Fri.Oct 07, 2022

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3 Key Considerations for CEOs and Their CIOs for Building an Agile, Modern Network

CIO

By: Lars Koelendorf, EMEA Vice President, Solutions & Enablement at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Can an enterprise CEO today be successful without having a strong relationship with the CIO and the corporate network? The short answer is no. Technology today powers and enables so much of how businesses function. Given the pace of digitization, the corporate network, led by the CIO, is increasingly becoming a critical business decision center for the CEO within the broader conte

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What gloom? Data show it’s still a great time to build a SaaS startup

TechCrunch

On the heels of news that the U.S. venture capital market’s third quarter was far from catastrophic , it’s becoming clear that while startup investment has slowed, it’s still a great time to build a software company. Thanks to a new sheaf of data from SVB , we can see quite clearly that the macro picture for IT is robust and venture capitalists have an ocean of capital to put to work.

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Scaling Financial Operations in Multi-Academy Trusts

CIO

The education sector in the UK is seeing incredible transformation with the expansion of multi-academy trusts (MATs) and the government’s requirement to have all schools in MATs by 2030. This brings unprecedented challenges, but also an enormous opportunity for positive education reform. Core to this challenge for MAT’s is the management of financial operations, budgets and funding across large numbers of schools Their ability to grow has been impeded by legacy accounting solutions, making it an

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Daily Crunch: Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M

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. Friday! How’s that for brevity in newsletter introductions? Let’s get to it so we can crack open a Liquid Death and let the week sag off into the murky distance of memory sooner rather than later. — Christine and Haje.

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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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Game Changer: Modernize IT Procurement with Data-driven Insights

CIO

Every organization pursuing digital transformation needs to optimize IT from edge to cloud to move faster and speed time to innovation. But the devil’s in the details. Each proposed IT infrastructure purchase presents decision-makers with difficult questions. What’s the right infrastructure configuration to meet our service level agreements (SLAs)? Where should we modernize — on-premises or in the cloud?

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Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty with Anu Rathninde

Let's Grow Leaders

Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System—and so are the people you lead. Many leaders expect an organization to operate like a machine, but that leads to failure. Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success.

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Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market

TechCrunch

It’s a rote story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries are falling , leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies. That’s true when we consider nation-level populations. It’s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the pace at which global startups reach the $1 billion valuation threshold.

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The Power of Work Friends

Harvard Business Review

Data shows that having a best friend at work is strongly linked to business outcomes, profitability, safety, inventory control, and employee retention.

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Elon and Twitter’s will-they, won’t-they (and other TC news)

TechCrunch

This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Dom about how conservative VCs are using their dollars to shape the world, and we spoke with Taylor about how the Musk train just keeps on rumbling along. On the topic of billionaires… “A big chunk of the conversation that is missing is just that it’s all about money, and that the economics of everything is what really drives politics and the motivations of politicians.

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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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Low-Code/No-Code Options Key to Bringing Web3 Mainstream

DevOps.com

Driven by cryptocurrencies and NFTs, Web3 is one of the most talked about technology industry waves in the last several years. But even with all the money it’s generated and the media coverage received, Web3 hasn’t yet gained the mainstream acceptance that Web2 has achieved. One of the main reasons for this gap is that […]. The post Low-Code/No-Code Options Key to Bringing Web3 Mainstream appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Green card sponsorships, startup prenups, agtech VC survey

TechCrunch

In the early days of a startup, everyone is on the same page. But there’s no way to know how well a founding team will get along by the time a company reaches maturity. Set aside the romantic notion that startup teams consist of visionary mavericks who are building the future in real time; they’re also human beings, with all of their flaws. Nearly anything can tear a co-founder relationship asunder.

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How to Use Your Nonprofit Website for Lead Generation

TechSoup

Your organization's website shares your mission and vision with the world. It likely acts as a virtual brochure and shares relevant information with your users, but it is capable of so much more. With the appropriate systems and processes in place, your website can be used as a tool to draw in potential supporters of your cause and mission. Let's explore the necessary steps to turn your website into a lead conversion tool.

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Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. Investors participating in this round include Klister Credit Corp., a Canadian investment firm, The Untours Foundation, and a number of angel backers including Fede Pirzio-Biroli, founder of Playfair Capital; Ian McCaig, former CEO of lastminute.com and M-Kopa board member; Anthon

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Protecting CI/CD Pipelines to Secure the Software Supply Chain

DevOps.com

Cloud-native applications have become increasingly complex. Composed of an infrastructure stack of mash-up code, hundreds of open source and commercial components, services and APIs, today’s software supply chain is fraught with security risks. At the same time, the ability to manage existing application requirements while building innovation and taking on new areas of responsibility like […].

