforward and yet so misunderstood and underutilized. In fact, […] The post How the superpowers of appreciation drive performance and wellbeing appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Cloud optimization involves ensuring that you're not overprovisioning–or underprovisioning–your resources and using the right services for the right tasks.

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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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on the state of venture funding to Black-founded startups in the U.S., based on 2023 data from Crunchbase and its Diversity Spotlight feature. Part 1 can be found here. As venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups plummeted last year , many areas that have in the past served as strong pillars for such investment saw serious declines in those numbers.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. The inclusion of women in such roles not only brings valuable perspectives and skills but also has a significant impact on organizations and society. However, progress in this direction has been slow. Currently, women hold less than a third of director positions in public company boardrooms.

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Daffodil Software

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to online music streaming, Spotify's impact on the music industry is undeniable. Founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, Spotify was created to tackle music piracy and has successfully attracted millions of users who choose to pay for their music, which has significantly reduced piracy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Understanding the Landscape of the Remote Workforce The digital transformation is significantly changing the work landscape. One of the central aspects of this transformation is the shift towards a virtual workforce, which more and more businesses are embracing. I was fortunate to work in corporate recruiting for a global technology company in 2008 when the idea of a remote workforce was embraced.

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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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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dell Technologies and VMware by Broadcom reaffirm their dedication to VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We had a client moving from an On-Prem v11 Optimizely instance to DXP v12 and we had a lot of blobs (over 40 GB) needing uploading to DXP as a part of the conversion. This was my first experience doing both a version and environment upgrade and I leaned heavily on Optimizely support to help me get it right. Along the way, I wrote down each step so that I could reference it for any future projects that were doing the same.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A hybrid cloud is the future of cloud-native solutions for complex enterprise applications and data. Here's why.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There are several steps involved in implementing a data pipeline that integrates Apache Kafka with AWS RDS and uses AWS Lambda and API Gateway to feed data into a web application. Here is a high-level overview of how to architect this solution: 1. Set Up Apache Kafka Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that is capable of handling trillions of events a day.

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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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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Java developers would gain an easier way to create records, and more streamlined code for declaring record classes, through derived record creation, a preview language feature being considered by the OpenJDK community. Derived record creation would allow developers to create new records from existing records, specifying only the components that are different.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Stack Overflow, the popular question-and-answer portal for developers, has partnered with Google’s cloud computing arm to develop an API that will give Google’s Gemini AI model access to Stack Overflow’s knowledge base. Dubbed the Overflow API, the new offering will inform Gemini’s coding assistance capabilities for Google Cloud, delivered to developers via the Google Cloud Console.

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TechSoup

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of us are familiar with the social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. After all, they’re cost-effective and far-reaching platforms that allow nonprofits to connect with supporters and raise awareness.

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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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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Google Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers have been locked in a race to add generative AI and AI-related capabilities to their database offerings to have the first mover advantage in order to garner a bigger pie of the growing AI and generative AI market.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One of Microsoft’s goals for recent releases of Windows was to improve the developer experience, with the aim of making it the preferred platform for modern application development. That goal has led to the release of the Windows Subsystems for Linux and Android , resilient Dev Drive storage based on the ReFS file system , the WinGet package manager , and the Dev Home control panel.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore manages all data and AI assets across different workspaces and storage locations.

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“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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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Google is integrating its Gemini 1.0 Pro large language model with its AI and machine learning platform, Vertex AI , to help enterprises unlock new capabilities of large language models (LLMs), including analysis of text, image and video. The Gemini API , which has been made generally available, can also be used in Google’s data warehouse, BigQuery , to develop generative AI-based analytical applications.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle it when a customer is surprised by a fee you charge that is clearly stated in your contract? We point out the clause and charge the fee 66.14% We compromise somewhat on the fee but still charge something 11.12% We forgive the fee the first time and acknowledge the miscommunication 21.69% We renegotiate the contract to remove controversial fees 1.05% Profit or Relationship.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the growth of sophisticated attacks against critical software and infrastructure systems, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has emerged as a critical layer of defense against unauthorized access. An increasing number of enterprise and developer-facing technology applications and platforms, from GitHub to Salesforce to Amazon Web Services, are making MFA mandatory for users.

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