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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

CIO

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion. HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments.

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GitHub Advanced Security Code Security Configuration

Xebia

GitHub Advanced security has gotten quite a big update in public beta at the moment that helps with the rollout of Advanced Security features across your organization. It is called “Code security configurations” and it allows you to set up a default configuration for some or all repositories in your organization. Previous situation Up to now there where only three options during the rollout: Enable features for new repos only (organization level setting).

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How to Answer an Open-Ended Question from a Job Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Interviewers should prepare for interviews just as thoroughly as candidates do. Being equipped with compelling stories and setting aside dedicated preparation time, such as 30 minutes beforehand, allows interviewers to mentally prepare and be fully present during the interview. Like with candidates, it’s not only the content of what is said that matters, but also the manner in which it’s conveyed.

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Lead Through Change: How to Guide Your Team to Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Strategies For Leading Through Change with Confidence “Hey Karin, I need some help leading through change. My team LOVES doing things the WAY THEY’VE ALWAYS DONE THEM. And I’m trying to get them to embrace some new technology. To do things just a little bit differently. But they are comfortable where they are. What should I do? #AskingforaFriend Embracing Curiosity as a Catalyst for Change Your Curiosity Powerful Phrases are a great start here.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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4 Common Challenges to Having a Grand Vision and Simple Solutions to Success

CEO Insider

Discipline. Sacrifice. Intelligence. Grit. Work ethic. Creativity. Luck. These are the attributes that most people associate with success. And they’re all important. But a person can display all these traits and still not reach the highest levels of achievement. That’s because this list omits the most important ingredient: a grand vision—an idea of a beautiful […] The post 4 Common Challenges to Having a Grand Vision and Simple Solutions to Success appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The UN Security Council Has a Role in International Cybersecurity

Ooda Loop

In early April 2024, the United Nations’ (UN) Security Council held a meeting on the “Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape and Its Implications for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security.

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The Myths and Realities of Being a Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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From Confusion to Clarity: Addressing Unclear Expectations

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 254: In this episode, host David Dye delves into the pervasive challenge of addressing unclear expectations in the workplace. David unpacks how such ambiguity can be the root of workplace conflict and offers precise language to help you articulate concerns and seek mutual understanding. For instance, in situations like deciding if turning on the camera during virtual meetings is necessary, phrases like “It appears we have different perspectives on this” can pave the way for o

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Equal Opportunities: Moving Beyond Buzzwords to Real Impact in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the True Meaning of Equal Opportunities Before truly embracing equal opportunities, we must acknowledge that it goes beyond treating everyone the same way. The term is often thrown around to depict all-encompassing fairness, and yet, many fail to understand its rich and intricate layers. Equal opportunities do not simply involve providing individuals with the same resources or treating everyone identically.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Microsoft and Cognizant team up to boost enterprise Copilot adoption

CIO

Microsoft is opening another route for extending the reach of its Copilot offerings in the enterprise through an expanded partnership with global professional services company Cognizant. As part of the deal, Cognizant has acquired 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, and 500 each of Sales Copilot and Services Copilot, for use by its associates across the globe.

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The Philosophers’ Code: Enhancing Cybersecurity Strategy with Timeless Wisdom

Ooda Loop

The teachings of ancient philosophers can provide actionable insights in the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity. It might seem surprising at first, but the wisdom of history's great thinkers offers perspectives that are profoundly relevant to today's digital security challenges.

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Lessons from Beyoncé on Navigating Exclusion

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, Beyoncé’s performance at the CMA Awards sparked backlash from fans complaining about everything from her attire to her lack of connection to the genre. This year, she released her first country album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Her actions over the past eight years have been a case study in how to navigate workplace exclusion.

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Made in Tandem Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2024 American Business Awards

Tandem

Made in Tandem was named the Gold Stevie® Award winner in the Professional Services category in The 22nd Annual American Business Awards® today. The award recognizes Made in Tandem’s work to modernize San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)’s legacy Emergency Notification System (ENS). Used to notify customers when power lines will be shut off due to wildfire-prone conditions, the ENS had been in place for 10+ years and needed an overhaul.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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How to Choose the Right Communication Channel for Your Message

Let's Grow Leaders

The Communication Channel You Choose Matters: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It If you’re managing a team, you know how crucial your choice of communication can be. Let’s start with a timeless piece of advice from Marshall McLuhan, the renowned communication researcher. He famously said, “The medium is the message.” What does this mean for you as a manager?

