July, 2022

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Myth Busting: 5 Misconceptions About FinOps

DevOps.com

Over the years, moves to the cloud have happened in several different ways and at various speeds. The reality is that today most enterprises are spending massive amounts on their cloud environments, and many teams are struggling to contend with the governance implications of this reality. Fundamentally, teams struggle with an either-or proposition: Either they […].

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Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend

TechCrunch

European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company a post-money valuation of $4.5 billion. This represents a 50% increase on last year’s $3 billion valuation at its Series C round. Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative. They’re not just offering remote work and flexible hours.

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Dennis Ritchie Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist is most popularly known for creating the C programming language. Dennis grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended ‘Summit High School’ in Summit, New Jersey. He was a star student in the classroom, earning consistently good grades. He went on to study applied mathematics and physics at Harvard University.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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5 quick tips for successful Agile outcomes

Agile Alliance

Product Ownership Analysis or POA is a researched and studied discipline with a set of practices, processes, and procedures to create successful outcomes. Here are five quick tips to add to your toolkit. The post 5 quick tips for successful Agile outcomes first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

Part Four –Tangential Opportunity; a Balancing Act in P.E. Hiring. In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate.

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Meet the newest crypto builders from web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s demo day

TechCrunch

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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How CIOs can unite sustainability and technology

CIO

As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, CIOs can play a key role in driving both business value and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. In fact, creating and implementing a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy must now be the core mission of a purpose-driven CIO. Every executive in Accenture’s recent sustainable technology survey agreed that technology is critical for achieving sustainability goals.

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Announcing GitLab support on CircleCI

CircleCI

GitLab teams, welcome to CircleCI! Today we are pleased to announce GitLab support on CircleCI. Teams using GitLab SaaS can now build, test, and deploy on CircleCI, and access CircleCI’s most popular features like Docker layer caching and automatic test-splitting. GitLab is now the third version control system we support, in addition to GitHub and Bitbucket.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How DevOps Teams Can Defend Against API Attacks

DevOps.com

Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a whopping 600% in 2021—are now poised to become the top attack vector for threat actors, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The […].

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How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

Let's Grow Leaders

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. A seeming no-win scenario is also a chance to distinguish yourself, earn people’s trust, and innovate. Here are seven ways to lead through these tough circumstances, build your credibility, and sleep well at night: Reframe. Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. Choose a Different Time Frame.

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Why Cyber Attacks On Identities Are On The Rise

CEO Insider

Organizations are witnessing a record wave of cyber-attacks and whether it’s data breaches, ransomware attacks, fraud or espionage, a common theme seems to be emerging — threat actors are increasingly targeting identities instead of targeting systems. Per the Identity Defined Security Alliance’s (IDSA) latest report, 84% of organizations have experienced an identity-related attack in the […].

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African Leadership Group acquires coding school Holberton

TechCrunch

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. Holberton’s technology platform will become part of ALG’s existing ALX online learning platform and the existing 34 physical locations will get spun out to become a stand-alone business under current Holberton COO Florian Bucher.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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8 servant leadership do’s and don’ts

CIO

Servant leadership has emerged as a popular management method that replaces command-and control-style leadership with empathy and empowerment. The management approach prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self.

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What the evolution of API management means for DevOps

TechBeacon

With resources stretched and margins getting thinner, application programming interfaces and the API economy will continue to play a critical role in connecting services, applications, and clouds.

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Applying Automation to DevOps

DevOps.com

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […].

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How Do I Ask Better Questions: Asking For a Friend with Chad Littlefield [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

Want to Ask Better Questions? Stop Asking Why. Here’s Why… In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Chad Littlefield, Co-Author of Ask Better Questions. Chad and I met at an industry conference where we were both speaking and discovered many shared interests including creating psychological safety and encouraging deeper, more meaningful conversations and swimming.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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CVE-2022-32223 Discovery: DLL Hijacking via npm CLI

Aqua Security

Aqua Team Nautilus recently discovered that all Node.js versions earlier than 16.16.0 (LTS) and 14.20.0 on Windows are vulnerable to dynamic link library (DLL) hijacking if OpenSSL is installed on the host. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and establish persistence in a target environment. The vulnerability can also provide another way to embed malicious code into packages.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

For much of her career, hacker Runa Sandvik has worked to protect journalists and newsrooms from powerful adversaries who want to keep wrongdoing and corruption out of the public eye. Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics.

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IT spending projected to grow despite economic headwinds

CIO

Plummeting sales of printers and PCs and a growing inflation crisis aside, IT spending will remain strong through 2022, rising 3% year-over-year to a total of $4.5 trillion, according to projections released by Gartner Research. The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said.

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The future of DevOps

TechBeacon

There's more to DevOps than methodology. According to a recently released report from Forrester, future DevOps success will require organizations to undergo a mindset shift—embracing new tools, technologies, and practices that support teams working together toward a common goal.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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DevOps Is Not a Role — It’s a Culture

DevOps.com

The full-stack developer is becoming increasingly rare these days. Due to the accelerating complexity of modern software development, programmers often specialize in specific languages, frameworks or levels of the software stack, such as frontend or backend. These same fractures seem to be occurring within DevOps, too. Nowadays, large companies no longer have one strain of […].

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How Machine Learning is Used in Finance and Banking

Exadel

Sophisticated, intelligent security systems and streamlined customer services are keys to business success. Financial institutions, in particular, need to stay ahead of the curve using cutting-edge technology to optimize their IT and meet the latest market demands. The banking landscape is constantly changing, and the application of machine learning in banking is arguably still in its early stages.

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How to Create a Compelling Narrative That Connects with Senior Execs

Next Level Blog

One of the leadership communications distinctions I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is the difference between communications that are episodic and those that are longitudinal. Back in January, I wrote a post about how leaders need to pull the thread through so their teams can see how their work fits into the longer arc of the work. Lately, I’ve been advising a lot of clients on how to frame their communications for C-Suite executives who, because of the nature of their jobs, are bombarded

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Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Cartona raises $12M to scale and explore new verticals

TechCrunch

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. Cartona , one of the major players digitizing the traditional trade market, including mom-and-pop stores, FMCG producers, wholesalers, and distributors in Egypt, has raised $12 million in Series A funding.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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7 traits of inspirational IT leaders

CIO

All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. CIOs who are purposefully positive and responsible, with a focus on integrity, tend to inspire others, says Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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COBOL's youth culture

TechBeacon

COBOL isn’t something new. It’s not thought of as something emerging or disruptive. Yet slowly, almost out of necessity, it’s building a youth culture. A new generation is taking hold of the language and starting to chart a path forward.

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Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis

DevOps.com

A survey of CEOs and IT professionals involved in application testing finds a significant gap in terms of how acceptable it is to release software that has not been properly tested. The survey, conducted by the market research firm Censuswide on behalf of Leapwork, a test automation platform provider, polled 480 CEOs in the U.S. […]. The post Survey Warns of Looming Software Testing Crisis appeared first on DevOps.com.

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