Mon.Sep 10, 2018

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CIOs Reveal Their Priorities for IT Transformation

Dell EMC

IT Transformation is hardly a new concept for CIOs and IT leaders. For more than a decade, they have sought to evolve their IT organizations from a support function to a true strategic partner that drives business competitiveness. Along the way, Dell EMC has been on the front lines of IT Transformation. We partner with IT and business leaders to close their IT Transformation gaps by developing project roadmaps that build infrastructure platforms, optimize application portfolios, and update the o

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Public Cloud Postcentralization is the Thin Edge of the Wedge into the Enterprise

High Scalability

Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. This issue—the deep nature of centralization—came up as a comment on my article What Do You Believe Now That You Didn't Five Years Ago?

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Why agile is not enough and why we need to expand our agile horizon for being agile truly

Agile Alliance

Jutta Eckstein explains what the Agile Manifesto means for company-wide agility and introduces a synthesis of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy, & Agile.

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13 Cloud Security Statistics To Know In 2019 (With 9 Best Practices)

Prisma Clud

The phrase “in the cloud” has become a household phrase – nearly as common as “browsing the web” and “surfing the net”. Why has cloud technology become so important? Cloud … Continue reading "13 Cloud Security Statistics To Know In 2019 (With 9 Best Practices)". The post 13 Cloud Security Statistics To Know In 2019 (With 9 Best Practices) appeared first on RedLock.

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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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The hidden driver of business agility

Agile Alliance

David Horowitz connects the hidden dots between the seemingly simple agile retrospective and employee voice, employee engagement, and business agility.

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Thing Three – The Power of Peer Coaching

Agile Alliance

In this video, William Kammersell shares the Thing Three agile peer coaching model and tips, tricks, and lessons he have learned over the last year using it.

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The 5G Race: China and U.S. Battle to Control World’s Fastest Wireless Internet

CTOvision

The next race in the tech arena has already begun – the 5G race! But who will emerge the winner? The United States or China? All the earlier telecom races started in the West largely driven by American and European tech companies with all other countries following suit. But the next era of 5G tech […].

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Hackathons, Avocados, and Coffee Shops: Facilitating Innovation Through Creative Events

Agile Alliance

Learn more about Yevgeniya Kopeleva's insights and mistakes from events that instilled the spirit of innovation while helping solve important business needs.

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Ways to Keep Your Employees Happy as a Manager

Women on Business

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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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Straight From the Investor’s Mouth: 111 Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs

Agile Alliance

Straight from the Investor's Mouth shares Mary Lemmer's lessons from her experiences at entrepreneur pitches, board meetings, fundraising sessions, and more.

Meeting 101
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Enterprise Blockchain Struggles To Carve Out A Niche

CTOvision

In a recent piece in Forbes, Jason Bloomberg captures some of the current challenges for blockchain solutions, and sheds light on what may be some of its most promising capabilities: Blockchain tech has been heralded as ‘revolutionary,’ with a promise to ‘change the world’ with decentralized, permissionless blockchain solutions. The tech promises a whole new […].

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The 30% of Your Organization That Isn’t Agile

Agile Alliance

Michael Ball suggests that applying agile practices to meetings and collaboration outside of development teams is key for organization agility.

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Object.freeze: Immutable Objects

David Walsh

One of my favorite part of JavaScript has always been mutability of objects. I loved that MooTools and likewise frameworks could modify native prototypes to enhance them with functionality we knew the language need; in fact, I credit MooTools with pushing the web forward. There are cases, however, where you don’t want an object to be modifiable; you don’t want values for existing properties to be changed, added, or removed.

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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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Better Lunches

Agile Alliance

Most people waste their lunches. Llewellyn Falco shared how to make better use of your lunch by networking better.

Network 101
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Use Cases From The Business History of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Siya Carla explains how past uses of IoT technology can benefit businesses in the future in a piece on Business: No matter how long a technology has been in the market, shaping it into a usable design, transforming it into a product or service and getting it accepted and used by customers is going to […].

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Stress Reduction Techniques

Career Advancement

“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.”. ~Marilu Henner~. Client Elias asks: I feel like my work performance is being compromised by stress. And carrying all that stress is exhausting—sooner or later, I feel like I’m just going to collapse.

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Software developers now more valuable to companies than money: so what is a board to do?

