Mon.Nov 06, 2023

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IT leader’s survival guide: 8 tips to thrive in the years ahead

CIO

Managers looking toward 2024 and beyond certainly have a full plate. Decisions around game-changing current and future technology require decisive action and possible investment to remain competitive. In addition to the usual technology considerations, economic, geopolitical, and supply-chain issues all compete for attention as IT leaders look to keep their organizations growing amid turbulent times.

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Overloaded at Work: How to Ask For the Support You Need

Let's Grow Leaders

What to say next when you’re overloaded at work (without sounding whiny) Ever found yourself cackling at the monstrous to-do list glaring back at you, thinking “Right, that’s not happening,” only to gulp back a sob as you realize none of it’s optional? You’re overloaded at work. Stuck in a world where productivity meets panic and trying to be a ‘team player’ feels like a conspiracy against your sanity.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO

When employees disengage from work — often called quiet quitting — it starts a ripple effect that can damage everything from their career trajectory to your team, company, and the global economy. Gallup estimates that this phenomenon cost the economy $7.8 trillion in 2022. What is employee engagement? Employee engagement is the feeling of connection, commitment, and dedication that an employee has toward their work, teammates, workplace, and organization at large.

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What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Traditional project management skills, such as project governance or project management methodology, aren’t sufficient to meet changing organizational needs. Gartner recently surveyed 373 project management leaders to identify the “next generation” skills — from organizational awareness to financial acumen — that have a disproportionate impact on performance.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO

The business world is rapidly continuing its digital transformation and relying on cloud-based solutions. This makes it more critical than ever to adopt strong security measures to protect sensitive information and infrastructure. However, while cloud computing offers benefits like improved efficiency, scalability, and accessibility, it poses new security challenges.

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Mac vs Windows for Programming

The Crazy Programmer

The programming world is quite thrilling and daily there are many new software’s to exploit computer resources. When it comes to choosing the right operating system for your programming needs, MacOS & Windows are two operating systems that have their benefits and drawbacks. However, depending on what type of developer you are, one can be a little more convenient and effective than the other.

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How Leading Consultancies Can Better Manage AI Risk

Harvard Business Review

In an age when AI-powered tools are reshaping industries, consultancies are embracing the potential of AI copilots to revolutionize their services. From PwC’s ChatPwC to McKinsey’s Lilli, KPMG’s KymChat, and more, the surge of AI integration echoes historical inflection points like the internet’s global connectivity and the industrial revolution’s manufacturing shifts.

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Scanning KBOM for Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Aqua Security

Early this summer we announced the release of Kubernetes Bills of Material (KBOM) as part of Trivy, our all in one, popular open source security scanner. In the blog we discussed how KBOM is the manifest of all the important components that make up your Kubernetes cluster: Control plane components, Node Components, and Addons, including their versions and images.

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The Dangers of Becoming Too Dependent on a Single Supplier

Harvard Business Review

In managing customer relationships — or relationships with any key stakeholders — it is critical to manage the balance of power between the company and any one customer. This can be done by diversifying the customer base, understanding (and be willing use) customer pressure points, and (in the case where a company is locked into a single key relationship) to ensure that the customer is as dependent on the company as the company is dependent on the customer.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Establishing a Composable Roadmap

Perficient

It’s no secret: the digital world is moving to composable. Moving from the traditional monolithic CMS model to composable does allow you to pick and choose “best in breed” products, but it can lead to confusion and uncertainty. How do you determine what the ideal mix is? When do you start to migrate to these tools? Here are three steps to establish a composable roadmap in your organization.

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Research: A Growth Mindset Can Boost Support for Increasing the Minimum Wage

Harvard Business Review

In 10 studies with over 3,000 participants in the U.S. and India, participants with a growth mindset supported increasing low-wage workers’ compensation more than those with a fixed mindset.

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A Practical Guide to Mitigating DevOps Backlog

DevOps.com

Every company aspires to get the first-mover advantage in its respective industry. This strategy allows companies to establish a robust brand presence and offer strong product offerings in the market. However, at times, this may also lead early-stage startups to prioritize pushing product features to market without adequate consideration toward stabilizing and maintaining the product.

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What Is Consciousness, Really? Either AI Rules or Human Spirit Prevails

CEO Insider

Consciousness is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Right up there with climate. With AI taking off, tech experts are worried that intelligent machines will gain consciousness — within the next few years! Meanwhile, we experience life basically in our conscious minds, yet we have only the faintest inkling of how this […] The post What Is Consciousness, Really?

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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MongoDB Allies With AWS to Generate Code Using Generative AI

DevOps.com

MongoDB and AWS extended their existing alliance to provide examples of curated code to train the Amazon CodeWhisperer generative AI tool.