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3 Reasons Why MSPs Aren’t Thriving on Social Media

Kaseya

Social media marketing looks so simple, doesn’t it? Take a few pictures, create videos and share content whenever possible. If things were that easy, Powered Services Pro and third-party marketing agencies wouldn’t exist. Creating engaging content for your audience takes a lot of hard work and discipline. However, while you’re putting in the time, you may be focusing on the wrong things.

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My presentation on Spotlight on Google Cloud Poland

Michal Komorowski

I prepared a presentation about federating BigQuery with external data sources. If you want to see this presentation but also panel discussions, lightning talks, and career-focused live sessions register at the virtual conference Spotlight on Google Cloud Poland which will take place on October 27.

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CVE-2022-40684: Critical Authentication Bypass in FortiOS and FortiProxy

Tenable

Fortinet has patched a critical authentication bypass in its FortiOS and FortiProxy products that could lead to administrator access. Background. On October 7, public reports began to circulate that Fortinet communicated directly with customers about a critical vulnerability in its FortiOS and FortiProxy products. This vulnerability, CVE-2022-40684, has been patched, but Fortinet has not released a full advisory yet via its Product Security Incident Response Team. .

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Research: Men Are Worse Allies Than They Think

Harvard Business Review

A survey of workers at Fortune 500 companies reveals that men and women have different perceptions of how men are — and aren’t — showing up.

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Hyper-scale time series forecasting done right

Teradata

There are various approaches to doing time-series forecasting. Amongst all the approaches, the right way is using an in-database approach. Read more to find out why.

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The Curse of the Strong U.S. Economy

Harvard Business Review

The booming labor market complicates the Fed’s mission to moderate inflation without recession.

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Event Streaming Architectures to Solve Problems for FinServ

Confluent

From real-time banking and mobile payments, learn how Apache Kafka and Confluent are powering the financial services industry with event-driven architecture for modern use cases.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Javascript Checkout -- Triangulation 4

Habitable Code

This article is part 7 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. I’m also strictly following the 4 rules of simple design and looking for opportunities to use implicit coupling to drive refactoring under the Once And Only Once rule. (If you missed the start of this series you can catch up with part 1 here.

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Why Your SEO Strategy for Selling SaaS to E-Commerce Companies Has to Be Flawless

KitelyTech

Using SEO to sell SaaS for e-commerce companies means that your SEO strategy and execution need to be flawless. E-commerce companies are often aware of how SEO works, and the market is very competitive. Any small slip-ups can lead to major problems that prevent you from getting in front of customers. You could also drive them away if they find your mistakes.

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Share secrets with standalone projects with project context restrictions

CircleCI

Introducing project context restrictions for GitLab organizations. This feature enables project-based restrictions on contexts for standalone projects that are not tied to a VCS. Standalone projects are available at this time only with a GitLab integration with CircleCI. In this blog post, we hope to explain the value of this feature and how it can be used to further secure your workflows.

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Top 20 CVEs Exploited by People's Republic of China State-Sponsored Actors (AA22-279A)

Tenable

Top 20 CVEs Exploited by People's Republic of China State-Sponsored Actors (AA22-279A). CISA, the NSA and FBI issue a joint advisory detailing the top 20 vulnerabilities exploited by state-sponsored threat actors linked to the People’s Republic of China. Background. On October 6, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with the National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA), identified as AA22-279A, o

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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How AutoML Accelerates Model Creation

Dataiku

This is a guest article by Dairenkon Majime. Majime is a data scientist intern, a data facilitator and mentor for bootcamps at Tera, and a dedicated writer who is always looking for new challenges. He writes about MLOps, data science, and machine learning. Automated machine learning, or AutoML, refers to tools and services that abstract the expertise required for machine learning (ML) by automating the operations necessary to make ML happen.

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New Honeycomb Integration With ServiceNow

Honeycomb

Today, I’d like to tell you about a new community-contributed integration that connects Honeycomb to your ServiceNow workflows. My new integration reimagines what’s possible when connecting observability tools with ITSM systems. This post explains how it works and how to get started with it. About my ServiceNow integration with Honeycomb. Although I work for Honeycomb, this is a personal project I developed because I want to show people what’s possible when connecting with ITSM workflows.

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Trigent at InsureTech Connect Conference 2022

Trigent

InsureTech Connect Conference 2022 was an event to remember, buzzing with the latest technology innovations to drive the digital revolution in the insurance sector in the coming years. Over 9,000 executives, investors, and entrepreneurs from around the world presented us with this unique opportunity to understand the industry mindset, connect and learn where the market is headed.