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3 emerging trends tech leaders should watch

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Analysis of the O’Reilly online learning platform reveals a new approach to technical architecture, the rise of blockchain, and shifts in programming language adoption. Keeping up with technology can be a daunting task for tech leaders. Each year, to make the task a little easier, we analyze behavior on the O’Reilly online learning platform , using the platform as a massive sensor that yields insights and identifies areas tech leaders should pay attention to, explore, and learn.

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The Effective Organization of the Future

Net Objectives

The future is here today for a very few organizations. It’s no longer a question of what to do, it’s a question of getting there. By looking at the characteristics of these select organizations we can gain insights into what we have to do to help our own organizations. One thing is clear however, we … Continue reading "The Effective Organization of the Future".

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Why Hybrid IT Is the Best of Both Worlds

Dell EMC

When Henry Ford famously declared, “You can have any color you want as long as it’s black,” the world wasn’t used to the endless personalization options we have today. These days almost anything can be customized to fit your specific needs – including your organization’s IT infrastructure. Which is why you’re unlikely to hear, “You can run your workloads anywhere you want, as long as it’s in the cloud.

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Are You Treating Team Communication Like Pornography?

Let's Grow Leaders

Unclear expectations for team communication kill productivity. When we work with leaders to help them build more effective organizations, we do a quick assessment of their team communication. Let’s check in on your team: How would you answer the following two questions? […]. The post Are You Treating Team Communication Like Pornography? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Seven Essential Traits of a Change Agent

Change Starts Here

Over the last ten years, I’ve worked with a lot of change agents with varying types of authority, expertise, roles, and projects. And even though every situation is different, those who are most effective at getting things done tend to exhibit common traits. When coaching individual change agents, I find we work on building these […].

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Revenue-Based Financing in VC: A Study on Playing Averages Over Home Runs

Toptal

Revenue-based financing allows an entrepreneur to repay an investment over time, to retake ownership of their business, and give a capped return to investors. With founders increasingly rejecting the scale-at-all-costs mentality, this article investigates the math of revenue-based investing and whether in VC it is possible to play averages over home runs.

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Study: CISOs Need to Take Charge of DevOps Security

DevOps.com

A new report from CyberArk looks at the complexity that goes into securing emerging DevOps environments, and why CISOs need to take charge to protect them. As digital transformation is pushing more enterprises to adopt DevOps to address their needs for better software delivered faster and more frequently, a huge issue lingers over this strategic […].

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Why You Don’t Need Design Education

Toptal

For decades, a design diploma was the golden ticket to career opportunity. As this path now faces scrutiny, we examine the issues plaguing design institutions and offer radical solutions for change.

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Dell EMC Data Domain Announcements – Expanded Multi-Cloud Capabilities, Enhanced Performance

Dell EMC

Dell EMC, the market leader in the Data Protection Appliance & Software Market, is introducing significant improvements to the performance, cloud expandability and flexibility to the Data Domain portfolio of physical and virtual appliances. Specifically, the release of Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) 6.2 delivers faster instant restore and recall from the cloud, an expanded public cloud ecosystem, along with more efficient capacity management for long-term retention in the cloud from p

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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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Smart Node.js Form Validation

Toptal

Bulletproof data validation is fundamental to implementing a back-end API. Find out how datalize, a Node.js library, makes this easy—and formats your data nicely, too.

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OverOps Employs Machine Learning to Measure Application Reliability

DevOps.com

OverOps is adding a series of dashboards to its analytics platform that employ machine learning algorithms to identify which software application anomalies in a pre-production environment are likely to have the most impact on a production environment. Company CTO Tal Weiss said one of the biggest challenges DevOps teams face is prioritizing which issues to […].

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The 3 black holes to avoid in agile development

TechBeacon

Agile has been "the new way" for many years, with many organizations deciding to go agile because of compelling evidence of shorter project lead times, more efficient teams, less stress, happier customers, and shorter time-to-market. What business wouldn't want that?

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Tech Support Scams Now Get Users to Install Potentially Unwanted Apps

Symantec

Tech support scammers’ new trick is to get users to install potentially unwanted apps instead of calling a support hotline.

