Mon.May 13, 2024

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It’s Not Over Yet: Stories of an Aging Software Developer

Xebia

As we grow older, our outlook on life changes. We go through physical and mental changes. Both types of changes impact the kind of work we can and like to do. This is most obvious in professions that require physical work. A 30-year-old tennis player is old. A construction worker’s body cannot take as much abuse at the age of 50 as it could at 20.

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IBM’s watsonx.governance takes aim at AI auditing

CIO

IBM is betting big on its toolkit for monitoring generative AI and machine learning models, dubbed watsonx.governance , to take on rivals and position the offering as a top AI governance product, according to a senior executive at IBM. The toolkit, released as part of IBM’s watsonx generative AI platform last May, is uniquely differentiated by its audit trail capability, said Heather Gentile, director of product management at IBM’s data and AI software division.

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Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration

Agile Alliance

How the Swiss Post team successfully overcame quality assurance challenges in software development by adopting Agile practices, emphasizing teamwork, and maintaining clear roles and responsibilities. The post Mastering software quality with Agile collaboration first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Inteligencia artificial aplicada a la agricultura para combatir la crisis hídrica

CIO

En un escenario en el que la reserva hídrica española se encuentra críticamente baja, con tan solo un 54,7% de su capacidad total a inicios de marzo, el proyecto AgrarIA emerge como un rayo de esperanza para el sector agroalimentario. La iniciativa, financiada a través del programa Misiones de I+D en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) impulsado por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e IA (SEDIA), tiene como objetivo la aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas para desarrollar métodos de producción a

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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4 Strategies to Guide Your Team Through a Departmental Transition

Harvard Business Review

Whether initiated by strategic realignment, leadership changes, or market demands, departmental transitions test a leader’s mettle. In this article, the authors offer four strategies to guide your team through a departmental transition while maintaining morale, productivity, and cohesion: 1) Communicate the “why” clearly and authentically. 2) Acknowledge the emotional impact. 3) Cultivate ownership and involvement. 4) Prepare your team for future changes.

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Criminal IP and Quad9 Collaborate to Exchange Domain and IP Threat Intelligence

DevOps.com

Torrance, California, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users.

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Seresco se apoya en la IA para mejorar los servicios de producción cartográfica

CIO

Seresco ha puesto punto y final a su proyecto de investigación y desarrollo para la mejora de los servicios de producción cartográfica con éxito. Para ello ha aplicado técnicas de inteligencia artificial (IA) sobre imágenes de territorio, áreas y satelitales de alta resolución, lo que le ha permitido interpretar de forma rápida y precisa la evolución y características de una determinada zona geográfica.

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vFunction Adds Real-Time Observability and GenAI Tool to Migration Platform

DevOps.com

vFunction, the AI-driven architectural observability platform today added real-time observability and GenAI assistant. vFunction today added an ability to observe IT architectures in real-time to a platform that automatically converts monolithic application code into a set of microservices.

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Donne e IT: perché nella tecnologia esiste un gender gap e come superarlo

CIO

“Una donna sarà adatta?”. Questa la domanda che si è sentita rivolgere, alcuni anni fa, Barbara Marmello, quando l’IT Director di gruppo (un’azienda con sede negli Stati Uniti) l’aveva selezionata per il ruolo di IT Manager della filiale italiana. Questa filiale era frutto di un’acquisizione di una società italiana e la precedente proprietà aveva espresso il suo scetticismo di fronte alla scelta dei proprietari americani.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Presenting the ‘Anti-budget’: Personal Finance for the C-Suite

CEO Insider

A 2023 survey states that 76% of C-Suite and HR leaders are stressed about their finances, with survey respondents — C-Suite, HR leaders, and employees alike — now taking action to improve their financial habits (81%) and cut expenses (80%). Also, as a financial planner, I personally find that many busy, successful people will avoid […] The post Presenting the ‘Anti-budget’: Personal Finance for the C-Suite appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Balancing Innovation and Governance: The CDO’s Dilemma

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Data Officer The role of a Chief Data Officer or CDO is fundamental in modern data-centric companies and is multifaceted, requiring a unique combination of skills. With the increasing importance of data and analytics that spans across several business areas, the need for a CDO who can adapt, innovate, and lead in this complex environment has grown significantly.

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Building Industrial Metaverse Infrastructure in Your Organization

Ooda Loop

We continue our analysis of the categories and subsectors of the expanded metaverse, as Siemens, along with industry and media partners the MIT Technology Review, NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bentley Systems, and Youl Systems Inc., explores how businesses can assemble the industrial metaverse. Already a subscriber? Sign In.

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Accelerate Business Growth: The Chief Revenue Officer

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer role has become increasingly important in the constantly evolving world of business management. CROs are valued for their significant contributions to an organization’s revenue generation practices. By strategically focusing on all revenue-related aspects, they bring cohesion to sales, customer relationship management, revenue management, marketing, and customer service.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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FBCS Collection Agency Data Breach Impacts 2.7 Million

Ooda Loop

Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) says the personal information of 2.7 million was impacted in the recent data breach. FBCS revealed that it has identified 724,000 affected individuals. The compromised personal information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and account information.

