Tue.Feb 04, 2020

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The essential GDPR guide: 18 resources to get privacy-compliant

TechBeacon

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in May 2018, is largely a response to concern about how corporations gather, manage, share, and protect consumer data.

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Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement

DevOps.com

A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance.

Survey 79
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What Organizations Look For in a Change Management Professional: 2020

Change Starts Here

Two years ago, I did a small research project to answer the question: What do organizations look for in a change management professional? To learn the answer, I searched LinkedIn for jobs with the keywords “change management,” within a worldwide search area.

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Do Your Homework: 7 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Exam Tips

Toptal

Cloud architects with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate qualification are in high demand, with good reason—the AWS exam sets the bar high. What's the best way to prepare for it?

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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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Cognilytica Releases Report on Global AI Trends

CTOvision

[Global AI Trends & Forecast 2020 Report] Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to gain traction worldwide in a range of applications and usage scenarios. However, AI is still in the early part of the “early majority” phase with many organizations sitting on the sidelines waiting for do-or-die reasons to implement AI. In reality, global adoption of […].

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IoT and IT asset management: How to avoid the impending wipeout

TechBeacon

The prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices within businesses is exploding as organizations discover more practical uses for them. The problem is, they're not being managed effectively. Today, most IT organizations can't even manage laptops or software licenses effectively.

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DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 1

DevOps.com

Security has never been as high a priority than it is today, as companies fear they’ll be the next headline, the next victim of a data breach. Executives also worry about applications meeting the high standards of compliance–either with global regulations such as GDPR, state-oriented privacy laws or the many specific ones covering finance, health […].

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Future Proof Will Be The Defining Event of 2020: Incredible lineup of speakers focused on critical topics

CTOvision

OODA’s Future Proof conference will be held on March 19, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner, Virginia. We want you to be there! Please mark your calendar now and register early. This event will be booked and sold out and we really hope that our our CTOvision readers to be there en mass so […].

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Thoughts on Leadership in an IoT-driven World

CEO Insider

I am not convinced that every CEO sets out—with intention—to become a leader. I am convinced, however, that those with passion, a clear vision and the ability to inspire, inform and initiate action eventually and naturally reach a gratifying summit. Prior to founding the Internet of Things Consortium (IoTC), I spent about 20 years in […].

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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 Iowa Caucus Debacle: What technology teams can learn from it

Gitprime

Regardless of what caused the breakdown in Iowa Monday night, one thing is clear: Technology that was supposed to streamline the caucus process ended up breaking it.

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Report Finds Faster DevOps Adoption in Retail

DevOps.com

Conventional wisdom holds that when it comes to any IT advancement, technology companies lead the way followed by the financial service sector. However, Puppet has made available an industry scorecard based on the company’s 8th annual “State of DevOps” survey that suggests that when it comes to DevOps adoption, it’s the retail sector that is […].

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10 steps to clean code

Gitprime

Clean code is a development style that produces software that's easy to write, read and maintain. Learn why it matters and get tips on how to do it in practice.

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Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud

DevOps.com

Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network […].

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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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Accelerate Your Deep Learning Initiatives

Dell EMC

Artificial intelligence (AI) disciplines like deep learning have been the talk of the industry for the past several years and only continue to gain steam. The research is in: AI-enabled organizations see a 19 percent average improvement in decision speed and a 21 percent average improvement in decision accuracy. How can you best position your company to capitalize on the benefits?

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Top 10 Most Read IT Management Blogs of 2019

Kaseya

Better late than never, we take a look back at the most read Kaseya blogs for 2019 for a glimpse into the topics that were at the forefront for internal IT teams and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). A big concern for all parties was Windows 7 end of life (EOL), which occurred on January 14, 2020. The second most read blog in 2019 focused on the impact of Windows EOL for the healthcare industry.

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Cache, indeed, is king.

