Fri.Apr 05, 2019

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Product Managers vs. Project Managers: Difference, Responsibilities, and KPIs

Altexsoft

How often do you confuse a project manager and a product manager? To be honest, we’ve done that too. This misconception is quite frequent. And the cases when enterprises sacrifice one role for the other are common too. The Project Management Institute says that only 58 percent of organizations fully understand the value of project management. Such underestimation may partially reflect that not every company clearly separates the roles of each one.

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Introducing creativity to achieve better project outcomes

DXC

A new book, ‘How to steal fire’ , reveals some of the fallacies behind creativity. The truth is that creativity doesn’t come from teams, it comes from team members. In fact, group work can have a negative effect on a project’s outcome. It is good to remember that smaller groups are often much better at […].

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5 network data types every security team should monitor

TechBeacon

As new technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) continue to change how networks are architected, it's become increasingly difficult for IT to get a complete picture of the entire network and to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) accurately.

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Community of Practice Goals: What Your CoPs Should Aim For

Evolution4all

Community of Practice Goals. How does learning take place within an organisation? Well, there are many ways. One of the most natural and widely acclaimed methodologies of learning is the so-called ‘community of practice’. The term might seem like a recent coinage but this concept has been in existence even before Wenger and the others talked about. When studying communities of practice (CoPs), it is worth knowing why we should implement it in organisations.

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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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Cloud Visibility Remains a Top Challenge for Many Organizations

DevOps.com

A number of enterprises have a love/hate relationship with cloud computing. Because of its low upfront costs, the expense for cloud is lower, especially in the early years. But historically there has been another cost: the challenge of obtaining good visibility into applications, users and network traffic. I thought advancements in cloud management and security […].

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Effective Cloud Security Requires a Cloud-Native Mindset

DevOps.com

Thousands of developers and cloud security professionals will fill the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week for the sold-out Google Cloud Next ’19 conference. Three days of breakout sessions and keynotes will immerse attendees in deep technical content and opportunities for hands-on learning. It’s all designed to help organizations embrace the cloud.

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Communities of Practice: How to Set Up for Your Company’s Workforce Growth

Evolution4all

Communities of Practice: How to Set Up for Your Company’s Workforce Growth. You’re convinced. CoPs are the missing piece of your agile organisation. After learning about the benefits of communities of practice in your organisation – from how it fosters a learning culture, help you create innovative business strategies, and lift your company performance – it’s time to set up your own!

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Gremlin Brings Chaos Monkey Testing to Spinnaker CD Platform

DevOps.com

Gremlin this week announced it will integrate its hosted chaos engineering service with continuous delivery platforms starting with the open source Spinnaker project developed by Netflix. Chaos engineering traces its roots to a resiliency testing philosophy that posits applications should be able to keep functioning regardless of any service or infrastructure failure.

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6 Ways to Invest In Yourself

Women on Business

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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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Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing

DevOps.com

Sauce Labs announced it is now moving beyond functional testing, adding a front-end testing tool it has dubbed Sauce Performance to make it easier to accelerate testing within the context of a DevOps process. Lubos Parobek, vice president of products for Sauce Labs, said the goal is to enable developers or testers to begin testing […]. The post Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Look at Our For Business Platform: Rotate Members On and Off Your Team

Linux Academy

Linux Academy is the industry leader of online training. We provide a unique training platform unlike any other that has the largest and most in-depth cloud and hands-on focused training library. Our impressive training platform isn’t the only thing we’ve done to become the head of the pack; we also strive to do things nobody else does. In fact, most other training providers require “named” licenses, which means you purchase an account for a year (not a license) and it ca

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Deep Learning Gets a Boost with New Intel Processor

Dell EMC

Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC incorporate the new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor and Intel® Optane™ technology to accelerate deep learning and other parallel-processing workloads. This week has brought some great news for organizations that want to deploy artificial intelligence solutions on Intel-based Dell EMC systems. Specifically, Dell EMC launched new Ready Solutions for HPC that incorporate the latest 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, code-named Cas

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Planning & Forecasting in the Age of AI

Dataiku

Forecasting and planning are some of the very oldest use cases of modern statistics - businesses as far back as the 1950s used computer-based modeling to anticipate risks and make decisions. But in the age of AI and algorithms, older modeling techniques fail to incorporate the wide variety of data sources needed to produce results precise enough for the modern enterprise.

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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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SmartBear Goes All In at Atlassian Summit 2019 in Las Vegas

DevOps.com

SmartBear Experts Hit the Stage, Offer Personalized Demos, and Give out Envy-Inducing Prizes at Atlassian Summit – April 9-11, 2019 – Las Vegas SOMERVILLE, Mass. – April 05, 2019 – SmartBear, the innovator behind the industry’s highest impact tools to build, test, and monitor great software, is going all in at Atlassian Summit 2019, taking place […].

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Error'd: Absolutely Qualified

The Daily WTF

"Pi.eye.they rhyme, so naturally, I'm qualified to assist Nicole with her make up needs," Dave V. writes. . "Who needs fancy cooling setups when you can put your CPU's (normally) wasted heat to good use!" Valts S. wrote. . Shaun L. writes, "For an agency who focuses on the United States, you would think they would have a better understanding of the geography." . "Yes, Teamviewer, I am ready, but I'm not sure that you are though!

