Fri.Dec 11, 2020

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What to expect while fundraising in 2021

TechCrunch

Russ Heddleston. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Russ is the co-founder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe and Trulia. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsend. More posts by this contributor. What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020.

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4 Ways to Find the Fun and Fight the Slog

Let's Grow Leaders

The days blend in to one another and morale begins to drop… If you and your team are facing an endless horizon…of stressful work, of remote work with the family just off camera, or and endless project, it’s vital that you are […]. The post 4 Ways to Find the Fun and Fight the Slog appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup taking Berlin by storm, has raised $44M Series A

TechCrunch

Gorillas , a grocery delivery startup that operates its own hyper local fulfillment centers and has already been a hit in Berlin, has raised $44 million in Series A funding. Probably one of European tech’s worst kept secrets this year, the round is led by hedge fund Coatue, with participation from other unnamed European investors. Coatue’s Daniel Senft and Bennett Siegel will join Gorillas‘ board.

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Speed and Security: How to Find a Balance in Development

DevOps.com

Time management can help developers realize the necessary combination of security and speed in application development As software continues to create competitive advantages and market differentiation for organizations focused on successful digital transformation, developers will continue to be measured by how fast they can develop and release code.

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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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In public and private markets, cloud earnings and valuations heat up

TechCrunch

This quarter, strong earnings results from public cloud companies were overshadowed by a seemingly endless IPO cycle. Another moment we somewhat missed over the last few weeks was the stock market pushing the value of public cloud companies to all-time highs. These events are connected. And they bode well for startups working on SaaS and API-delivered software, which are keeping the climate for cloud venture investment warm and valuations stretched by historical norms.

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Cosmos Video – a ‘Club Penguin for adults’ to socialise and work – raises $2.6M from LocalGlobe

TechCrunch

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’? Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. It has now raised $2.6m in seed funding LocalGlobe with participation from Entrepreneur First, Andy Chung and Phillip Moehring (AngelList), and Omid Ashtari (former President of Citymapper).

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The Future of Banking is Connected: 5 Top Trends to Watch Out For in 2021

Newgen Software

The past year has hit the reset button on how organizations across industries function on a day-to-day basis. Banks have always been early adopters of technology, and the pandemic has only further accelerated their digital initiatives. Let’s take a sneak peek into the future of banking with five key trends that are predicted to revolutionize […].

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Don’t miss these breakout sessions at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

Ready to blast off and join thousands of attendees around the world at TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17? The event, focused on space technology and dedicated to helping early-stage startups succeed in this exciting yet daunting industry, features panel discussions and interviews with the top leaders, visionaries and makers on the planet. Want to save $50?

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3x better performance with CDP Data Warehouse compared to EMR in TPC-DS benchmark

Cloudera

In a previous blog post on CDW performance, we compared Azure HDInsight to CDW. In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to EMR 6.0 (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Amazon using the TPC-DS 2.9 benchmark. Amazon recently announced their latest EMR version 6.1.0 with support for ACID transactions.

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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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In&motion raises $12 million for its wearable airbag systems

TechCrunch

French startup In&motion has raised a $12 million (€10 million) funding round led by Upfront Ventures with 360 Capital also participating. The company has been working on wearable airbag systems for motorbikes. Integrated in a vest, the airbag is completely autonomous and can detect crashes in 60 milliseconds. The company has worked on a device called the In&box that analyzes movements in real time.

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2020 Data Impact Award Winner Spotlight: Merck KGaA

Cloudera

The Data Security and Governance category, at the annual Data Impact Awards, has never been so important. Consider for a moment, just how much 2020 brought about for businesses to deal with. The sudden rise in remote working, a huge influx in data as the world turned digital, not to mention the never-ending list of regulations businesses need to remain compliant with (how many acronyms can you name in full?

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General Catalyst’s Katherine Boyle and Peter Boyce are looking for ‘obsessive’ founders

TechCrunch

General Catalyst has made early bets on some of the biggest companies in tech today, including Airbnb, Lemonade and Warby Parker. We sat down with Katherine Boyle and Peter Boyce, who co-lead the firm’s seed-stage investments, to discuss what they look for in founders, which sectors they’re most excited about and how business has changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CRN 2020 Hottest Cybersecurity Products Include CN-Series Firewall

Palo Alto Networks

We’re proud to announce that CRN lists the CN-Series container firewall one of the hottest cybersecurity products of 2020. CN-Series is the industry’s first containerized Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) designed specifically for Kubernetes environments and addresses growing container usage. According to a Forrester Consulting study conducted on behalf of Capital One, “ Cloud Container Adoption in the Enterprise ,” 86% of IT leaders are prioritizing the use of containers for more applications.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Building Apps to Address Food Insecurity in the US and Beyond

TechSoup

Last year, the UN reported that nearly 2 billion people did not have regular access to nutritious and sufficient food — about a quarter of the world's population. The current pandemic, unfortunately, has only exacerbated the issue of food insecurity. In fact, more than 80 percent of food banks are serving more people now than they did a year ago.

