Mon.Apr 22, 2019

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What Can Automation Learn From DevOps?

DevOps.com

A recent Capgemini survey revealed that while enterprise-scale automation is still in its infancy, IT automation projects are moving along. IT is starting to view automation less tactically and more strategically. The Capgemini survey also showed that IT automation can be responsible for several quick wins, including self-healing, event correlation, diagnostics, application releases, cybersecurity monitoring […].

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Strategic Networking is Key for Women Professionals

Women on Business

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Digital Transformation: Measuring What Matters

DevOps.com

As enterprises strive to digitize their organizations, whether it’s digitally transforming aspects of sales and marketing, customer interactions or supply chain, they’re undergoing a wholesale revamp of traditional businesses into digital business models. While some companies are just getting started, as we covered earlier this month in Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, the bulk of […].

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Symantec Mobile Threat Defense: OAuth Misuse Could Risk Corporate and Personal Data

Symantec

Symantec’s Modern OS Security team explains how iOS and Android apps misuse the OAuth authorization protocol to obtain excessive Google service permissions

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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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The DevOps Institute Has Been Brandjacked

DevOps.com

Sadly, another organization has decided to brandjack the DevOps Institute name. Quickstart, an e-learning organization based in Austin, Texas, recently approached DevOps Institute about becoming a channel e-learning partner. Instead of joining our partner community, Quickstart chose to stand up another “DevOps Institute.” Since they were in communication with the actual DevOps Institute as late […].

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Making job search better for 200+ million people

Agile Engine

What is the first job search website that you’ve ever used? Few people will remember The Online Career Center, but it was the first large platform for posting resumes and job openings. In 1994, NetStart Inc. followed — first as B2B software sold directly to companies and later as a public website. 1994 is also the year when an even more renowned job website, Monster.com, became available online.

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JPMorgan Expanding Blockchain Project With 220 Banks to Include Payments

CTOvision

Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase is planning to expand an existing blockchain project to include settlement features as it seeks to fend off competition from payments upstarts such as TransferWise and Ripple. The blockchain-based Interbank Information Network (IIN), set up in partnership with Australia’s ANZ bank and the Royal Bank of Canada back in 2017, currently […].

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What your data security team needs to know about the CCPA

TechBeacon

With the emergence of European Union legislation for citizens' privacy under the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), there is greater global awareness for the expectation of privacy. Within the United States, California continues to be the foremost champion of digital privacy rights.

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Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating system

CTOvision

Microsoft today announced that it’s acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for the internet of things (IoT) and edge devices powered by microcontroller units (MCUs), for an undisclosed amount. The Seattle company notes that Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS — which is designed to scale from resource-constrained, battery-powered […].

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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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DevOps Chat: Future of the ‘Accelerate: State of DevOps’ Report with Nicole Forsgren

DevOps.com

“Accelerate – The State of DevOps Report” by Dr. Nicole Forsgren and the folks at DORA (now part of Google) is far and away the most widely cited research in the DevOps field. Dr. Nicole and her team have brought scientific rigor to the survey over these past six years and the results show it. […]. The post DevOps Chat: Future of the ‘Accelerate: State of DevOps’ Report with Nicole Forsgren appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5G May Be Holy Grail for Telecom, But Energy Sector Feels Much Anxiety Over New Network

CTOvision

Read why Dipka Bhambhani says that the U.S. energy sector feels anxiety over launch of 5G technology on Forbes : While telecom giants are boasting faster, unlimited wireless connectivity for their mobile phone users under the long-awaited fifth generation wireless network (5G), the energy industry is worried. Energy groups are warning regulators that a 5G rollout […].

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Dial 996 for Fatigue: How to Prioritize Avoiding Burnout

Toptal

There's nothing heroic about overwhelm. In a world where competition is fiercer than ever, the best of the best will win by protecting their ability to perform and deliver peak results, and that means avoiding burnout. This three-part framework can decrease stress while increasing productivity, creativity, and free time.

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Proactively Identifying Compromised Passwords | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Happy Monday, and welcome back to Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure. Last week, we covered the importance of password policies and some points that should be covered by those policies. Hopefully, I was able to convey the importance of policies, and this is now on your to-do list or, better yet, on your to-done list! As this week’s title suggests, we’re going to identify how we can be proactive in identifying compromised passwords in an effort to head off attackers using them to

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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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Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon’s cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customers

CTOvision

As Apple and Amazon compete for a greater share of consumer dollars and attention, they also have a particularly intimate business relationship: Apple is spending more than $30 million a month on Amazon’s cloud, according to people familiar with the arrangement. Apple’s cloud expenditure reflects the company’s determination to deliver online services like iCloud quickly and […].

