Fri.Aug 02, 2019

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What To Do When You’re Losing Your Soul

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you feel like you’re losing your leadership soul? You don’t like how you’re treating people. You’re not living up to your own values. Or you’re overwhelmed and not sure you can get the results you’re accountable […]. The post What To Do When You’re Losing Your Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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It's time to get smart about IT asset management

TechBeacon

With mounting pressure to pare IT budgets, CIOs are constantly on the lookout to find ways to reduce waste in their capital expenditures. One area that's ripe for pruning is IT's garden of assets, especially its software.

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Making the Most of the Multi-Cloud Advantage

Dell EMC

Driven by innovation, the ‘digital age’ is by its very nature in constant flux. New technologies are emerging and evolving all the time, and are being combined together to unleash the potential for even more intelligent and more efficient ways of working. To optimally adapt to these changes, today’s decision-makers must stay open-minded about altering their business strategies to keep pace with the latest methods for smarter working, better ROI, an improved customer experience and greater employ

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Why CX Assurance Matters In Commercial Due Diligence

CEO Insider

In many mergers and acquisitions, the future revenue of the customer base is critical to the success of the strategy, and, if incorrect, can sink the business or massively impact revenue and margin. The problem with the common process is that the financial history assesses the future revenue security of the customer base. It’s like […].

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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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How Much Does It Cost to Develop Custom CRM Software?

VironIT

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems help businesses manage all their data. This includes sales, contacts, current processes, and post-sale services. Any CRM is focused on improving business forms. It becomes easier to manage deals, promoting, and client support. To make a custom CRM, you’ll have to execute functionalities for every division.

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Public or private: What is the right 5G network choice?

Capgemini

Based on reports, 5G is going to solve everything. It will deliver faster connectivity, greater reliability and security, lower latency, and network slicing. It seems that companies are anxious to connect everything to the internet via 5G. But companies chasing 5G have an important decision to make. The market demand is definitely there, and some companies are not prepared to wait.

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Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes: Leaky S3 Buckets

DevOps.com

As we get ready to discuss our list of the Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes in the upcoming DevOps.com webinar, we wanted to provide a preview of the type and depth of information we’ll be discussing. Since the most-talked about, and likely the most vulnerable, aspect of AWS security is inevitably those leaky S3 buckets, […]. The post Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes: Leaky S3 Buckets appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to Boost Your Business’ Appeal

Strategy Driven

Regardless of how hard you work or how good the service you provide might be, if your business doesn’t appeal to potential customers, you will find it increasingly difficult to garner customers. Boosting your company’s appeal should, then, be one of your top priorities. To see how you can make your company far more appealing, to both your target audience and the passing one, make sure to read on.

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Armory Looks to Drive Enterprise Adoption of Spinnaker

DevOps.com

Armory this week committed to advancing adoption of the open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in enterprise IT environments after revealing it has raised an additional $28 million in funding. Company CEO Daniel Odio said Armory will add proprietary tools to a curated distribution of Spinnaker that will make it easier for the average […].

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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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1-Click Data Security meets FIPS 140-2

Nutanix

Nutanix’s native software-based encryption utilizes FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated modules. Software-based encryption delivers security without compromise to data efficiency or performance and supports any Hypervisor.

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How to Burnout-Proof Your Business as an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Dell EMC VxRail Just Derailed the Competition

Dell EMC

No matter when you hopped on the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) train, one thing is certain – it hasn’t slowed down. The rate and pace of growth in this space is picking up steam as organizations continue to look for ways to modernize their data center, cut infrastructure expenses and drive innovation. Mind the gap The gap between Dell EMC’s HCI systems portfolio and the rest of the industry is widening.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 2nd, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time—once again: That's pretty good. ( @shrutikapoor08 ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 52 mostly 5 star reviews (121 on Goodreads ). They'll learn a lot and hold you in even greater awe.

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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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#1 Many Times Over

Dell EMC

Thank you. Thank you to all the Dell EMC customers we are privileged to support with powerful infrastructure utilizing the latest technologies that business-critical applications demand — from core data centers to public clouds and edge locations. Public & Private Cloud IT Infrastructure (servers, storage, and Ethernet switch) Total Enterprise Storage Systems All-Flash Arrays Hybrid Flash Arrays External Enterprise Storage Systems (Entry, Midrange, High-End) Hyperconverged Systems Converged

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Learn things your competitors wish you did not know

CTOvision

OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues. Our free newsletter keeps our readers up to date on a daily basis, and our special reports and advisories provide insights for those that need deeper insights into key markets and topics of executive interest. OODALoop offers additional insights and […].

