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The Rising Cost of Digital Incidents: Understanding and Mitigating Outage Impact 

DevOps.com

With a mean resolution time of 175 minutes, each customer-impacting digital incident costs both time and money. The industry needs to reset and revisit current processes so we can evolve and change the trajectory.

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Leadership Lessons from a NASA Tragedy

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson offers a window into NASA’s organizational challenges.

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How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI’s Real Carbon Footprint

Ooda Loop

Tech companies’ relentless push into artificial intelligence is coming at an undisclosed cost to the planet. Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are concealing their actual carbon footprints, buying credits tied to electricity use that inaccurately erase millions of tons of planet-warming emissions from their carbon accounts, a Bloomberg Green analysis finds.

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74% of IT pros see AI making their skills obsolete

CIO

AI’s long-term impact on the job market has sparked controversy and conversation — especially in tech. Whether AI is set to replace workers, augment jobs, or shift the necessary skillsets entirely , organizations — and IT pros alike — need to be prepared for an impending shift in how IT roles will be defined in the AI era and what skills will be needed going forward.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Startups Take Longer To Close Rounds, As Funding Cliff Looms

Crunchbase News

The time lapse between funding rounds for early-stage startups has reached the highest point in more than a decade. That was the finding from a Crunchbase survey of U.S. companies that raised Series A funding and went on to close a Series B. The median time lapse between rounds in 2024 was 28 months — by far the longest span since 2012. The average time between these rounds also hit a high of 31 months this year, which is tied with 2023.

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SSRFing the Web with the help of Copilot Studio

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact. Introduction In this blog, we take a look at a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Copilot Studio that leveraged Copilot’s ability to make external web requests.

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Why you should stop using your solar-powered power bank

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I've spent the summer testing solar-powered power banks. It turns out the devices are universally rubbish and potentially unsafe. Here's what to use instead.

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Five most asked questions by Certified Scrum Master training participants

Agile42

What are the KPIs for a Scrum Master? This is the million dollar question, isn’t it? The Scrum Master’s responsibility should be to focus on themes rather than specific KPIs. These themes include: Scrum Team : Coaching the team to enhance effectiveness. Product Owner : Supporting the Product Owner in improving their role. Organisation : Leading efforts to help the organisation adopt Agile and Scrum, including addressing organisational impediments.

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Consumer Electronics Is A Bust That Never Boomed

Crunchbase News

We usually think of a bust as something that comes after a boom. But that’s not always how it works. Take the consumer electronics industry. This year, funding to startups in the space continued to slump, even after several years of relatively flat investment. So far in 2024, American consumer electronics companies have secured less than $300 million in seed through late-stage investment.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

CIO

Digital transformation represented among the largest investments in technology to modernize businesses starting in the early 2000s. But the call for digital transformation really gained popularity after 2011 when Capgemini, in partnership with MIT, officially coined the term , defining it as “the use of technology to radically improve performance or the reach of businesses.

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Research shows DevOps plays a vital role in workplace efficiency

Agile Alliance

Research shows that DevOps enhances workplace efficiency by fostering collaboration, automating repetitive tasks, and improving both speed and productivity The post Research shows DevOps plays a vital role in workplace efficiency first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Research: How to Build Consensus Around a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

Previous research has found that new ideas are seen as risky and are often rejected. New research suggests that this rejection can be due to people’s lack of shared criteria or reference points when evaluating a potential innovation’s value. In a new paper, the authors find that the more novel the idea, the more people differ on their perception of its value.

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Changing the Face of Software Development Security: CodeOps

DevOps.com

CodeOps and GenAI are aligned: CodeOps treats code produced using GenAI as yet another source of code and focuses on solving the security and discoverability problems inherent in the reuse of existing assets.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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AI to go nuclear? Data center deals say it’s inevitable

CIO

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn., nuclear plant, with additional data centers planned — pending approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency.

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Time to Make the AI Pivot: Experimenting Forever Isn’t an Option

IDC

Accelerate business growth and competitive success with an AI-fueled business operating plan covering organization, culture, resources and operations.

