Wed.Apr 24, 2019

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The 7 Key Components of True Root Cause Analysis

OverOps

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or simply “Root Cause” are terms often used when troubleshooting enterprise application behavior. A quick web search shows that “Root Cause” is a term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools and techniques to uncover the cause of an issue. More specifically, the term describes the process of understanding the exact element or state that caused unexpected behavior.

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Is An Open Office The Right Solution For Your IT Department?

The Accidental Successful CIO

An Open Office removes walls, but does it create too much noise? Image Credit: Jaysin Trevino. Can you remember the day when if you wanted to talk with your boss you would go walking down the hall to his or her office? You’d knock on the door, get called in, enter and perhaps shut the door behind you. Well guess what – those days are just about over.

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How to Improve DevOps Visibility

DevOps.com

DevOps, by design, works quickly and accomplishes deadline-driven projects rapidly. With a high amount of project turnover, visibility into key operational data is easy to mismanage and can lead to simple mistakes, lack of optimization and organizational misalignment. To examine the effect of DevOps visibility, SmartDraw commissioned the “2019 DevOps Visibility Report.” The results were […].

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Leadership Unchained Interview with Sara Canaday

Let's Grow Leaders

The world has changed – has your leadership changed with it? Join me for an interview with Sara Canaday where we discuss conventional leadership wisdom that hurts you – and what to do instead. We dive into her latest book, Leadership Unchained, where […]. The post Leadership Unchained Interview with Sara Canaday appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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The #CloudCulture Competition Heats Up. Here’s Who’s Topping The Highest-Rated Cloud Companies Lists of 2019

Battery Ventures

We all know that companies need an innovative, and constantly evolving, culture to grow and thrive. And that’s more important than ever in today’s ultra-competitive technology-job market. How important? That’s made clear by this year’s Battery Ventures Highest-Rated Cloud Computing Companies to Work For rankings, which highlight private and public, B2B-focused cloud companies with stellar records of employee satisfaction, as measured by employee feedback provided by Glassdoor*.

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Bodybuilding.com Security Breach, All Customer Passwords Reset

CTOvision

Bodybuilding.com fitness and bodybuilding fan website notified its customers of a security breach detected during February 2019 which was the direct result of a phishing email received back in July 2018. As detailed in the data incident notification published on the company’s help center, the security breach might “have affected certain customer information in our possession” […].

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Sauce Labs Acquires Screener Visual Testing Tool

DevOps.com

At the SauceCon 2019 conference, Sauce Labs today revealed it has acquired Screener to add a visual testing tool to its portfolio of automated testing tools. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product for Sauce Labs, said the addition of Screener will make it possible for DevOps teams to not only test functions and performance using […]. The post Sauce Labs Acquires Screener Visual Testing Tool appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Three Essential Mobile Security Measures

CTOvision

Read Andrew Hoog explain the three essential mobile security measures every company should adopt on DZone Blog : Many of us have heard of the 80/20 rule, also known as the ‘Pareto Principle.’ Applied to mobile application security, the idea is that guarding against threats with the greatest potential impact can mitigate 80 percent of […].

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Beapy: Cryptojacking Worm Hits Enterprises in China

Symantec

Cryptojacking campaign we have dubbed Beapy is exploiting the EternalBlue exploit and primarily impacting enterprises in China.

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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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4 ways to optimize IT service delivery and support

TechBeacon

"How can we do more with less?" This was one of the big questions that many attendees were asking at the recent HDI Conference and Expo, which focuses on IT service and support.

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Major DDoS attacks increased 967% this year

CTOvision

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is increasing in size and frequency, as multi-vector exploits become more of the norm in hacker’s efforts to distract and confuse security teams while damaging their businesses, according to a Wednesday report from Neustar Research. Attacks sized 100Gbps and higher increased by 967% in Q1 2019 compared to Q1 […].

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The benefits of having an onboarding process with your remote development team

UruIT

Two different, yet beneficial onboarding processes to try in your next project. Do you know the concept of onboarding? For us, it’s a process of getting team members adjusted to a new project. We do so by learning about the product, its users, the business. Also, we define how the team will collaborate to develop the best solution. In this post, we’d like to share the experience of two of our teams that had very different, yet equally effective onboarding experiences: Based on these experiences,

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Top risks of deploying zero-trust cybersecurity model

CTOvision

Read Dennis Turpitka explain why adopting a zero-trust model for cybersecurity brings many benefits — but also risks on Tech Target : The zero-trust model of cybersecurity has been billed as an ultrasafe defense against emerging, unrecognized threats. Unlike perimeter security, it doesn’t assume people inside an organization are automatically safe.

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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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Redefining Data Protection

Dell EMC

In a world where digital transformation determines winners and losers, businesses continue to create increasingly larger volumes of data, and by way of doing so, have evolved to the point where every organization is now a technology company. Further, it is a time where the most significant source of differentiation an organization has is the data that it keeps.

