thoughtLEADERS, LLC
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Communication is crucial to effective leadership. With all professional relationships, one must clearly convey and maintain company guidelines and standards. Today’s post is by Sarah Y. Tse, author of 7 Years on the Front Line (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Your business reflects your ethos, which explains why it is critical to communicate company culture and goals clearly to new employees, new clients, and new suppliers.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Fintech startups have been massively successful over the past few years. The biggest consumer startups managed to attract millions — sometimes even tens of millions — of users and have raised some of the biggest funding rounds in late-stage venture capital. That’s why they’ve also reached incredible valuations. After a few wild years of growth, fintech startups are starting to act more like traditional finance companies.
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 21, 2020
It’s always fun to look back to see what resonated as the best leadership articles of the year at Let’s Grow Leaders. Most years, there’s quite a mix of topics and interests. It’s not a shocker that this year, the most helpful […]. The post The Best Leadership Articles of 2020 (and more … based on your votes) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. The space industry has enjoyed a honeymoon period with hundreds of startups popping up in the past five to seven years following SpaceX’s success.
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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
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the division of DevOps and SecOps must be bridged to create DevSecOps Now that the “X-as-a-service” model has taken hold, enterprise infrastructure, integration and solution delivery has accelerated rapidly. Waterfall methodology has given way to the Agile framework of rapid, continuous development and delivery.
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DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
NoOps, is here and it’s more than just a buzzword or an ideal. The next generation of plaform-as-a-service (PaaS) platforms are evolving to minimize the developers’ operational burden and reduce dependency on DevOps for deployment. Dev teams that don’t want to deal with operations or don’t have in-house operations resources should consider deploying applications on […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
OneTrust , the 4-year old privacy platform startup from the folks who brought you AirWatch (which was acquired by VMWare for $1.5B in 2014), announced a $300 million Series C on an impressive $5.1 billion valuation today. The company has attracted considerable attention from investors in a remarkably short time. It came out of the box with a $200 million Series A on a $1.3 billion valuation in July 2019.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 21, 2020
JavaScript recently turned 25 years old, and while it started by dominating over the client side world, this beautiful programming language is well on its way to taking over the server side. JavaScript isn’t just thriving — it’s evolving with new syntax features, patterns, frameworks, best practices, and platforms…and we as engineers need to evolve with it.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
The U.S. government is one of the biggest spenders in the nascent space industry, and the man who handles the money for the Air Force’s $16 billion checkbook wants startups to know that his door is open for them. In all, Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, handles about $60 billion worth of budget for the Air Force — a mandate that includes spending money on the new tech initiatives the Air Force deems important.
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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.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic certainly threw a monkey wrench into the best-laid plans of organizers who were looking forward to holding in-person security conferences in 2020.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Space may be the final frontier, but in terms of investment, VCs are just getting started. With that in mind during TC Sessions: Space 2020 last week, we spoke to three investors who’ve been actively funding what could become tomorrow’s biggest companies to learn where they might focus next. Sustainability is a major issue for all of their portfolio companies.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2020
IT purchasing can be a complex process, particularly in the public sector where specific procedures must be followed. But Citrix Systems, is working to make it easier. The company announced […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Bolt , a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round , bringing the financing to a total of $125 million. WestCap and General Atlantic led the new tranche, which Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told TechCrunch was raised at around twice its Series C valuation. PitchBook pegs the company’s Series C at a post-money valuation of $500 million, implying that the Series C1 values Bolt at around $1 billion.
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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.
Confluent
DECEMBER 21, 2020
I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.7.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Eneba , a marketplace for gamers that sells games and other products, has raised an $8 million round of funding from Practica Capital and InReach Ventures. The funding is described as a “combination” of a seed and Series A round. Also participating in the funding for the Lithuanian startup was FJ Labs and a group of angel investors, including Mantas Mikuckas, COO of Vinted.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, for […]. The post CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Here in the final few working days of 2020, a surprising number of new unicorns have come to light. The mad scramble that investors are seeing in seed-stage startups appears to be reflected across the later stages as well. That deal-making is still alive is not a surprise, but the cadence at which the market is crowning new unicorns is slightly startling, given the time of year.
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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.
Jeremiah Grossman
DECEMBER 21, 2020
I wanted to get my dad a gift, but not just any gift. The perfect gift. For a diehard hot-rodder like my dad, there can only be one thing -- a car. Of course, not just any ol' thing with four wheels. He quite literally has 50 mostly junkers and clunkers already. Only THE DREAM CAR would do. What kind of car that was I really didn't know. I had to find out exactly, EXACTLY what that kind of car without letting my dad know and spoil the surprise.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds, and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2020
According to recent statistics from Lookout Mobile Security, drawing on analysis of nearly 200 million mobile devices running Lookout’s security software, as many as 50% of Android users globally are […].
Coding Dojo
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Pre-Dojo : Worked in construction and the service industry. Felt lost and was moving laterally in his career. Wanted to. … Read more >>. The post From Making Coffee to Crafting Code | The Story of Tulsa Alumni William Phipps Taking a Leap & Landing a New Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2020
With the inversion of the traditional network, where users, data, and apps are now on the outside, traditional approaches to security fall short. At most enterprise organizations, the cyber security […].
CEO Insider
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Focusing on skills over academic degrees can boost fortunes for millions of workers and benefit companies. As many as 30 million American workers without four-year college degrees have skills that could earn them 70% more than they are now getting paid. That’s according to academic, nonprofit, and corporate researchers who mined data on occupations and […].
Cloudera
DECEMBER 21, 2020
In this blog we will take you through a persona-based data adventure, with short demos attached, to show you the A-Z data worker workflow expedited and made easier through self-service, seamless integration, and cloud-native technologies. You will learn all the parts of Cloudera’s Data Platform that together will accelerate your everyday Data Worker tasks.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Boyko and Caponegro bring decades of experience in their respective fields to support Exadel’s rapidly growing digital transformation and software engineering solutions and services WALNUT CREEK, Calif., December 16, 2020 — Exadel (www.exadel.com), a global provider of digital software engineering solutions and services, today announced Oleg Boyko as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Marc Caponegro […].
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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.
Palo Alto Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Using the Lessons of This Attack to Prepare Our Infrastructure for the Next One. Instead of winding down at the end of the year, already strapped security teams were scrambling over the last week to ensure their organizations are safe in the wake of the SolarWinds disclosure. Attackers got in via a compromise of the Orion software build system – up to 18,000 customers of SolarWinds then unknowingly let them in.
TechSoup
DECEMBER 21, 2020
We're in the midst of the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, and it has indeed been a most unexpected time. TechSoup senior communications manager Shannon Cherry recently wrote: "The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the way most sectors — including civil society organizations — do their work. TechSoup was no exception, as we rapidly moved operations around the world to remote environments to ensure minimal interruption to our mission.
Palo Alto Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Palo Alto Networks welcomes the European Commission’s release on 16 December of a set of proposals related to cybersecurity, including a new cybersecurity strategy and a proposal for revision of the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems ( NIS 2 ). The European Commission recognises that cybersecurity is essential to economic activity and growth, as well as to user confidence in online activities.
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