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Can AI Deliver Fully Automated Factories?

Harvard Business Review

In the foreseeable future, technology will cease to be a bottleneck for lights-out transformations, which dramatically reduce the need for human workers inside factories. As technology improves, the decision to pursue this goal will primarily depend on the factory’s economic considerations. Manufacturers that embrace automation and demonstrate agility in overhauling their operational strategies will be best positioned to capitalize on this wave.

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The Geopolitics of Cyber Espionage Goes Far Beyond Sensitive Information Theft

Ooda Loop

Beijing has been using its media to counter U.S. and foreign government accusations over its cyber spying for several years, typically issuing denials and pointing at the United States’ own alleged cyber malfeasance.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Chinese firms bypass US export restrictions on AI chips using AWS cloud

CIO

Chinese firms are circumventing US export restrictions on advanced technologies by accessing them through cloud services provided by American companies like Amazon, according to a report from Reuters. Over the past two years, the US government has tightened regulations that prevent top US AI chip designers, such as Nvidia and AMD, from selling their high-performance AI chips to China, aiming to curb their military’s technological advancements.

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GitLab Makes AI Add-on for Enterprise Edition of CI/CD Platform Generally Available

DevOps.com

GitLab this week made generally available a set of generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that DevOps teams can add on to the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform it provides.

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Finding Joy as a Manager — Even on Bad Days

Harvard Business Review

When work and life are overwhelming, it can be difficult to reclaim a sense of joy at work. Research has shown the benefits of incorporating joy, hope, and optimism into the workplace to combat burnout and improve well-being. The author recommends four strategies to reconnect with joy at work on your toughest days: 1) Find your why: Reconnect with your passion and purpose by aligning your work with what brings you joy, what you are good at, and what the world needs. 2) Embrace a beginner’s minds

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IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending – Industry Outlook

IDC

Explore IDC’s insights on global AI and Generative AI spending, revealing how industries are driving innovation, efficiency, and growth through strategic AI investments.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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What high-performance IT teams look like today — and how to build one

CIO

Our mental models of what constitutes a high-performance team have evolved considerably over the past five years. Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. These teams focused on delivering reliable technology capabilities, improving end-user experiences, and establishing data and analytics capabilities.

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Apica Adds Ability to Centrally Manage Telemetry Data Collected via Mutiple Agents

DevOps.com

Apica today added the ability to centralize the management of telemetry data collected from multiple types of agents to its Apica Ascent observability platform.

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5 Moments That Make or Break a CEO-Board Chair Relationship

Harvard Business Review

A Spencer Stuart survey of nearly 200 directors and 30 CEOs of S&P 500 companies zeroed in on where trust is built — and where it’s lost.

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How CIOs can respond to generative AI’s ‘moment of reckoning’

Ooda Loop

Nearly two years since ChatGPT sparked a global generative AI fever, CIOs have turned talk into action, shifting priorities, setting up experiments and mitigating roadblocks along the way. But as enthusiasm for generative AI shows signs of cooling, tech leaders will likely need to recalibrate their strategy.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Learn from past cloud-first mistakes for better AI

CIO

The cloud computing revolution brought with it many innovations, but also lessons about the pitfalls of rapidly adopting new technologies without a well-planned strategy. Today, IT leaders are at a similar crossroads with the rise of generative AI. As organizations build their AI factories today in this new era, IT leaders have an opportunity to learn from their cloud-first sins of the past and strategically build in a way that prioritizes security, governance, and cost efficiencies over the l

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Developer Survey Surfaces Widespread Reliance on AI

DevOps.com

A global survey of 65,437 developers conducted by Stack Overflow finds 62% are already using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with an additional 14% planning to adopt these tools this year.

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Q&A: To Protect the Natural World, We Need to Put a Price on It

Harvard Business Review

NOAA’s chief scientist explains how new technologies can help businesses understand their impact, create new financial instruments, and enhance risk management.