CIO
APRIL 23, 2024
As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2024
Designing software that’s resilient against the most common cyberattacks is possible — and significantly more cost effective than dealing with the fallout of a hack.
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CIO
APRIL 23, 2024
What is SAFe certification? Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. These certifications provide a valid, reliable means of assessing skills, knowledge, and mindset of those seeking career advancement working with the framework.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2024
Slowly but steadily, while we’ve been preoccupied with trying to meet demands that outstrip our resources, grappling with unfair treatment, or watching our working hours encroach upon our downtime, burnout has become the new baseline in many work environments. From the 40% of Gen Z workers who believe burnout is an inevitable part of success, to executives who believe high-pressure, “trial-by-fire” assignments are a required rite of passage, to toxic hustle culture that pushes busyness as a badg
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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
CIO
APRIL 23, 2024
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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Crunchbase News
APRIL 23, 2024
Startup investors kept a tight hold on their wallets in the first quarter of 2024, Crunchbase data shows. There were big exceptions — some AI, healthcare, energy and robotics startups, among others, received massive investments — but overall the tone was cautious as the year got started. To break it down further, let’s look at 11 charts based on recent Crunchbase data that show the state of the startup world in early 2024.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
We argue that the bioeconomy will lead all industry sectors into a fascinating (and anything but fear-inducing) future filled with abundance and promise - including DNA-based data storage capabilities. DNA Data Storage? Yes. Let's start there.
InfoWorld
APRIL 23, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is moving some features of its generative AI application-building service, Amazon Bedrock , to general availability, the company said on Tuesday. These features include guardrails for AI , a model evaluation tool, and new large language models (LLMs).
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
The US State Department is going to impose visa restrictions on 13 people involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware. The restrictions will also be imposed on their spouses and children. This is the first implementation on a spyware-related visa-restriction program announced in February.
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.
Sunflower Lab
APRIL 23, 2024
When it comes to modern business environment, where speed and flexibility are critical, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is both a trend of the future and an urgent need. RPA allows human resources to be allocated to more advanced and creative projects by automating repetitive, routine tasks. But simply implementing RPA occasionally is not enough. Organizations must create a thorough RPA strategy that is in line with their overall business goals if they want to acquire a competitive advantage.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
According to a Microsoft report, Russian-linked cybercrime group APT28 has been exploiting Windows Print Spooler vulnerabilities to deploy an exploitation tool against organizations across Western Europe, in Ukraine, and in the US.
Sunflower Lab
APRIL 23, 2024
The expression “adapt or perish” continues to adequately encapsulate the meaning of adapting or not, in the digital world. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the challenge is twofold: Not only are you expected to keep in trend with the technology and do it cost effectively, But also, make sure that you are not dealing with any kind of disruption when it comes to the growth of the business in the long term.
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company for Change Healthcare, confirmed that Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) was stolen in a February ransomware attack.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
APRIL 23, 2024
Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
Prosecutors have arrested a man working for a far-right politician in Germany on suspicion of spying for China. The man as an assistant to AfD MEP and European election candidate Maximilian Krah. He was arrested in the eastern city of Dresden.
InfoWorld
APRIL 23, 2024
Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and think I’m nuts. And maybe I am. But someone has to just say what we all know to be true but don’t want to admit. Look, there have been countless books written, innumerable conferences held, untold consulting hours purchased, and endless blog posts written on how to be better at estimating software pro
Ooda Loop
APRIL 23, 2024
Ukraine is set to suspend consular services for military-age men abroad. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had ordered services cut for all such men, except for those returning to Ukraine. The move comes as Ukraine pushes to boost conscription in a bid to halt Russian movement on the battlefield.
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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 23, 2024
The exponential growth of data, and in particular unstructured data, is a problem enterprises have been wrestling with for decades. IT organizations are in a constant battle between ensuring that data is accessible to users, one the one hand, and that the data is globally protected and in compliance with data governance policies, on the other. Added to this is the need to ensure that files are stored in the most cost-effective manner possible, on whichever storage is best at that point in time.
Newgen Software
APRIL 23, 2024
What is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS)? A business rules management system is a software solution that can facilitate the entire lifecycle of business rules and enable automation at every decision level. It keeps business decisions separate from hard coding, enabling quick modifications to meet industry demands. Having such software can help organizations define, implement, and manage business rules and business logic so processes can be simplified and human intervention is kept at a
InfoWorld
APRIL 23, 2024
As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences , as have data center conferences, databases conferences, and you name it. It’s clearly more than just a trend—it’s a game-changing push. But we’ve seen this happen enough times in the past 30 years to know nothing is guaranteed to be a true trend. Remember “push technology?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2024
A conversation Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams on shifting your mindset and energy at work.
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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.
Sunflower Lab
APRIL 23, 2024
Understanding the language of data is the key to success in today’s fast-paced business environment. Power BI is a dynamic tool that transforms unprocessed data into meaningful insights to give you a competitive edge by using the full potential of your data. For decision-makers, it’s like having a help hand that makes complicated data easy to understand dashboards.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2024
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