Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Discover how Agile principles transformed wildlife conservation efforts in the Maasai Mara to protect both ecosystems and communities. The post Adapting in the wild: Agile’s unexpected impact on conservation first appeared on Agile Alliance.
CIO
OCTOBER 15, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. The IDC IT Strategy Framework provides a structured approach for CIOs to align IT initiatives with business goals, ensuring that technology investments drive organizational success.
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The Crazy Programmer
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Malware or malicious software brings significant threats to both individuals and organisations. It is important to understand why malware is critical for software developers and security professionals, as it helps to protect systems, safeguard sensitive information, and maintain effective operations. In this blog, we will provide detailed insights into malware, its impacts and other prevention strategies.
Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 14, 2024
How to ensure your executive team avoids these workplace culture chokepoints So, you’re ready to build a stronger workplace culture. You want your executive team energized, engaged, and doing work that matters. Maybe you’ve even rolled out a few new initiatives, held a town hall, or added some fun team-building or perks. That’s a good start. But here’s the thing: Shaping culture is like crafting a story.
Xebia
OCTOBER 15, 2024
This year, I had the pleasure of speaking at NDC Oslo. I got to deliver a session on a topic I’m very passionate about: using different forms of generative AI to generate self-guided meditation sessions. You can read about it in XPRT Magazine #16. The day before the conference, I attended a community event in an attempt to unwind. At that event, I met one of the organisers of NDC Oslo.
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Ruby on Rails
OCTOBER 15, 2024
We’re excited to announce updates to our maintenance policy for Ruby on Rails. These changes are designed to provide clarity on our support timelines and help you plan your Rails upgrades effectively. You can find the full details of our new policy in our site. New Maintenance Policy Overview Our support is now divided into three categories: New Features We aim to release a version containing new features every six months.
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Leveraging advanced technology in today's cyberthreat landscape is no longer optional — it's imperative. At Palo Alto Networks, we've pioneered the integration of AI-driven solutions specifically designed to empower security teams and enhance operational efficiencies. Our latest innovation, the AI Copilots , stands at the forefront of this revolution.
Xebia
OCTOBER 18, 2024
This summer, Databricks announced the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog. This creates the opportunity for combining lightweight tools like DuckDB with Unity Catalog. In this post, we’ll dive into how you can integrate DuckDB with the open-source Unity Catalog, walking you through our hands-on experience, sharing the setup process, and exploring both the opportunities and challenges of combining these two technologies.
CIO
OCTOBER 14, 2024
These days, it’s a true badge of honor to be considered a transformational CIO. Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.
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
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It’s been hard to browse tech headlines this week and not read something about billions of dollars being poured into data centers. The world’s largest asset manager, Blackstone Group , reportedly plans to invest $8.2 billion to develop data centers in Spain. Energy and data center company Crusoe Energy Systems announced it raised $3.4 billion dollars in debt financing — and reportedly will raise an additional equi
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 16, 2024
This post was co-written with Lucas Desard, Tom Lauwers, and Sam Landuydt from DPG Media. DPG Media is a leading media company in Benelux operating multiple online platforms and TV channels. DPG Media’s VTM GO platform alone offers over 500 days of non-stop content. With a growing library of long-form video content, DPG Media recognizes the importance of efficiently managing and enhancing video metadata such as actor information, genre, summary of episodes, the mood of the video, and more.
Xebia
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Zero Trust, Network segmentation By default, Kubernetes networking is not secure. All network traffic is open and all containers are accessible over the network. One container can connect to every other container in the cluster freely. Every port is open for ingress and egress traffic. This is fine if you trust everybody in your environment but not so fine if your environment is shared with multiple teams across your organization.
CIO
OCTOBER 15, 2024
For IT leaders working in the public sector, tailoring your resume for private-sector opportunities can be challenging. That was the problem Christina Sewell, CIO at a government agency, encountered in considering next steps for her career. With over two decades in technology and leadership roles, Sewell, whose identity has been anonymized for this article, was confident her skills and experiences would transfer but felt that her resume might not stand out for industries outside the public secto
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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.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
It was a mixed bag for Web3 funding last quarter, although investors in the rocky sector the past few years will probably take that. Web3 startups raised $2 billion in just more than 300 deals last quarter, per Crunchbase data. The dollar number represents a 43% increase from the $1.4 billion raised by such startups in Q3 last year, but a 13% decline from Q2 of this year — which represented the third consecutive quarter of upticks in the sector.
