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How Cloud Security Influences IoT Security

Xebia

I keep on finding security issues at IoT vendors cloud services, and that saddens me. That is why I joined Xebia to learn more about cloud security and help IoT vendors to fix security issues with their cloud infrastructure. The default security of our IoT devices are improving. The cloud services behind the devices are not. These cloud services are used to control the devices and collect all data, so securing this is very valuable.

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The fury of OKRs

Agile Alliance

Objectives and key results are in vogue all over. And while they can certainly be valuable, unfortunately, bad practices have run wild in the world of OKRs. The post The fury of OKRs first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Introduction to Cloud Custodian

DevOps.com

Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […].

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CodeSOD: Clever And Or Not

The Daily WTF

The transition from Python 2 to Python 3 has been a long running challenge. Arguably, too long running, but those are the challenges when you introduce breaking changes into a widely used language. Now, one of those breaking changes was around string handling and encoding- Unicode versus ASCII. This meant that, if you wanted code to run on both versions of Python, you'd need to check which version you were on to handle encodings properly.

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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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4 Cybersecurity Tips for Nonprofit Staff

TechSoup

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is our favorite time at NortonLifeLock because it is an opportunity to share our expertise with others. I know many of us see ads about protecting our personal information, but what I don't see is information about why this is so important for nonprofits and libraries.

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Comprehensive Security for Your Unstructured Data

Dell EMC

Learn just a few of the reasons why Dell PowerScale and ECS are the world’s most secure scale-out NAS and object storage solutions.

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What transformational leaders too often overlook

CIO

High-performing CIOs know that digital mastery depends on a strong foundation of rock-solid infrastructure, information security, enterprise data management, and sound IT governance. But for all the emphasis on cutting-edge technology for business transformation, IT infrastructure too often gets short shrift. Infrastructure, what happens behind the IT screen, and related support activities remains poorly understood, underappreciated, and mismanaged in 89% of enterprises today, according to a rec

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Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8

TechCrunch

Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This comes a day after Elon Musk completed the company’s takeover after a lengthy ordeal late Thursday. Incidentally, the delisting is taking place on the same date as the U.S. midterm elections. “The New York Stock Exchange hereby notifies the SEC of its intention to remove the entire class of the stated securities from li

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Trivy Now Supports NSA Kubernetes Compliance

Aqua Security

Trivy, the all-in-one open source security scanner, can scan your Kubernetes cluster as well as its running workloads for security issues. Trivy also has a native Kubernetes Operator for complete Kubernetes security posture management. These capabilities were covered in detail in our previous blog post Vulnerability Scanning: Trivy vs the Trivy Operator.

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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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Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications

DevOps.com

Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […].

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5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

CIO

It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure. After all, an ERP system streamlines, standardizes, and integrates a wide range of vital business processes across diverse business functions. Implementing an ERP solution ranks among the most capex-intensive projects any IT leader will undertake.

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Neoplants bioengineers houseplants to use them as air purifiers

TechCrunch

Meet Neoplants , a French startup that is designing genetically modified houseplants so that they can absorb air pollutants. The startup’s first plant, the Neo P1, works hand in hand with the company’s own microbiome located in the soil near the plant roots. Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently captured by traditional air purifiers.

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Piano Lessons, LEGOs, and Digital Transformation

TechBeacon

In my teenage years, I tried to learn how to play the piano. I already played an instrument quite well and wanted to study music in college. Try as I might, I never mastered more than enough to pass my classes. Indeed, many people struggle with the instrument.

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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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Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data

DevOps.com

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference this week, Mezmo launched an Observability Pipeline platform that promises to make it simpler to manage, enrich and correlate machine data. Previously known as LogDNA, Mezmo is expanding the scope of its reach to add the ability to augment and analyze data on top of its core […]. The post Mezmo Adds Observability Pipeline to Analyze DevOps Data appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The data flywheel: A better way to think about your data strategy

CIO

This article was co-authored by Duke Dyksterhouse , an Associate at Metis Strategy. Data & Analytics is delivering on its promise. Every day, it helps countless organizations do everything from measure their ESG impact to create new streams of revenue, and consequently, companies without strong data cultures or concrete plans to build one are feeling the pressure.

