Wed.Nov 04, 2020

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COVID-19, Digital Transformation and Teams: Q&A With Red Hat’s Kevin Behr

DevOps.com

Even prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, enterprise teams found themselves strained as they pressed to move digital transformation goals from whiteboard to reality. Then along came the big push to work from home and many transformations that were planned to occur years from now were put into action. So how are enterprise teams faring […].

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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

TechCrunch

Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Almost overnight, these startups transformed into consequential platforms, earning billion-dollar valuations along the way.

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Mission Possible: Fighting Today’s Biggest Security Threats from Every Angle

CTOvision

Join Bob Gourley, Matt Devost, and Emily Crose in a panel moderated by Google’s Dr. Anton Chuvakin which will explore today’s cyber threats and mitigation strategies from the perspective of […].

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Vivid Money raises $17.6 million for its European challenger bank

TechCrunch

German fintech startup Vivid Money has raised a $17.6 million Series A funding round (€15 million). Ribbit Capital is leading the investment. Today’s funding round gives Vivid Money a valuation of $117 million (€100 million). Vivid Money is quite a young startup, as the company started accepting customers just a few months ago. Built on top of Solarisbank for the banking infrastructure, Vivid Money is a challenger bank with a few nifty features.

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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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RiskIQ PassiveTotal Integrates Directly With Microsoft Security Solutions

CTOvision

RiskIQ, a global leader in attack surface management, announced that RiskIQ PassiveTotal now integrates directly with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Azure Sentinel. The integration brings Defender for Endpoint and […].

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Imperva’s Mobile Security App

CTOvision

Read Michael Wright take a look at Imperva’s mobile security App on Security Boulevard: How many apps do you currently have on your mobile device? Is this number a total across […].

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Will new SEC equity crowdfunding rules encourage more founders to pass the hat?

TechCrunch

The flow of venture capital in 2020 has been surprisingly strong given the year’s general uncertainty, but while investors have showered plenty of dough on growth-stage companies, seed-stage startups are down 32% last quarter compared to the year before. There have been plenty of recent conversations about alternative funding routes for founders, and one of those oft-overlooked paths has been equity crowdfunding.

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Change In Focus of CTOvision Reporting

CTOvision

Since launching OODA LLC in January 2019 we have continued to refine the content here at CTOvision to focus on the niche of enterprise technologists seeking insights into how to make […].

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As tech stocks rally, bring on the IPOs

TechCrunch

During yesterday’s tense voting and this morning, shares of American-listed technology companies are shooting higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up around 3.35% this morning, more than double what the broad S&P 500 index is currently managing. SaaS and cloud stocks kicked off the day up a staggering 4.98%, a sharp rally in the value of smaller, more growth-oriented technology companies.

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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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Attivo Networks ThreatPath now addresses proliferation of endpoints and credential protection challenges

CTOvision

Attivo Networks announced innovative enhancements to its ThreatPath solution, part of the modular ThreatDefend Endpoint Detection Net (EDN) family of products. ThreatPath, which continuously observes and shows credential exposures, now also […].

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Learn how to score your first check with TMV’s Soraya Darabi on November 10

TechCrunch

When it comes to financing a startup, the most important — and hardest — check to land is the very first one. The growth of accelerators, rolling funds, community funds, hungry angels and institutional investors has given founders more options than ever before, but for women and people of color, access to funding continues to be a struggle.

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Predictive vs. Prescriptive Analytics: What’s the Difference?

Dataiku

The bulk of an organization’s data science, machine learning, and AI conquests come down to improving decision-making capabilities. Teams may aim to achieve new levels of agility, expedite the time to insights, or refine the process leading up to the business value extraction so that it’s more efficient. When during this process, though, should data executives get either predictive or prescriptive?

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Cyber resilience: 4 key trends SecOps team leaders need to know

TechBeacon

A number of developments in the threat landscape have induced security leaders to pay more attention to cyber resilience, and is fueling several trends.

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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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Ericsson closes $1bn acquisition of Cradlepoint

CTOvision

Ericsson has completed its acquisition of Cradlepoint, a US-based provider of wireless edge 4G and 5G solutions for the enterprise market. The investment underscores Ericsson’s development strategy to gather a market […].

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5 open-source APM tools compared

TechBeacon

Many application performance monitoring tools (also referred to as application performance monitoring), come with a hefty price tag to cover licensing fees. But there are plenty of open-source APM alternatives to consider if you're just getting started — and these tools may also complement commercial alternatives.

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Interview: David Garfield and Henry Harrison, Garrison Technology

CTOvision

We know Garrison well and love their unique approach to restoring trust and functionality to enterprise users. So it is always good to see them in the press. Here is […].

