Wed.Mar 25, 2020

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Digital Business in the Time of COVID-19

OverOps

OverOps CTO Tal Weiss shares some thoughts on application reliability in a time of economic uncertainty and increased reliance on software. These are tumultuous times we live in. As of this post, almost a third of the U.S, and over a billion people around the world, are in virtual lockdown. Virtual not just because we are mostly limited to leaving our homes for performing only the essential activities required for everyday life, but also virtual in the sense that much of life has now gone online

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Storj Labs Unfurls Decentralized Storage Service

DevOps.com

Storj Labs has made generally available a distributed storage platform based on the excess capacity available on devices ranging from servers to individual desktops. Company CEO Ben Golub said the goal is to provide IT organizations with an alternative to storing data inexpensively using storage resources that have been vetted by Storj Labs. At the […].

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How MSPs can Use M&As as Part of Their Growth Strategy

Kaseya

The MSP space has been evolving since the day of its inception. The rise in demand for managed IT services by small and medium-sized businesses is all set to drive an unprecedented level of growth in the industry during the next five years. With growth opportunities slowing down in other technology sectors, many new players have turned their attention towards managed services.

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Quick Base Makes Free Low-Code Platform Available for First Responders

DevOps.com

Quick Base, a provider of a platform for building low-code applications, announced this week that it is making its platform available for free through Sept. 30 to first responder organizations that need to build applications quickly to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Jay Jamison, chief product and technology officer for Quick Base, said it’s apparent first […].

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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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How to Secure Your Kubernetes Deployments

CTOvision

Read Gadi Naor’s article about securing your Kubernetes deployments against cyberattacks on Dark Reading : At a time when almost every company is to some degree a software company, digital transformation and cloud adoption are not just strategic but critical to enterprise success. Whether companies were born into the cloud or are just setting foot […].

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Tech Giant GE Discloses Data Breach After Service Provider Hack

CTOvision

Fortune 500 technology giant General Electric (GE) disclosed that personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries, was exposed in a security incident experienced by one of GE’s service providers. GE is a multinational operating in a wide range of tech segments including aviation, power, healthcare, and renewable energy, and it is […].

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Security Advice for Government Agencies in the Age of COVID-19

Tenable

As COVID-19 drives many government agencies to quickly migrate from a centralized to remote workforce, new cybersecurity questions arise. Here are steps government agencies can take to manage these new cyber risks. . Formerly office-bound employees are using personal devices in today’s necessity-driven remote work environment, introducing new BYOD challenges.

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How to secure customer data for SaaS success

CTOvision

Read Robert C. Johnson explain how SaaS companies can secure customer data on Help Net Security : Recently, some of the biggest names in SaaS have experienced customer support data breaches. With data playing an important role in the success of customer support, companies must ensure information security is top of mind to build relationships […].

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New Relic Gives COVID-19 Relief Agencies Free 90-day Access

DevOps.com

New Relic will provide free access to the entire New Relic One observability platform for 90 days to any organization engaged in COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts that have a specific benefit to the public. Erin Dieterich, director of corporate social responsibility at New Relic, said it’s apparent that the IT platforms of both nonprofits and […].

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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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Guarding Your Enterprise Cloud Phone System Against Cyber Attacks

CTOvision

Read Michael Usiagwu explain how you can protect your enterprise cloud phone system against cyber attacks on Infosec Magazine : IP telephony has been popular among companies looking to transform their voice communications or make their existing communications systems more unified, but also need to ensure that they are secure. Since using a PBX or VoIP […].

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Best places to work in tech: 5 lessons for dev, ops, and security

TechBeacon

The average application developer earns $138,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Information security analysts can score $123,400 in the New York City region. And systems and network administrators command an average of $107,600 in San Jose, California.

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Infrastructure cyberattacks biggest concern for global IT security leaders

CTOvision

For all the worries and heartburn that critical IT networks cause for IT security leaders, the security concerns can be even greater for operational technology (OT) networks used in industry, according to a new study conducted of 1,000 IT security pros. In an interesting finding, some 74% of the survey’s global respondents reported they are […].

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Security tips to support remote work due to the coronavirus

DXC

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and related social distancing rules and guidelines, an ever-increasing number of companies are closing their offices and implementing work from home policies. For some workers and companies, remote work is already routine. For others though, this is uncharted territory. Many workers who previously worked exclusively from an office suddenly […].

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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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Mobile App Development Cost In Dubai – Building Powerful App In Your Budget

Xicom

The first and foremost question when starting a digital startup is the app development cost. How much should be the initial investment to develop an excellent app and then scale it to business worth billions? The mobile application market shows no signs of stopping and nowadays, more and more app development company. Naturally, more and more people are researching the most asked question – “How Much Does App Development Company Cost to Develop A Mobile App In Dubai”.

