Fri.Mar 27, 2020

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How Small Businesses Can Survive COVID-19

CEO Insider

If you own or manage a small business today, you most likely are concerned about the health and welfare of your employees, customers, and your business itself. The whole world seems to be fighting this dreaded pandemic, and the future for all of us is cloudy at best. So what can a small business do […].

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Secure Connectivity is The Only Connectivity

Palo Alto Networks

The mobile workforce has been growing over the years, but recent events, like COVID-19, have led to a sudden increase in remote workers, with many companies not prepared or able to quickly adopt technologies to securely enable the transition. . For companies seeking to securely connect and scale remote workforces – either temporarily or for the long haul – one option to consider is a cloud-based service.

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How Leading Companies Support Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

This week, Kentik hosted a virtual panel with network leaders from Dropbox, Equinix, Netflix and Zoom to discuss how they are scaling their infrastructure and services to accommodate the unprecedented growth in network traffic during COVID-19. Avi Freedman, Kentik co-founder and CEO, moderated the discussion. He was joined by: Alex Guerrero, Senior Manager of SaaS Operations at Zoom.

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Lead Remote Meetings that Get Results and Build Relationships

Let's Grow Leaders

Even after social distancing ends, remote meetings are here to stay. In this episode you’ll get several ways to ensure that your remote meetings are the best use of everyone’s time – including how to take advantage of technology to do […]. The post Lead Remote Meetings that Get Results and Build Relationships appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Startup Aims to Manufacture Ventilators Using 3D Printers

DevOps.com

A startup company is in the early stages of building a proof-of-concept that would allow local hospitals to employ 3D printers to manufacture ventilators and other medical equipment to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Veritx president James Regenor said company executives have already been involved in use cases in which the military has used 3D […].

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Akamai Extends Scope of DevOps Integrations

DevOps.com

Akamai today extended its DevOps strategy to provide tighter integrations with continuous integration/continuous (CI/CD) platforms and IT automation tools such as Terraform from HashiCorp. In addition, Akamai is adding support for serverless computing functions to Akamai EdgeWorkers, a JavaScript-based framework through which application logic can be executed on the edge of the Akamai content delivery […].

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Fundraising in the Time of COVID: A TechSoup Roundup

TechSoup

These are certainly strange days. People are sheltering in place and taking a much closer look at their finances in case of sickness and emergency. It just doesn't seem like the right time for business-as-usual nonprofit fundraising — and it probably isn't. But not so fast, says Ben Miller, chief analytic officer of DonorTrends and secretary of the Growth in Giving Initiative, a program of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

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Laying the Foundation for a Successful Digital Future

DevOps.com

Digital infrastructure is under mounting pressure from a variety of powerful technology trends. Whether that pressure stems from DevOps, the cloud, AI, mobile or big data, almost every organization is looking to the future with an eye on modernizing their mission-critical IT systems. Unfortunately, the challenge of future-proofing IT infrastructure is often exacerbated by the […].

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Solutions To Common Remote Work Issues During COVID

scruminc

Solutions To Common Remote Work Issues During COVID. by JJ Sutherland | March 27, 2020 | Blog. Two of the clients I have been working with this week have interestingly similar issues, despite being in radically different industries. One client is military, a strategy group rather than a warfighting force. The other is a major player in the healthcare industry. .

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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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Dell Technologies Named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for HCI

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies is pleased to announce that thanks to our fantastic customers, Dell EMC HCI has been recognized as a March 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI). There is nothing more important to us than our customers, and so our team understandably takes great pride in this distinction. In its announcement, Gartner explains, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is a recognition of vendors in this market by verified end-user professionals

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Trigent recognized as Top Cloud Consultants 2020

Trigent

The numerous possibilities in adopting cloud services in your business can sometimes be overwhelming. Here at Trigent, our vision is to help businesses realize the full potential of cloud , irrespective of their maturity stage in the cloud journey.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 27th, 2020

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Awesome explanation of how to build a PID controller to fly a rocket! ( BPS.space via Orbital Index ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this kind of Stuff can't happen. You are that important to the fate of the intelligent world. Know someone who wants to understand the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them.

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Kaseya VSA Launches New Agent Procedure Editor

Kaseya

Remote monitoring and endpoint management tools, like Kaseya VSA, automate IT processes and auto-remediate IT incidents by executing scripts —“agent procedures,” via agents installed on the endpoint. Automation frees up technicians’ time and helps speed up resolution of IT issues. VSA makes it easy for users to create IT automation scripts with its built-in Agent Procedure Editor.

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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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Top 3 Challenges to Data Science and Machine Learning Adoption in Insurance

Dataiku

In its 2019 CIO Agenda: Insurance Industry Insights, Gartner cited increased interest in the industry to move toward data science and machine learning use cases. Now more than ever in today’s landscape, this shift is critical; but the change does not come without challenges.

