Mon.Mar 16, 2020

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5 Nonprofit Marketing Trends to Keep in Mind for 2020

TechSoup

The dust has cleared and 2020 is upon us. For years, transformative marketing tools and technologies have been making the leap from the business sector to the nonprofit space. But growing your brand awareness, gaining new followers, driving impact, and accelerating funding, all with a bite-sized budget, can be challenging.

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Why Your Team Needs Your Confidence Right Now

Let's Grow Leaders

Your confidence is fuel for problem-solving and creativity In the past two weeks, we’ve been in several meetings and conversations with leaders responding to rapidly changing coronavirus scenarios. Regardless of the industry, as leaders shared responses and next steps, many of their […]. The post Why Your Team Needs Your Confidence Right Now appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Falling Face-first into Learning

Agile Alliance

A few weeks back, a good friend Elizabeth Hendrickson tweeted about her approach to learning as being quite non-linear. Like her, this has been my approach to problem-solving, especially when dealing with complex problems. Unlike the common educational approach where we gain knowledge and skill in a guided and controlled linear format, non-linear learning is … Continued.

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Technology and Leadership Lessons From Admiral Archie Clemins

CTOvision

I received word yesterday of the passing, far too young, of Archie Clemins. He passed after a two year battle with cancer. Upon hearing of this terribly sad news I was overcome with a rush of memories, some of which I want to capture here for their valuable leadership lessons. Including lessons in enterprise technology […].

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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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Social Distancing in the Age of Automation

DevOps.com

An unintended consequence of COVID-19 is that the practice of social distancing might remain long after the threat posed by the virus subsides. It seems as if COVID-19 (aka the Coronavirus) has appeared out of nowhere. At the end of 2019, we were all unwrapping out holiday gifts and looking hopefully into a new […]. The post Social Distancing in the Age of Automation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How a zero-trust approach can protect your cloud resources

TechBeacon

A recent report from Sophos revealed details of a new Cloud Snooper attack that breached a cloud services firewall to gain remote access and control over the victim's servers.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Banking: Examples of IoT Solutions In Finance

CTOvision

Read Abhishek Pareek explain the best examples of the Internet of Things solutions in the finance sector on Customer Think : In financial services, the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the next big thing. IoT is a network of devices connected through the internet which obtain and transmit data. Internet of Things is the […].

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Balance your Workload on High-Visible Projects

Career Advancement

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Jung. Gabrielle had been working to take on the types of responsibilities needed to move up the ladder for a promotion. She was striving to increase her visibility by taking on high-profile projects. About a month in, however, she felt completely overwhelmed. She’d taken on two new projects that made up nearly half of her workload.

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Tech Leaders: Volunteer To Fight Coronavirus By Joining EndCoronavirus.org

CTOvision

The endCoronavirus.org organization is built and maintained by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and collaborators. The goal of this group of volunteers is to minimize the impact of the Coronavirus COVID-19 by providing useful data and guidelines for action. I’m amazed, really, at how they have been helping government’s understand better what to […].

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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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Can You Identify Thought Leaders by Their Emails?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leaders practice productive email habits. Here are the results of the University of Northern Colorado & Booher Research Survey of 30 industries about writing faster, fewer, better emails. Today’s post is by Dianna Booher, author of Faster, Fewer, Better Emails (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Although you may not be able to tell a book by its cover, you can definitely tell thought leaders by their emails and their communication habits.

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Cloud computing for small businesses: Five reasons why it works

CTOvision

Read Fabrice Beaux explain five reasons why cloud computing is a must for small and medium businesses on IT Pro Portal : Small and medium businesses (SMEs) play a significant role in the development and growth of the economy of any country. They are also a vital part of the global economy. To stay afloat […].

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Why Continuous Security Matters for Enterprise DevOps

Kovair - DevOps

When working in software development, things move very quickly. Between the constant updating of codes, to the development of new ideas and tests before releasing.

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How slower network speeds can benefit big data

CTOvision

Read Mary Shacklett explains why slower network speeds can actually benefits your big data projects on Tech Republic : There isn’t a company or a communications provider that isn’t thinking about the importance of 5G networks, which promise low latency and data transfer speeds that can be as much as 100 times faster than their […].

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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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Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring

DevOps.com

A global survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers with more than 250 employees conducted by Dell Technologies finds on average organizations managed 13.53 petabytes (PB) of data in 2019, a nearly 40% increase since 2018. The same survey also finds that as the amount of data has increased, so, too, has the cost of downtime. Those […]. The post Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring appeared first on DevOps.com.

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AI Making Waves In News And Journalism

CTOvision

Read Ronald Schmelzer’s article in Forbes on the future of AI in news and journalism. The business of communicating the happenings of society might seem to be something entirely human-centric. After all, what do machines care about what happens in the news? However, the journalism industry as a whole is highly dependent on technology. From […].

