O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 16, 2019

The program for our Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York City will showcase tools, best practices, and use cases from companies leading the way in AI adoption. In early 2018, we conducted a survey to gauge the rate of adoption of deep learning. We found a majority of respondents were planning to use deep learning in future projects. When asked what held back adoption of deep learning, the same set of respondents cited “lack of skilled people,” “data-related challenges,” and “compute re

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 16, 2019

Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration (CI) or continuous delivery (CD) performance, testing delays and other bottlenecks. While not the answer to everything, version control—that long-established foundation of software development toolchains—has become a central part of DevOps, particularly DevOps at scale.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 16, 2019

What activities do you suggest when starting a new team? When forming a new team, you want to make sure you can get them started off on the right foot. There are several different ways to do that and the ones you pick are going to depend on a variety of factors, including (but not … Continued.

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Xebia

JANUARY 16, 2019

A lot of articles and blogs describe how the customer journey should unfold and what gets in the way of achieving real success. Very few have been written about the problem of one of the most common steps for buying a technical product: the free trial. But free trials are often badly implemented. The customers […]. The post Product Adoption in IT: The Problem With Free Trials appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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TechBeacon

JANUARY 16, 2019

As a developer, you expect to get practical, technical content when you go to a conference, but you also want to network with other engineers in your field—hopefully, with people who are dealing with some of the same challenges as you. And if you're like most of your peers, expo halls are a lower priority.

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Toptal

JANUARY 16, 2019

Overdue receivables are one of the most common and serious frustrations entrepreneurs face. The hidden costs can be staggering, from lost time dealing with the problem to the cost of hiring dedicated experts, to the serious and long term damage to a business’ reputation with its clients. In this guide, we provide six steps all businesses should take to avoid the headache of overdue receivables.

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Accenture

JANUARY 16, 2019

If Agile and DevOps had Facebook pages, their relationship status would say: “It’s complicated”. There is clearly a strong relationship between these two, but I don’t think the industry has agreed on what it is. I know companies that consider DevOps to be part of Agile, I know companies where it’s the other way around. And then there are those companies where the two are treated completely separately.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read Emily Gray-Fow explain how you can know whether your email has been leaked in any data breach on Business2Community : Many people use their email addresses and a small set of passwords (or even just one password) to log in to their online accounts. Unfortunately, this means that any hacker with your email address […].

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 16, 2019

IT has long had a problem with hiring. I’m not certain where it started; most of us blame HR, and that’s probably incorrect, but gives us someone to blame. It’s that we post jobs with insane requirements. Sometimes this is done to keep the applicant pool down, but most of the time it is a […]. The post DevOps Hiring: What Do You Need? appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read why financial services executives need to know about data security on Forbes : The financial services industry experiences 35% of all data breaches, earning it the unflattering title of the most-breached sector. It’s easy to understand why. The industry is known for its wide array of interconnected systems and the processing of millions of […].

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 16, 2019

The unrelenting hype around blockchain has made it difficult to get a sharp picture of just where the technology stands in the enterprise. A look at the numbers doesn't add much clarity.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2019

It’s a sad reality that phishing scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, often making it hard for even savvy users to differentiate between legitimate messages and ones designed to abscond with sensitive personal and financial information. Just a few days ago, for example, we covered an iPhone phishing scam that manages to trick users into thinking […].

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 16, 2019

Survey results indicate incident response times improve with AI-based security services. Organizations that use security tools with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) see a significant decrease in incident response time, according to a survey of 457 security practitioners conducted by O’Reilly Media in conjunction with Oracle. Twenty percent of IT professionals who rely on traditional security measures said their teams can detect a malware infection or other attack within min

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read Brett Hansen explain how you can protect your data from insider threats on Forbes : If you’re not a government agency or high-profile brand, insider threats may not rank highly on your list of concerns right now. After all, employees have very little to gain and a lot to lose by sharing your sensitive data […].

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Zend

JANUARY 16, 2019

This post offers an understanding of the IBM PASE architecture that facilitates both the execution of open source solutions and the leveraging of the ILE by those solutions. The post What is IBM PASE and how does it relate to open source solutions? appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read Maria Korolov’s article about how you can protect your backups from ransomware on CSO Online : Despite a recent decline in attacks, ransomware still poses significant threats to enterprises, as the attacks against several major newspapers demonstrated this month. It is also becoming more capable. In particular, ransomware writers are aware that backups are […].

