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Three surveys of AI adoption reveal key advice from more mature practices

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

An overview of emerging trends, known hurdles, and best practices in artificial intelligence. Recently, O’Reilly Media published AI Adoption in the Enterprise: How Companies Are Planning and Prioritizing AI Projects in Practice , a report based on an industry survey. That was the third of three industry surveys conducted in 2018 to probe trends in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud adoption.

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Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language

CTOvision

Deep learning may need a new programming language that’s more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said today. It’s not yet clear if such a language is necessary, but the possibility runs against very entrenched desires from researchers and engineers, he said. LeCun has worked with neural networks […].

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Agile Q&A: How Can Project Managers Adjust for Agile?

Agile Alliance

Learn how project managers accustomed to a more traditional software development environment can adapt to a more Agile approach in this post from the Agile Alliance blog.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

Since I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum: bootcamps and campus recruiting are great recruiting grounds for them.

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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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OpenAI’s new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders

CTOvision

OpenAI’s researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with. They’d been testing the new AI system by feeding it text prompts, getting it to complete made-up sentences and paragraphs. Then, says David Luan, VP of engineering at the Californian lab, they […].

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Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?

DevOps.com

It is difficult to dispute the importance that the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) approach has had on the world of ITSM (IT service management). After all, the best practices established by ITIL V3 have come to be the accepted way ITSM providers conduct business—so much so that many other IT processes have come to […]. The post Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World?

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5 red flags: When DevOps might not be a good fit

TechBeacon

The DevOps movement has already done a lot of good for software delivery across a wide range of organizations. And there's plenty of room for DevOps' benefits to keep spreading as new adherents hop on the bandwagon every day.

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The Average Ransomware Payment Is Rising

CTOvision

The average ransomware payment is growing as criminals become more sophisticated in their attacks, according to a report released by ransomware incident response company Coveware. According to Coveware’s Q4 2018 Global Ransomware Marketplace Report, the average ransom increased by 13% to $6733 in Q4 2018 compared to Q3’s $5973. It’s difficult to judge the statistical margin of […].

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

Microsoft’s Secret to Becoming the World’s Most Valuable Company. Microsoft recently became the most valuable company in the world. These past four years under its new CEO, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s value increased about a quarter of a trillion dollars, and Nadella was recently named CEO of the year. To what would you attribute this remarkable turnaround?

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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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Defending Against IoT “Accidental” Insider Threats

CTOvision

Read Jason Soroko article about how to protect yourself against accidental Internet of Things insider threats on IoT for All : When considering insider threats faced by the Internet of Things (IoT) systems, few will be surprised to learn that protecting a network with a growing number of connected devices from a maliciously motivated insider […].

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Too Big to Scale – Optimal Scrum Team Size Guide

Toptal

All growing teams reach a point when they need to split to stay effective. The inflection point can be recognized early on to avoid ineffective productivity periods for the team.

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Business Continuity in the Azure Cloud: Understanding the Options

DevOps.com

There are numerous ways to assure business continuity for applications running within the Azure cloud via various high availability and disaster recovery provisions. But, selecting the best and most cost-effective provisions for each and every application can be extraordinarily difficult owing to the myriad choices available. At best, making poor choices during development can waste […].

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Data breaches exposed 5 billion records in 2018

CTOvision

The number of publicly known data breaches decreased last year compared to 2017, despite harsher breach notification rules going into effect in Europe. The number of compromised sensitive records also went down by more than a third, from 7.9 billion records to around 5 billion. According to a new report from security intelligence vendor Risk Based […].

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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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What is a Down Round and How to Avoid One

Toptal

Anyone vaguely familiar with the venture capital industry knows that down rounds are bad news. But what exactly are they, and why do they occur? What alternatives do founders have to avoid a down round?

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Using the zero trust model to prevent phishing

CTOvision

Read Philip James explain how companies can start using the zero trust model to prevent phishing on SC Magazine : Currently, the majority of all cyber attacks can be traced back to phishing. It’s become THE most common way for breaches to happen — both to businesses and individuals. In fact, nearly 60 percent of […].

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New Relic Accelerates AIOps with SignifAI Acquisition

DevOps.com

New Relic, following its acquisition of SignifAI, is in the process of accelerating its investments in machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of an effort to make it easier to separate the signal from the noise created by all the alerts in an IT environment. Aaron Johnson, senior vice […]. The post New Relic Accelerates AIOps with SignifAI Acquisition appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Three Things To Know About Cybersecurity In 2019

CTOvision

Read Chris Wilder list three things about cybersecurity in 2019 on Forbes : Every year, it seems, pundits and egg-heads (like me) write down our predictions. Most of the time they are self-serving. However, looking into my crystal ball, I think 2019 is going to be a defining year at the intersection of physical and cybersecurity. […].

