CIO
MAY 15, 2024
American humorist Mark Twain once said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Today we worry this phenomenon is playing out with enterprise adoption of generative AI. On their digital transformation journeys over the last decade, many enterprises spent time mired in “pilot purgatory,” taking as long as years to move from concept to executing on use cases.
Martin Fowler
MAY 15, 2024
The second pattern in Juntao Qiu's series on data fetching is on how to avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries multiple sources in parallel, so that the latency of the overall fetch is largest of the queries rather than the sum of them.
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CIO
MAY 15, 2024
It seems anyone can make an AI model these days. Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. And there are an insane number of variants.
Xebia
MAY 15, 2024
All 5,000 of Gartner’s Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit attendees agree on one thing: AI is so central to the future success of business that it is useless to continue debating if and when. The answer is yes and the time is now. Instead, for the next three days at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, C-suite leaders, technology experts, and pioneering solutions providers will discuss the digital transformation dance and why AI–in all its iterations–makes the best dance partner.
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It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
We all know that complexity is the enemy of effective cybersecurity. Yet across the globe, organizations are transforming their operations to deliver new digital experiences. This is driving a greater degree of risk in complex environments. We have found that incident volumes increased by 13% in 2023, rising to 16% among enterprises, where scale and operational complexity are greatest.
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CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Growing out of control? If 2023 was the year of AI exploration, then 2024 will be the year of action. According to Forrester , investment in AI software will grow 50% faster than the wider software market. A recent PagerDuty survey also found that 71% of businesses are looking to expand investments in AI and machine learning (ML) in the next year.
Next Level Blog
MAY 15, 2024
Three Common Feedback Challenges There probably aren’t many people in the world who are more involved, more often in giving and receiving feedback than executive coaches. As a two decade plus coach myself, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve prepared, delivered and supported my clients in receiving colleague feedback. It’s easily over 2,000 times.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
CIOs instinctively understand how IT staff shortages and recruitment struggles make every task and deliverable more difficult. But it’s very different when the business leaders they report to are shown the concrete business problems that arise as a result of shortages of staff in the IT department. A new IDC report delivers those details. Nearly two thirds of the IT executives surveyed said “a lack of skills has resulted in missed revenue growth objectives, quality problems, and a decline in cus
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2024
Approaching a conversation about improving an employee’s performance requires preparation, empathy, and a focus on collaboration. Even though hearing the truth about their current performance will be tough and potentially hurtful, it’s a teaching moment managers must embrace to help them become more resilient and adept at problem-solving and developing professional relationships.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Creating a world that is safer and more secure is core to our vision at Palo Alto Networks, but this only can be achieved if we’re collectively making the internet, as a whole, safer. To do this requires more widespread awareness of cyber threats and information sharing, and a newly proposed cyber incident reporting rule from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) is intended to meet this goal.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2024
Imagine a colleague is faced with a high-stakes decision. They’re likely stressed, conflicted, and overwhelmed. In these situations, many of us default to the role of problem-solver. We try to support our colleague by providing our opinion or offering a solution. But to effectively support decision makers in your organization, you need to step back from your own ego and just listen.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
It’s difficult to imagine SAP without Hasso Plattner, who’s been there from the beginning and has significantly shaped the fortunes of Europe’s largest software manufacturer for more than five decades as founder, board of directors member, and, most recently, as chairman of the supervisory board. Now at 80, Plattner is giving up his post at the head of the supervisory board and leaving the SAP stage.
Crunchbase News
MAY 15, 2024
This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent what. See March’s most-active startup investors here. The big names came out strong with their checkbooks last month. The top five firms investing in U.S.