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A hotspot finder app exposed 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

CTOvision

A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks. The app, downloaded by thousands of users, allowed anyone to search for Wi-Fi networks in their nearby area. The app allows the user to upload Wi-Fi network passwords from their devices to its database for others to use. That […].

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3 Financial Concerns Every Breadwinning Woman Should Have

Women on Business

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My Dad The Servant Leader

Next Level Blog

How do you measure the success of a leader? How do you even define what it means to be a leader? After spending a good part of my life in leadership roles and the past 20 years coaching, educating and writing for leaders, the death of my father, Dr. Jack Eblin , 10 days ago has me considering those questions anew. My dad was a dentist for 46 years. He and my mom met at a church youth group in Huntington, West Virginia when they were 14 years old, dated for seven years and were married for sixty-

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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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7 Must Have Office 365 Apps #4: SharePoint Online

Datavail

Office 365 offers a wide range of productivity-enhancing applications. SharePoint Online is one of these critical applications because it promotes collaboration among work groups and across organizations. In addition, organizations can collaborate with partners and customers to cement relationships, and it supports access from the office, home or a mobile device.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

Imagine you’re about to open an intercity bus service. How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? Would you consider fixed costs, competitor prices, or both? The reality is that you’ll need a more sophisticated pricing strategy to fit into today’s highly competitive market and be flexible enough to adjust to any changes.

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STAREAST preview: 3 testing trends to watch

TechBeacon

Alan Page, who wrote How We Test at Microsoft and hosts a podcast about testing, once famously observed that testing, as a field, seemed stagnant. He proved his point by reviewing the sessions from a conference and showing how they were interesting today—even though that conference had taken place 10 years earlier.

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Using Cloud Endure for Migration

Linux Academy

As more and more organizations migrate applications and services to the cloud migration of services is becoming more critical to organizations so they can accelerate moving on-premise services to the cloud. Many organizations that have migrated services the cloud have started building new projects in the cloud and have not migrated many on-premise services that are still running in their own data centers.

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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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How to Serverless Locally: The Serverless Dev Workflow Challenge

Stackery

One of the biggest challenges when adopting serverless today is mastering the developer workflow. “How do I develop locally?”, “How should I test?”, “Should I mock AWS services?”. These are common serverless questions, and the answers out there have been unsatisfying. Until now. There are a few reasons that developer workflow is a common pain point and source of failure for serverless developers: Serverless architecture relies primarily on cloudside managed services which cannot be run on a deve

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Navigating in Bash | Bash basics

Linux Academy

So far what we have taken a look at how the AWK command, the SED command and event designators can make your Bash life easier but they really are a touch more advanced than what I would consider Bash Basics. This time we are going to talk about Exploring in Bash. These are the commands that are used on a daily basis that really should become the staples of your command line kung-fu.

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Dell Technologies World: Exploring Infinite Possibilities

Dell EMC

In a world that is rapidly changing, we often find ourselves knowing where we should be, but not always understanding the road to get there. Dell EMC continues to push those explorational boundaries at Dell Technologies World 2019, to bridge that gap towards Real Transformation. Let’s take a sneak peek at the demos, launches and featured solutions the Server & Infrastructure Systems team is bringing to the show.

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Infomediaries - A Significant Untapped Opportunity

Edge Perspectives

In a book I wrote 20 years ago, I identified an opportunity that has yet to be addressed, but is becoming more and more attractive. Sometimes when you’re on the edge, it takes a little more time than you thought for opportunities to emerge in practice. The book is Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules and I wrote it with my friend and collaborator, Marc Singer.

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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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Building the 5G Foundation – Enterprise Private Mobility-as-a-Service

Dell EMC

Progressive enterprises are pursuing software-defined solutions with operating models powered by analytics, automation and machine communications to improve productivity, service-levels and cost structures. With hundreds of devices and sensors connecting to a network, wired connections are becoming expensive. At the same time, the mobile networks are not ready for the massive connections and the data associated with these connections coming their way.

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The Benefits of Having an Onboarding Process with Your Remote Development Team

UruIT

Two different, yet beneficial onboarding processes to try in your next project. Do you know the concept of onboarding? For us, it’s a process of getting team members adjusted to a new project. We do so by learning about the product, its users, the business. Also, we define how the team will collaborate to develop the best solution. In this post, we’d like to share the experience of two of our teams that had very different, yet equally effective onboarding experiences: Based on these experiences,

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How to Use Android Fingerprint Security

VironIT

PIN authentication fades into the background because fingerprint authentication is more quickly and comfortable for application users. According to Androidauthority, over 70 percent of smartphones shipped in 2018 will have fingerprint sensors You can see global smartphone fingerprint sensor penetration on the graphic below: Android provides different ways of using fingerprint authenticate.