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Improving visibility and security in hybrid cloud environments

CIO

When it comes to keeping our digital world secure, there’s a saying that really hits home: “ You can’t protect what you can’t see.” It’s a reminder that without a clear view of our data and systems, we’re leaving ourselves vulnerable to all sorts of risks. That’s where centralized visibility comes in. By bringing together information from different sources and analyzing it, we gain a powerful tool to identify and respond to potential threats.

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Building a better Agile organisation: The power of Knowledge-Sharing

Xebia

Agile is a rapidly growing field, and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience out there to be shared. But how do you find other agile practitioners who share your interests? And how do you build a community where people can learn from each other and grow together? In this blog post, I will share some tips on how to build a global community of practice for agility.

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Enterprises enthusiastic about generative AI, Foundry survey shows

CIO

Generative AI is already making deep inroads into the enterprise, but not always under IT department control, according to a recent survey of business and IT leaders by Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. The survey found tension between business leaders seeking competitive advantage, and IT leaders wanting to limit risks. Some 62% of respondents said their organizations were actively using generative AI, with 23% saying they were in the early stages of exploring its use, and 14% saying they were con

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Managers Are Burned Out. Here’s How to Help Them Recharge.

Harvard Business Review

As a leader of leaders, you “create the weather” for your team. It’s your job to not only support your burned-out leaders, but also to keep burnout at bay going forward. In this article, the author offers six strategies to help recharge the burned-out managers on your team: 1) Recognize and acknowledge their burnout; 2) Create opportunities for personal connection both in person and virtually; 3) Re-assess, re-prioritize, and re-distribute their work; 4) Revise team agreements about how you all

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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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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details. Fortunately, modernizing a legacy app for the cloud doesn’t have to be a lengthy, painful process, as long as you have realistic expectations and are fully prepared to approach the ta

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CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake

CIO

A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. With both technology and business organization deeply involved in the what, why, and how of data, companies need to create cross-functional data teams to get the most out of it. So Thermo Fisher Scientific CIO Ryan Snyder and his colleagues have built a data layer cake based on a cascading series of discussions that allow IT and business partners to act as one team.

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Using the Service Location Protocol (SLP) to Find Exposed Management Interfaces

Tenable

Exposed management interfaces are valuable entry points for attackers. CISA Binding Operational Directive 23-02 calls for getting them off the internet. Here’s a novel approach for finding some of these elusive devices using SLP. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 23-02 instructing U.S. federal agencies to get management interfaces off the internet in order to mitigate risk.

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Adapt to Changing Regulations with Data Independence and Mobility

CIO

“The era of open borders for data is ending,” declared The New York Times in May 2022. 1 Meeting security, privacy, and compliance ( [link] regulations and protecting data access and integrity ( [link] ) aren’t the end of the data sovereignty journey. Future-proof your cloud infrastructure with data independence and mobility so that data can be shared and migrated as needed to respond to changes in technology or geopolitics.

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Digital.ai Embraces Multiple AI Classes to Advance DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Digital.ai has committed to adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) and additional machine learning capabilities to its namesake platform for managing DevSecOps workflows.

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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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Salesforce launches Starter to ward off competition in the SMB segment

CIO

Salesforce has made its customer relationship management (CRM) suite, dubbed Starter, generally available in an effort to garner more market share in the small and medium businesses (SMBs) segment as it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Zoho. Starter made its first appearance in June when the company launched it specifically in India, targeting one of the largest SMB markets in the world before it made the new offering available for the other markets.

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Strengthening Supplier Relationships with AP Automation

Docuphase

Here are the top three ways AP automation can strengthen supplier relationships, so your business stays agile & competitive amidst supply chain issues.

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Beyond compliance: How to pick winning ESG strategies that make a splash

CIO

Gone are the days when ESG was advanced from within by a band of social advocates braving the current of traditional business thinking. ESG has penetrated our collective psyche and entered the business bloodstream. In many organizations, it informs every strategy, every activity, and many executives are now expected to craft plans as to how their domains will advance it.

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A Distributed Workforce is the New Normal

DevOps.com

The sudden shift to a remote and distributed workforce forced organizations to consider security as an afterthought. Now, that has to change.

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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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Answer these 4 questions to maximize the ROI of your security toolset

CIO

Over the past decade, organizations realized they need to arm their teams with the right security toolset in order to mitigate the cyber threats they’re facing. The continuous investment and adoption of security tools has created a challenge: Organizations are now leveraging tens, and sometimes hundreds, of security tools from various vendors that often don’t share data and insights between each other.