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What is FHIR and how can it benefit the Healthcare system

Daffodil Software

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a healthcare data exchange standard created by Health Level Seven or HL7. Having developed advanced tools for safe and secure data exchange such as EMR, Diagnostic Data, or PHI – FHIR has given a boost to the healthcare sector.

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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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World Quality Report 2020-21: QA is integral to digital transformation

TechBeacon

QA is evolving from serving as an independent function within software delivery organizations to become an integral and inclusive part of the team and delivery lifecycle as digital transformation efforts expand. QA pros are no longer solely responsible for testing and finding defects, but now must take pains to ensure that the rest of the software delivery team instills quality in their work, according to this year's World Quality Report 2020-21 (WQR).

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CVE-2020-16846, CVE-2020-25592: Critical Vulnerabilities in Salt Framework Disclosed

Tenable

SaltStack recommends immediate patching after their disclosure of three new vulnerabilities, two of which are rated critical and can be remotely exploited without authentication.". Background. On October 30, SaltStack published a pre-announcement advisory regarding three new vulnerabilities which had been discovered in Salt versions 3002 and earlier.

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Hybrid cloud strategy: 5 essentials

Capgemini

“Businesses planning on implementing a hybrid cloud environment need to consider their appetite for managing the constant evolution of the cloud landscapes,” says Ryan Murphy, VP and North American cloud center of excellence leader at?Capgemini. “Technology innovation and obsolescence are the primary driving factors for change.” “An IT organization needs to understand the true costs to the business when operating solutions on slower infrastructure, or when utilizing

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Announcements: What The Fun Holiday Activity?

The Daily WTF

The holidays are a time of traditions, but traditions do change. For example, classic holiday specials have gone from getting cut down for commercials, to getting snapped up by streaming services. Well, perhaps it's time for a new holiday tradition. A holiday tradition which includes a minor dose of… WTF. We're happy to announce our "Worse Than Failure Holiday Special" Contest.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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How Your Business Can Survive the Next Economic Disaster

CEO Insider

All of our plans for 2020 vanished in a matter of days. Many large retailers, hotels,] and restaurateurs that were at the top of their game only a year ago are now closing their doors and filing for bankruptcy. COVID-19 has taught us that popularity in the marketplace, revenue and market share can quickly become […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article How Your Business Can Survive the Next Economic Disaster are those of the author Peter Demos alone and not the CE

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Insights On Chaos Engineering and SRE With Yury Niño Roa

Dzone - DevOps

Blameless recently had the pleasure of interviewing Yury Niño Roa , Site Reliability Engineer, Solutions Architect and Chaos Engineering Advocate at ADL Digital Labs. She’s worked in roles ranging from solutions architect, to software engineering professor, to DevOps engineer, to SRE. Additionally, Yury is an avid blogger and conference speaker who regularly presents at events such as Chaos Conf, DevOpsDays Bogotá, and more.

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How To Scan QR reader using JavaScript and HTML5

Angularjs | Reactjs | jQuery | Nodejs tutorials

This tutorial help to read QR code scanner using jQuery html5. We will provide a js script to read QR code using mobile or webcam. We will use instascan js plugin for qr code scan. The Instascan JS is a opensource real-time webcam based HTML5 QR code scanner. This libs will find camera into your […]. The post How To Scan QR reader using JavaScript and HTML5 appeared first on JS-Tutorials.

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ConnectALL Announces Integration Support for SAP Solution Manager

DevOps.com

Newest solution becomes part of ConnectALL’s Value Stream Management capabilities ATLANTA – November 4, 2020 – ConnectALL, a leading provider of value stream management (VSM) solutions, today announced support for SAP Solution Manager, enabling organizations to connect innumerable software tools to the award-winning SAP platform using its ConnectALL Value Stream Management solution.

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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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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

Second Edition cover. This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Your feedback is appreciated! To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

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A Quick Guide To Help You With Software Development Company

Xicom

These days, there is an unprecedented rise to hire software developers. And, it’s believed to be caused by the voluminous use of mobile apps among smartphone users. . Unsurprisingly, users now tend to look out for apps for queries rather than searching it on a web browser. This drift eventually adds to the rising demand for internet usage coupled with affordable data packages leading businesses to have their own software or mobile apps to enhance audience reach. .

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How to explain hybrid cloud in plain English

Capgemini

What is hybrid cloud? “Hybrid cloud is a term used to refer to the IT setup or architecture – and connection of – two or more types of IT environments, which use both on-premises datacenter and cloud environments, whether public or private.” -Ryan Murphy, VP and North American cloud center of excellence leader at?Capgemini. The electric utility analogy.

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