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PSD2: The Perks and Pitfalls of Payment Services Directive in the Digital Payments Space

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by David DeCorte from Chargebacks911. If you’re not dialed into EU legislation like your company’s life depended on it, you may not have heard much about the new Revised Payments Services Directive, commonly known as PSD2. As with everything, there’s the good news and the bad. The ruleset presents considerable opportunity for consumers and merchants, both on the Continent and abroad.

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DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery

DevOps.com

The tribe at Armory announced the company‘s $28m series B funding, led by Insight Partners. Armory enables continuous software delivery at enterprise scale, powered by Spinnaker. That is a crisp mission statement, but beyond that Armory is bringing the open source Spinnaker to the enterprise market. As such, they are also helping the entire Spinnaker […].

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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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CableLabs Names Mariam Sorond as Chief Research & Development Officer

CableLabs

Today, CableLabs appointed Mariam Sorond as the organization’s Chief Research & Development Officer, reporting to President and CEO Phil McKinney. In this role, Sorond will lead Research & Development (R&D) directing the execution and adoption of new technologies for CableLabs’ members and the industry, partnering closely with McKinney on the technical thought leadership, vision and strategy for the future of connectivity.

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droidcon London 2019: The return of Europe’s biggest Android conference

DevOps.com

Europe’s largest annual Android developer conference returns this October. Headline keynotes with acclaimed Android experts — Chet Haase, Google’s Chief Android advocate, Romain Guy, Google’s team lead for Android Toolkit, Pinterest developer Christina Lee, and Stacey Devino of Nike s23NYC Labs. The conference is held at the Business Design Centre in Angel, London, from Thursday […].

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The Future of Resumes

CodeSignal

This blog post is based on the ninth episode of the data-driven recruiting podcast hosted by CodeSignal co-founders Sophia Baik and Tigran Sloyan. You can find and listen to this specific episode here or check out the video version embedded below. The future of resumes is changing, and we want it to be for the better. We’re jumping into the discussion and sharing what they could and should be, versus what options would only perpetuate the status quo.

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Identity is Security: Recipe for Disaster

Sailpoint

We hear this time and time again—the threat landscape is continuously evolving. These cyber-threats are very apparent for financial services, as this headline points out. Credit and debit card data, online bank account credentials, and ATMs are all super attractive targets for hackers, for obvious reason. It should go without saying that defending against cyber criminals has become more and more of a moving target (for lack of a better word)—thanks to the blend of new technologies and increasing

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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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Four short links: 2 August 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Cognitive Biases, Conflict, Language Models, and Programmable Memristor Computer. The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making (NCBI) — paper showing that we share cognitive biases with other primates. In one study, monkeys had a choice between one experimenter (the gains experimenter) who started by showing the monkey one piece of apple and sometimes added an extra piece of apple, and a second experimenter (the losses experimenter) who started by showing the monkey two pieces of apple and so

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Four of the hottest “triple-deep” skill sets to advance your personal brand

DXC

Personal brands can no longer be one-dimensional in the digital enterprise marketplace. The term “generalist” aims to create the illusion that a candidate is multi-dimensional, and yet it actually says, “I’m willing to try anything to get a job.” The marketplace is becoming more and more specialized, and even people with self-perceived specialist skills are […].

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Customer Focus is at the Heart of Transformation       

Beyond B2B

The “expectation economy” has put customers’ desires at the center of retailers’ digital transformation, but winning the hearts and minds inside your organization is also critical to achieving success.

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Reflections on the Evolution of Cloud in Financial Services

Coforge

My cloud journey began around 2006 when the term “cloud” was not part of the business lexicon and it still made me think of rain. As Technology Operations Manager of the Securities Sales & Trading business unit of a global investment bank, I was forced to ponder over how agile we were in responding to the needs of the business. The investments on infrastructure had reached levels where additional demands for storage and computing were leading to confrontations.

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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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Qualities Patterns Share: Avoiding Redundancy

Net Objectives

Redundancy can be a good thing if we are referring to a backup for safety, like the systems on a spacecraft. I don’t mean that. I am referring to an element of the system that is repeated needlessly in such a way that altering it will require the same change be performed repeatedly. A good … Continue reading "Qualities Patterns Share: Avoiding Redundancy".

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What Does it Mean When We Talk About the “Future of Work”?

BrainStation Technology

We’ve written about preparing for the future of work and future-proofing your workforce , but we haven’t answered a fundamental question: what do we mean when we talk about the “future of work?” . Let’s take a closer look at a number of factors that have turned this into an important topic of discussion. First: . The Definition of Work is Changing. Officially, the definition of work is “to perform work or fulfill duties regularly for wages or salary.

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