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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO

Our goal since the Broadcom/VMware acquisition was completed last November has been to help our customers move fast in their digital transformation to position themselves for success. Even before the transaction was finalized, we had been listening to VMware’s customers. As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF.

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Working Parents, Plan for the Week with This Simple Exercise

Harvard Business Review

As work travel and hours in the office mount, work parents are feeling the logistical challenges of making every week happen — from kid pickup and dropoff and sports practice to meal planning and doctor’s appointments. The main difficulties lie in managing the firehose of information, coping with decision fatigue, and dealing with surprises like an illness or a forgotten event.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

CIO

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum.

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Navigating the ethical waters of Agile coaching with Alex Sloley

Agile Alliance

Join Alex Sloley, Craig Smith, and Shane Hastie in embracing the Agile Coaching Ethics to elevate your coaching practices. Discover how you can contribute to a future of ethical Agility. The post Navigating the ethical waters of Agile coaching with Alex Sloley first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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4 Common Challenges to Having a Grand Vision and Simple Solutions to Success

CEO Insider

Discipline. Sacrifice. Intelligence. Grit. Work ethic. Creativity. Luck. These are the attributes that most people associate with success. And they’re all important. But a person can display all these traits and still not reach the highest levels of achievement. That’s because this list omits the most important ingredient: a grand vision—an idea of a beautiful […] The post 4 Common Challenges to Having a Grand Vision and Simple Solutions to Success appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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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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Lessons from Beyoncé on Navigating Exclusion

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, Beyoncé’s performance at the CMA Awards sparked backlash from fans complaining about everything from her attire to her lack of connection to the genre. This year, she released her first country album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Her actions over the past eight years have been a case study in how to navigate workplace exclusion.

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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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Nagomi Security Emerges From Stealth With $30 Million in Funding

Ooda Loop

Nagomi Security has emerged from stealth mode, previously known as Vena Security, with a platform aimed at helping customers maximize the effectiveness of their existing cybersecurity tools.

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More on the PAN-OS CVE-2024-3400

Palo Alto Networks

On April 10, 2024 Palo Alto Networks Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) learned of a suspicious exfiltration attempt at a customer site from Volexity's Steven Adair. Our Palo Alto Networks Product Security Research Lead Christopher Ganas and Unit 42's Threat Research Lead Kyle Wilhoit immediately investigated the issue with Volexity's team.

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Wi-Fi 7: The Future of High Speed Wireless Networking is Here

Arista

Enterprises are under pressure to meet and exceed the challenges of rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements, including AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) applications, streaming multimedia, IoT proliferation, video applications and high density deployments.

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Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale

Harvard Business Review

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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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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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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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO

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.

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From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data Strategy Triumph with Perficient

Perficient

Uncovering the Challenge: Relying on Spreadsheets for Portfolio Analysis A leading wealth and asset management firm recently sought our financial services expertise for a critical challenge. Relying on complex spreadsheets for portfolio analysis, the firm faced operational hurdles due to immense computing demands. The Perficient Approach: Transforming Operations through Strategic Consulting Our team embraced the challenge, conducting a meticulous two-week analysis to uncover the root issue: a cu

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OpenAI ramps up enterprise support with a focus on security, control, and cost

InfoWorld

OpenAI, known for its large language model ChatGPT, is making a strong push for the enterprise market. In what could intensify competition among enterprise AI players , the company announced a slew of new features designed to give businesses more control, enhance security, and offer cost-effective options when integrating OpenAI’s AI technologies in their operations.

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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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Should You Quit Your “Meh” Job? Or Is It Salvageable?

Harvard Business Review

Bad days at work are inevitable, just as some degree of frustration and ennui is bound to be a part of almost any job. In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on what to do if you’re stuck in the gray area of deciding whether your job is merely mediocre (and could potentially improve) or downright soul-crushing (and might require a change).

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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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Generative AI gold rush drives IT spending — with payoff in question

CIO

A scramble to invest in artificial intelligence and a natural replacement cycle for computing devices purchased during the COVID pandemic will lead to an 8% increase in global IT spending this year, Gartner predicted. Interest in AI, building since last year, will push a 10% increase in data center system spending this year, driving worldwide IT spending to $5.06 trillion, said John-David Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Crisis Management in the Digital Age: Lessons for 2024’s Unpredictable Economy

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Economic Landscape of 2024 2024 presents us with a complex economic landscape where various challenges intersect. There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology.

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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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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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

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How Burnout Became Normal — and How to Push Back Against It

Harvard Business Review

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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UnitedHealth Says Patient Data Exposed in Change Healthcare Cyberattack

Ooda Loop

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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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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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Why Boutique Executive Search Firms Outperform Global Behemoth’s

N2Growth Blog

In the high-stakes arena of executive recruitment , companies often gravitate toward prominent global search firms. If you are reading this, you will likely know their names. The expectation is that their extensive networks and vast resources will deliver the world-class leadership talent they need to drive their organizations forward. However, many companies fail to recognize that the largest search firms come with a significant limitation– expansive off-limits lists that drastically reduce the

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AWS moves Amazon Bedrock’s AI guardrails, and other features to general availability

InfoWorld

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).

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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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