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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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Cloud Enabled, High Performance, Simple to Use – Continued Innovation Keeps Dell EMC Data Protection Appliances on Top

Dell EMC

Dell EMC’s relentless focus on continued innovation is why customers see Dell EMC as a partner, rather than just a vendor, and stay with us for the long term. Dell EMC delivers simply powerful data protection that scales as our customers’ data grows and provides the flexibility our customers need as their environment and data protection needs evolve and increasingly move to the cloud.

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How to manage full-spectrum DevOps that spans multiple clouds

TechBeacon

DevOps is evolving to ensure seamless release pipelines for applications and infrastructure across cloud computing environments.

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Is Information Security the Right Profession for Me?

Linux Academy

Wondering if information security is the right profession for you? Great question! I’ve been working in information security for many years and have had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles. In this post, I’ll fill you in about some of the available jobs in information security and what it takes to succeed in each one. First off, there are many different jobs within information security.

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SauceCon Speaker Profile: Titus Fortner

DevOps.com

This is the third in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2019. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 23-25 in Austin, Texas. The […]. The post SauceCon Speaker Profile: Titus Fortner appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Rebecca L. Sutton Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Watch highlights from expert talks covering cloud-native programming, software architecture career advice, and more. People from across the software architecture world are coming together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Architecting IT transformation. Gregor Hohpe explains how software architects can use what they know about technical systems to help refactor organizations.

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FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Crawling

Flexagon

This is the third article in our series on what makes FlexDeploy a perfect fit for Oracle E-Business Suite users. In this blog article I will walk through the core components of FlexDeploy, which enable the basics of build and deployment automation. I will demonstrate how to build and deploy Oracle E-Business Suite customizations across. Read more. The post FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Crawling appeared first on Flexagon.

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Employee Spotlight – Bob Salmans, Security Training Architect

Linux Academy

Our Training Architects are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of online learning and helping professionals become cloud and Linux experts! Hear from one of our Security Training Architects, Bob Salmans, below and see why he loves working at Linux Academy. He also just released his first Linux Academy Course: CompTIA PenTest+ Certification ! What are you currently listening to?

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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 Countries Are Adapting Their Laws to Accommodate Machine Learning

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Pace Hadder, a tech writer. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing the world’s governments to try and keep up with the inherent changes. Apart from being the topic of countless science fiction novels, comic books, and movies, the many practical applications of AI include assisting accountants in menial data-crunching tasks, intelligent warehousing and factory automation, accurate financial analysis, predicting medical outcomes , and much more.

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Symantec is Delivering a Better Way Forward

Symantec

Watch Symantec President and CEO Greg Clark discuss what we’re seeing and where we’re going as the world’s leader in cyber security

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Living on the Edge: What You Should Know About Edge Computing

Digital Realty

One of the biggest trends in networking and IT infrastructure of late is edge computing.

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Public Relations

DevOps.com

The post Public Relations appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Thinking Beyond Budget Cuts: Operating an Efficient K-12 District with a Talent Management System

PowerSchool

One district saves up to $70,000 per year by streamlining record-keeping processes. Dwindling budgets and resources put pressure on K-12 superintendents and CFOs to do more with less. In seeking creative ways to streamline operations while maintaining the quality of student education, many school and district leaders have invested in automated K-12 talent management systems. .

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Leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier Storage for Backup and Replication

Megaport

How Veeam and Megaport services enable smart network architectures for backup and replication. The VeeamON 2018 conference in Chicago brought with it the announcement of a range of new features from Veeam, one of the world’s leading data management providers. These additions centered around the Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 which now has general availability as of 22 January 2019.

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Datical Concludes 2018 with a 94 Percent Increase in Annual Subscription Revenue

DevOps.com

Leader in Database Release Automation Continuous Yearly Momentum, Expanding the Company’s Customer Base by 30 Percent AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 5, 2019 – Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, closed 2018 increasing annual subscription revenue by 94 percent and growing its customer base by 30 percent. Year over year, Datical continues to see […].

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