TidalScale

In a recent article, The Next Platform ’s Timothy Prickett Morgan argues that “cache is king” as he examines the implications of adding another layer of cache hierarchy to the general use of L1, L2, and L3 caches in current processor architectures by discussing the topic in hardware terms. The concept: Adding L4—another cache layer to the hierarchy.

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E.S.G. 2020 has arrived with a Bang!! Here’s what you need to know

CEO Insider

Davos, Switzerland – World Braces for Climate Doom. On January 21st, 2020, 3000 attendees including top leaders from governments, institutions, and industries from around the world gathered at the 50th World Economic Forum(WEF) in Davos, Switzerland to share and influence the trajectory of humankind. Once again as they have for the last 5 decades these […].

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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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Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security

iTexico

Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security | iTexico. If you were asked about artificial intelligence 20 years ago, there's a high probability that your mind would have wandered to the thought of highly smart and autonomous robots taking over most human tasks. Current situation could not be further from that: AI refers to the ability of a computer to learn to perform human associated tasks, such as reasoning, generalizing, or learning from past experiences.

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InfluxData announces availability of the leading time series platform on Google Cloud

DevOps.com

The strategic partnership empowers Google Cloud customers with InfluxDB Cloud for powerful analysis of high volumes of time-sensitive data SAN FRANCISCO — February 4, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the availability of InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud. The strategic collaboration, originally announced in April 2019, is part of […].

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First Class Kotlin Support for Enterprise Java Mobile Developers

Progress

Progress Kinvey is enabling modern Java developers to be successful using Kotlin with Kinvey via the latest updates to the Kinvey Android SDK. When I think about Progress Kinvey , I tend to skip over its standard backend capabilities and instead focus on the value-added features it provides to me, as an app developer (going above and beyond traditional serverless providers): Compliance and security out of the box.

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Lingua Franca

DevOps.com

The post Lingua Franca appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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First Class Kotlin Support for Enterprise Java Mobile Developers

Progress

Progress Kinvey is enabling modern Java developers to be successful using Kotlin with Kinvey via the latest updates to the Kinvey Android SDK. When I think about Progress Kinvey , I tend to skip over its standard backend capabilities and instead focus on the value-added features it provides to me, as an app developer (going above and beyond traditional serverless providers): Compliance and security out of the box.

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The auto revolution isn’t just about car drivers anymore

Capgemini

As auto makers have grappled with how to take advantage of technology to improve the in-car experience, the first innovations were aimed squarely at drivers, with enhancements to navigation systems, better integration with smartphones, and a range of new digital entertainment options. In recent months, however, we have started to see the development of in-car experiences that are actually aimed at passengers and commercial users.

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Taking on the Challenge to Connect a Fragmented IoT Ecosystem: A CEO’s Point of View

CEO Insider

In December 2019, a major joint industry announcement was made by Apple, Amazon, Google and the Zigbee Alliance, stating that the companies have joined forces to create a working group which intends to “develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products.” As Founder and CEO […].

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CodeSOD: Going Down to the Object Store

The Daily WTF

Odette ’s company uses a popular video conferencing solution for browser use. In the base library, there’s a handy-dandy class called ObjectStorage , which implements an in-memory key/value store entirely in TypeScript/JavaScript. “Wait,” you ask, “isn’t a JavaScript in-memory, key/value store just… an object? A map, if you’re being pedantic?”. Yes, of course, but have you thought about ways to make JavaScript’s maps/objects worse ?

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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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Understanding the Developer: Our Annual Survey is Open

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps is at the core of making development more efficient and effective. With that in mind, we’d like to pick your brains for a few minutes. Our second annual State of the Developer survey is open. Take this 5-minute survey to help us better understand how you like to learn, what your hurdles are to being more productive and what companies can do to make the developer experience better.

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Amol Kher is getting engineers to build with empathy

Gitprime

Engineering executive Amol Kher breaks down his approach to building teams that focus on empathy for their customers.

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How cloud computing is revolutionizing the healthcare Tech industry

Cabot Solutions

This article highlights the benefits cloud computing provides the healthcare industry