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CodeSOD: An Ugly Mutation

The Daily WTF

If there’s a hell for programmers, it probably involves C-style strings on some level. C’s approach to strings is rooted in arrays, and arrays are rooted in pointers, and now suddenly everything is memory manipulation, and incautious printf and memcpy commands cause buffer overruns. I'm oversimplifying and leaving out some of the better libraries that make this less painful, but the roots remain the same.

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Sound Logic and Monotonic AI Models

Toptal

For those working with AI, the future is certainly exciting. At the same time, there is a general sense that AI suffers from one pesky flaw: AI in its current state can be unpredictably unreliable.

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Dataiku and DataIQ: Q&A With Florian Douetteau

Dataiku

Today, Dataiku’s CEO Florian Douetteau was listed as part of the DataIQ 100 for the fourth consecutive year. The recognition, which profiles the most important and influential data and analytics practitioners in the U.K., affirms Florian’s commitment to enabling enterprises to build their own path to AI.

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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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Building the business case and roadmap for transformation

Capgemini

In the digital era, CIOs of large enterprises face a fundamental dilemma: they must both perform – increase operational excellence, reduce costs, and make existing systems faster – and transform – move the company to digital business models, enhance the customer experience, enable always-on innovation, and become more agile. Making the shift from IT that just drives down costs to IT that also drives business value is what separates the leaders from the laggards in the digital world.

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H2Miner Botnet – Act 2

Lacework

Containers are gaining popularity as malware deployment mechanisms in the cloud. Beginning on Valentine’s Day, one malicious container started making its rounds and has steadily expanded to over 350 infections. The malware and infrastructure have been attributed to the “H2Miner” cryptomining botnet which was last reported in January propagating via a Redis RCE: New Outbreak [.].

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Why the Buzz on Software-Defined Everything (SDx)?

DevOps.com

You’ve likely heard the buzz getting louder the last few years around software-defined everything (SDx). You’re probably finding a swarm of companies knocking on your door selling a host of services around implementing software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined storage (SDS) and software-defined data center (SDDC). What you may not realize is that this software-defined movement is […].

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Securing Remote Work Adoption Growth

SecureWorks

Securing Remote Work Adoption Growth Adversarial testing identifies security gaps before threat actors can exploit them, and with the rapid expansion of remote working practices, our Adversary Group is ramping up to help. Adversarial testing identifies security gaps before threat actors can exploit them, and with the rapid expansion of remote working practices, our Adversary Group is ramping up to help.

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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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Collaborating On Front Line Against Coronavirus

Planbox

I’ve had the great privilege to connect with most of our customers this week to discuss their priorities and concerns amid the coronavirus outbreak, and more importantly, to get feedback on their most pressing requirements and challenges; in all my conversations, the one thing that kept coming to to mind was a quote I’ve always liked: “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford.

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How to Set Up Netlify DNS - Custom Domains, CNAME, & A Records

Netlify

You’ve created a Netlify account to host your website, chosen your preferred deployment method, and now you want to configure your custom domain name. How you configure your domain name impacts both how people will find your site, but also what kind of site performance they will experience when they visit. In this article, based on a 2017 post by Mathias Biilmann, we’ll dive into what we currently recommend and why.

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Tips for working from home without losing your marbles or compromising security

Synopsys

Our longtime remote employees have some tips for working from home to keep you sane, and your company’s assets secure, during a strange, stressful time. The post Tips for working from home without losing your marbles or compromising security appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Enterprise Agile DevOps Platform, Jile™, is Now Available Free to Agile Teams Worldwide

DevOps.com

Jile is committed to helping Agile teams stay connected and deliver better software by offering a free one-year subscription for up to 50 users March 25, 2020: Jile™ is an enterprise Agile DevOps platform from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that enables software teams to manage, automate and measure the end-to-end software delivery value stream from […].

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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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Building One of the World’s First MEC Solutions

Dell EMC

While Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is not dependent on 5G, and 5G is not dependent on MEC, there are clear synergies between the 5G architecture enabling decentralized deployment and MEC enabling new services and experiences. MEC will be a key enabler of future growth for telecoms operators as they roll out 5G services in the next few years. Although the discussion on edge computing is clouded by hype and at times misinformation, we are starting to see real examples of edge computing being

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An AWS & Stackery Webinar You Won’t Want to Miss

Stackery

We’re thrilled to share that registration is officially open for a fantastic April webinar from AWS and Stackery. This is your chance to hear the firsthand story of serverless application modernization from telecom quoting company, MasterStream ERP. Our very own Ecosystems Director, Farrah Campbell, will be taking part in this fireside chat-style conversation with AWS’ Santiago Cardenas (Serverless Partners Technical Lead) and MasterStream ERP’s VP of Engineering, Matthew Witt.

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Business Continuity Planning Checklist & Best Practices

RapidValue

The show must go on and so do the business! The recent COVID-19 outbreak has caused almost all organizations to deploy remote work strategies for their employees. Organizations have released contingency plans to their employees that include mandatory working from home. The key area to address from a technology perspective is the ability for all the employees to collaborate with their teams and customers while being able to access all the tools and business applications that they would need to ge