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Salesforce-Informatica acquisition talks falls through: Report

CIO

Salesforce’s negotiations to acquire enterprise data management software provider Informatica have fallen through as both couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal. That the talks about the deal had come to a close was reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters , citing an anonymous source. The disagreement about the terms of the deal is more likely to be around the price of each share of Informatica, WSJ reported, adding that Salesforce was negotiating a mid-30s price per share with th

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How to Choose the Right Communication Channel for Your Message

Let's Grow Leaders

The Communication Channel You Choose Matters: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It If you’re managing a team, you know how crucial your choice of communication can be. Let’s start with a timeless piece of advice from Marshall McLuhan, the renowned communication researcher. He famously said, “The medium is the message.” What does this mean for you as a manager?

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Findings from the DEFCON31 AI Village Inaugural Generative AI Red Team Challenge

Ooda Loop

As we head into the 2024 RSAC through the Defcon/BlackHat Conference jag, we look at the final report from the first-of-its-kind Generative AI Red Team Challenge, held last year in the AI Village at Defcon31. Find an overview of the event report here.

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Tricentis Taps Generative AI to Automate Application Testing

DevOps.com

Tricentis this week added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) capability, dubbed Tricentis Copilot, to its application testing automation platform to reduce the amount of code that DevOps teams need to manually create.

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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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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. VMware customers were understandably concerned. Broadcom has made a series of acquisitions under CEO Hock Tan’s leadership, including CA Technologies and Symantec’s enterprise security division, and Tan has often cut marketing expenses and dumped parts of the acquired company t

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Presidential Leadership

CEO Insider

Being president of the United States is the most prestigious and the most challenging job in the world. We’ve now had 46 commanders-in-chief over the last 235 years and America’s leading historians have concluded that fewer than ten have done a stellar job in leading the country. For the esteemed few who succeeded in guiding […] The post Presidential Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Investors Re-Engage With Gaming Startups

Crunchbase News

It’s once again “game on” for gaming startups. After several slow quarters , funding to companies in the gaming space has picked up a bit this year, driven by a resurgence in early-stage dealmaking and optimism around the ability of small studios to churn out hits. In the first quarter of this year, investors put $265 million globally into early-stage rounds for gaming startups, per Crunchbase data.

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Time to digitize all landlines, once and for all (of us)

CIO

There has been a public challenge to the fact that AT&T is retiring its copper landlines in the state of California. This issue, however, is much bigger than the state of California and AT&T. It is not only national but global as well. In the US alone, there are estimates from 35 million to 100 million landlines still in operation (depending on how you count them), about 14 million of which are business lines.

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Research: More People Use Mental Health Benefits When They Hear That Colleagues Use Them Too

Harvard Business Review

Novartis has trained more than 1,000 employees as Mental Health First Aiders to offer peer-to-peer support for their colleagues. While employees were eager for the training, uptake of the program remains low. To understand why, a team of researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 Novartis employees who worked in the UK, Ireland, India, and Malaysia.

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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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7 innovative ways to use low-code tools and platforms

InfoWorld

Some developers and business leaders believe that low-code is only for small, lightly used applications such as replacing spreadsheets and building dashboards. “These tools, in general, aren’t well suited to more advanced applications,” says Steve Jones, devops advocate at Red Gate Software. With heavier use and more complex data manipulation requirements, he says, “they often start to fail and cause workload and performance issues.

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Best and Worst Ways Companies Handled Crises in 2023

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Here’s a rundown of the businesses that flourished (and failed) in 2023 and how companies should plan to face crises in 2024. Today’s guest post is b y Thomas Mustac, Publicist — Otter PR The way a company handles a crisis can be a defining moment for the organization, either endearing them to their market or destroying the company altogether.

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Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli

CIO

La cybersecurity toglie il sonno ai CIO? Sicuramente la grande maggioranza dei Chief Information Officer definisce “priorità numero uno” la sicurezza dei sistemi IT aziendali. Questa attenzione massima rispecchia la consapevolezza che le cyber-minacce sono sempre più numerose e preoccupanti. L’ultimo Rapporto Clusit ha contato 2.779 incidenti gravi a livello globale nel 2023 (+12% rispetto al 2022), di cui 310 in Italia, ovvero l’11% del totale mondiale e un incremento addirittura del 65% in un

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The Philosophers’ Code: Enhancing Cybersecurity Strategy with Timeless Wisdom

Ooda Loop

The teachings of ancient philosophers can provide actionable insights in the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity. It might seem surprising at first, but the wisdom of history's great thinkers offers perspectives that are profoundly relevant to today's digital security challenges.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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CodeSOD: Concrapenate Strings

The Daily WTF

As oft discussed, null-terminated C-style strings are an endless source of problems. But there's no problem so bad that it can't be made worse by a sufficiently motivated developer. Today's rather old code comes from Mike , who inherited an old, MFC application. This code is responsible for opening a file dialog, and the key goal of the code is to configure the file filter in that dialog.

