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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring – Interview with Lisa Fain

Let's Grow Leaders

Be ready to take notes as you listen to this powerful interview with Lisa Fain, co-author of Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. You’ll get practical ways to be a fantastic mentor, a great mentee, and more inclusive leader including: The three whys leaders […]. The post Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring – Interview with Lisa Fain appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Distributed Teams: How To Mitigate A Significant Business Risk Of The Coronavirus

scruminc

Distributed Teams: How To Mitigate A Significant Business Risk Of The Coronavirus. by JJ Sutherland | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments. NOTE: Register for our FREE webinar on Scrum and Distributed Teams hosted by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland on March 12, 12 noon EDT. (Registration below). The ongoing spread of the COVID-19, the Coronavirus, has created a level of business uncertainty unseen since the Great Recession.

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Why OpenStack remains essential: How to get your cloud builds right

TechBeacon

When SUSE announced in October that it was pulling out of the OpenStack market, it renewed industry speculation that the once massively hyped technology is sliding toward irrelevance.

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Survey Finds IT Modernization Efforts Reap Significant Benefits

DevOps.com

When it comes to the state of IT, few questions weigh more substantially on the minds of CIOs and other business-technology leaders than the degree of success they see in their digital transformation efforts, and foundational to that their efforts to modernize their technology stack. In a survey recently released by market research firm IDG, […].

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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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RiskIQ: An OODAcon 2020 Future Proof Sponsor

CTOvision

RiskIQ is a sponsor of Future Proof, our 2020 OODAcon. Another long term member of our community and company we know very well is RiskIQ. Their support of Future Proof enables us to bring together a wide range of decision-makers to discuss current and future threats, opportunities and business models in a way conducive to […].

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Tenable Allies With Datadog to Drive DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Datadog and Tenable have teamed up to enable organizations to adopt best DevSecOps processes. Tenable CTO Renaud Deraison said his company is making the cybersecurity data it gathers via its Nessus vulnerability scanning software available to the monitoring and analytics service provided by Datadog. The goal is to make it easier for DevOps teams to […].

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Percipient.ai: An OODAcon 2020 Future Proof Sponsor

CTOvision

Percipient.ai is a sponsor of Future Proof, our 2020 OODAcon. Having spent now multiple careers where I have had to focus hard on technology companies and how they contribute to the national security space I have evaluated many firms in this space. Recently I have been exploring just about any firm I can find that […].

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Employee Spotlight: Zayo Engineer Mark Jensen

Zayo

Mark Jensen is Zayo’s senior director of Engineering, Lit Services, responsible for strategic and tactical planning for Zayo’s lit optical networks and solutions. Mark, who graduated as a Petroleum Engineer from Montana Tech, came to Zayo via the 360networks acquisition in 2011. This August will mark his 20th year as an Optical Engineer. . What is the most interesting or challenging project you’re working on right now, and what do you enjoy most about it?

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Why Data Science is Repairing IT’s Relationship with the Business

Dataiku

This blog post is part of a series of guest publications by Excelion Partners. It’s been growing for years. The rift just keeps getting bigger. There is plenty of blame to go around. Failed projects. Poor requirements. Scope creep. Software product marketing overpromising. Order taking and lack of progress.

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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 28th, 2020

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: The Smithsonian has million of pieces of delicious open access content. I ate up this 3D representation of the 1903 Wright Flyer. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff won't happen. That's how important you are to the fate of the world. Need to understand the cloud? Know someone who does?

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How Making Cost a Non-Functional Requirement Helps the CloudZero Engineering Team Build Better Architecture

CloudZero

I never used to care about the cost of the systems I built. As an engineer, why would I? Especially in the days before the cloud, infrastructure resources were purchased and procured by somebody who worked many levels above me. Even when I first started building on the cloud, I had to submit requests (again, to somebody many levels above me) for my resources.

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Save Money and Time by Going Virtual

TechSoup

No one has to convince you that it's important to operate efficiently. You know that when you reduce costs and make the best use of your staff's time, you can reach more and do more in your community.

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Putting Work Back In It’s Place

CEO Insider

In the fall of 2017 I traveled to Kiev to meet and interview two of the last remaining survivors of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Holodomor means “forced starvation,” and defines a period in the early 1930s during which the Soviet Communist Party intentionally killed millions of Ukrainian peasants by sequestering them and removing all possible food […].