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The Future Of Requirements Management Amidst The Spread And Aftermath Of Covid-19

CEO Insider

COVID-19 is affecting people and businesses all over the world and will most certainly impact the global economy in ways we still can’t even begin to imagine. Certain paradigms will shift for the rest of our lives. Some companies have found it hard to transition to a Work-From-Home (WFH)-friendly environment. In a matter of one […].

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Baker’s Half Dozen — Special Edition

Dell EMC

If you’ve got questions about this episode, or a question you’d like Matt to answer in the next episode, comment below or tweet Matt using #BakersHalfDozen. Amidst this time of social distancing and WFH, we created a quick Special Edition of the #BakersHalfDozen. We talk about virtual coffee breaks, barking dogs, and digital makeup. Be safe and be good to one another!

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Agile From Afar: Staying Present When You Can’t Be Present

Gorilla Logic

As I (finally) sat down to write this post, I got to thinking about where we were three weeks ago and where we are today. Three weeks ago, I had plans to fly to Costa Rica for meetings—today I am holed up in my home while stores are rationing toilet paper. Two weeks ago when I walked my dog, I had to look both ways while crossing our busy street. Today, no cars are in sight.

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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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COVID-19 Response - A Letter from Our CEO

Arista

As a leading supplier of cloud networking equipment globally, Arista plays a critical role in supporting the cloud communications and computing infrastructure that will keep the world running during these difficult times. The rapid acceleration of Covid-19 developments across the world has been sudden and shocking. It has forced us to take a new perspective on gratitude for what we have, including our families, health and an opportunity to rethink our goals.

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Think HPC Shops Just Have Supercomputers? Think Again

Dell EMC

From supporting AI workloads to providing access to hybrid cloud services, today’s HPC shops are expanding the definition of high performance computing. For IT shops focused on delivering high performance computing services, the pace of evolution has accelerated in recent years. It’s in high gear as HPC shops have taken on roles and responsibilities that go far beyond the operation of supercomputers for limited numbers of scientists and engineers.

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How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Hub

Confluent

Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […].

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[Webinar] How Open Source Made Me a Better Manager

Synopsys

Learn about management practices inspired by open source principles, such as allowing the best ideas to guide the team, no matter who brings them up. The post [Webinar] How Open Source Made Me a Better Manager appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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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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COVID-19: Securing newly remote users and admins by extending zero trust

Edgewise

The global COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of workers to become remote employees, with very little time to prepare. Naturally, the first priority for IT is to ensure everyone has remote access and the tools they need to work from home. But such a rapid move from working in an office to working remotely creates serious security concerns that IT needs to address as soon as possible.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

How adaptive are you? It’s an important question on this journey. Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. The information system (IS) of the future supports this approach and delivers an abundance of innovative services in record time.

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[eBook] Expanding your Patient Base without Breaking the Bank

Daffodil Software

According to “National Health Expenditure”, spending growth of hospitals is projected to accelerate to 5.7% per year on average over 2020-27 due to increase in spending growth of all payers (and medicare in particular). Also contributing to faster growth over 2020-27 is somewhat higher price growth arising from expected increases in wage growth and tighter labour markets for healthcare professionals.

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Industrial and agile: How to be both?

Capgemini

Six recommendations for building a distributed Agile model. There is a common myth that Agile teams can only be efficient if all (100%) members are onsite and in-house. But according to the Annual State of Agile Report [1], 78% of organizations practice Agile with distributed team members. Furthermore, 68% of organizations practice Agile with multiple co-located teams, collaborating across geographic boundaries.

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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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4 Tips to Lead an Effective Marketing Campaign for Your Store

Strategy Driven

Executing an excellent marketing campaign is even more critical for brick and mortar retail stores than it is for other types of businesses, such as those that operate solely online. With the majority of American consumers now buying their shopping over the internet, retail stores need to be able to keep up with the market by creating an efficient advertising strategy.

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March Hackness 2020 Post Game Report

Security Innovation

There’s no better way to put it - March Hackness 2020 was a slam dunk! The CMD+CTRL Cyber Range community shattered records of our previous quarterly events including most participants, most points scored, fastest time to solve all challenges (under 2 hours!) and many more. Many thanks to everyone that participated for choosing to spend three days with us!

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Why Your Business Needs an Online Presence

Strategy Driven

There are many ways available to market your business. Discovering which media is best to reach your customers takes patience and research. Some of the most popular avenues to explore today involve the internet and social media. Here are a few reasons to try online marketing. Bigger Audience. Your Orlando web design gets more views from around the world than an article in the paper will.