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Salesforce-Informatica acquisition talks falls through: Report

CIO

Salesforce’s negotiations to acquire enterprise data management software provider Informatica have fallen through as both couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal. That the talks about the deal had come to a close was reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Reuters , citing an anonymous source. The disagreement about the terms of the deal is more likely to be around the price of each share of Informatica, WSJ reported, adding that Salesforce was negotiating a mid-30s price per share with th

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

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Google Patches Critical Chrome Vulnerability

Ooda Loop

Google has released Chrome 124, addressing four vulnerabilities, including a critical security flaw identified as CVE-2024-4058, involving a type confusion bug in the ANGLE graphics layer engine. This critical vulnerability could potentially allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or escape sandboxes with limited user interaction.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The New Age of Operations: Modern COO Search Strategies by N2Growth

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Evolving Role of a Chief Operating Officer In the ever-evolving world of business, the role of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is undergoing numerous transformations. Distinct from the traditional approaches that circumscribe the COO’s responsibilities within the firm’s administrative and operational functions, the contemporary business landscape necessitates a more strategic involvement of the COO in a corporation’s key decision-making processes.

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From Spreadsheet Chaos to Data Strategy Triumph with Perficient

Perficient

Uncovering the Challenge: Relying on Spreadsheets for Portfolio Analysis A leading wealth and asset management firm recently sought our financial services expertise for a critical challenge. Relying on complex spreadsheets for portfolio analysis, the firm faced operational hurdles due to immense computing demands. The Perficient Approach: Transforming Operations through Strategic Consulting Our team embraced the challenge, conducting a meticulous two-week analysis to uncover the root issue: a cu

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

CIO

CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. Of the 750 CIOs around the world surveyed by Lenovo, 81% said they are already leveraging third-party AI Tools or deploying a mix of third-party and proprietary AI.

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Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale

Harvard Business Review

Designing software that’s resilient against the most common cyberattacks is possible — and significantly more cost effective than dealing with the fallout of a hack.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Nagomi Security Emerges From Stealth With $30 Million in Funding

Ooda Loop

Nagomi Security has emerged from stealth mode, previously known as Vena Security, with a platform aimed at helping customers maximize the effectiveness of their existing cybersecurity tools.

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Presidential Leadership

CEO Insider

Being president of the United States is the most prestigious and the most challenging job in the world. We’ve now had 46 commanders-in-chief over the last 235 years and America’s leading historians have concluded that fewer than ten have done a stellar job in leading the country. For the esteemed few who succeeded in guiding […] The post Presidential Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Copado Applies Generative AI to Salesforce Application Testing

DevOps.com

Copado's genAI tool automates testing in Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) application environments.

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TransUnion transforms its business model with IT

CIO

Count TransUnion among the rising tide of enterprises evolving their identities thanks to IT. “We are thinking like a software company and transforming ourselves like a software company,” says Venkat Achanta, chief technology, data, and analytics officer of the $4 billion credit bureau, which is recasting itself into a customer data services provider intent on parlaying its reputation for trust and ample data assets to drive analytics, machine learning (ML), and AI development on the cloud.

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From Whims to Wins: How a Customer-Centric Portfolio Transforms Product Strategy

Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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How Burnout Became Normal — and How to Push Back Against It

Harvard Business Review

Slowly but steadily, while we’ve been preoccupied with trying to meet demands that outstrip our resources, grappling with unfair treatment, or watching our working hours encroach upon our downtime, burnout has become the new baseline in many work environments. From the 40% of Gen Z workers who believe burnout is an inevitable part of success, to executives who believe high-pressure, “trial-by-fire” assignments are a required rite of passage, to toxic hustle culture that pushes busyness as a badg

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UnitedHealth Says Patient Data Exposed in Change Healthcare Cyberattack

Ooda Loop

UnitedHealth Group, the parent company for Change Healthcare, confirmed that Personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) was stolen in a February ransomware attack.

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IPO Market Insiders ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ That Current Trickle Will Get Stronger

Crunchbase News

With Microsoft -backed data security firm Rubrik set to enter the public market this week, talk about the rejuvenated IPO market has returned as many wonder who may be next, and when. Rubrik is set to join the likes of chip startup Astera Labs , Walmart -backed Ibotta and online forum host Reddit as one of the bigger IPOs so far this year. Those IPOs came after last year’s second-half offerings by Arm Holdings , Instacart and Klaviyo helped thaw an IPO pipeline that had been frozen for nearly tw