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3 VCs explain how founders can stand out when pitching

TechCrunch

Venture capitalists get flooded with startup pitches, which can make it difficult for founders, especially those building in crowded categories, to stand out. While every investor is looking for something different, there are ways founders can improve their chances of getting noticed. Speaking at last weeks’ Disrupt 2022 conference, investors Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins; Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures; and Jomayra Herrera, partner at Reach Capital, said t

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Article: Green IoT for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability

InfoQ Culture Methods

The growth of IoT has resulted in improving connectivity amongst devices worldwide. Green IoT represents the energy efficient procedures adopted by IoT devices to achieve a sustainable and safer world. In order to green the IoT, it will be necessary to use less energy, look for new resources, reduce the negative effects of the IoT on human health, and cause less environmental disruption.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux. The post Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

CIO

A transformer, teambuilder, and trailblazer, Michelle McKenna founded her executive advisory firm, The Michelle McKenna Collaborative, after spending 10 seasons as the National Football League’s first-ever CIO and its first female C-level executive. Those are just two of the many “firsts” McKenna has accomplished over the course of her career, which has also included executive leadership roles at Disney and Universal Orlando Resort.

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54gene CEO steps down as the company looks to cut more jobs

TechCrunch

54gene co-founder and chief executive officer Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong has stepped down from his executive role, the African genomics company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The three-year-old company has appointed General Counsel Teresia L. Bost as interim CEO. She will be supported by Chief Operating Officer Delali Attipoe , the company said. Ene-Obong, on the other hand, will retain his position on 54gene’s board while moving to a new role of senior advisor.

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Security Advisory: Upcoming Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability

Aqua Security

This is a developing story. Updates will be amended as new information and guidance becomes available. The OpenSSL project has pre-announced a new and critical severity vulnerability that will be fixed in OpenSSL version 3.0.7, expected November 1, 2022.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum

DevOps.com

A survey of 93 developers conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found more than a quarter (28%) are using WebAssembly (Wasm) in their cloud-native development projects, with another 36% planning to do so during the next six to 12 months. The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% […]. The post CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Episode 3: The Data Imperative for Financial Services

CIO

The move to digital business has wrought profound changes in certain industries, and financial services is one of them. Not only are traditional financial services companies using data and technology to change the game, a plethora of “FinTech” startups are using digital products to dislodge traditional players. This podcast features Peter Ku. Vice President, Chief Industry Strategist for financial services for Informatica.

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Latin American founders see VC funding drop as investors retreat from underrepresented cohorts

TechCrunch

The latest Crunchbase data shows that Latin American-founded companies in the United States raised $250 million out of the $39.85 billion allocated in venture funds in the U.S. this Q3 — or about 0.63%. 1 The Q3 sum is a sharp decrease from the $2.3 billion the cohort raised in Q3 last year and a dramatic decline from the $1.3 billion raise in Q2 this year.

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Avoiding the Kubernetes Cost Trap!

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes has engulfed the Developer community with its popularity. It’s still a wonder offered on a silver platter (as it is open-source). The increasing Kubernetes costs come as no surprise when it has set the de facto standard of container orchestration. Yet, here we are talking about putting curbs on our Kubernetes bills. There’s a key differentiator to think through these costs – is it spending or wasting resources?

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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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How to Prepare Your Website for the 2022 Giving Season

TechSoup

With nearly 30 percent of annual giving occurring in December, all nonprofit organizations should already be preparing for a successful end-of-year fundraising initiative.

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Alphabet pins hopes on Google Cloud as ad revenue growth declines

CIO

Alphabet on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected numbers for its third financial quarter, where it fell behind both revenue and profit expectations. While overall revenue growth slowed to 6% in the quarter for Alphabet, Google Cloud grew 38% year-on-year to $6.9 billion, giving the company much needed support. “I’ve long shared that cloud is a key priority for the company,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO at Alphabet, while addressing analysts on Tuesday, according to a transcript from Motley Fool.

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How to raise funds when you aren’t in the Bay Area

TechCrunch

Perhaps sitting perched somewhere in sunny Miami, Florida, is a founder wondering the best ways to fundraise for a company when situated outside a traditional tech hub like the Bay Area. They need not worry. Last week, Mike Asem from M25, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund and Accel’s Rich Wong answered that question at TechCrunch Disrupt. The consensus of the venture capitalists was that remote work accelerated the trend of VCs looking at emerging markets, founders and companies throughout the

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