Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
With all the excitement about AI, it is easy to forget the hidden forces that can derail projects and programs. I am not talking about operations issues — those you can see and hopefully fix. In this instance, I am talking about trust. Trust from executives that data and analytics teams are "doing the right thing" and trust from business stakeholders who have to use predictions to make decisions.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. Founded out of Paris in 2019, recent Y Combinator (YC) graduate WhiteLab Genomics provide gene and cell therapy companies with predictive software simulations to expedite the design of gene and cell therapies.
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Enterprises have dramatically increased their use of cloud in the last two years – and cloud has emerged as a positive force for change. But there are still barriers to adoption. More than 50% of organizations surveyed increased their usage of cloud because of the pandemic, and 92% accelerated faster than anticipated, according to Microsoft’s Hybrid & Multicloud Perceptions Survey. [1] Furthermore, more than 60% of customers plan further increases over the next 12-24 months, the survey found
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
GM’s self-driving technology unit Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin, Texas and Phoenix — two hot spots for autonomous vehicle development — “in the next 90 days and before the end of 2022,” Cruise CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt said Monday, The services will initially be small scale, but from the outset the robotaxi services will be driverless, a term that means a human safety operator will not be behind the wheel, Vogt said during a speech at Goldman Sach
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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.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Digital transformation is no longer a choice; it is an imperative. What’s more, speed is of the essence. While digital transformation enables the business, it also drives the business and IT. COVID-19 drove the demand for new digital models that no one had imagined, at a scale and velocity not anticipated. The global pandemic also brought enormous disruption to the physical workplace.
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Cyber risk is increasingly a top executive priority, due in large part to the rising number of unplanned outages, driven by the increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and widening skills gap. Consider these facts: 69% of board of directors accelerated their digital business initiatives following COVID-19 disruption [1] 73% of organizations are increasing spending for data protection because of ransomware threats [2] 40% of board of directors will have a dedicated cybersecurity committee oversee
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
You can’t stop fintech startups. After raising staggering sums of capital through 2021, the financial technology startup industry ran into a valuations wall this year as public markets retreated and many formerly high-flying fintech giants took lumps. Late-stage fintech startups got caught up in the wave of revaluations. Smaller fintech startups are proving to be similarly vulnerable, data from the seed market recently showed.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Spending on the cloud shows no signs of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2021, corporate cloud services infrastructure investment increased to $41.8 billion, representing 35% year-on-year growth, according to Grand View Research. But while both small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises admit that they’re spending more on the cloud, they’re also struggling to keep costs under control.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
DevOps needs a mindset shift to save the overworked engineering collective. There’s a considerable discussion right now about the Great Resignation. But if you work in software engineering, you’re probably even more familiar with the Great Burnout. Everything in the software development realm has sped up over the last few years. Engineers perform at a […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
In a world full of mass messages, trying to be different and send out 20,000 personalized messages can be pretty daunting. Maverick Lab , a business-to-business personalized video messaging startup, aims to help e-commerce entrepreneurs send more personalized messages using deepfakes. Deepfake tech isn’t new. Debarshi Chaudhuri, co-founder of Maverick, told TechCrunch that companies like Bonjoro, Vidyard and Tavus have developed video technology in this space and are considered competitors.
Aqua Security
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Threat actors are ramping up their game by deploying Phishing as a Service (PhaaS) to code and package managers (such as GitHub, PyPI, Ruby, NPM). This tactic circumvents Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) mechanisms leading to session cookie hijacks and account takeovers. As we’ve learned in recent years, account takeovers of these applications lead to supply chain attacks which massively impact our community.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Opus Security , a cloud security orchestration and remediation platform, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding led by YL Ventures, with participation from Tiger Global and angel investors. CEO Meny Har tells TechCrunch that the proceeds will be put toward launching Opus’ platform in general availability, expanding the startup’s footprint in the U.S. and product R&D.
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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.
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
As you move up the hierarchy in an organization, you become less involved in the day-to-day operations, including communicating with team members. To overcome communication barriers and create a more cohesive and productive organization — and retain your talented employees — you need to put concrete solutions in place. Follow these steps to improve communication […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy new week, startup nerds! Tomorrow (Tuesday), we have not one, but two Twitter Live events happening, and we’re excited about both of ’em. At 8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. EDT, we are talking with Andrew Chan about why Gen Z VCs are trash, and at 12:00 p.m.
