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Celebrate innovation: Apply now for CIO Awards Canada!

CIO

I’ve got some super exciting news to share with you. Last year, we embarked on an incredible journey with the launch of the CIO Awards Canada program. It was an absolute blast celebrating the most innovative organizations and accomplished leaders in the tech world. Witnessing the outstanding projects and teams that emerged from all corners of Canada was truly gratifying!

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Ensuring safe, inclusive Agile events

Agile Alliance

The mission of Agile Alliance is the following: We support people and organizations who explore, apply and expand Agile values, principles, and practices. When members of the Agile community have concerns about our pursuit of that mission, it is important to address those issues. Some members have reached out to us to express their concern … Continued The post Ensuring safe, inclusive Agile events first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Innovation without disruption: virtual agents for hyper-personalized customer experience (CX)

CIO

Chatbots and IVRs are contact center staples, but most still provide automated service for basic, repeatable tasks. What about when a customer needs to be intelligently routed to a better resource or has a question that’s not so cut-and-dry cut. Virtual Agent, or VA, is the next natural step for significantly better customer and business outcomes. What is a VA?

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Revolutionizing DevOps With Low-Code/No-Code Platforms

DevOps.com

The DevOps industry is growing at an incredible pace, with its worth exceeding $8 billion in 2022. Analysts predict that the market will experience a five-fold increase and reach almost $40 billion by the end of the decade. But with this growth, there is a significant issue within the DevOps chain that continues to escalate: […] The post Revolutionizing DevOps With Low-Code/No-Code Platforms appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

CIO

What is COBIT and why is it important? COBIT is an IT management framework developed by the ISACA to help businesses develop, organize, and implement strategies around information management and IT governance. The goal of the COBIT framework is to support “understanding, designing, and implementing the management and governance of enterprise IT (EGIT),” according to the ISACA.

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The four-way test: Find the answers to better IT leadership at FutureIT Chicago

CIO

The four-way test is a set of guiding principles that every member of Rotary, an international service organization, can recite. The test is an adaptive process that considers everyone’s point of view. The process is designed to build goodwill and earn trust so a particular result is mutually beneficial, sustainable, and has scalable outcomes. As a Rotarian and the person responsible for the content at FutureIT Chicago on June 22, I couldn’t help but see some commonalities in the attributes of t

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Powerful Phrases to Win With a Moody Boss, Even a Dropper of F-Bombs

Let's Grow Leaders

What To Say Next When Your Boss Gets Cranky Maybe it’s a side effect of passion, intensity, or creativity, but have you ever noticed that many high-achieving managers also have a moody dark side? Moody people are hard to work around. If it’s your boss who is moody, it’s even more challenging. You might feel tempted to avoid your moody boss, keep your head down, and just survive.

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How manufacturers can unlock new value from existing data

CIO

In an industry buffeted by constant pressure on margins, shifting trade patterns, and supply chain uncertainty, manufacturing companies are looking for any edge they can get. The good news? It can often be found in innovative uses of data. Here’s how manufacturers can harness data analytics to improve performance across three critical areas of their businesses.

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How Honeycomb Monitors Kubernetes

Honeycomb

While Kubernetes comes with a number of benefits, it’s yet another piece of infrastructure that needs to be managed. Here, I’ll talk about three interesting ways that Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to get insight into our Kubernetes clusters. It’s worth calling out that we at Honeycomb use Amazon EKS to manage the control plane of our cluster, so this document will focus on monitoring Kubernetes as a consumer of a managed service.

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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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La prima regola di un CIO sull’automazione: avere un chiaro piano di business

CIO

In virtù del loro ruolo, che li colloca tra l’IT e la strategia aziendale, i CIO godono di una posizione privilegiata nell’identificare i processi che le loro aziende devono modernizzare e automatizzare. Quando si tratta di aggiornare i sistemi principali per incrementare l’efficienza operativa, devono anche assicurarsi che esista un valido business case, cioè avere a disposizione tutti gli elementi per misurare il valore che un progetto di automazione può apportare all’azienda, afferma Laurie S

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CVE-2023-27997: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy SSL-VPN (XORtigate)

Tenable

CVE-2023-27997: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy SSL-VPN (XORtigate) Fortinet says a critical flaw in its SSL-VPN product may have been exploited in the wild in a limited number of cases. Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply these patches immediately. Background On June 12, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-23-097) for a critical vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy : CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2023-27997 FortiOS and FortiProxy Heap Buffer O

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4 ways Swedish CIOs strengthen defenses against bombarding AI sales

CIO

The current interest in AI is massive, and companies, as well as the public sector, are exploring the new technology in all its capacities as much as possible. But it’s important to be vigilant and painstakingly sort through all products that have an AI label. “Many handle the word a bit carelessly,” says Charlotte Svensson, CIO at SAS, the Scandinavian airline.

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Unlocking Success: How Senior Leadership Transforms Start-ups into Thriving Businesses

N2Growth Blog

Young entrepreneurs often found start-up companies with great ideas and the drive to make them a reality. While these individuals may have the passion and creativity to get their business off the ground, they often need more experience and expertise to lead a company to long-term success. This is where senior leadership comes in and can bring added value to the business.

