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Leadership for an Era of Dynamic Hybrid Work

IDC

The shift to hybrid work fundamentally challenges traditional leadership strategies. Focus on empathic leadership for success in the future of work.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

TechCrunch

Scott Kirsner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Startups need to live in the future. They create roadmaps, build products and continually upgrade them with an eye on next year — or even a few years out.

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How to Navigate a Code Freeze [Event]

Agile Alliance

The post How to Navigate a Code Freeze [Event] first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Fintech VC keeps getting later, larger and more expensive

TechCrunch

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. As a result, fintech — one of its hottest and most-funded sectors — is evolving in a similar manner. For late-stage fintech companies, it’s great news. But for smaller players, is the shift toward bigger, more mature rounds undercutting their ability to attract capital and reach scale?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Creating Introvert Friendly Workplaces – Interview with Jennifer Kahnweiler

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, Jennifer Kahnweiler, PhD, a “champion for introverts” gives you practical tools to build an environment that brings out the best from every employee – particularly your introverts. We discuss what exactly that means, why it matters so much, common […]. The post Creating Introvert Friendly Workplaces – Interview with Jennifer Kahnweiler appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Army picks DataRobot for AI project

CTOvision

The Army has turned to a small artificial intelligence firm to explore how it might use AI to resolve issues with its financial data. Working with the Defense Innovation Unit and […].

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How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business

TechCrunch

DoorDash filed to go public today, publishing numbers that showed rapid growth , enhanced profitability and an improving cash flow record which helped explain how the company had grown to a $16 billion valuation while private. The unicorn’s impending liquidity event will enrich a host of venture capital firms that bet on its eventual maturity.

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Larry Ellison Wants It All—Can Oracle Get It?

CTOvision

Read Bob Evans take a look at Larry Ellison’s cloud strategy for Oracle Corporation on Cloud Wars : In what was billed as an introduction to Oracle’s new CX strategy, […].

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DoorDash files to go public

TechCrunch

After filing earlier this year , DoorDash dropped its public S-1 filing this morning, bringing clarity to its numbers and moving it closer to a public debut that should happen before the end of the year. The company is one of several startups that we expect to see IPOs from before the year ends, despite some recent market chop and election chaos in the United States.

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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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Digital Guardian rolls out Ryuk Ransomware Protection Content Pack to detect and defend against rising Ryuk ransomware attacks

CTOvision

Digital Guardian, a globally renowned company in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR), has developed a new Ryuk Ransomware Protection Content Pack to detect and defend […].

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Update: Springtide, an autism treatment center network, raises $18 million

TechCrunch

With one in 54 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the U.S., the issue of how to treat patients diagnosed with the condition has become almost as acute as the prevalence of the condition itself. That’s one reason why Jia Jia Ye and the team at the healthcare startup studio Redesign Health were able to raise $18 million in a recent round of funding for the new startup, Springtide Child Development.*.

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Qlik Continues Buying Spree with Blendr.io Deal

CTOvision

Qlik Technologies, the private equity-owned business intelligence software and visual analytics vendor, continued its acquisition spree with a deal for Blendr.io, a Belgian-based embedded platform services vendor. Terms of the transaction […].

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Bonus: An extra week to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

When you’re laser-focused on reaching beyond the stars, it’s hard to remember more earthly, mundane tasks. That’s why we’re giving you an extra week to score early-bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17). So, to all you harried, procrastinating visionaries: take a breath, relax a bit and buy your pass before November 20 at 11:59 p.m.

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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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How Low Code Is Transforming Software Development

DevOps.com

Low code/no code is a business catalyst enabling technologies to automate processes and allowing developers to create real-time solutions for their business. With low code, businesses are able to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. In this interview, Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter explains how low code is transforming software development and […].

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T-minus 24 hours left to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

We’ve initiated the final countdown, and we’re just hours away from the deadline for early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17). It’s your last chance to grab the first of many opportunities this two-day conference provides. Purchase your early-bird ticket today before the offer expires tonight at 11:59 p.m. (PT). Let’s talk about the opportunities at TC Sessions: Space.

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21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon

It's a strange time. We work from home. Political messages have invaded our social media. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

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NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million

TechCrunch

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 million fund, according to SEC filings. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal. The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former invest

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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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Node isConnected

David Walsh

Every so often I discover a property in JavaScript objects that I didn’t know existed, oftentimes using another trick to accomplish the same functionality. One such property I just learned about was isConnected , a node property that attached to a context (i.e. document ). Here’s how to use Node.prototype.isConnected : const el = document.createElement('div'); el.isConnected; // false document.body.appendChild(el); el.isConnected; // true.

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Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital. Getaround’s raise signals that the company is looking for new ways to secure cash without further diluting executives or investors.

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Survey Sees Pace of IT Investments Continuing

DevOps.com

A survey based on responses from 230 IT operations and DevOps executives in the U.S. and UK with at least 500 employees and $5 million in annual IT budgets published this week indicates large enterprises are continuing to make IT investments despite the downturn in the economy brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the […]. The post Survey Sees Pace of IT Investments Continuing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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6 Tips to Make Your 2020 Giving Tuesday Campaign a Success

TechSoup

This has been a challenging year for many nonprofits in the midst of a global health emergency and economic fragility. This has impacted nonprofit operations with many offices being closed, plus the additional impacts on their donors and volunteers. In the midst of these unusual circumstances, what will Giving Tuesday look like this year?

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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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Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate Program

DevOps.com

The Linux Foundation this week made an addition to its professional certificate program that trains IT professionals on the fundamentals of best DevOps practices. Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux Foundation, said the goal is to increase the number of IT professionals that have been exposed […].

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Citrix sets new standard for Digital Workspace Security

CTOvision

The rapid move to the cloud and remote work prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic are creating dynamic work environments that promise to drive new levels of productivity and innovation. But […].

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Intel Readies Gold oneAPI Image

DevOps.com

Intel this week said a gold image of its oneAPI for unifying infrastructure as code will be available starting next month. Jeff McVeigh, vice president of data center XPU products and solutions Intel, said the goal is to provide a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing the compute capabilities of any processor regardless of […].

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Forecasting for Retail and CPG in 2020

Dataiku

While the backdrop of 2020’s global health crisis and economic uncertainty makes heading into the holiday season quite unlike years past, the U.S. is still slated to drive online sales growth. According to eMarketer , both Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days are positioned to surpass $10 billion in e-commerce sales, with their projected totals up 39% and 38% from last year, respectively.

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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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Kanbanize Enables Instana to Accelerate Growth and Improve Value Delivery Across Distributed Engineering Teams

DevOps.com

Sofia, Bulgaria, November 12, 2020 – Kanbanize, a digital Kanban platform solution for Agile project management, and Instana, a leading provider of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions for cloud-native and microservice applications, today announced that Instana’s global engineering team accelerated growth and achieved process stability through applied Kanban practices powered by Kanbanize.

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Advanced Testing Techniques for Spring Kafka

Confluent

Asynchronous boundaries. Frameworks. Configuring frameworks. Apache Kafka®. All of these share one thing in common: complexity in testing. Now imagine them combined—it gets much harder. This is the final blog […].

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Laying the foundational requirements for cloud security

Gitprime

Kevin L. Jackson—CEO of CC Globalnet, a globally recognized cloud computing thought leader, and an (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional instructor—delves into the actions for keeping data safe in the cloud.

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