Fri.Oct 28, 2022

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What transformational leaders too often overlook

CIO

High-performing CIOs know that digital mastery depends on a strong foundation of rock-solid infrastructure, information security, enterprise data management, and sound IT governance. But for all the emphasis on cutting-edge technology for business transformation, IT infrastructure too often gets short shrift. Infrastructure, what happens behind the IT screen, and related support activities remains poorly understood, underappreciated, and mismanaged in 89% of enterprises today, according to a rec

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Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8

TechCrunch

Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This comes a day after Elon Musk completed the company’s takeover after a lengthy ordeal late Thursday. Incidentally, the delisting is taking place on the same date as the U.S. midterm elections. “The New York Stock Exchange hereby notifies the SEC of its intention to remove the entire class of the stated securities from li

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Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3

CIO

Macroeconomic conditions led by the pandemic and the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine have further slowed down growth of Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the third quarter of 2022. Amazon on Thursday said AWS had raked in revenue of $20.5 billion for the quarter ended September 30, up 27.5% year-on-year. However, revenue for AWS grew at 33% year-on-year at 19.74 billion in the previous quarter (ended June 30).

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Latin American founders see VC funding drop as investors retreat from underrepresented cohorts

TechCrunch

The latest Crunchbase data shows that Latin American-founded companies in the United States raised $250 million out of the $39.85 billion allocated in venture funds in the U.S. this Q3 — or about 0.63%. 1 The Q3 sum is a sharp decrease from the $2.3 billion the cohort raised in Q3 last year and a dramatic decline from the $1.3 billion raise in Q2 this year.

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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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Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data

DevOps.com

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as LogDNA, Mezmo is expanding the scope of its reach to add the ability to augment and analyze data on top of its core […]. The post Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum

DevOps.com

A survey of 93 developers conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found more than a quarter (28%) are using WebAssembly (Wasm) in their cloud-native development projects, with another 36% planning to do so during the next six to 12 months. The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% […]. The post CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Fundraising beyond the Bay Area, web3 gaming, TDD prep checklist

TechCrunch

In a previous era, aspiring journalists relocated to New York, would-be actors made pilgrimages to Hollywood and plucky tech founders moved to the Bay Area so they could attract capital and talent. But San Francisco is no longer the center of the startup universe , and it hasn’t been for a while. Cities like Boulder, Detroit and Austin had emerging tech ecosystems long before the pandemic forced VCs to start taking pitches via Zoom, and social media has leveled the playing field when it comes to

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Security Advisory: Upcoming Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability

Aqua Security

This is a developing story. Updates will be amended as new information and guidance becomes available. The OpenSSL project has pre-announced a new and critical severity vulnerability that will be fixed in OpenSSL version 3.0.7, expected November 1, 2022.

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Cruz Foam’s chitin-based packaging brings in $18M as industries scramble to go green

TechCrunch

The best way to remove plastics from the ecosystem is to make sure they never get there in the first place, and Cruz Foam is well on its way to replacing some of the worst ones out there with its naturally derived and compostable alternative — and the company just landed an $18M series A to do it faster. Cruz Foam creates materials out of chitin, which is what makes up the shells of most crustaceans, like crabs, shrimp, lobsters and many land insects as well.

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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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How to Prepare Your Website for the 2022 Giving Season

TechSoup

With nearly 30 percent of annual giving occurring in December, all nonprofit organizations should already be preparing for a successful end-of-year fundraising initiative.

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I regret to inform you that Elon has something to do with this

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We hope that you are in good form this Friday, alive, well and ready to rock. We certainly were. And in a change of pace, as our dear Mary Ann was off this week, the excellent Anita Ramaswamy joined Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm on the mics.

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Making App Dev More Efficient

DevOps.com

Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses improve their operations overall. In fact, there are over 5.4 million applications available across the Apple App and Google Play stores as of […].

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MSPs Need to Stop Saying “I Don’t Have Time for Marketing”

Kaseya

It’s no secret that MSPs struggle with marketing. Some don’t see the benefit. Others “don’t have the time.” Whatever the reason is, it can hold MSPs back from building their brand and customer base. There are a few things I want you to think about the next time you say, “I don’t have time for marketing.”. Referrals need to be supplemented with additional marketing initiatives.