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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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Confessions of a Web Developer XX

David Walsh

It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: One day you’re getting recruited by another crypto wallet vendor, the next their users are getting drained of funds. Dodged a bullet there… Apple has released its XR headset but XR as a daily experience is still decades away.

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Building a Tech Stack for the Modern CFO

Docuphase

The role of the modern CFO has become increasingly complex, especially considering global economic challenges that make budget navigation difficult. These new responsibilities necessitate a more in-depth tech stack to support financial decision-making, change-management, and digital resilience. AP automation is a crucial component of the modern CFO's technology infrastructure, as it will assist in addressing present challenges and laying the foundation for a successful change management approach

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Make LinkedIn Work for Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

LinkedIn is a professional network that people use every day to build relationships and connect to opportunity. It has an active user base of over 930 million members, but many nonprofits do not use it to its fullest potential. In this post, we’ll share some ways that nonprofit organizations can use LinkedIn to support fundraising efforts, network, and build a brand.

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When Your Boss Gives You Bad Feedback, Badly

Harvard Business Review

It’s difficult to manage your feelings when getting feedback that feels too harsh, overly nice, or somehow dishonest. We all struggle with feedback, so extend a little grace to yourself for having strong emotions, and to the other person for initiating a difficult conversation. The authors present the three most common ways people deliver feedback in a way that causes harm and elicits strong emotions, as well as five key steps to take when you get poorly delivered feedback.

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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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Microservices Data Management Challenges and Patterns

Dzone - DevOps

Microservices architecture has gained popularity in recent years as a way to design complex and scalable applications. In this architecture, applications are divided into small, autonomous services that work together to provide the necessary functionality. Each microservice performs a specific task and communicates with other microservices through APIs.

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Tenable Cyber Watch: Six Critical and Common Cyber Misconceptions, Best Practices to Boost IAM Security, and more

Tenable

Do you know the six most critical and common assumptions made by cyber teams? Looking for tips on how you can better distribute software bills of materials? Interested in learning how your organizations can boost the security of its identity and access management systems? We’ve got you covered in this week’s edition of the Tenable Cyber Watch, our weekly video news digest highlighting three cybersecurity topics that matter right now.

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How Large Language Models Reflect Human Judgment

Harvard Business Review

Artificial intelligence is based around prediction. But decision making requires both prediction and judgment. That leaves a role for humans, in providing the judgment about which types of outcomes are better and worse. But large language models represent a key advance: OpenAI has found a way to teach its AI human judgment by using a simple form of human feedback, through chat.

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Escrow Buddy: An open-source tool from Netflix for remediation of missing FileVault keys in MDM

Netflix Tech

Netflix has open-sourced Escrow Buddy, which helps Security and IT teams ensure they have valid FileVault recovery keys for all their Macs in MDM. To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. When somebody is unable to log into their FileVault-encrypted Mac, few words are more joyful to hear than a support technician saying, “I’ve got your back.

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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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The Art of CI/CD Optimization: Mastering Techniques for Workflow Efficiency

Dzone - DevOps

Organizations must optimize their workflows and processes to truly harness the power of CI/CD. This blog will explore various techniques and best practices for optimizing your CI/CD workflow, ensuring maximum efficiency and productivity. In today's highly disruptive marketplace, organizations strive to deliver high-quality software quickly and securely.

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Tell-Tale Signs of Fake DevOps

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Discover the Tell Tale Signs of Fake DevOps. Learn the three steps a leader should take to prevent Fake DevOps and the five principles of DevOps. Today’s guest post is by Nikolay Gekht, CTO of Gehtsoft USA. Let’s say you want to know whether your DevOps works well. The answer is simple: measure outcomes! What’s the best way for a Leader to spot signs of Fake DevOps?

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New and Updated Products at TechSoup

TechSoup

The TechSoup catalog is growing, and we are always on the lookout for new partners to offer great technology to our nonprofit members. As the fiscal year draws to a close for some, we're gathering a few of our favorite new members of the catalog. From marketing materials, to immersive events, to hardware and security, take a moment to get to know some of the great products that have joined TechSoup over the past year.

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Unveiling the Truth: Is Podman Truly a Seamless Replacement for Docker?

Dzone - DevOps

You may have heard that Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker, but is it truly that simple? Join us in this blog as we explore the practicality of using Podman. We'll start by working with a ready-to-go Dockerfile and run Podman commands just like you would with Docker. Let's investigate whether this transition is hassle-free! Introducing Podman Podman is a container engine, much like Docker.

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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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Unify and modernize your web architecture with Netlify Connect

Netlify

Netlify Connect can unify data from any content source and unlock all of the performance, flexibility, and scalability benefits of a modern web architecture.

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Improving Query Performance in Snowflake and Its Related Costs

Dzone - DevOps

In the previous article, we understood how to Optimally Use Snowflake Warehouse and Tables. So let’s continue this blog series, where we will now focus on improving the performance in Snowflake and its associated costs.

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Building the Next-Gen National Lab Infrastructure

d2iq

D2iQ is excited to be participating as an exhibitor and gold sponsor at the NLIT Summit 2023 in Milwaukee on June 28-29.The NLIT Summit is an annual conference sponsored by the National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Society, which provides a venue for the exchange of best practices and ideas among IT and cybersecurity professionals within the U.S.