CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In today’s era of dynamic disruption, IT leaders are taking center stage in navigating a complex and vast network. It’s a balance of accelerating digital initiatives such as AI with the need to securely transform IT operations and increase business. Navigating these complexities can be challenging. How do you handle an intricate array of devices, cloud applications, and workloads, especially when users are located everywhere?
Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Improvements in communications technology have led an increasing number of teams that work in a Remote-First style, a trend that was boosted by the forced isolation of Covid-19 pandemic. But a team that operates remotely still benefits from face-to-face gatherings, and should do them every few months. Remote-first teams have everyone in a separate location, communicating entirely by email, chat, video and other communication tools.
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CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.
Ooda Loop
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Conspicuous, controversial and notorious is the Chines unwillingness to participate in global benchmarking list of the world's most power supercomputers. So, the "top 500" list goes out - with the U.S. on top. The lack of participation by the Chinese then fuels rumors that they in fact possess capabilities that transcend all the participants in the global benchmarking lists.
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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.
CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Does your organization see technology infrastructure as a commodity or as a strategic business enabler? The answer will shape your approach to infrastructure: you can keep legacy infrastructure going as long as you can, or you can pursue the cutting edge of technology. However, in an increasingly software-centric environment, both new and legacy assets must deliver value throughout their lifecycle.
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CIO
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
IT organizations are having to transform themselves to meet the evolving needs of the future enterprise, and CIOs are increasingly being tasked with leading this transformation as IT becomes the enterprise operating system. As the world of work continues to evolve and organizations shift to hybrid work models, new challenges and opportunities present themselves.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Apache Kafka 3.7 introduces updates to the Consumer rebalance protocol, an official Apache Kafka Docker image, JBOD support in Kraft-based clusters, and more!
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.
Perficient
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
This time of year, I like to talk about updating the data strategy for the new year to include new business goals and new technology and in doing so I sometimes forget that there are still many companies that do not have a data strategy to update. What is a Data Strategy and why do I need one? Most organizations have multiple data management initiatives underway including master data management, data governance, data migration, data modernization, OLTP operational data cleanup, data ingestion, a
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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
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
People don’t always make use of opportunities and programs offered to them. Organizations can find ways to improve the take-up rates of products and programs by utilizing concepts from behavioral economics. These techniques have been used to convince more citizens to apply for tax benefits and more franchised hotels to use a new algorithmic pricing system, among other examples.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Recently, after giving a keynote at a major conference about The New Political Capitalism I was asked a question: “But business has always had a political dimension. So, what has changed?” Good question. The answer – almost everything has changed. What a business is for? The first thing that has changed is that the Milton […] The post What Has Changed?
Crunchbase News
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Despite some predictions about a slowdown in AI investing, investors are showing the same insatiable appetite for the sector they showed last year. AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup Glean became the latest to hit it big, locking up a $200 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation in a round led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The shift to advanced therapeutic modalities (ATMs) promises to change the nature of competition in the pharmaceuticals industry. ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.
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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A no shift strategy argues for developing and testing directly in production, bypassing the traditional dev-to-production delivery pipeline.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++. The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to reduce the risk of cyberattacks by using programming languages that don’t have memory safety vulnerabilities.
Zend
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In this blog, we give details on the top PHP application trends, including application types, common integrations, and deployment preferences -- as told by the 2024 PHP Landscape Report.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The real world is made up of people and things in constant motion, and the applications developers build need to reflect this reality. Picture an airport with thousands of planes and passengers arriving and departing daily who need to be updated when delays or other changes happen as fast as possible. Or a payment network that processes millions of transactions each minute.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
With the ascent of remote and hybrid teams over the past few years, the landscape of our work has undergone a profound transformation. Many young professionals started their careers during this tumultuous period, interviewing for and starting new jobs in remote environments. Smart companies are taking proactive steps to support this cohort’s professional development.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime have reduced the size of deno compile binaries and introduced an official Linux ARM64 build with the newly released Deno 1.41 version. This latest release of the Node.js rival was unveiled February 22. Users can upgrade their Deno installation by running the following command in the terminal: deno upgrade Deno Land said the binaries produced by the deno compile command in Deno 1.41 are as much as 50% smaller than in previous versions.
Planbox
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Bonn, Germany and Wilmington, Delaware, Feb. 27, 2024 — In a groundbreaking move, HYPE Innovation and Planbox, two trailblazers in the field of innovation management, proudly announce their merger today. This dynamic union creates an unparalleled platform, solidifying their commitment to empowering organizations to conquer the ever-evolving challenges of the business world, ensuring they are not merely current but future-fit.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Amazon Web Services’ fully managed service for building, deploying, and scaling generative AI applications, Amazon Bedrock offers a catalog of foundation models, implements retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector embeddings , hosts knowledge bases, implements fine-tuning of foundation models, and allows continued pre-training of selected foundation models.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Tracking and measuring carbon emissions play important roles in the university’s efforts to decarbonize its supply chain.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Hey, remember finops ? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted by the FinOps Foundation to collect information about critical priorities, industry trends, and the direction of finops practices.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In fintech application mobile apps or the web, deploying new features in areas like loan applications requires careful validation. Traditional testing with real user data, especially personally identifiable information (PII) , presents significant challenges. Synthetic transactions offer a solution, enabling the thorough testing of new functionalities in a secure and controlled environment without compromising sensitive data.
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
GitHub Copilot Enterprise, an edition of the AI-based pair programming assistant that can be customized to an organization’s codebase and processes, is now generally available, GitHub announced on February 27. GitHub Copilot Enterprise serves as a companion that lets developers ask questions about public and private code, get up to speed with new codebases, build consistencies across engineering teams, and ensure users have access to the same standards and prior work, GitHub said.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In SQL: The Universal Solvent for REST APIs we saw how Steampipe’s suite of open-source plugins that translate REST API calls directly into SQL tables. These plugins were, until recently, tightly bound to the open-source engine and to the instance of Postgres that it launches and controls. That led members of the Steampipe community to ask: “Can we use the plugins in our own Postgres databases?
InfoWorld
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Visual Studio Code 1.87, the February 2024 release of Microsoft’s popular code editor , brings voice dictation, multi-cursor inline suggestions, and support for smarter Python imports and GitHub Copilot-powered symbol renaming. Published February 28 , Visual Studio Code 1.87 can be downloaded at the Visual Studio website for Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A conversation with HBS professor Gary Pisano about setting realistic, strategic goals.
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