Fri.Sep 30, 2022

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What you need to know about IoT in enterprise and education

CIO

What you need to know about IoT in enterprise and education . In an era of data driven insights and automation, few technologies have the power to supercharge and empower decision makers like that of the Internet of Things (IoT). . As the adoption of IoT devices is expected to reach 24.1 billion by 2030, forward-thinking organisations and higher education institutions are realising that IoT technologies are providing access to insights and making things possible now that were too expensiv

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As extreme weather events worsen, 7Analytics meshes AI and big data to predict flooding

TechCrunch

Anyone who has followed global news events of late will have noticed the devastating floods that have engulfed pretty much every corner of the world, from the U.S. and Europe , to Africa , Australia , and Asia, where India and Pakistan have been hit by some of their worst floods in recent memory. By pretty much all accounts, such climate change-driven disasters are only going to get worse.

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Re-Tooling Your Way to a More Efficient Enterprise

CIO

To create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise, businesses often find themselves tempted to bring in brand new systems that promise major improvements over the status quo. This can be a viable strategy in some cases – and it will impress stakeholders that prefer to shake things up. But it comes at a cost. Swapping out the old for the new will require heavy doses of training to get everyone up to speed, and that’s just for starters.

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Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech

TechCrunch

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town. This lack of access to transportation is in stark contrast to other upward metrics on the African continent, like its growing access to equitable education and healthcare.

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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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Lack of inclusive culture is driving UK youth from tech jobs

CIO

Businesses must prioritise fostering an inclusive company culture in order to improve the professional experiences of young tech workers from underrepresented groups, according to Wiley Edge’s second annual ‘Diversity in Tech’ report. The report is based on a survey that asked UK respondents about their perceptions of the technology industry, to establish what is currently being done to actively improve diversity in tech teams, and where more work is still required.

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CIO Sabina Ewing on leading intentionally

CIO

As global CIO and VP of business and technology services (BTS) for Chicago-based Abbott, Sabina Ewing’s IT work has helped facilitate a period of unprecedented growth for the global healthcare company over the past two years, including more than $45B in revenue in the past 12 months alone. Ewing is a visionary change leader and a master storyteller, as well as one of the most intentional leaders I’ve met in 30-plus years in this industry.

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Sky.Garden, Kenya’s Amazon-style marketplace, faces closure after funding fell through

TechCrunch

The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, home goods and more — is in the balance after the startup failed to close a round of financing, according to a memo the startup sent out to employees. An insider told TechCrunch that the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Martin Majlund , sent termination notices to employees earlier this month after a town hall meeting, during which he revealed that the company was running

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What Developers Need for Software Security Success

DevOps.com

Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. Criminal gangs, professional attackers and hostile nation-states are employing advanced tactics designed to exploit any vulnerabilities in programs, applications, networks and even raw code. Attackers are constantly finding new ways to bypass even the most […].

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Daily Crunch: Google to sunset Stadia in January 2023, will refund hardware purchases

TechCrunch

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. Today we are mostly listening to acoustic covers of songs we love (a surprise Iron and Wine cover , perhaps?), and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. Which reminds us — did you know you can get 15% off passes with the DC discount code for being a Daily Crunch reader ?

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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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“The OG App” Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law. The post “The OG App” Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How to make coaching work for your sales team

TechCrunch

Kevin Varadian. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kevin Varadian is SVP of sales and general manager at CoachHub. The advent of SaaS and cloud-based software services has all but obliterated the traditional sales model, but not many organizations are actually helping their sales teams adapt to this new world order. Sales training statistics paint a grim picture.

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5 Reasons to Adopt DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps IT methodologies are taking the development industry by storm. Some call DevOps great for software development. Others find it ideal for pushing out regular software updates and pursuing continuous delivery for clients. If you do not know what DevOps is or why your business should adopt DevOps, read on. We’ll break down five reasons […].

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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

TechCrunch

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack.

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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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Atlassian Aims to Improve Collaboration With DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

At an Atlassian Presents: WorkLife event today, Atlassian furthered its efforts to integrate the tools technology and business professionals use to manage processes. Erika Trautman, general manager and vice president of product for Work Management for All at Atlassian, said that as organizations increasingly rely on digital processes to engage customers, partners and employees, the […].