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Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
After a tumultuous 2022, organizations were looking for a year of certitude and growth in 2023. Unfortunately, they didn’t get it. This was 12 months in which interest rates and inflation soared, and persistent business, economic, and geopolitical uncertainty weighed heavily on corporate strategy. Yet for IT operations teams little changed. Many struggled to support their organization’s expanding digital infrastructure with disjointed tooling and manual processes.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MAY 15, 2024
Strong teams often have team members with strong personalities. Learn how to build your team’s conflict resolution skills. More often than not, high-performing teams operate in high-pressure environments. And many times on a high-performing team, you have some strong personalities at play. When you combine pressure and strong personalities there are plenty of opportunities for conflict between the members of your team.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. The EU’s data center reporting rules are part of a larger regulatory package ultimately aimed at reducing energy consumption by 11.7% between 2020 and 2030.
Crunchbase News
MAY 15, 2024
Weka locked up a $140 million Series E — raised in both a primary and secondary transaction — that values the data platform at $1.6 billion. The valuation is more than double what the company was last valued at after a $135 million Series D led by Generation Investment Management in late 2022. At the time, it was reported the Campbell, California-based startup had a $750 million valuation after the raise.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
In a world of persistent macroeconomic and business uncertainty, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to grow revenue without adding capacity. Hiring is expensive, takes time, and can be full of risk. It’s also increasingly difficult to do in an environment where ITOps talent is in short supply. The simple answer to this capacity conundrum is automation.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
MAY 15, 2024
Amazon Ads helps advertisers and brands achieve their business goals by developing innovative solutions that reach millions of Amazon customers at every stage of their journey. At Amazon Ads, we believe that what makes advertising effective is delivering relevant ads in the right context and at the right moment within the consumer buying journey. With that goal, Amazon Ads has used artificial intelligence (AI), applied science, and analytics to help its customers drive desired business outcomes
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Over the course of the last decade, enterprise-wide cybersecurity has increasingly become a business priority. With a renewed focus on each organization’s need to protect itself from a wide range of threats, board-level professionals have realized the value CIOs can bring to their business. As a result of this perception shift, CIOs have been shifted into the public eye and must be more aware than ever of the decisions they make.
Crunchbase News
MAY 15, 2024
The annual RSA Conference concerning all things cyber barreled into San Francisco last week with a lot of startups, crowds, parties and all the other surrounding hoopla one would expect from a massive tech conference. However, it seemed like what most of the folks who invest big-money in those same cybersecurity startups really wanted was some quiet from all the noise that surrounds AI.
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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.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
CIOs are being hit by requests for everything, across every department. But this deluge mustn’t distract from the business-critical technology initiatives to drive operational excellence and business value. For the CIO, any changes must give teams a way of doing business smarter, and faster. CIOs must sift through the noise to identify ways to automate processes and transform the way people work.
IDC
MAY 15, 2024
A digital world experience means instead of searching through many data sets, an individual can interact with the technology in a conversational form creating a positive experience.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Cost remains the biggest driver for multicloud. To be successful, CIOs must understand the costs and benefits of such a migration, as well as factors such as life cycle management and the impact on staff. The good news – according to a group of Canadian IT leaders I met with in Toronto – is that Canada’s CIOs have never felt better equipped to make those decisions.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2024
Whether you’re managing up to your boss or out to your clients, there are proven techniques to help you better understand them and win their respect.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to transform entire industries, especially in customer service and coding. If Act One of digital transformation was building applications—for example, building omnichannel customer experiences—then Act Two is adding GenAI. Its core capability—using large language models (LLMs) to create content, whether it’s code or conversations—can introduce a whole new layer of engagement for organizations.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2024
Some NDAs illegally place restrictions on an employee’s ability to report misconduct to government agencies like the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) or the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Securities violations, including fraud, insider trading, and market manipulation, are some of the most common forms of misconduct that companies try to prevent employees from reporting.
CIO
MAY 15, 2024
Martha Heller: What does data literacy mean to BayCare Health System? William Walders:It means that every team member operates at the top of their license. When the environmental services team who cleans our operating rooms has the data to flip an OR quickly to get a new patient in, they work more efficiently. A third of our staff are nurses. If we understand the volume of patients in the hospital and the level of care they need, and can predict future staffing needs, we provide better care for
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