Palo Alto Networks
OCTOBER 16, 2024
In the Unit 42 Threat Frontier: Prepare for Emerging AI Risks report, we aim to strengthen your grasp of how generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape. We explore how attackers are leveraging GenAI to support their efforts, and how you can formulate appropriate guardrails and protections for your organization. With this knowledge, you'll be better equipped to fully leverage this powerful technology without creating unnecessary risk.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
OCTOBER 17, 2024
With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe , a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation.
CIO
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Creating opportunity is key to fostering diversity in the tech industry — and that’s what IBM is aiming to do in partnership with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. Together, the organizations have brought Spanish-based IT learning courses to the Latino community through IBM’s SkillsBuild platform, creating new pathways to careers in technology. IBM SkillsBuild is a free online learning platform that gives students and job seekers access to self-paced digital courses to learn new skills, earn cer
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Nine companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September, including one that took just three months since its founding to reach a $5 billion valuation. All told, the Unicorn Board now includes just shy of 1,550 companies and $5.2 trillion in value. Four of the new unicorns are U.S. based, two are from India, and there is one each from Japan, Germany and Chile.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 14, 2024
In the fast-evolving world of software engineering, one of the most transformative innovations is the combination of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines with cloud hosting. This powerful integration has revolutionized the way developers deploy, test, and update software, allowing for faster delivery, improved scalability, and enhanced collaboration.
Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Leverage Agile Alliance resources to enhance your current role and unlock new job prospects. The post Unleash your career potential with Agile Alliance first appeared on Agile Alliance.
CIO
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The charges, filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and made public on Wednesday, claim that Jain and his co-conspirators deceived the SEC by creating a fictitious certifier, “Uptime Council,” to falsely verify his firm’s data center
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Crunchbase News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
It has been sluggish on the M&A front in most sectors all year — and cybersecurity is no different. However, on Thursday New York-based data security startup Cyera bought data loss prevention firm Trail Security for $162 million. Trail had been backed with more than $35 million of funding from the likes of Lightspeed Venture Partners , CRV and Cyberstarts.
Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This article will show you how to use GenAI from your browser to create and run a microservice in about a minute. Here is what you'll learn: Provide a prompt to a cloud-based microservice appliance, and you get a system with a running database, a web app, and an API. Collaborate with stakeholders using the web app. Iterate instantly, to get the requirements right.
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 18, 2024
BMC CEO Aman Sayed is predicting that as the global economy after several years continues to stabilize, there are now enough signs to suggest the company year will see a wave of growth that will require IT teams to start shifting gears now if they hope to be prepared to meet new challenges.
CIO
OCTOBER 18, 2024
AI continues to shape cloud strategies, but AI implementation is going slower than most predicted. This is frustrating for technology providers who have made big bets on AI. What’s going on? A recent survey conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Red Hat polled 609 IT managers across the United Kingdom and other major markets. More than 80% of IT managers reported an urgent AI skills shortage, mainly in areas such as generative AI , large language models (LLMs), and data science.
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GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.
Ooda Loop
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Researchers have made a discovery that could make quantum computing more compact, potentially shrinking essential components 1,000 times while also requiring less equipment. The research is published in Nature Photonics.
InnovationM
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In today’s global marketplace, web applications need to be accessible to users from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Building multi-language support (also known as localization and internationalization) into React applications is a critical step toward making your web apps ready for a global audience. This blog will walk through the concepts of localization and internationalization in React, including some hands-on code examples, and touch on how frameworks like Angular and Vue.js
DevOps.com
OCTOBER 16, 2024
A recent survey by StackOverflow showed that 76% of professional developers are already using or planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools for development this year. If you haven’t yet evaluated and chosen an AI coding assistant for your team, you may quickly find yourself in the minority.
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