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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 can we learn from the chatbot attacks we’ve seen so far?

Netskope

For CISOs the growing adoption of chatbots presents a challenge that needs to be addressed this year. They offer businesses huge potential for efficiency, faster customer service and improved customer engagement. But like every emerging technology, they also open up new attack surfaces. We’ve already seen several attacks carried out via chatbots, so I think it’s reasonable to expect that this year, as businesses deploy increasing numbers of chatbots, we can expect the number of attacks to increa

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Why agile leaders should stop demanding consistency from teams

TechBeacon

Most of my clients have asked how we plan to ensure consistency in their agile transformation. They say they need a "consistent flavor of agile" and that "the problem" is that their teams are not practicing a uniform flavor of agile. They also ask about how to ensure that their coaches are giving consistent advice and not contradicting one another.

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Five Questions in Five Minutes with the CEO of Clubessential

Battery Ventures

Portfolio Spotlight: Randy Eckels, CEO of Clubessential*. Each month, Battery highlights a different portfolio-company CEO with our “Five Questions in Five Minutes” feature, showcasing the diversity of the Battery portfolio across investment stages, sectors and geographies. What does your company do in 10 words or less? We are leaders in membership management software platforms delivering #member4life.

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Monitoring PHP on IBM i

Zend

An effective approach to resource monitoring for PHP on the IBM i platform is to take advantage of the monitoring capabilities that are part of Zend Server. This blog introduces those capabilities and shows how monitoring can be configured. The post Monitoring PHP on IBM i appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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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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Securing Kafka using Vault PKI

OpenCredo

Introduction. If you have ever tried to secure a service with TLS and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), you will know how hard it can be. Common tasks include issuing client and server certificates to trusted parties, managing certification renewal, distributing Certificate Authority (CA) trust chains and publishing certificate revocation lists ( CRL s).

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50 App Ideas For 2019 – App Ideas

Xicom

If you are confused about what type of app to create for your business, you should first know about the trending app ideas from which you can choose the most appropriate app idea and work on it to expand it into an app. If you are the owner of the business, you are most likely not to be involved into the whole app development process but you can just read on the app ideas and get your creative juices flowing!

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4 Megatrends in Big Data in 2019 and Beyond

Agile Engine

2018 was the second consecutive year when Gartner published an obituary of Big Data. If this sounds like bad news, don’t panic! No one, including Gartner, thinks Big Data is dead. Au contraire, Big Data has grown so ubiquitous it became “just data”, argue the authors of the obituaries. Data certainly was all over the place in 2018 so let’s see how the market has changed and what to expect in 2019 and beyond.

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Towards an Introspective Data Virtualization System

Data Virtualization

To know and knowing to know, that is, one more word for a profoundly different meaning, which introduces that awareness of knowledge, which is a key element for its sharing and, furthermore, the foundation to derive from it that value. The post Towards an Introspective Data Virtualization System appeared first on Data Virtualization and Modern Data Management.

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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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Texas Chili Cook-Off!

Linux Academy

Our head office is in Keller, Texas! And what is Texas known for? CHILI! Our employees brought out there best chili recipes to compete to become the Linux Academy Chili Champ! See the award-worthy chili recipes, below. Another topic of debate in our Keller office has been whether or not chili should have beans in it! Help us decide who is right by leaving a comment with your answer!

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7 Tips for Getting the Most out of EDGE 2019

PowerSchool

It’s almost time to head to Florida for PowerSchool EDGE, Feb. 25–27, 2019, at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista and B Resort & Spa. Our inaugural customer event will bring together the brightest minds in K-12 education, from teachers and administrators to edtech thought leaders. Ideas will be shared, issues will be discussed, and we’ll lay out our vision and plans for the coming year with executive presentations, panel keynotes, and over 40 interactive breakout sessions.

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Kafka Summit 2019: 3 Big Things!

Confluent

How many Kafka Summits should there be in a year? Experts disagree. Some say there should be one giant event where everybody gathers at once. Some say there should be one once a month in different regions of the world. Others say you should live every day like it’s Kafka Summit. As you may know, we have adopted a happy medium: three Summits in 2019.

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