Dataiku
AUGUST 17, 2022
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CIO
AUGUST 17, 2022
In March 2022, Steve Demetriou, chair and CEO of Jacobs, announced a new multiyear strategy that would focus on three accelerators for the $15B professional services business: climate response, consulting and advisory, and data solutions, each supported by significant acquisitions. Madhuri Andrews, who became chief digital and information officer of Jacobs in 2019, knew the strategy would require a new IT operating model, both to enable IT to act as a truly global organization and to leverage th
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. Millions — billions — of dollars are flowing toward upstart tech companies of all stripes, and as the de-facto news hub for the startup ecosystem, we are as guilty as anyone of being a
CIO
AUGUST 17, 2022
By Thomas Been, DataStax. Winning enterprises take data, process it, and use it to deliver in-the-moment experiences to customers. Starbucks, Netflix, The Home Depot, and countless other organizations large and small have built great success based on this understanding. But what does that success look like, and what are the challenges faced by organizations that use real-time data?
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
ThreatX , a vendor selling API protection services to mainly enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Vistara Growth,406 Ventures, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketin
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Martin Fowler
AUGUST 17, 2022
Although he's been quiet for a while on here, Unmesh Joshi has been working hard on more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. In this first of a new batch, he looks at the difficulty of getting consistent reads from servers in the presence of the inevitable drifts between system logs. A Clock-Bound Wait. adds a small wait time on a request for a value at a recent time.
CIO
AUGUST 17, 2022
In my last column for CIO.com , I outlined some of the cybersecurity issues around user authentication for verification of consumer and business accounts. . Among other things, I advocated that in this remote/hybrid work era, CISOs must protect their company’s access to data by having a cyber-attack plan ready to implement, understanding the new tools and tactics that cyber thieves use, and being aware of newer AI-based technologies that can lessen cybersecurity risks.?
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
BigPanda , a startup developing AI to audit changes in IT environments and recommend how to fix them, has raised $20 million in an extension of its Series E round. UBS Next and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital contributed to the tranche, bringing BigPanda’s total raised to $340 million. The company’s valuation remains unchanged at $1.2 billion.
CIO
AUGUST 17, 2022
Most businesses have a long-term vision and core strategic goals. But many struggle to make them a reality. The problem often arises because the strategic goals are so overarching and distant, that they aren’t focused on consistently among the day-to-day direction. Deeper cultural issues typically underly the problem. Often, there is no clear link between the people working on important projects and the business outcomes targeted.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Incredible Health, a US-based job-matching platform which made nurses its first focus, has closed an $80 million Series B funding round and announced hitting a $1.65BN unicorn valuation, billing itself as the highest valued “tech-enabled” career marketplace in the healthcare sector — a couple of (pandemic-struck) years after closing a $15M Series A.
The Crazy Programmer
AUGUST 17, 2022
Brian Wilson Kernighan is a computer scientist from Canada. He worked at Nokia Bell labs. This is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by a multinational company Nokia. He contributed to the development of UNIX with Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie. Brian Kernighan worked as co-author with Dennis Ritchie on the book The C Programming Language.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Last year, Triller triumphantly announced that it would pay out a total of $14 million in cash and equity to Black creators in 2022. It seemed like a smart move, helping the lesser-known short-form video app to compete with TikTok by uplifting underrepresented talent. But The Washington Post recently reported that most of these creators were never actually paid.
Aqua Security
AUGUST 17, 2022
Every cloud provider has different resources that require detailed understanding to scan for security issues. To make this easier, cloud providers offer built-in security scanners. However, those may often lack functionality and integration into your existing stack.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Following Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical , Business Insider reported the company would add mental health services to its portfolio. Although there are skeptics who fear Amazon’s privacy track record in the context of healthcare, some say the company’s moves could be positive for the industry. The tech behemoth originally entered the health sector after it acquired PillPack , an online pharmacy, in 2018 and later rebranded as Amazon Pharmacy.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 17, 2022
Sustainable development is a blueprint for societal growth that is applied around the world to balance the needs of the present while optimizing for the future. Sustainability consists of three pillars — economic, environmental and social — that must work together to meet this goal. The complexities of digital transformation and application modernization can benefit […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
When VCs overlook the U.S. Midwest, it’s not just Chicago they are missing out on. Over time, many cities across the Midwest have been building out bona fide startup ecosystems, as M25’s annual ranking of Midwest startup hubs makes clear. Each year, the Chicago-based VC firm puts together a list of the Midwest’s most active tech scenes, using a wide range of criteria.