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I have always wondered if a person is born a leader or becomes one. The answer is complex, but putting it in a nutshell, it mostly depends on the characteristics that a person has inherited, the ones built over time, and other skills. Emotional intelligence is one of the most important aspects that makes someone […]. The post The importance of the emotional intelligence for leaders appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Shipping and logistics remain profitable tech ventures. At least, that appears to be the case with the closing of MyCarrier’s Series B today. A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau. CEO Michael Bookout indicated that the new cash will go toward expanding and accelerating MyCarrier’s platform offerings and investing in its p
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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.
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Before the beginning of every semester during college, a couple of buddies and I would head off to Atlantic City. We were all Delaware football players, and they were on scholarship, but I was a walk-on. However, The Bill Long Scholarship paid the same expenses as a UD athletic scholarship — room, meals, and tuition […]. The post Blackjack: How The Cost Paradox Impairs Decision-Making appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
New data from Carta indicates that valuations for very early-stage startups are holding up better than we might have expected in the current slowdown. But while it appears that the price at which investors are willing to put capital into various startup sectors is at times becoming more expensive, the pace at which deals are happening is slowing enough that the changing value of seed deals actually makes sense.
Infinidat
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
“Light Years Ahead of the Competition”: To Infinidat and Beyond…with Customer Feedback. Evan Doherty. Tue, 09/13/2022 - 16:36. Buzz Lightyear, eat your heart out! “To Infinidat, and beyond!” When the fictional Disney character in the Toy Story movies used his famous catch phrase about “To Infinity…” to talk about “limitless possibilities,” he could have been talking about the customer feedback about Infinidat’s InfiniBox® primary storage and InfiniGuard® modern data protection solutions on the G
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
If you’re a university- or college-level student who believes the future of finance is crypto — or even if you’re just crypto curious — pack a bag and head to Miami for TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. Why? Well, for starters, TechCrunch (of Disrupt and Startup Battlefield fame) brings its considerable talent for attracting the top technology founders, CEOs, investors and unicorn makers to focus on the cryptoverse — blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs and web3.
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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.
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Microsoft’s September 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 62 CVEs (CVE-2022-37969). Microsoft addresses 62 CVEs in its September 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including five critical flaws. 5 Critical. 57 Important. 0 Moderate. 0 Low. Microsoft patched 62 CVEs in its September 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with five rated as critical and 57 rated as important.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Ashwin Ramasamy. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy , an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about DTC brands and e-commerce companies. More posts by this contributor. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021?
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The Rust Foundation announced today it is working with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and JFrog to help maintainers secure open source software created using the Rust programming language. Rebecca (Bec) Rumbul, executive director at the Rust Foundation, said even though Rust is a memory-safe language, there are still security issues that maintainers need […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Kafene, a lease-to-own startup aimed at underbanked consumers who don’t have access to traditional credit, raised $18 million in a Series B funding round. While there are similarities to the buy now, pay later approach to making purchases, Kafene CEO Neal Desai emphasizes that his company’s model is different in a few ways. For one, many argue that BNPL is just another form of debt — but packaged differently.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
As a methodology for building and deploying applications faster, DevOps has been around for more than a decade. But it’s only now that the methodologies and concepts pioneered years ago are starting to wag the dog of digital business transformation. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital business transformation has been all the rage. […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
While capital infusion into companies took a summer siesta, some venture capital firms continue to see their coffers runneth over. Three years after raising a $500 million fund , European venture capital firm Northzone is back with what partners are calling its “largest fundraise to date” of €1 billion, or $1.01 billion, for its tenth fund. Same for Peru-based Salkantay Ventures , which said it closed on $26 million for its first fund , Salkantay Exponential Fund.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I have a fondness for philosophy. I’m about three classes short of a degree, and every few years I tell myself one day I’ll finish it. Thus, I am very familiar with what is known in statistics—and logic—as a post hoc fallacy, from which we get the saying “correlation is not causation.” This is the […]. The post The Curious Connection Between Cloud Repatriation and SRE Ops appeared first on DevOps.com.
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