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A More Ethical Approach to Employing Contractors

Harvard Business Review

Beyond doing the right thing, responsible contracting attracts and cultivates talent, lifts employee morale, generates returns, and bolsters your brand.

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The DevOps Pendulum: Agility Vs. Control

DevOps.com

Engineering, like everything else in life, is all about balance. In DevOps, the balance is between control and agility.

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Podman Compose vs Docker Compose

Dzone - DevOps

In this blog, you will take a look at Podman Compose. With Podman Compose, you can use compose files according to the Compose Spec in combination with a Podman backend. Enjoy! Introduction A good starting point and a must-read is this blog provided by RedHat. In short, Podman Compose is not directly maintained by the Podman team, and neither is Docker Compose, of course.

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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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How to Resolve Conflict in the Workplace

Agile42

Turning Tides: An Agile Coach’s Journey through Workplace Conflict and Resolution It was a Thursday afternoon, just like any other in the bustling, open-concept office of Swift Software Inc. As an Agile Coach, I was overseeing multiple teams, all engrossed in their tasks. Amid the usual hum of industrious chatter, a sudden sharp exchange of words grabbed my attention.

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6 Effective Strategies for Kubernetes Observability in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Dzone - DevOps

2023 has seen rapid growth in native-cloud applications and platforms. Organizations are constantly striving to maximize the potential of their applications, ensure seamless user experiences, and drive business growth. The rise of hybrid cloud environments and the adoption of containerization technologies, such as Kubernetes, have revolutionized the way modern applications are developed, deployed, and scaled.

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7 AI Trends that are Disrupting Healthcare Industry

Daffodil Software

To me, nothing seems more fascinating than the fact that machine, a manifestation of human knowledge, could be developed to such an extent that it is able to be on par with human. Be it self-driving vehicles, the infamous Chess match or Google's Alpha Go, technology is giving end-to-end competition to humans. With the rapid advancement of technology and automation, there is rarely a field left untouched by machines.

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DNS and Cybersecurity: Are you Protecting Remote

Kaseya

DNS and Cybersecurity: Are you P rotecting Remote Users from Cyberthreats ? During a recent business trip, while sipping a freshly brewed cappuccino in a local coffee shop, I thought it might be interesting to test the security of the publicly available wireless router. Though I am more of a network engineer than a hacker, I am always curious as to the vulnerabilities of a network to which I am connected.

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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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CodeSOD: Error While you Wait

The Daily WTF

Structured exception handling is a powerful way to describe how your program reacts to error conditions. But it's not available in a language like C, and thus C programmers have come up with a variety of ways to propogate errors. Frequently, functions simply return error codes. Some error handling practices use the dreaded goto to jump to the error handler.

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What is the Future of Gas?

CEO Insider

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the price of oil soared, and inflation was officially introduced to the world for the first time in the 21st century. While the price of gas actually plays a small role in sustained inflation, affecting just 3.1% of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), its omnipresence can sway […] The post What is the Future of Gas?

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Part 1: Building the Source and Corresponding Mappings in Coveo Enterprise Search

Perficient

Introduction Coveo Enterprise Search is a strong search solution that helps organizations enhance information management and offers users a hassle-free search experience. In order to accomplish this, Coveo establishes connections with numerous data and content sources, indexing the data to make it simple to find using its search interface. Two essential elements of this procedure are “Sources” and “Mapping.” Organizations can create a thorough and unified search experienc

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SQL Query Optimization Techniques

InnovationM

Query optimization is a technique for obtaining required data in a very efficient manner when we deal with databases which are having a very large amount of data and very complex data. And also there is a scenario i.e. in general queries are tested with a database, which is having very fewer data at the time of development of software and development goes on the local system, so query response is very quick.

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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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Part 2: Building the Source and Corresponding Mappings in Coveo Enterprise Search

Perficient

Introduction Coveo Enterprise Search is a strong search solution that helps organizations enhance information management and offers users a hassle-free search experience. In order to accomplish this, Coveo establishes connections with numerous data and content sources, indexing the data to make it simple to find using its search interface. Two essential elements of this procedure are “Sources” and “Mapping.

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EU Adopts European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS): What are the implications for Tech and IT?

DevOps.com

The European Commission’s recent announcement on July 31st marks a major turning point for sustainability reporting in the European Union. The adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) is set to reshape how companies report their sustainability practices and impacts.

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Connect with us at Google Cloud Next 2023!

Perficient

Google Cloud Next is only a few short weeks away! The conference will occur August 29-31, 2023, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Next is where decision makers, developers, and anyone passionate about an accessible, scalable, socially responsible cloud come together to share challenges, solutions, 10x ideas, and game-changing technologies. Be sure to visit us at booth #1350, we’re right by the puppy park!