CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New projects can elicit a sense of trepidation from employees, and the overall culture into which change is introduced will reflect how that wariness is expressed and handled. But some common characteristics are central to AI transformation success. Here, in an extract from his book, AI for Business: A practical guide for business leaders to extract value from Artificial Intelligence , Peter Verster, founder of Northell Partners, a UK data and AI solutions consultancy, explains four of them.

Artificial Intelligence

IDC

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Let's face it: The sad-but-true reality of modern cybersecurity is that doing what lots of organizations do means you're probably doing something wrong. You need to do it better.

How To

Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This time of year, I like to talk about updating the data strategy for the new year to include new business goals and new technology and in doing so I sometimes forget that there are still many companies that do not have a data strategy to update. What is a Data Strategy and why do I need one? Most organizations have multiple data management initiatives underway including master data management, data governance, data migration, data modernization, OLTP operational data cleanup, data ingestion, a

Strategy

Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Discover how the dynamic duo of Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes exemplifies Agile leadership by valuing individuals and interactions, inspiring a blueprint for impactful team guidance. The post Agile leadership lessons from Andy Reid: empowering individuals to score big first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

Virtualization

Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Improvements in communications technology have led an increasing number of teams that work in a Remote-First style, a trend that was boosted by the forced isolation of Covid-19 pandemic. But a team that operates remotely still benefits from face-to-face gatherings, and should do them every few months. Remote-first teams have everyone in a separate location, communicating entirely by email, chat, video and other communication tools.

Travel

Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never understood what “APM” means. Anybody can tell me what it stands for—Application Performance Monitoring (or sometimes, the M means Management)—but what does it mean ? What do people use APM for? Now, I work at an observability company—and still, no one can give me a satisfying definition of “APM.

Metrics

CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Amid disruptive leaps in technology, leaders who will succeed in the near future, say experts, are the ones who stay focused on a decidedly low-fi resource: their employees. CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

Leadership

Mentormate

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

User story mapping is a powerful framework designed to streamline communication, clarify project scope, and identify dependencies within Agile teams. Developed by Jeff Patton , this framework offers a structured approach to organizing tasks and fostering collaboration among various stakeholders. At its core, user story mapping guides teams, especially business analysts, product owners, and product managers, in defining and dissecting user steps to achieve product goals.

Agile

Samanage

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hey, The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here – GoBuildr is now LIVE! ? ? Create ultra-lightning-fast websites, sales funnels, eCommerce stores, and more in less than 60 seconds, with just a keyword! ? Say goodbye to the limitations of traditional page builders. GoBuildr combines the functionality of 16 different tools into one powerful app, supercharged with AI-assisted technology.

eCommerce

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

Data Engineering

A List Apart

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured out, everything will change. Just as you start to get the hang of feedings, diapers, and regular naps, it’s time for solid food, potty training, and overnight sleeping. When you figure those out, it’s time for preschool and rare naps.

Software Review

Kentik

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In my last post , I explored the reasons why Kentik recently built and released an all-new network monitoring system (NMS) that includes traditional techniques like SNMP along with more modern methods of collecting telemetry like APIs, OpenTelemetry, and influx. For this article, we’ll jump right into getting set up in Kentik NMS , from installation and configuration to a brief tour of what you can expect from Kentik’s new network monitoring solution.

Linux

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results. One of the most frustrating aspects of teamwork is the feeling of futility – of spinning your wheels. You connect with one another, establish clear success criteria, get curious, and build on one another’s suggestions, but nothing happens. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes.

Meeting

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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

Testing

Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It’s no secret that we’re experiencing a transformational moment in history, characterized by the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and cloud-native paradigms along with the emergence of 5G. This transformative era presents an unprecedented opportunity for businesses of all sizes to supercharge their business models.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Less than a year ago, Kentik became the first network observability platform to integrate PeeringDB – delivering better database usability, visibility into common footprint and traffic ratios between customer networks and other ASNs, and more. Building on this milestone, we’ve taken our integration a step further by integrating PeeringDB data into Kentik Data Explorer.

Data

CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Before the popularization of DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Chat GPT, very few business executives were tasking technology leaders with accelerating AI strategies. That’s all changed. Now, Gartner estimates that by next year, 35% of large organizations will have named a Chief AI Officer reporting to a CEO or COO. And by 2033, the same study predicts that AI solutions will result in more than half a billion net new human jobs.

Company

Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Infrastructure planning made simple.

Infrastructure

Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Dan Gray On Aug. 20, 2011, Marc Andreessen published the definitive manifesto for a generation of technologists and investors, with “ Why Software Is Eating the World.” It kicked off an era of immense enthusiasm for software startups, coinciding with a period of historically low interest rates. The pace of investment accelerated over the next decade, and without sifting too finely through recent history we can reflect back on a quote from Andreessen’s essay: “Too much of the debate is still a

Software Review

Kentik

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A plan to migrate to streaming telemetry It’s essential for engineers to develop a migration plan. As new network devices are rolled out slowly or en masse during the next major hardware refresh, we can expect many, if not all, new devices to support streaming telemetry. Network operations needs to be ready to support streaming telemetry from new devices, but it also needs to support SNMP from the legacy devices that haven’t been replaced yet.

Metrics

CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the

Artificial Inteligence

Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dell Technologies and VMware by Broadcom reaffirm their dedication to VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail.

Cloud

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

Artificial Inteligence

AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a complex language that requires an understanding of databases and metadata. Today, generative AI can enable people without SQL knowledge. This generative AI task is called text-to-SQL, which generates SQL queries from natural language processing (NLP) and converts text into semantically correct SQL. The solution in this post aims to bring enterprise analytics operations to the next level by shortening the path to your data using natural language.

Artificial Inteligence

Confluent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Apache Kafka 3.7 introduces updates to the Consumer rebalance protocol, an official Apache Kafka Docker image, JBOD support in Kraft-based clusters, and more!

CIO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Generative AI offers great potential as an interface for enabling users to query your data in unique ways to receive answers honed for their needs. For example, as query assistants, generative AI tools can help customers better navigate an extensive product knowledge base using a simple question-and-answer format. But before using generative AI to answer questions about your data, it’s important to first evaluate the questions being asked.

Generative AI

Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.

Backup

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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

Government

AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), improving tasks such as language translation, text summarization, and sentiment analysis. However, as these models continue to grow in size and complexity, monitoring their performance and behavior has become increasingly challenging. Monitoring the performance and behavior of LLMs is a critical task for ensuring their safety and effectiveness.

Artificial Inteligence

Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Conspicuous, controversial and notorious is the Chines unwillingness to participate in global benchmarking list of the world's most power supercomputers. So, the "top 500" list goes out - with the U.S. on top. The lack of participation by the Chinese then fuels rumors that they in fact possess capabilities that transcend all the participants in the global benchmarking lists.

Hardware

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To survive in the Paleolithic Age, you had to be able to hunt and gather. In the Agrarian Age, thriving meant being able to farm. In today’s post-Industrial Age, you will need to master artificial intelligence. Full stop – end of conversation. Well, “master” might not be the right word. Like outrunning the proverbial lion, you will need to be better than the next guy at AI to be competitive in this day and age.

Artificial Intelligence