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COVID-19 Update from Tenable

Tenable

For more than two decades, customers have been at the very heart of everything we do at Tenable. We take the trust you place in us very seriously, and we understand that the work we do matters to you and to your ability to protect your business. We would like to reassure you that, as of this moment, we do not anticipate disruption from COVID-19 on our ability to deliver Tenable’s solutions to our customers anywhere in the world.

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Three Ways Blockchain Is Disrupting Supply Chains (And None Of Them Are Bitcoin)

CTOvision

Read Sajid Mohamedy list three ways in which blockchain is disrupting supply on Forbes : Bitcoin’s unprecedented boom in 2017 — and subsequent bust in 2018 — made blockchain a household name. However, the technologists who have been working with and developing blockchain since it first debuted in 2008 have likely long realized that the […].

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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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Enterprises are embracing edge computing

DXC

The exponential growth of connected, embedded devices — the Internet of Things (IoT) — is forcing some enterprises to revamp their network architectures to avoid latency issues and continue to process a high volume of data with minimal delay. Factors contributing to the high adoption rate of IoT devices across industries “include rising demand for […].

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Keep up with tech from home: Conference content is now free on Pluralsight

Gitprime

Using your at-home time to keep your career up to date just got easier. Pluralsight is proud to formally launch a new platform experience: Conferences.

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The Daily WTF

Five years ago, someone at Adam ’s company made a commit. Like all good commits, it touched 200 individual files and 3,500 lines of code, and the commit message was simply: “Fixed”. One of those 200 files was a.h header file, declaring a long pile of function prototypes. One of them is this one. It has no implementation, and isn’t used anywhere: void eXosip_suhnjbbbbynbhhhhhhhhhhhhbscribe_free (eXosip_subscribe_t * js); One of the most famous survival horror games ever implemented, which combine

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CloudSploit Delivers Best Practices for Oracle Cloud Security

Aqua Security

Our customers challenged us to add Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security to the list of public clouds that Aqua CSPM (aka CloudSploit) covers – and make it seamless. That meant giving our customers a singular view into the public cloud platforms they use, while maintaining the same level of control with easy-to-use interfaces. Well, we happily rose to that challenge as today we announce the General Availability (GA) of CloudSploit for Oracle Cloud.

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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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Test Automation Is A Culture: Let Your Team Embrace It

Dzone - DevOps

The quality of any application or product you deliver is key to keep your reputation intact. The Quality Assurance process that you follow would be central to this. As new technologies and features make their way into the application architecture, major changes are required at every level of the application stack. If you are a company that is focusing on the quality you deliver, you will want to keep your testing practices up-to-date.

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State of the JAMstack survey

Netlify

We’d like you to participate in the first JAMstack community survey ! It’s probably not news to anyone at this point that the JAMstack architecture is exploding in popularity across the developer community. But who exactly are the people making JAMstack sites? What kind of sites are they building with the JAMstack? What are the tools and best practices inside this burgeoning community?

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Our March 16 Updated COVID-19 Guidance for Employees

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks’ global crisis management team continues to closely monitor the COVID-19 outbreak. CEO and Chairman Nikesh Arora on Monday shared the following updated guidance for employees. . Team, It’s clear that everyone is adapting to COVID-19 and its impacts. In times like this, me and my team are in constant discussion and evaluating new facts to ensure we are doing the best for all of you, our customers and Palo Alto Networks. .

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Four short links: 17 March 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers — really interesting CCC talk from a few years ago. The Challenge of Software Liability — Liability for insecure software is already a reality. The question is whether Congress will step in to give it shape and a coherent legal structure. XOXO Talks — video archive of past talks.

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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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3 Reasons MSPs Should Offer DRaaS (And How to Avoid the Pitfalls)

Arcserve

Growing managed service providers (MSPs) are always on the lookout for profitable revenue streams. But, with new tech entering the scene all the time, it’s easy to get lost in the mire. What’s a boom and what’s a bust? While some technologies require tons of time, effort, and specialized talent to execute, others are easier. Read more » The post 3 Reasons MSPs Should Offer DRaaS (And How to Avoid the Pitfalls) appeared first on StorageCraft Technology Corporation.

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VMware’s Tanzu can help plot a clear path to modernized applications

DXC

For most enterprises, the digital journey feels like a rough cab ride through New York City at the height of construction season. In rush hour. The route from legacy estate to modern platform is filled with detours, road closures, emergency braking and many other surprises. And, everyone in the cab has a different opinion about […].

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5 Positive Things SaaS CEOs And Leaders Should Do To Get Through COVID-19

Battery Ventures

Written by: Nick Mehta, Chief Executive Officer at Gainsight*. A little more than a week ago, as the COVID-19 anxiety was just starting to take over the national conversation in the US, a teammate asked me a simple question: “Have you ever been through something like this?”. My glib retort was, “No—actually this is my first worldwide pandemic. I was pretty young during the 1918 Spanish flu!”.