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Channel Scoop – April 5, 2019

Palo Alto Networks

Experience the updated NextWave Partner Portal. We evaluated every page, improved the navigation and changed section names to ensure the optimal user experience. Check it out. NextWave Insights Webinar. Register for the Managed Services Program (MSP) webinar on April 9. This brief 30-minute session will help you understand Palo Alto Networks, scale your business and address growing customer demand for managed security services.

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Four short links: 5 April 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DIY Bio, Perl, Knowledge Graph Learning, and Amazon Memos. Engineering Proteins in the Cloud -- Amazingly, we're pretty close to being able to create any protein we want from the comfort of our Jupyter Notebooks, thanks to developments in genomics, synthetic biology, and most recently, cloud labs. In this article, I'll develop Python code that will take me from an idea for a protein all the way to expression of the protein in a bacterial cell, all without touching a pipette or talking to a human

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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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Cybersecurity Pros Face Significant Challenges with OT Security: Ponemon Report

Tenable

A new report from Ponemon Institute and Tenable reveals that 62% of organizations in industries relying on operational technology experienced two or more business-impacting cyber attacks in the past 24 months. If you follow cybersecurity news as avidly as we do, you already know that industrial control systems underlying critical infrastructure are vulnerable, and they are under attack.

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Kaseya - Untitled Article

Kaseya

How NOT to celebrate World Backup Day: 3 data backup and recovery mistakes. 185,000,000 — that’s the approx. number of Google results for the keyword ‘data backup and recovery’ and the number is only increasing. Sadly, even with so much resource in hand, businesses are still vulnerable to data security threats. Ironically, the same businesses actively participate in World Backup Day.

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TDD and Test Anatomy

Net Objectives

TDD, when conducted as a specifying activity, is an aspect of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Behavior is what we specify and is what we “drive” into the system using tests. Therefore, when structuring the tests in TDD we can be guided by the language of BDD: Given, When, Then. Given the system is in a known … Continue reading "TDD and Test Anatomy".

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Mistaken Identity: RSA: The Wrath of Swag

Sailpoint

If you weren’t able to make it to San Francisco in early March for the RSA Conference, fear not — your intrepid men on the street, David Lee and Mike Kiser, traveled the highways and byways of the Bay Area to delve deep into the heart of the Moscone Center. Learn what it was like to be a part of the small temporary city that convenes once a year in the city by the Bay.

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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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6 Crucial Mistakes People Make When Starting a Clothing Line

Strategy Driven

Building and marketing a clothing line these days is easier than ever with easy access to manufacturers from all over the world, private label options, and cheap marketing methods. But that also means the market is more saturated than ever, and for every clothing startup that succeeds, thousands fail. That’s just the reality of the business. However, in many cases, clothing startups with great concepts and products fail because they committed some crucial mistakes that could have easily been avo

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Visibility is Key for Cloud Security and Cost Success

Nutanix

Managing your cloud environment is a lot like driving a car. While driving, you’re watching for other drivers and potential dangers – all while abiding by the rules of the road.

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A Guide To Keeping Your Employees Happy, Safe & Fulfilled

Strategy Driven

Something that should be clear when you are looking after any business is just how important the employees are. Without them there, there is nothing that could be done in the company, and you would soon find that it all falls apart. And yet, so many employers fail to really take stock in this way or to fully appreciate the power and importance of their staff, and this can lead to a business which is not moving in the right direction – or, just as bad, not moving in any direction at all.

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5 reasons you should use tech recruitment software

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

When used effectively, talent assessment tools can have a major impact on key performance indicators (KPIs), such as cost-to-and time per-hire, hiring managers’ satisfaction, employee retention, performance, and engagement.” –Aberdeen Group Study (May 2015). We could not agree more. The same study reveals the following: Businesses that use talent assessment tools are 36% more likely to be satisfied with their new hire.

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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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Everything you need to know about starting your own restaurant

Strategy Driven

Starting your own restaurant can be very worthwhile, especially if it is your aspiration to do so. However, like starting any business, there are a few considerations that you should always keep top of mind to ensure that your endeavor will be a success. This article will outline exactly what these are. So long as you keep the following four must-know tips in mind, you will be one step closer to opening up the restaurant that you’ve always dreamed of running.

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Four Reasons to Consider Zayo’s Media Networks for Content Access and Delivery

Zayo

Access and Deliver Content Via a Custom, Reliable and Economic Solution by Leveraging Zayo’s Fiber Network. Content owners and distributors rely on transport providers like Zayo to deliver television channels from their source to distributors’ operational facilities. It’s a crucial but sometimes overlooked piece of the operational chain that brings television channels and other content to a consumer’s home.

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Identity is Security: I Need Your Attention, Please!

Sailpoint

Another day, another Facebook mishap. This week in cybersecurity news, we spy another unfortunate headline for Facebook. As you probably remember, a few weeks ago news broke that Facebook stored millions of unencrypted user passwords in plain text. The kicker here is that it had been happening for years. Well, this week it got a lot worse. In addition to the password fiasco, data breach hunters found two Amazon cloud servers had been storing millions of Facebook-related records that were collect

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