Cloudera

JULY 15, 2021

Introduction and Rationale. The release of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base edition provides customers with a next generation hybrid cloud architecture. This blog post provides an overview of best practice for the design and deployment of clusters incorporating hardware and operating system configuration, along with guidance for networking and security as well as integration with existing enterprise infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Bloomberg broke news earlier this week that Apple, the consumer hardware giant with a rising services focus, is building a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service that will integrate with its Apple Pay system. The news sent shares of Affirm down just over 10% by the end of the day, and it shed 2.5% of its value yesterday. It’s off a little more than 61% from the highs it set after debuting earlier this year.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2021

The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. Then you give them the constructive feedback you really want them to hear. And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback. Why the sandwich technique doesn’t work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by European early-stage investor Creandum and SF-based South Park Commons. Also participating was Learn Start/Learn Capital, alongside angels Michelle Kennedy (Peanut founder), Sahil Lavingia and Tim Tuttle. Leap members gather online to collectively “learn, connect and grow together,” says the company, via small online groups built around shared interests.

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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.

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Lacework

JULY 15, 2021

Key Points XMRigCC vulnerabilities enable rogue clients/compromised hosts/victims to attack upstream servers. Vulnerabilities include: Arbitrary file writing w/ specific extension of “_config.json“ Default configuration overwrite via client “worker-id” leading to potential client takeover. Persistent XSS via client “worker-id”. Remote Denial of Service via client “worker-id”.

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CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2021

With the normal pressures of work compounded by the pandemic, stress and burnout are proliferating in the business world. Even before Covid-19, stress and burnout were ravaging the health of Americans. The number of hours worked is said by the non-profit American Institute of Stress to be the main source of job stress and this […]. The post A Yogi’s Take on Stress and Burnout appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

It seems like everything is being pushed online now, but network procurement stubbornly has remained an in-person or phone-based negotiation. Lightyear, an early-stage New York City startup, decided to change that last year, and the company announced a $13.1 million Series A today. The round was led by Ridge Ventures with participation from Zigg Capital and a slew of individual investors.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 15, 2021

Prometheus has gained a lot of popularity because of its cloud-native approach for monitoring systems. Its popularity has reached such a level that people are now giving native support to it while developing software and applications such as Kubernetes, Envoy, etc. For other applications, there are already exporters (agents) available to monitor it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. When company co-founder and CEO Thomas Li worked as a hedge fund analyst, he often performed repetitive data extraction in order to gather insights for analysis and forecasts.

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IDC

JULY 15, 2021

Discover the strategies and technologies needed to digitally transform into a Future Enterprise and thrive in the digital-first world we live in with IDC's Sandra Ng and Rick Villars.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising event last week, Norwest Venture Partners ‘ Lisa Wu took the stage to discuss how founders can think like venture capitalists in all facets of their business. The overlapping in job roles is uncanny: The best investors and founders have to find focus through the noise, understand the weight of due diligence and pitch others with conviction.

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CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2021

The world has changed quite a bit since COVID-19 hit. People moved, many to different states. Babies were born. Companies have grown and changed. It’s likely that the way we think about work will never be the same again. Forcing everybody back into the office in today’s marketplace is a foolish idea. Bearing this in […]. The post 7 Considerations for Creating the Perfect Hybrid Work Environment appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The global social market is rapidly growing. With over 1.25 million online social sellers in Egypt alone, the Egyptian social e-commerce market is forecast to be worth more than $14.8 billion by 2024. One of its players, Taager , is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics. Today, it is announcing that it has secured $6.4 million in seed funding. .

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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.

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TechBeacon

JULY 15, 2021

Companies that are built upon or are building software typically want to move fast and not break things. But how can growing teams allow developers to keep building new features and fixing bugs without operations teams slowing them down with complex and arduous processes?

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y. The deal announced Thursday confirms TechCrunch’s reporting in June that the startup was in final talks with the SPAC launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 15, 2021

What a Product Manager does and how they do it seems like a perennial question, an ongoing discussion, often ending in debate. This changes depending on factors such as the size and culture of the company, the industry or sector, the business model, where the product is in its lifecycle, and the type of product. What doesn’t change is they’re always thinking about customer and business needs, By Sandra Davey.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The exoskeleton/exosuit category has been heating up over the past few years. It makes sense, really. There are two giant — and dramatically different — potential customer bases. On one end are those sorts of jobs that could benefit from some wearable assistance. On the other are people with mobility issues for whom such technology might go a long way.

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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.

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CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Until recently, logistics and supply chain management were professions that happened quietly, behind the scenes. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted just how crucial these disciplines are to the smooth running of commerce and healthcare. When we picture supply chain management and logistics professionals, we probably picture a somewhat skewed view of the workforce.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The gamification of payments is not a new concept. A number of companies are attempting to combine gamification and payments in creative ways. And today, one such company, Play2Pay , has raised $13 million in a Series A round of funding. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based startup has a straightforward mission. It wants to give consumers a way to reduce their bills — it claims by an average of 30%!

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DevOps.com

JULY 15, 2021

Why do you keep logs? Regardless of the type of logs we’re talking about, you keep them because you expect them to provide some value for the organization. Maybe the logs will help you improve profitability; perhaps they will help you recover from downtime or perhaps they are expected to alert you to a security […]. The post Visualize Logs to Get More Value from Data appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Netradyne, a startup that uses cameras and edge computing to improve commercial driver safety, has scored $150 million in Series C funding. The fresh cash will help the company double down on its current product, Driveri, according to Avneesh Agrawal, CEO and co-founder. Agrawal told TechCrunch the company is very confident in its product, which rewards good driver behavior while sending real-time notifications to drivers for bad behavior, and will now focus on expanding outside its current mark

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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.

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Datavail

JULY 15, 2021

Choosing the right instance class and instance storage for your Oracle to Microsoft Azure VM migration is essential for getting the most out of your technology investment. The correct choice depends on your use case, current and future capacity requirements, and the specific Oracle workload you’re addressing. Database Instance Classes for Your Oracle to Microsoft Azure VM Migration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric of large- and medium-size companies going back decades. These established companies have a lot of market share and a lot of money to quash the competition.

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Aqua Security

JULY 15, 2021

One of the fundamental questions in container security, since the early days of Docker, is whether a container constitutes a security boundary. In this first part of a two-blog discussion of containers and isolation, we take a look at the security boundary question, along with key examples. Part II will continue with the nuances of container isolation techniques.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Every application is a palimpsest of technologies, each layer forming a base that enables the next layer to function. Web front ends rely on JavaScript and browser DOM, which rely on back-end APIs, which themselves rely on databases. As one goes deeper down the stack, engineering decisions become ever more conservative — changing the location of a button in a web app is an inconvenience; changing a database engine can radically upend an entire project.

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Ivanti

JULY 15, 2021

If your business is growing, it won't be long until you need to develop an IT asset management protocol that allows you to manage your hardware and software assets throughout their lifecycle, helping to reduce business interruptions, plan budgeting effectively, mitigate risks, and gain high-level insight into how IT is driving success for your organization.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

How do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of late in Silicon Valley, but it’s one that could legitimately help your startup stand out from the pack amid the pile of pitches. Landis knows a fair bit about the concept.

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Cloudera

JULY 15, 2021

We recently hosted a roundtable focused on o ptimizing risk and exposure management with data insights. For financial institutions and insurers, risk and exposure management has always been a fundamental tenet of the business. Now, risk management has become exponentially complicated in multiple dimensions. . In this session we explored what firms are doing to approach the uncertainty with more predictability.

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