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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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Data Protection Evolution in the Coming Decade – Part 4

Dell EMC

In part 3 of this blog series we discussed our vision for future data protection. It will be a multi-year effort to fully realize, but our early efforts in this journey are already starting to bear fruit. Recently we released support for the protection of Kubernetes containers on VMware – a first-to-market data protection solution that will enable our customers to accelerate innovation and increase their agility across multi-cloud environments by leveraging containers for application deployments

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Advantages of Building Applications with Vue js

Cabot Solutions

Vue js a progressive Javascript framework used to build user interfaces and powerful SPAs Here are some of the advantages of building applications with Vue js

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To Overcome Bottlenecks, Consider Why You Want to Grow

CEO Insider

Most executives think of bottlenecks as obstacles. But I think of them as inflection points. Throughout my career, I’ve encountered bottlenecks in many forms. When I was a chemical engineering student, they appeared in my fluid mechanics equations. Later, when I worked in the oil and gas industry, bottlenecks appeared as geological obstacles to extraction. […].

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[Webinar] Effective Vulnerability Remediation Requires More Than One Data Point

Synopsys

With advanced policy management and best-in-class vulnerability reports, developers can fix the most critical vulnerabilities quickly and effectively. The post [Webinar] Effective Vulnerability Remediation Requires More Than One Data Point appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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New Data Architectures are too Data-Store-Centric

Data Virtualization

Too often the design of new data architectures is based on old principles: they are still very data-store-centric. They consist of many physical data stores in which data is stored repeatedly and redundantly.

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Key Findings: webMethods Customer Survey

Beyond B2B

The webMethods Annual Customer Survey is a valuable part of our commitment to supporting our customers.

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Top Marketing Tips For Law Firms

Strategy Driven

There have been significant changes in the world of the law of late, as we see more firms ramping up their marketing and business growth activities. The days when cases and clients casually sauntered in through the door thanks to reputation has long gone. The market is much bigger, more competitive and more dynamic than ever before. Clients expect things to happen on-demand now thanks to the growth of high-speed internet and 24/7 connectivity, and the high street is rapidly being replaced with d

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How to Use Google Tag Manager: A Tutorial

Gorilla Logic

In this post, I’ll give you an in-depth tutorial on how to use Google Tag Manager (GTM), one of the most popular Tag Management Systems (TMS) available. Marketers and developers use tags, or pixels, on websites to collect information about visitors to the website and their behavior related to the website. Many websites have many tags deployed, all designed to optimize the customer experience.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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What your employees can do to reduce cybersecurity risk

Strategy Driven

No longer just the responsibility of the IT department, cybersecurity is something that all employees have a vital role in. From making smarter decisions in the workplace to understanding how to spot common attacks, employees can do much to combat cybercrime in all of its forms. Here we take a look at the things that your employees can do to help keep your business secure.

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Why It’s Not Good Enough To Be Better Than Just Your Direct Competitors

Modus Create

Here at Modus, we stress the importance of regularly putting our prototypes in front of actual customers. Doing this is a fundamental part of our design process. The design community has already established how much user feedback benefits your product. Yet, what we learn from these sessions transcends just the domain of one product. Often, I leave sessions with insights into how people use any digital product, not just one.

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The trend of Request for Proposal (RFP) tools and its ascending business impact

Zensar

Bid management is the process that results in the supplier responding to an RFP with the written commercial bid or proposal. Formulating the bid response is a time consuming and high-pressure task involving multiple contributors. Bid management is a complex enterprise sales function that involves responding to RFXs to secure new business, outsource supply contracts and expand current business.

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How to Launch a Successful Product: Timing, Roles, and Product Launch Checklist 

Altexsoft

Think of an application you use every day. Why did you favor this tool over the thousands of similar ones? Maybe because of its stylish and easy interface, flawless work, or affordability. Besides, your close friends use this app too. Vendors spend months or years designing and building an app, but one mistake during the product release can put the whole project at risk of failure.

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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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Deepfakes Extend the Concept of “Fake News,” and They’re Here to Stay

Palo Alto Networks

Hany Farid, an expert on digital forensics, speaks on deepfakes at the Palo Alto Networks Experience, an event surrounding RSAC 2020. Fake news is not new, nor are its deadly consequences. What is new, thanks to the internet and social media, is their reach and frequency. Today, misinformation propagates around the world at the speed of light. From small- to large-scale fraud, to sowing civil unrest, interfering with democratic elections and inciting violence, misinformation campaigns today are

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To protect a political campaign, re-read the Mueller Report

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—Whether you’re Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or Pastafarian , if you’re running (and thus trying to protect from hacking) a political campaign in 2020, the Mueller Report should be required reading. . That’s the advice of Arkadiy Tetelman, the head of application and infrastructure security at online bank Chime , who presented on what political campaigns can learn from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation at the B-Sides San Francisco conference here Sun

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