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Dell Named File and Object Storage Market Leader

Dell EMC

Your success is our passion: Dell's unwavering commitment to technology leadership.

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Exploring the Features and Flexibility of Astro

Apiumhub

Over the past few years, many new frontend frameworks have been released, offering developers a wide range of options to choose the one that best fits their projects. In this article, we will analyze Astro, an open-source project released with an MIT license. The first version, v1.0, was released in August 2022 as a web framework tailored for high-speed and content-focused websites.

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Orchestrating Success: Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks as the Maestro

Dell EMC

An orchestra would never take the stage without a maestro. Neither should a modern telecom cloud. Let Dell Technologies help you orchestrate success.

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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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Dockerizing ML Models: A Deployment Guide

Dzone - DevOps

In the rapidly evolving domain of machine learning (ML), the ability to seamlessly package and deploy models is as crucial as the development of the models themselves. Containerization has emerged as the game-changing solution to this, offering a streamlined path from the local development environment to production. Docker, a leading platform in containerization, provides the tools necessary to encapsulate ML applications into portable and scalable containers.

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This Hidden Enemy is Making Your Job Harder than Necessary

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

We can be victims of our own thoughts holding us back. False equivalencies limit our beliefs and can turn our greatest strengths into barriers and limitations. Today’s post is by Elizabeth B. Crook, author of Live Large: The Achiever’s Guide to What’s Next (CLICK HERE to get your copy). As a business leader, you know the challenges of managing cash flow, dealing with personal issues or handling a customer who is dissatisfied – all problems we sign up for as leaders.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available opportunities at Toyota, Nutanix, FICO and more!

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Migrating Mulesoft System API to AWS Lambda (Part 1)

Dzone - DevOps

In this article, we will be discussing how to migrate a System API running in Mulesoft to AWS Lambda in a quick and efficient manner with the least effort. To start, let's understand what system API is in Mulesoft. What Is System API? System APIs provide access to data stored in an organization's central systems of record. They can extract information from essential systems such as ERP, customer, and billing databases, as well as proprietary data repositories.

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.

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Tenable Cyber Watch: GenAI Drives AI Adoption for Cybersecurity, Ransomware Attacks Double in Q3, and more

Tenable

This week’s edition of Tenable Cyber Watch unpacks how generative AI is driving AI adoption for cybersecurity and addresses why board directors are becoming more confident in their organization’s cybersecurity. Also covered: Ransomware attacks almost doubled in Q3. Curious to know how generative AI is impacting AI adoption in general for cybersecurity?

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Internal Chat GPT: Enhancing Efficiency and Security

Perficient

Perficient’s Generative AI Lab is consistently developing POCs to help clients explore use cases for generative AI and helping them operationalize it with policies, advocacy, controls, and enablement. Our team recently built a POC for Internal ChatGPT that offers a secure and efficient way for companies to leverage the power of chatbots while maintaining control over their internal data.

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The White Appliphant

The Daily WTF

Circa 2010, Becca 's employer, Initech, was growing. "Growing", in this case, meant "acquiring competitors who had niche products that their customers wanted added to Initech's portfolio" One such product was a content-management/workflow tool, already sold to some big-name, multi-billion dollar companies. The tool fell into that niche between "really useful to the people who need it" and "buggy as an ant hill inside of a termite mound under a wasp nest" S

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Confluent Public Sector Summit Demonstrates Government’s Passion for Data

Confluent

Explore the government's data-driven evolution and insights from the Confluent Public Sector Summit on empowering missions with data. Dive in now!

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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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Why Fun Is a Vital Core Value at CloudSphere

CloudSphere

By Ashley O’Malley , HR Director, CloudSphere This article is part of a series that centers around CloudSphere’s Core Values. Written by our HR Director, Ashley O’Malley, the series takes a critical look at each of our Core Values, what they mean to our employees, and how they help elevate our services and products. Other articles in this series include: Growth Mindset: A Critical CloudSphere Core Value In today’s business world, it’s very common for just about any company to have some form

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Optimize Your Web3 DevOps with User Feedback Forms

Dzone - DevOps

While attending college, I worked part-time at a local recording studio to maintain my serious interest in the music industry. Since you’re reading this article in a publication unrelated to the music industry, it is easy to conclude that I parted ways with music since that time (well, aside from the creation of what I feel are some pretty impressive Spotify playlists).

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AI Everywhere: The 5 Critical Decisions Customers Are Facing

IDC

GenAI demand is higher than ever, be prepared to make critical business decisions with IDC's expert advice.