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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO

It’s hard to go anywhere in IT these days, physically or virtually, without bumping into someone offering IT advice. You want advice from a team that can get invested enough to challenge your ideas or suggest alternative paths.” Remember, too, that poor decisions based on bad advice will inevitably lead to lost time.

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Scoot lands $12M to inject customization into videoconferencing

TechCrunch

In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. “CEOs are dissatisfied with their virtual all-hands platforms and badly need something better.” Ed Stevens thinks he has the answer. laughs, cheers) in real time.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. Cybercriminals specifically target sectors such as healthcare, energy, and transportation, recognizing the significant consequences at stake.

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Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor for the edge

TechCrunch

The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to strike the right balance between low latency, energy efficiency and compute power for use in anything from sensors to cameras and full-fledged edge servers. Hameed and Qadeer developed Deep Vision’s architecture as part of a Ph.D. thesis at Stanford.

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Agile Goes Virtual

Accenture

Virtual work has recently received a lot of attention for obvious reasons, but the truth is remote work has been hot the last few years. Employers are able to attract talent from all over the world, and employees enjoy both the diversity of multinational teams and the flexibility that comes with working remotely. Conclusion.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

TechCrunch

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. What is it weak in?

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Seeking Sustainable IT? Use Data Virtualization

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

Conserve energy! Granted, you need backups, but even if you back up all your new data twice, you still consume 50% more energy to store all the other extra copies. Poorly optimized queries require significantly more processing resources and thus higher energy consumption. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Green is the Goal.