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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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Building New Value in IT Systems Management

DevOps.com

For decades, companies treated the IT system as a cost center not much different from facilities maintenance. The job of IT was to keep the lights on, ensuring that the technology a company used worked and that the costs of keeping it working were kept under control. Those days are well over. Not only is […]. The post Building New Value in IT Systems Management appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How To Unlock Granular Kubernetes Cost Metrics

CloudZero

It can be a challenge to measure costs within a SaaS company. While a business with physical inventory can count the number of items sitting on the shelf and the money needed to create, store, and ship those items, operating within the cloud means SaaS companies have to measure their costs through a layer of abstraction.

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Securing Productivity in Supply Chains

Ivanti

Mobile device management – it’s been part of your operational technology portfolio for a long time. You’ve been using it for years – or maybe decades – to stage device configurations, push software updates and more. You might be using our Ivanti Avalanche MDM solution to manage your rugged mobile deployments. The device, OS and app management capabilities remain at the center of your mobility management program, and that isn’t going to change.

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Avoid anaphylactic shock by auditing dependencies in software due diligence

Synopsys

Ignoring dependencies of a seller’s source code during an audit could lead to missed license compliance and security issues. The post Avoid anaphylactic shock by auditing dependencies in software due diligence appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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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 Google Approaches Supplier Diversity

Harvard Business Review

To overcome challenges of scale, the company pairs new and veteran suppliers in formal mentoring relationships.

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Experts warn of critical security vulnerability discovered in OpenSSL

Synopsys

Understand what steps your organization needs to take now to prepare for the upcoming patch to address OpenSSL’s critical security vulnerability on November 1. The post Experts warn of critical security vulnerability discovered in OpenSSL appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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How to Encourage Your Team to Give You Honest Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Five reasons people might be hesitant — and how to address their concerns.

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Cranefly: Threat Actor Uses Previously Unseen Techniques and Tools in Stealthy Campaign

Symantec

Group uses novel method of reading commands from legitimate IIS logs.

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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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Meeting Overload Is a Fixable Problem

Harvard Business Review

To fix a broken meeting culture, start by canceling everything for 48 hours.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Model Optimization

Dataiku

This is a guest article from Juan Navas. Navas has a Bachelor's in computer science and a Master's in big data. He worked for several years in the telecom sector on cloud computing, 5G, and micro-service architectures based on Docker containers. He works on blockchain DApps, mainly in Ethereum blockchain, programming smart contracts and leading an ICO for a startup.

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What Makes Creative Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Researchers who studied the Italian film industry identified four key factors.

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AEM as a Cloud Service Setup Guide with sample WKND project

Coforge

This document outlines steps to setup a fresh AEM as a Cloud Service using available SDK from Adobe. Here in we are also outlining steps to setup a sample WKND sites project. Please follow below steps.

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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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Bridging the Digital Divide

Dots and Bridges

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) intends to modernize, secure, and transform our nation’s most critical sectors, e.g., the Transportation, Energy, Water/Wastewater, Manufacturing, Food and Agriculture, Communications, Manufacturing, Dams, Defense Industrial Base, to name a few. In short, the very things we depend on for our livelihood… for our humanity.

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How To Read CSV File Using Noidejs

Angularjs | Reactjs | jQuery | Nodejs tutorials

This tutorial will help you learn how to read CSV data using nodejs and csv-parse module. CSV files are text files that contain comma-separated data. CSV stands for comma-separated-values is the most popular file format to exchange information or data between cross-programming languages. The CSV format is flexible and language-independent, so it can be processed […].

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

Get the latest on Microsoft 365 security configurations; effective CISO board presentations; rating MSPs’ cybersecurity preparedness; and hospitals’ Daixin cyberthreat. Dive into 6 things that are top of mind for the week ending Oct. 28. 1 - CISA issues config baselines for Microsoft cloud apps. Properly configuring cloud services is critical for reducing cyber risk, so guidance in this area is always welcome.

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