Confluent
AUGUST 17, 2022
Confluent Hackathon ‘22: Using Apache Kafka a Raspberry Pi, and a camera, Simon Aubury builds a detection and monitoring system to better understand wildlife population trends over time.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Mack Kolarich. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mack Kolarich is the VP of analytics at Assure and has extensive expertise in private capital and startup investing. Not all angel investors, and not all angel groups, are created equal. Some have built reputations for adding phenomenal value, being staunch allies of founders as startups scale and helping them source expertise or resources through their networks.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 17, 2022
Although in its early stages, Web3 shows promise to deliver the benefits of blockchain and DevOps working together. This article discusses how DevOps practices, processes, tools, and blockchain technologies complement each other to deliver Web3 solutions. DevOps is an umbrella term encompassing a culture, mindset, development styles, processes, and technologies for software development.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Nikhil Sachdev. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nikhil Sachdev is a managing director at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth software, fintech and crypto companies. Apoorva Goyal. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Apoorva Goyal is a vice president at Insight Partners, where he focuses on investments in high-growth fintech, internet and software companies.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 17, 2022
We’ve long talked about how the cloud is the future. But with the vast majority of corporate data now stored in the cloud, it’s clear that most businesses now realize this is a must-have in today’s increasingly demanding and agile business environment. The cloud has been the backbone of the remote restructuring of the workplace […]. The post Overcoming Multi-Cloud Management Challenges appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Funding Circle cofounder Samir Desai has unveiled a new U.K. fintech startup called Super Payments , a venture he founded back in February but which very little was known about up until now. Reports emerged a few months back that Desai had raised around $30 million for this new company, and today this has been confirmed. Super has raised £22.5 million (roughly $27 million as of today) in a round of funding led by Accel, with participation from Union Square Ventures, LocalGlobe, and a slew of ang
DevOps.com
AUGUST 17, 2022
A survey of 100 IT professionals conducted by Civo, a provider of cloud services based on Kubernetes, finds a total of 82% currently rely on either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft for public cloud infrastructure. However, more than a third (34%) of respondents also report they now feel locked into the public cloud service […]. The post Civo Report Surfaces Growing Cloud Lock-in Concerns appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Internet usage continues to skyrocket, with 29.3 billion networked devices projected to be in use by 2023 and the growth rate currently at around 10%. Today, an enterprise startup called DriveNets that’s built a more cost-effective way for service providers and other outsized connectivity users to scale to meet that demand by leveraging software and cloud innovations — not relying solely on hardware — is announcing a big round of funding, a mark of the rising demand it’s
TechBeacon
AUGUST 17, 2022
Cyberattacks are getting more prolific and more cunning—too prolific and too cunning for mere humans alone. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2021 Annual Data Breach Report, the number of data compromises reached an all-time high last year of 1,862, for a year-over-year increase from 2020 of more than 68%.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Which immigration options are best for a decentralized team in the US?
Gitprime
AUGUST 17, 2022
Are you new to Linux? Here is an introduction to the basics of Linux administration. In this article you'll learn about the Kernel, the Shell, the Terminal and the filesystem hierarchy as we go over some basic Linux commands.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 17, 2022
Sajith Wickramasekara co-founded Benchling to improve laboratory data collection and collaboration. Since its 2012 founding, the company has grown to a valuation of $6.1 billion. Wickramasekara will join TechCrunch Live , along with Benchmark general partner Miles Grimshaw, to discuss its recent acquisition and growth. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 24 at 11:30 a.m.
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