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Unveiling Potential: How Effective Leadership Training Propels Companies Forward

N2Growth Blog

The Role of Leadership Training in Enhancing Business Growth Leadership training programs equip individuals with the essential competencies necessary to succeed in today’s business landscape. These competencies include strategic foresight, decision-making capabilities, and the ability to manage, inspire, and empower teams. By providing leaders with the necessary tools and techniques, they can navigate the complexities of the business environment, align their vision and strategies with the

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Why Employees Who Work Across Silos Get Burned Out

Harvard Business Review

When employees collaborate across silos, there are numerous benefits for organizations. But the employees who do this critical work — also known as boundary spanners or network brokers — may end up overwhelmed, burned out, and can even develop abusive behavior toward their fellow employees. Research shows why this can happen, and suggests three key strategies companies can use to mitigate any negative effects: strategically integrating cross-silo collaboration into formal roles, providing adequa

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Untangling IT-OT Security Knots with a Zero Trust Platform Approach

Palo Alto Networks

Organizations today are grappling with the complexities of digital transformation, a shifting threat landscape with the emergence of new technologies. Security teams are feeling this strain, struggling to ensure effective and resilient cybersecurity for an increasingly integrated IT-OT infrastructure. This dilemma is underscored by findings from a recent study we published with ABI research involving nearly 2,000 critical infrastructure enterprises globally.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring

Harvard Business Review

In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. But there’s a problem: For every 100 of these new postings, fewer than four additional candidates without degrees are actually hired.

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Six Clouderans Earn CRN Women of the Channel Distinction

Cloudera

Businesses today face unique challenges, whether it’s with hybrid cloud, AI, data analytics, or all of the above. Delivering solutions that can address those challenges effectively requires a robust ecosystem of partnerships. At the center of this critical ecosystem is the partner marketing team at Cloudera, who work tirelessly in pursuit of excellence for customers—and as a result, we’re proud to share that six of our very own Clouderans have been recognized by CRN as part of this year’s Women

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Understanding the generative AI development process

InfoWorld

Back in the ancient days of machine learning , before you could use large language models (LLMs) as foundations for tuned models, you essentially had to train every possible machine learning model on all of your data to find the best (or least bad) fit. By ancient, I mean prior to the seminal paper on the transformer neural network architecture, “ Attention is all you need ,” in 2017.

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Carpe WOO!

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Breakthrough leadership is about seizing the WOO – Window of Opportunity. Leaders can only seize the WOO to build their team by being fully present. Today’s guest post is b y Brian Biro, author of Lessons from the Legends: New Applications from the Timeless Wisdom of John Wooden and Pat Summitt. Is it possible that your life, relationships, health, and business can flourish as never before, despite even the most difficult circumstances?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters

InfoWorld

Back in 2014, when the wave of containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing was breaking over the technology industry, Torkel Ödegaard was working as a platform engineer at eBay Sweden. Like other devops pioneers, Ödegaard was grappling with the new form factor of microservices and containers and struggling to climb the steep Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting learning curve.

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How to Retrieve WiFi Password on Windows

David Walsh

Remembering the WiFi password when on a guest network is never easy. Even worse is when it’s no longer posted and someone else is asking you for it. Luckily there’s a built in Windows command to recover the password of a given WiFi network. The Shell Code Open cmd and execute the following command: netsh wlan show profile name="David Walsh's Network" key=clear The result of the command, assuming the network is found, is a long text output with a variety of information about the netwo

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AI coding tools are your interns, not your replacement

InfoWorld

“AI models currently shine at helping so-so coders get more stuff done that works in the time they have,” argues engineer David Showalter. But is that right? Showalter was responding to Santiago Valdarrama’s contention that large language models (LLMs) are untrustworthy coding assistants. Valdarrama says, “Until LLMs give us the same guarantees [as programming languages, which consistently get computers to respond to commands], they’ll be condemned to be eternal ‘cool demos,’ useless for most se

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Red Hat Plans to Add Policy-as-Code Tools to Ansible Platform

DevOps.com

Red Hat is previewing a policy-as-code capability for the Ansible Automation Platform that promises to make it simpler to apply and enforce governance and compliance policies.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Shifting the Paradigm: Why the Cyber Insurance Industry Should Focus on Preventive Security

Tenable

Does your organization currently have a cyber insurance policy? Without it, you are missing a critical piece of a holistic security strategy. With increased cyberattacks and expansion in cloud and digital operational technology (OT) assets, organizations face significant costs during and after breaches. This has led to expensive claim payouts by cyber insurance providers, and, ultimately, higher premiums for customers.

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GenAI Showdown: SAP Edition

Dell EMC

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SAP Arena! Today’s battle is Any-Premises vs. Hyperscaler for RISE with SAP S/4HANA.

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The Future of Federal Research and Development and the Culture of Air Force Innovation

Ooda Loop

We continue to track the thought leadership of Will Roper, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, & Logistics. Roper is currently on the advisory committee for the Defense Innovation Board and, since he founded the company in 2022, is the CEO of Istari, Inc.