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7 Free Google Cloud Training Resources

ParkMyCloud

If you’re looking to break into the cloud computing space, or just continue growing your skills and knowledge, there are an abundance of resources out there to help you get started, including free Google Cloud training. If you know where to look, open-source learning is a great way to get familiar with different cloud service providers. . With the combined knowledge from our previous blog posts on free training resources for AWS and Azure , you’ll be well on your way to expanding your cloud expe

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Covid Data: An anomalous blip, or the new normal?

Cloudera

COVID-19 has forced virtually every industry to embrace an acceleration in digital capabilities. While it can be argued that digital transformation was already underway; it’s hard to dispute that it has accelerated in recent months. A recent McKinsey survey, cited in CRN , shows that worldwide, 58 percent of customer interactions were digital as of July 2020.

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A Spotlight on Podman

Dzone - DevOps

Containerization is more than just the way forward. It is now the norm rather than the exception; all new apps are designed to leverage cloud-native features, with microservices running in containers. Containerization has enabled applications to run with immense efficiency and scalability, but the use of containers is not without its challenges. Until very recently, the most prominent container engine was Docker.

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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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AIOps is the oxygen for your data: 4 steps to get started

TechBeacon

Your application portfolio is probably distributed between the platforms you own or rent and subscription services. The requirements of managing the health and availability of those services are complex, and may seem overwhelming. But emerging AIOps capabilities that intelligently augment and support your technology teams are changing that.

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A Tale of Two Migrations

Dzone - DevOps

Within an enterprise, there are services (systems really) that are widely popular, offer just what you need, and are easy to use. There are also systems, which for years the organization tries to decommission but they have so many applications depending on them, so many strings attached, it seems impossible. Often, it's the same system, at different points in time.

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Downloads Of Industry-Standard Axe-Core Digital Accessibility Rules Hit 100 Million

DevOps.com

Open Source Downloads Grow Tenfold in Under Two Years, Suggesting Expanding Need for Digital Accessibility Testing HERNDON, VA – December 11, 2020 – Deque Systems, the trusted leader in digital accessibility, announced today that axe-core, the most accurate and widely used open source library of accessibility rules, has exceeded 100 million downloads, growing at a rate of more than 4 […].

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Deploy from CodePen to Netlify in less than 30 seconds

Netlify

Welcome to Blogvent, day 12! CodePen is one of our favorite places to experiment, prototype, and build fun web projects. Deploying a Pen to Netlify is super speedy, and a great way to get your projects live on your own domains for all to see! It took longer to write this blog post than it took to take a Pen and deploy it to Netlify. It was so fast, in fact, that we recorded it: First, export your Pen to a ZIP file.

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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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Delivering and Receiving Constructive Feedback: How and Why

CO2 Business Leadership

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” – Bill Gates By: Gary Cohen Secret Formula to Receiving Feedback It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. Most leaders believe this (spoiler alert), and they would be absolutely wrong!

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CCNP Enterprise Certification

Gitprime

To earn the CCNP Enterprise certification, candidates will need to pass just two exams: a core exam and an enterprise concentration exam of their choice. Learn how to prepare, today!

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Hands Off Serverless Deployments

Stacks on Stacks

How AWS deploys in waves and what to think about when planning your deployments On day two of #reinvent2020 I watched and tweeted a lot about an awesome talk by @clare_liguori on the AWS Container Services team about hands-off deployments. It’s now available to stream on-demand. Goal of balancing safety and speed is used throughout examples, geared toward microservices but perfectly applicable to server-based deployments. pic.twitter.com/sYekQlYv9R - Ryan Coleman (@ryanycoleman) December 2, 2020

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An Insider’s View of Data-Driven Business Transformation in the Nordics

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Home to over 27 million people and comprising five sovereign countries including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, I find the Nordics to be one of the most interesting and innovative regions in the world. Its unique geography is diverse with Lapland’s conifer forests, Norway’s fjords, and Iceland’s volcanic landscape contrasting sharply with cosmopolitan Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, and Stockholm.

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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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Security Paradigm Changes and What’s New with Nutanix Flow

Nutanix

As IT is at the forefront of how modern businesses operate and even differentiate themselves, it should be no surprise that those that seek to disrupt, steal, or profit from malicious activity are also improving and changing their technology and approach.

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Technology Blazes a Path for Hiring in a National Teacher Shortage

PowerSchool

A national teacher shortage continues, confirmed by our 2020 PowerSchool TalentIndex Research Report. We just released this year’s survey, and it reveals that over half of respondents currently need more teachers, while nearly two-thirds say they’ll need to boost hiring in response to a substitute teacher shortage this year. Hiring quality teachers remains a high priority.

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Time-limited Privileged Access Management: The Path To Zero Trust

Saviynt

Ernest Hemmingway said, “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is… The post Time-limited Privileged Access Management: The Path To Zero Trust appeared first on Intelligent Identity and Smarter Security - Saviynt.

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