CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Over 90 wildfires ravaged Spain’s Asturias principality in March this year. Though not as cold and wet as northern Europe, March is still the tail end of winter in northwest Spain, a region not typically considered a tinder box. But the climate emergency is steadily changing that. But Spain’s predicament isn’t unique. Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Collin Wallace Contributor Collin Wallace is a Techstars managing director leading the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. He is also a lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’ Startup Garage class. As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it?

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Making the shift from project- to product-based IT requires more than just an operational map of capabilities and the cross-functional teams that will own them. It takes an organization-wide shift in mindset that gets people thinking and working in ways that align with the client’s definition of value. Salumeh “Sal” Companieh, chief digital and information officer of Cushman & Wakefield, has done exactly that since she signed on in March 2022 to lead the global real estate services company’s

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

HUSSLUP , currently an invite-only beta, is a job search and networking app for creative professionals in the media and entertainment industry to connect with studios and production companies looking to hire talent. Today, the company announced a web version of its mobile app. It will roll out widely next week. Much like LinkedIn, HUSSLUP allows users to write posts, network with others and search for gigs.

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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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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Retail organizations face an urgent need to accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to economic insecurity, persistent inflation, and growing consumer price sensitivity. Consumer product goods manufacturers (CPGs) and physical and online retail stores need to increase investments in strategic real-time pricing, supply chain resiliency, and customer experience management to keep pace with the competition.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

When we think of digital transformation, perhaps no other technology comes to mind as quickly as the cloud. Many businesses have, in some form or another, been migrating their operations to the cloud for years now. But that doesn’t mean legacy systems suddenly cease to exist. A 2022 survey of business leaders by Rocket Software found that 56% of decision-makers said mainframe solutions still make up a majority of their IT infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. CoreWeave today announced that it raised $221 million in a Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital with participation from Nvidia, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Strong performances in software and consulting helped IBM’s profit and revenue increase in the first quarter, even as a post-pandemic slowdown hit much of the technology industry. IBM’s software and consulting revenue both rose 3% year over year. In the software segment, IBM’s enterprise Linux unit, Red Hat, saw growth of 8%, while application operations saw the highest level of growth in the consulting segment, rising by 7%.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Every so often, a new startup crosses your radar and reminds you how exciting hardware can be. It’s a relative rarity in consumer electronics, a category dominated by corporations like Samsung, Apple and Sony, which are (perhaps understandably) somewhat risk averse. Melbourne-based Nura was one such company. I distinctly remember the startup paying a visit to TechCrunch’s New York offices not long after I started here.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 20, 2023

We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong. Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […] The post The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools, ransomware was still growing exponentially. It’s an odd dichotomy. Seventy-eight percent of companies responding to a recent survey said that they plan to increase their investments in cybersecurity in the next 12 months.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 20, 2023

Written in conjunction with Hudson Crossing partners Max Rayner and Brian Clark Nobody likes paying for things they don’t need. If something is included in the price but the buyer hasn’t asked for it, it’s a questionable benefit and possibly a detriment. When searching for hotel rooms, parents with young children may very much prefer to not have a fireplace or a high floor view, while honeymooners may be willing to pay to have both a fireplace and a view.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Our Call for Content period ends tomorrow, April 21, so if you’re a startup expert — of any stripe — and want a shot at leading a session at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 19–21, you need to apply right here and right now! Beat the deadline and apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Your topic should be designed to help startup founders, builders and entrepreneurs increase their knowledge and move their business forward.

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 20, 2023

Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in software development methodologies. With the advent of DevOps, there has been a significant shift toward automation and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). The traditional approaches to quality assurance are no […] The post Continuous Testing: The Key to Quality Assurance in the DevOps Era appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In recent years, calling oneself a startup founder was certainly seen as a flex. For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. Yet, behind the glamor and front-page interviews and features, the life of a founder can often cause severe issues such as depression, burnout, panic attacks and imposter syndrome that take

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Steve Farber

APRIL 20, 2023

Do you remember playing telephone as a kid? You whispered a phrase into your friend’s ear and by the time it was passed around five or six other kids, you all ended up erupting into. Read more The post Effective Leadership Communication is the Secret to a Collaborative and Productive Workplace first appeared on Steve Farber.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Honeycomb raised $50 million to make the new landscape of platforms and services more observable. Its long-term goal is to make life easier for people operating large software platforms. “What we saw in 2015 and 2016 is the world moving in a direction where that complexity was unavoidable, whether in a heightened interest in being able to do things like breakdown by customer ID or this exploding complexity that was about to come onto the scene driven by Kubernetes, microservices and containers.

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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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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 20, 2023

With the rise of Docker came a new focus for engineers: optimizing the build to reach the smallest image size possible. A couple of options are available.

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SecureWorks

APRIL 20, 2023

Type: Blogs Bumblebee Malware Distributed Via Trojanized Installer Downloads Restricting the download and execution of third-party software is critically important. Learn how CTU™ researchers observed Bumblebee malware distributed via trojanized installers for popular software such as Zoom, Cisco AnyConnect, ChatGPT, and Citrix Workspace.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2023

A survey of more than 5,000 U.S. employees found that company policies designed to promote gender equity often backfire.

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TechSoup

APRIL 20, 2023

OK, you've built a brilliant website with all the information a visitor could need. The next step is to ensure that people find it. There are plenty of different ways to encourage people to explore your site: linking to it in your emails, advertising on Instagram, or optimizing your pages to appear on search engines.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2023

As employers collect more data about their workers than ever before, employees deserve to know how it’s being used.

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Perficient

APRIL 20, 2023

The Landscape According to Forbes Advisor: 2022 Digital Banking Survey , as of 2022, 78% of adults in the U.S. prefer to bank via a mobile app or website. That’s a whole lot of consumers, all of whom come with unique expectations, needs, and data. And those consumers desire digital experiences that are personalized and meaningful. In fact, Gartner shares that brands risk losing 38 percent of customers from poor personalization efforts.

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TechSoup

APRIL 20, 2023

OK, you've built a brilliant website with all the information a visitor could need. The next step is to ensure that people find it. There are plenty of different ways to encourage people to explore your site: linking to it in your emails, advertising on Instagram, or optimizing your pages to appear on search engines.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 20, 2023

Our reader poll today asks: When you see someone about to make a mistake but it’s not in your area of responsibility, what do you do? Offer unsolicited advice and tell them immediately about their upcoming error 33.90% Ask if you can provide guidance and not say anything if they say “no” 53.13% Stand by quietly and let them learn from their mistakes 12.97% Is your assistance welcome?

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James Shore

APRIL 20, 2023

I’m delivering my “ Testing Without Mocks ” training course in June. This is a live, instructor-led course. It takes place in four three-hour sessions from June 6th to 15th. Session dates: June 6th, 8th, 13th, and 15th Session times: 8am-11am Pacific / 11am-2pm Eastern / 17:00-20:00 CEST Optional office hour following each session Course Description Programmers need automated tests to avoid wasting huge amounts of time manually checking and fixing code.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2023

A closer look at four distinct ways to drive transformation.

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Confluent

APRIL 20, 2023

Quantifying the cost of running Kafka is challenging. In part 1, learn how to calculate Kafka costs stemming from infrastructure and the impact networking has on your cloud bill.

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