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Announcing DataRobot tools V4.0 for Alteryx

DataRobot

We’re happy to announce the new V4 release of our popular DataRobot tools for Alteryx. We’ve taken the feedback from hundreds of customers and partners to incorporate even more robust functionality into the connectors.

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Instana Automatic APM Now Available in Amazon AWS Marketplace

DevOps.com

AWS Users Can Seamlessly Install and Purchase Automatic Application Monitoring and Tracing SAN FRANCISCO AND SOLINGEN, GERMANY – APRIL 19, 2019 Instana, the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring (APM) solutions for cloud-native applications, today announced that its automatic APM solution is available for purchase in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

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Should You Move Your Enterprise Data Warehouse to the Cloud?

Apps Associates

In many companies, the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) plays a central role in information analysis and decision making. For companies that have them, EDW’s often represent a significant investment in terms of time, cost and resources. They are often used by multiple business units and departments either natively or as a source of data for … Continue reading "Should You Move Your Enterprise Data Warehouse to the Cloud?".

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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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Get into the Fast Lane to Manage your IT Portfolio

Beyond B2B

IT landscapes are becoming more complicated and harder to understand; making it difficult for your organization to enhance IT-driven business decision-making.

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5 steps to more efficient autonomous car data processing

DXC

Autonomous cars promise to change the face of transportation, offering many more mobility options for individual motorists and companies alike. In moving forward with this new technology, our automotive clients have a very important challenge to overcome: processing the petabytes of data that gets collected during the development and testing of autonomous driving systems.

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5 Sources of Friction That Impede Peer Conversations—And How to Overcome Them

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Friction can be helpful. Without it, we would slide around uncontrollably. But too much friction can prevent us from moving forward or changing direction. Today’s post is by James Millar, author of Building Bridges (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Friction can be helpful. Without it, we would slide around uncontrollably. But too much friction […].

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Suffer Not The Virus To Live

The Daily WTF

Not so long ago in 2015, Carl C. was asked to give a talk to an amateur radio club. The venue was a local church that rented out their meeting hall to various community groups, businesses, and even the odd academic session. The space boasted a multimedia setup with several video screens, making it a great place at which to present. Carl prepared his talk, and a PowerPoint slide deck to go with.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Dell Technologies and Cisco Reaffirm Joint Commitment to Converged Infrastructure with Multi-Year Agreement

Dell EMC

There’s industry chatter about what the growing adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) might mean for the converged infrastructure (CI) space. As a company that retains its top spot in IDC’s Certified Reference Systems & Integrated Infrastructure Tracker with a 48% share — nearly 1.5X that of any other vendor — and serves thousands of customers who rely on CI, Dell EMC thinks it’s clear CI will remain a popular choice for years to come.

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Channel Scoop – April 22, 2019

Palo Alto Networks

. Did you know the NextWave Partner Program earned a 5-star rating by CRN again? And, there’s more news this week…. April NextWave Newsletter. If you missed the monthly newsletter, here’s what we shared: Americas | EMEA. Cloud Security Summit Events. Find an event in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium or Italy taking place in the month of May.

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Four short links: 22 April 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

GANs via Spreadsheet, Open Source Chat, Sandboxing Libraries, and Flat Robot Sales. Spacesheet -- Interactive Latent Space Exploration through a Spreadsheet Interface. (via Flowing Data ). Tchap -- the French government's open source secure encrypted chat tool, built off the open source Riot. (via ZDNet ). Sandboxed API -- Google open-sourced their tool for automatically generating sandboxes for C/C++ libraries.

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Yaasss! How Queer Eye Helped Me See the Consultant I Could Be

Tandem

Once, I shared an apartment with two roommates, and my roommate’s mom came in from the suburbs to visit. After lunch, she visited the apartment and took a quick look around. Then, she walked into the kitchen, took everything out of the cabinets, and put them back in her preferred locations. I mention this story, because I’ve had a lot of experiences where people treat “consulting” like my roommate’s mom treated “visiting.”.

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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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Top 10 Threats to Cloud Security: AWS Security Week New York

Lacework

Last week I had the pleasure of attending my first AWS Security Week. This was held at the AWS New York City loft from April 15th – April 18th. The AWS Lofts are a cool place for people to come in hangout, meet, code, etc all free of charge. AWS frequently hosts weeks of learning [.]. Read More. The post Top 10 Threats to Cloud Security: AWS Security Week New York appeared first on Lacework.

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5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process 

Planbox

Design thinking offers a solution-based approach to solving problems. It can be useful when it comes to taking on complex problems that are unknown or not well defined. There are five stages of the design thinking as proposed by the Hasso -Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, which is the leading educational institution when it comes to teaching design thinking.

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Cryptojacking Fluctuates Along with Cryptocurrency Values

Symantec

The persistence of this new cyber crime trend means enterprises will need to worry about cryptojacking exploits as much as – or more than – individual computer users

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