March, 2023

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The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity

DevOps.com

Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […] The post The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Winning Agile friends in your organization

Agile Alliance

Learn how to effectively promote Agile to your organization by tailoring your message to your audience The post Winning Agile friends in your organization first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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SVB: When Silly Valley Sneezes, DevOps Catches a Cold

DevOps.com

In this week’s #TheLongView: Silicon Valley Bank and what it means for DevOps. Your salary is safe, but who’s to blame? The post SVB: When Silly Valley Sneezes, DevOps Catches a Cold appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: A ChatGPT Special Edition About What Matters Most to Cyber Pros

Tenable

Since ChatGPT’s release in November, the world has seemingly been on an “all day, every day” discussion about the generative AI chatbot’s impressive skills, evident limitations and potential to be used for good and evil. In this special edition, we highlight six things about ChatGPT that matter right now to cybersecurity practitioners. 1 - Don’t use ChatGPT for any critical cybersecurity work yet Despite exciting tests of ChatGPT for tasks such as finding coding errors and software vulnerabiliti

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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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Why data leaders struggle to produce strategic results

CIO

Chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) are poised to be of increasing strategic importance to their organizations, but many are struggling to make headway, according to data presented last week by Gartner at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023. Fewer than half (44%) of data and analytics leaders say their teams are effective in providing value to their organization.

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Powerful Phrases to Deal With a Credit Stealer or Idea Thief

Let's Grow Leaders

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right there. She took ALL THE CREDIT! The really infuriating thing is that she had NOTHING to do with that project.

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CorePlague: Severe Vulnerabilities in Jenkins Server Lead to RCE

Aqua Security

Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a chain of vulnerabilities, dubbed CorePlague , in the widely used Jenkins Server and Update Center (CVE-2023-27898, CVE-2023-27905). Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's Jenkins server, potentially leading to a complete compromise of the Jenkins server.

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What DevOps Leadership Should Look Like

DevOps.com

Implementing DevOps has become a major focus, but the practice’s attempt to provide organizational support and streamline production systems simultaneously leaves developers with no clear hierarchical structure. We know we need DevOps and we know it helps, but we also know that without proper leadership or structure, it can be misunderstood and undervalued.

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What Is Dumbing Us Down?

CEO Insider

At a party in rural Virginia, I listened as three military retirees carried on about the horrors of government and taxes, never stopping to think that every penny they earned came from government taxes. What is dumbing so many people down? This could be the question of our age, to answer before it’s too late. […] The post What Is Dumbing Us Down?

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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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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle

CIO

Diversity is critical to IT performance. Diverse teams perform better, hire better talent, have more engaged members, and retain workers better than those that do not focus on diversity and inclusion, according to a 2020 report from McKinsey. Despite this, women remain widely underrepresented in IT roles. And the numbers back up this assertion, often in stark ways.

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Salesforce Ventures targets new $250M fund at generative AI startups

TechCrunch

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.” The cloud software giant, via its Salesforce Ventures VC off-shoot, today announced a $250 million generative AI investment fund, which it said has already invested in four startups: search engine upstart You.com, which introduced generative AI smarts a few months back; Anthropic, a heavily VC-backed AI startup from for

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Don't Be a Big Box Nonprofit: 3 Steps to Better Donor Relationships

TechSoup

For years, many book lovers felt that Barnes & Noble was the epitome of a soulless big box store. The store prioritized cost and efficiency over readers while putting many local, independent bookstores out of business. Then Amazon supersized this approach and put Barnes & Noble on the brink of bankruptcy as the pandemic began.

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What Is a Large Language Model, the Tech Behind ChatGPT?

Dataiku

The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in December 2022 has drawn an incredible amount of attention. This curiosity extends from artificial intelligence in general to the class of technologies that underpins the AI chatbot in particular. These models, called large language models (LLMs), are capable of generating text on a seemingly endless range of topics.

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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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Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head

DevOps.com

A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […] The post Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head appeared first on DevOps.com.

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World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023

CEO Insider

Which companies have the strongest reputations within and across industries? That’s the question at the heart of the CEOWORLD 200 Most Influential and Innovative Companies, an annual ranking of corporate reputation based on a poll of some 125,000 global corporate executives, company directors (or equivalent), business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and financial analysts […] The post World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023 appeared first on CEO

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AI and automation will play an increasing role in technology

CIO

By Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group This article is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. It is clear that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation have been growing exponentially in use—across almost everything from smart consumer devices to robotics to cybersecurity to

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After bootstrapping for 15 years, energy renovation company Effy raises $22 million

TechCrunch

Effy is at a crossroads. The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. That’s why it is making a bet. The company just closed a €20 million funding round (roughly $22 million at today’s exchange rate) from Felix Capital. This is the first external funding round for the company.

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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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SRE vs. Platform Engineering vs. DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and DevOps are all related concepts around optimizing and giving structure to different aspects of the software delivery and software deployment lifecycles.

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Uniting the Machine Learning and Data Streaming Ecosystems - Part 1

Confluent

The future of data is real time and enriched by machine learning. How can we overcome socio-technical blockers and unite the ML and data streaming markets?

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Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […] The post Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Cleantech Revolution is Finally Here

CEO Insider

We’ve heard it for decades. We have been ‘on the brink’ of a clean industrial revolution seemingly forever. It never came. Now it’s here and, as always, driven by government policy. The threat from climate change has been the subject of conversation, activism, and often aggressive debate for decades. It has successfully laid solid foundations […] The post The Cleantech Revolution is Finally Here appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets. The Data Governance Institute defines it as “a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models which describe who can take what actions with what inf

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Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe

TechCrunch

PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent weeks despite the market slump, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart. Walmart, which owns the majority of PhonePe, has invested $200 million into the startup.

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What if the future of our businesses depends upon our ability to be un-business-like?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets? Today’s guest post is by Dr. Robert H. Lengel, author of A Place For T: Giving Voice To The Tortoise In Our Hare-Brained World (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

Next Level Blog

For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle, or much more useful, a timely pull-up on recent performance, performance management conversations are a fact of corporate life.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Debunking Myths About Reliability

DevOps.com

“Our service should always be up.” Some myths just won’t die. Engineering for reliability is well understood by engineering leaders, less so by bosses demanding unreasonable uptime with minimal resources and immense feature pressure. Business leaders tend to waffle between ignoring reliability with a hand wave and freaking out after an outage. How can they […] The post Debunking Myths About Reliability appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Cloud Takes Center Stage at 2023 Bank Automation Summit

Perficient

Recently, I attended the 2023 Bank Automation Summit , where one of the significant topics of discussion was how banks navigate their transition to the cloud. The “cloud” refers to a global network of servers, each with a unique function, that works in tandem to enable users to access files stored within from any approved device. The computing and storage of cloud data occur in a data center, rather than on a locally sourced device.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Early in her life Ricki J. Koinig saw the immense impact that technology could have on individuals and their ability to move through life. To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. Those early professional experiences in tech ed coupled with an opportunity to move to Europe brought her into the IT realm.

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