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Agile42

JANUARY 16, 2019

There are four different ways a story can be told: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Inside-Out, or Outside-In. All of these story types play an essential role in cultural change. Continuing with the Don't Panic series, Dave Sharrock and Melissa Boggs will provide examples for each story type and how they can be used to change the organizational culture. 1. Top-Down Melissa Boggs (MBO): The story we want to start with is Top-Down.

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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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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2019

I started 2019 by delivering a TEDx talk at TEDxGCET in Vallabh Vidyanagar. This post covers a few key insights extracted from the talk. Video to be posted soon. Formal education is a launch pad that equips us with fundamentals. But we need wings to fly long and high in the direction of our dreams. Ability to learn in a self-initiated mode is one of the most critical skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

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Samanage

JANUARY 16, 2019

For the second consecutive year, Samanage has been recognized as a top 100 software company by G2 Crowd. In fact, we’re climbing the ladder, up six spots to number 84 in 2019. The list is thanks to over a quarter-million reviews submitted to G2 Crowd, as the criteria emphasizes “those who best focused on their customer relationships.”. “Even as we grow and our products evolve to include new features and smart technology, we can never lose our emphasis on our customer relationships.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 16, 2019

MariaDB Platform X3 shatters age-old barriers between transactional and analytical, cloud and on-prem MENLO PARK, Calif. and HELSINKI – January 16, 2019 – MariaDB® Corporation today announced the general availability of MariaDB Platform X3, the first open source database that unites transactional and analytical workloads at scale, and a new MariaDB Managed Service supporting public […].

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Xicom

JANUARY 16, 2019

The superhuman advancements in the technology continues to boggle our minds with each passing day. Isn’t it the Artificial Intelligence future (AI) that has become the concern of the masterminds of IT sector? Well, we can completely affirm this statement as there are self-driving cars like Tesla and then there are ultra-intelligent robots which can accomplish all home chores in just a few minutes.

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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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TechBeacon

JANUARY 16, 2019

As a developer, you expect to get practical, technical content when you go to a conference, but you also want to network with other engineers in your field—hopefully, with people who are dealing with some of the same challenges as you. And if you're like most of your peers, expo halls are a lower priority.

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Symantec

JANUARY 16, 2019

It sounds like a tough sell but there’s an increasingly convincing case to be made for bigger security budgets -here’s how

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 16, 2019

New Partnership and StreamSets for Snowflake Bring Simple and High-Performance Data Integration to Leading Cloud-Built Data Warehouse SAN FRANCISCO – January 15, 2019 – StreamSets®, provider of the industry’s first DataOps platform for modern data integration, announced today a technology partnership agreement with Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 16, 2019

The unrelenting hype around blockchain has made it difficult to get a sharp picture of just where the technology stands in the enterprise. A look at the numbers doesn't add much clarity.

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“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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Capgemini

JANUARY 16, 2019

The death evolution of the department store. During 2018, there was no shortage of media headlines descanting on the shift in the retail landscape from “bricks” to “clicks.” Only this time, another retail staple fell victim to our ever-changing shopping behavior – the department store. We saw the likes of House of Fraser, Debenhams, and John Lewis struggle to keep afloat, with announcements of store closures, profit warnings, and CVAs.

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Dell EMC

JANUARY 16, 2019

In deep learning applications, FPGA accelerators offer unique advantages for certain use cases. In artificial intelligence applications, including machine learning and deep learning, speed is everything. Whether you’re talking about autonomous driving, real-time stock trading or online searches, faster results equate to better results. This need for speed has led to a growing debate on the best accelerators for use in AI applications.

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QBurst

JANUARY 16, 2019

Non-stop advancements in web technologies have reshaped web applications in amazing ways. From simple frames with images, links, and decorated text, web apps have evolved into complex computer programs with client and server code. Modern web apps are powered by rich client-side processing and for this, there is one ubiquitous tool (JavaScript), which also gets […].

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