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The upcoming TripActions IPO has us hype

TechCrunch

The IPO market is still frozen like a Nordic lake dotted with fishing huts, but there are signs that a thaw is now in sight. News from Insider indicates that TripActions, a unicorn in the corporate travel and expense category, has filed confidential paperwork to go public. Per the publication, the company is targeting a Q2 2023 public debut at around a $12 billion price tag.

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Getting Started With Docker: 5 Easy Steps

Dzone - DevOps

Docker is synonymous with DevOps. For me, Docker is one of the top five technology innovations of the last decade. What is Docker? How can you learn Docker? Let’s find out.

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Arcade scores $7.5M seed to make it simple to build a product demo

TechCrunch

Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. These let people who are interested in the product see how a function inside an application works as a way to whet the appetite of the potential buyer. Arcade , a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with a simple Chrome extension to build demos quickly that product people can make use of in various settings.

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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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Why Your Comfort Zone Is Your Power Zone

CEO Insider

How many of us have heard the advice that we need to “get out of our comfort zone” in order to be successful? My survey of hundreds of entrepreneurs asked whether they felt it was important to get out of their comfort zone to be successful. The overwhelming majority agreed. This means that they’d bought […]. The post Why Your Comfort Zone Is Your Power Zone appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Truepill, a digital health unicorn, conducts fourth round of layoffs in 2022

TechCrunch

Truepill , a platform that helps other companies offer diagnostics, telehealth services and prescriptions, has conducted its fourth layoff of the year. Sources say the layoff impacted around 65% of the existing staff across the engineering, human resources, design, IT and finance teams. The layoff comes around two months after its last round, which impacted about a third of the company, or 175 people.

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Rejoice! The Vantage Analytics and Data Platform Provide Incredible Power for All in a “Cloudy” Environment

Teradata

With the release of VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics, Teradata brings a cloud-native architecture to extend the technical innovations and differentiators that Vantage is well known for.

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Detectify secures $10M more to expand its ethical hacking platform

TechCrunch

Detectify , a security platform that employs ethical hackers to conduct attacks designed to highlight vulnerabilities in corporate systems, today announced that it raised $10 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners. CEO Richard Carlsson says that the new cash, which brings Detectify’s total raised to $42 million, will be put toward product development and improving the overall user experience.

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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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Docker Desktop vs Rancher Desktop

Dzone - DevOps

I’ve been regularly asked about comparisons between Docker Desktop and Rancher Desktop. As I have moved off of Rancher Desktop to work on other things at SUSE, I figure now is a good time to write up some of my thoughts. Note, there is an amazing team working on it now. They are incredibly talented and have made it better than I imagined. First, I need to say what respect I have for the people who have worked on Docker Desktop.

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Studio’s private group camcorder app lets friends create ‘episodes’ by combining 10-second videos

TechCrunch

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. These albums, or “studios” as they’re called, are available to everyone in the group as a way to record and share everyday memories or vlogs in a more creative format than seen in your standa

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Announcing GA of DataFlow Functions

Cloudera

. Today, we’re excited to announce that DataFlow Functions (DFF), a feature within Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud, is now generally available for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. DFF provides an efficient, cost optimized, scalable way to run NiFi flows in a completely serverless fashion. This is the first complete no-code, no-ops development experience for functions, allowing users to save time and resources. .

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Lunio raises $15M to combat click fraud with algorithms

TechCrunch

The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. But fake and fraudulent ad traffic remains a major problem in the space. Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. And beyond the wasted spend, invalid traffic can inflate metrics, leading brands to misidentify — and misunderstand — customer segments.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Dell Technologies Named Leader in GigaOm Kubernetes Storage Radar

Dell EMC

Dell's Container Storage Modules deliver enterprise features for Kubernetes-based environments built upon the foundation of CSI.

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mmhmm co-founders are building the great pyramid of hybrid work

TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. When Phil Libin co-founded Evernote he spent tons of money making the perfect working environment with chic offices, a shuttle bus and headphones to block out all of his employees’ distracting co-workers. He’s since seen the work-from-home light and co-founded mmhmm to make working remotely more efficient and even more fun.

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Serverless NiFi Flows with DataFlow Functions: The Next Step in the DataFlow Service Evolution

Cloudera

Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) is a cloud-native service for Apache NiFi within the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). CDF-PC enables organizations to take control of their data flows and eliminate ingestion silos by allowing developers to connect to any data source anywhere with any structure, process it, and deliver to any destination using a low-code authoring experience.