CTOvision

A full quarter-century into the era of the modern consumer internet, the C-suite is still grappling with the fundamental problem dubbed digital transformation. One reason this challenge is so pernicious is that it can’t be solved the way most transitions can, with money and management consultants. Instead, it requires the expertise of a new breed […].

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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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Java Integration with Amazon Cognito Developer Tutorial

Gorilla Logic

In this developer tutorial, we are going to learn how to make an integration with Amazon Cognito using the Amazon Web Services software development kit (AWS SDK) for Java by providing some code samples and documentation. We are going to leverage AWS to integrate authentication and authorization into a Java web application, in addition to using groups in Amazon Cognito user and identity pools to obtain temporary identity and access management (IAM) credentials in the application.

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5 Benefits of Outsourcing That Make Sense for Saas

UruIT

The SaaS industry has some unique challenges that can be overcome by these 5 benefits of outsourcing . Since we started in 2007, we’ve seen SaaS booming especially in the talent management, financial, commercial real estate and construction industries , and a new breed that’s exploring the advantages of AI and blockchain. But, no matter the industry, we have seen similar needs and concerns arise whenever we meet someone new in SaaS.

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Do You Have a Successful Company Culture Where Your People can Thrive?

CO2 Business Leadership

By: Thomas Schlick If you are like most leaders, you probably answered this question with a crisp, firm “yes!” But do you really? Lately, has it been hard to recruit, hire, and retain talented people? Have any of your star employees left the company for a better job? And when you wander through your company’s hallways, do you see your employees smiling, happy, and with a spring in their step?

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Three Steps to Cloud-Enabling YOUR Edge

Dell EMC

The edge computing frontier is a bit like the wild West—technology providers trying to stake their claim of the $70B+ edge computing opportunity (by 2022/2023 according to ACG Research), customers trying to figure how to move into this new territory, and the industry still needing to do considerable work to specify edge nomenclatures, standards and architecture blueprints.

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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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Increasing Your Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio with Hiring Managers

CodeSignal

Demand for technical talent is at an all-time high, and this trend shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. In this article, we’ll explore why an optimized recommendation-to-interview ratio can lead to a competitive advantage for your staffing firm. In fact, according to a report published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations.

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CodeSOD: Legacy Switchout

The Daily WTF

About a decade ago, I attended a talk. The speaker made the argument that "legacy code" may have many possible interpretations, but the practical view was to simply think of legacy code as "code without unit tests" Thus, the solution to modernizing your legacy code was to simply write unit tests. Refactoring the code to make it testable would have the side effect of modernizing the code base, and writing tests would act as documentation.

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Seize the PowerEdge Advantage and Accelerate Your Business

Dell EMC

Learn why top Dell EMC executives are so excited about all the opportunities offered by latest PowerEdge servers… In the second of two blogs based on our On the Road series of video interviews, top Dell EMC executives express their excitement about the new generation of PowerEdge servers. In these three short and very accessible videos, they give an overview of what it is that sets pioneering PowerEdge technology apart.

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Meet The Coach: Sunny Dhillon

Agile42

Q: How did you first start your agile path and end up coaching with agile42? In 2000, I began my career as a software developer working in investment banking. I wanted to create software that would make a positive impact on people’s lives. However, my frustration grew as I found myself building features that would either be cancelled or not be used because customers no longer saw the value.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Cloudera Data Warehouse – A Partner Perspective

Cloudera

Among the many reasons that a majority of large enterprises have adopted Cloudera Data Warehouse as their modern analytic platform of choice is the incredible ecosystem of partners that have emerged over recent years. In this new blog series, we will take a closer look at some of the most innovative partners, and how the Cloudera platform is helping them deliver groundbreaking solutions to our customers.

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VMworld 2018: A Dell EMC Storage Perspective

Dell EMC

The importance of transforming IT to thrive in today’s digital economy was a key theme at VMworld 2018 that concluded last week. We are hand in glove with our customers in their IT transformation journey. Our high end storage portfolio of Dell EMC PowerMax and XtremIO is helping customers to modernize their data centers, automate their IT processes and transform organizational dynamics.

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Why Senior Leadership Underestimates the Need for Management Practices Across the Organization

Six Disciplines

From the new landmark research study recently released from Six Disciplines, and detailed in this 30-page research paper, " 7 Key Findings About What Employees Say Drives Performance and Engagement ", survey results find that the #4 key finding about employee engagement is that senior management underestimates the need for management practices across the organization.