Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2024
Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports. Ultimately, one in five managers said they would prefer not being people managers given a choice.
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
In 2023, the United Arab Emirates actively repelled more than 50.000 cyberattacks daily, explained the UAE Cybersecurity Council. In the first three quarters of the same year, the country successfully prevented over 71 million attempted attacks in total. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, the GCC cybersecurity industry continues to grow, with F&S estimating it to triple in value by 2030 to reach 13.4 billion USD, countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia continue to reduce their
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Xebia
APRIL 11, 2024
Since last year, Google Workspace enables you to create a booking page with appointment units in your Google Calendar. Through booking pages, others can schedule time with you as you deem fitting. At that time, it already embodied a lot of the functionality of other third party tooling, such as Calendly. Google has now further expanded this functionality.
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to
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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.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Understanding the Importance of Proactive Succession Planning Proactive succession planning is pivotal for an organization’s sustainability and long-term growth. It ensures that companies are prepared for any unforeseen changes in leadership due to retirement, emergencies, or sudden departures. Carefully cultivating a pool of able leaders within the organization drastically reduces the risks associated with unexpected vacancies.
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N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Understanding the Evolution of the IT Industry Over the past few decades, the IT industry has undergone several remarkable transformations. From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
During the pandemic, an estimated 1.500 million students missed school, institutions adopted smart technologies to ensure the continuity of education. This wave of digital transformation brings long-term benefits and goes beyond the mere growth of distance learning. The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated.
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 11, 2024
Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigating complex financial markets, making informed decisions, and driving profitability requires strong leadership that inspires and motivates teams to achieve their goals. Finance leaders must possess a deep understanding of their organizations’ financial intricacies and the broader economic landscape to make informed and strategic decisions that wil
CIO
APRIL 11, 2024
Customer experience in the government sector is the sum of the public’s interactions with any government service, from how we contact our state’s social services and emergency services to waste management, public transportation, and healthcare. A positive experience is crucial for building public trust, but the bar is continually being raised. Digital communications like video and chat, automation and AI, mobility, and so much more are now expected, especially after the pandemic: 94% of state t
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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
APRIL 11, 2024
Platform providers typically display ratings information to the user in two ways. Incremental rating systems, employed by platforms like TaskRabbit and Airbnb, offer a detailed view by listing and often providing insights into every individual review score. Averaged rating systems, used by platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, present an overall score that aggregates all individual ratings.
Perficient
APRIL 11, 2024
Documentation is a crucial part of your analytics implementation. From your Solution Design Reference document to your internal wiki for all resources, making sure that you can write and edit your documentation is key to ensuring a cohesive and thorough understanding of your implementation. With effective documentation, you can: Prevent knowledge gaps among team members and assist in onboarding efforts.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 11, 2024
The ransomware epidemic is starting to feel like one continuous incident report and a growing national security concern – not to mention the dormant “ghost in the machine” capabilities that have already been positioned in the U.S.
Perficient
APRIL 11, 2024
On Operational projects that involves heavy data processing on a daily basis, there’s a need to monitor the DB performance. Over a period of time, the workload grows causing potential issues. While there are best practices to handle the processing by adopting DBA strategies (indexing, partitioning, collecting STATS, reorganizing tables/indexes, purging data, allocating bandwidth separately for ETL/DWH users, Peak time optimization, effective DEV query Re-writes etc.,), it is necessary to be awar
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.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 11, 2024
As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch of its latest sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) model: Mixtral 8x22B.
DevOps.com
APRIL 11, 2024
The legal battle between the faux-open-source HashiCorp and the open source OpenTofu heats up.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 11, 2024
Funding to European startups reached $11.8 billion in the first quarter of 2024, up marginally from Q4 2023 and down less than 10% from Q1 2023, Crunchbase data shows. Overall, European venture funding in the most recent quarter was slightly lower than the average quarter in 2023. Around 18% of global venture capital was allocated to European startups in the first quarter, while North America represented just over 50% of quarterly venture funding.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
APRIL 11, 2024
Our reader poll today asks: What portion of your team works remotely? We’re 100% remote 1 4.61% We’re 75-99% remote 13.78% We’re 50-74% remote 15.70% We’re 25-49% remote 16.25% We’re less than 25% remote 19.00% We’re 100% onsite 20.66% Staying connected. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
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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.