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President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, Gets $49,7 Million Compensation Noting 26,5% Rise While Company is in Cost-Cutting Mode

CEO Insider

Warner Bros. Discovery is under scrutiny for its executive compensation practices, with CEO David Zaslav’s 2023 pay package totaling $49.7 million, a significant increase of 26.5% from the previous year. While the company grappled with financial challenges and shrinking business segments, top executives enjoyed substantial pay hikes, raising questions about corporate priorities amidst cost-cutting efforts. […] The post President and CEO of Warner Bros.

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Global managed services to grow in 2024 as enterprise IT spending rises

CIO

The global market for managed services will rise in 2024 due to organizations’ IT spending surge and larger investments in managed services deals involving AI and cloud computing, according to market intelligence firm IDC. “This trend will continue over the next few years as more organizations experiment or go live with AI-enabled services. Although a significant portion of the IT spending will be AI-centric, cloud technology will continue to drive the IT market,” IDC said in a statement.

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Cannes Hospital Cancels Medical Procedures Following Cyberattack

Ooda Loop

Cannes Hospital Centre – Simone Veil (CHC-SV) fell victim to a cyberattack last week. Due to this attack, the healthcare organization shut down its systems to contain the attack, which forced employees to turn to pen and paper to continue providing services to patients.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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I Have Databricks, Why Do I Need Dataiku?

Dataiku

In 2024, AI is no longer a niche technology reserved for a handful of experts; it touches every part of the business. However, it's impossible for everyone to become an expert data practitioner overnight. The key is to equip people with tools that empower them where they are — so they can bring immediate value to the organization.

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Elon Musk Confirms Postponement of His Planned Visit to India Amidst Heavy Tesla Obligations

CEO Insider

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced the cancellation of his anticipated visit to India, originally scheduled for April 21-22, 2024. Musk attributed the postponement to his extensive workload at Tesla but expressed eagerness to reschedule the visit later in the year. Musk confirmed the trip’s delay in a social media post on platform X. Despite […] The post Elon Musk Confirms Postponement of His Planned Visit to India Amidst Heavy Tesla Obligations appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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How to Use Analytics to Better Understand Your Donors

TechSoup

In recent years, data has become an important asset, and it shapes the way organizations of all sizes make decisions. But there's a wide gap between possessing data and using it to its its full potential. This is particularly true for today’s nonprofits, which deal with siloed departments, evolving donor behaviors, and a competitive landscape.

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Rural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks that Caused One Water System to Overflow

Ooda Loop

A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Five Great DevOps Jobs Opportunities

DevOps.com

Looking for a DevOps job? Look at these openings at NBC Universal, BAE, UBS, and other companies with three-letter abbreviations.

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Package Hallucination: The Latest, Greatest Software Supply Chain Security Threat?

IDC

AI's "package hallucination" suggests fake software packages, posing new risks for software security by enabling cyber attacks through code injection.

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How Do I Avoid a Career Plateau at Midlife?

Harvard Business Review

An experienced leader must learn how to find a balance between striving and fulfillment in the next phase of her career.

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Rocket Attack from Iraq Targets US Base in Syria

Ooda Loop

Several rockets have been fired from Iraq towards a US military base in northeastern Syria. The attack is the first since early February to target US troops, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq brought to an end a campaign that had seen regular strikes against the US-led international coalition.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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OKRs vs. KPIs: Why Objectives and Key Results Rule the Digital Product World

Perficient

In the fast-paced realm of digital products , success hinges on setting the right goals and tracking progress effectively. Two popular methods dominate: OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). But while KPIs offer a snapshot of performance, OKRs provide a roadmap to moonshot achievements. Let’s break down the key differences.

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Case Study: How to Increase Self-Organization in a Complex Environment

Agile42

The restructuring of an existing value stream represents the greatest possible tactical challenge that managers can face in the context of agile transformation. It directly impacts the organization’s ability to deliver and affects established social structures. It is also on the borderline between two domains: complicated and complex; some aspects of the target structure are known with a fair degree of certainty based on experience, but we cannot predict how the transformation process will

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Response to Cancer Treatment

John Snow Labs

Accurate Extraction of Response to Treatment Indications in Oncology Accurate assessment of patient response to cancer treatment is paramount in guiding clinical decision-making and optimizing therapeutic outcomes. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, their performance in this domain has been limited by the inherent complexities of medical language and the nuances involved in interpreting clinical narrati