Crunchbase News
APRIL 11, 2024
By Semyon Dukach Today’s social divisions are as palpable as ever, and on the receiving end are often people from marginalized communities, immigrants and refugees. As investors, we know many founders who have recently arrived to the U.S. from countries suffering humanitarian crises, or whose teams are stuck in war zones. The challenges they face in everyday life — let alone finding success as an entrepreneur — are unimaginable to many.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
APRIL 11, 2024
AWS was delighted to present to and connect with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 virtual attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person experience for the first time since 2019. AWS has had a long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA for over 13 years.
InfoWorld
APRIL 11, 2024
In less than a month Microsoft will end support for.NET’s first major cross-platform UI tool, Xamarin Forms. Instead of developers having to build separate UIs for Windows, iOS, and Android, Xamarin Forms gave us a set of cross-platform UI controls we could use to build one code base that compiled to all target platforms, without any device-specific code.
Cloudera
APRIL 11, 2024
Businesses around the world rely on an extensive network of partnerships to deliver quality customer experiences—and it’s no different here at Cloudera. Cloudera is building a robust partner ecosystem to meet the unique needs of its customers, working to provide exceptional and fulfilling experiences that help make Cloudera a leader in the multi-cloud data platform space.
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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.
InfoWorld
APRIL 11, 2024
Microsoft has announced the MSTest SDK. Built on the MSBuild Project SDK system and based on the MSTest runner , the MSTest SDK is designed to give developers a better experience for testing with MSTest, Microsoft’s framework for unit testing. The MSTest SDK, announced April 11 , makes project configuration easier via sensible defaults and flexible options, Microsoft said.
Dataiku
APRIL 11, 2024
Human resources (HR) presents a wide variety of AI use cases. Some fall into the most traditional view of AI in which technology takes over functions traditionally reserved for people. In other cases, however, AI’s role is not to replace humans, but to maximize their impact.
InfoWorld
APRIL 11, 2024
JetBrains has introduced JetBrains IDE Services, a product suite intended to simplify the management of the company’s IntelliJ-based IDEs, remote development environments, and AI-powered coding assistant. The suite also includes a collaborative programming solution. Unveiled April 9, JetBrains IDE Services is designed to alleviate the challenges of deploying and overseeing IDEs and other developer tools for large organizations, the company said.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 11, 2024
Our hypothesis on AI Hallucinations is based on a quote from the OODAcon 2024 panel, "The Next Generative AI Surprise: “Artificial Intelligence hallucinations may sometimes provide an output that is a very creative interpretation of something or an edge case that proves useful.” With that framing in mind, the following is the first installment in our survey of differing perspectives on the threats and opportunities created by AI hallucinations.
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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.
InfoWorld
APRIL 11, 2024
In less than a month Microsoft will end support for.NET’s first major cross-platform UI tool, Xamarin Forms. Instead of developers having to build separate UIs for Windows, iOS, and Android, Xamarin Forms gave us a set of cross-platform UI controls we could use to build one code base that compiled to all target platforms, without any device-specific code.
TechSoup
APRIL 11, 2024
Year after year, the news related to cybersecurity for NGOs continues to get worse. Many NGOs struggle with capacity and resource constraints that hamper their ability to prioritize and fund investment in cybersecurity awareness and prevention. Even the smallest NGOs have data that is valuable to criminals and state actors, and this sector now makes up the second largest segment of cyberattack victims , after government entities.
InfoWorld
APRIL 11, 2024
The Apache Software Foundation develops and maintains open source software projects that significantly impact various domains of computing, from web servers and databases to big data and machine learning. As the volume and velocity of time series data continue to grow, thanks to IoT devices, AI, financial systems, and monitoring tools, more and more companies will rely on the Apache ecosystem to manage and analyze this kind of data.
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