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Top Ten Tips for Making Remote Work Actually Work Right Now

Agile Alliance

Shakespeare knew what he was talking about when he wrote, “Some are born great remote workers, some achieve great remote work, and some have great remote work thrust upon them.” Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what he wrote. Whether you love working remotely or you were forced to work remotely due to stay-at-home orders, this … Continued.

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Data Science for Oil & Gas

Dataiku

At the end of the day, the mission of many projects in oil and gas companies can be drawn back to one thing: the efficiency of the wells. Specific targets could be upping production, enhancing recovery, or reducing loss, but all of these things lead to increased efficiency. So let’s explore some of the challenges that oil and gas companies are facing in pursuit of these targets and take a look at how data science, machine learning, and AI offer solutions to the problems that the companies face.

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Fintech startup Jeeves raises $57M, goes from YC to $500M valuation in one year

TechCrunch

Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. This June, the startup emerged from stealth with $31 million in equity and $100 million in debt financing. . Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation.

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How to Be a Human-Centered Leader when You’re Stressed, Anxious, or Freaked-Out

Let's Grow Leaders

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. But when you’re stressed and anxious, it’s easy to snap at your team, lose your temper, and undermine the culture you’ve worked so hard to build. If you have too many of these freak-out moments, your people will conclude that kindness is only for the easy times. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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Amended and Restated Bylaws Approved by Board of Directors

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance Board of Directors approved changes to the organization’s bylaws on Aug 7. The revisions to the bylaws removed some outdated language regarding changes to board terms specific to the 2014-2016 elections, clarified the process of nominating and electing a slate of candidates, and updated the election process to reflect voting happening prior to the … Continued.

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Olsam raises $165M to buy up and scale consumer and B2B Amazon Marketplace sellers

TechCrunch

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to do the same is announcing some significant funding of its own. Olsam , a roll-up play that is buying up both consumer and B2B merchants selling on Amazon by way of Amazon’s FBA fulfillment program , has closed $165 million — a combination of equity and debt that it will be using to fuel its M&A s

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Love it. Own it. Your Dream Job with Carson Tate

Let's Grow Leaders

In this episode, Carson Tate, one of America’s top productivity consultants talks about why you don’t have to rely on your company or your boss for your professional fulfillment. Instead, you can take ownership of your career, your life, and your happiness?right now. Carson’s premise is that “it takes two” to cultivate engagement?that both you and your employer need to have an equal voice in the process.

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Scrumban

Agile Alliance

Scrum is a mixture of the Scrum Method and the Kanban Method. The post Scrumban first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Carahsoft to Offer Corelight Cybersecurity Products via DOD’s Enterprise Software BPA

CTOvision

Corelight can now offer its network detection and response product to the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and the U.S. Coast Guard through a blanket purchase agreement held by Carahsoft Technology. The partnership between the two companies provides DOD, IC, and USCG with access to Corelight’s cybersecurity and asset management software via the 10-year […].

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

Joe Devon. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond , a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. The world of accessibility has experienced a tipping point thanks to the pandemic, which drove people of all abilities to do more tasks and shopping online.

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Enterprise Blockchain Adoption Hinges on DevOps

DevOps.com

There is a lot of excitement around blockchain right now, for a good reason. Production use cases continue to emerge across sectors such as manufacturing, energy, air travel, insurance and finance. Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will see a 50% increase in their data quality. Yet, Gartner also predicts that […].

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How to Combine Developer Skills and Automation to Achieve DevOps Success

Dzone - DevOps

Adopting DevOps practices opens up a wide range of new possibilities to improve software development from human resources to tools. In that respect, developer skills and automation are some of the key areas where significant gains can be made. In this article, we’ll explore these aspects in detail and shed light on how the relationship between developer skills and automation can impact DevOps success.

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ElasticSearch Fork OpenSearch is Generally Available

CTOvision

Amazon has recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch 1.0, the Apache 2.0-licensed fork of Elasticsearch that was created after Elastic changed their license. OpenSearch provides compatibility with Elasticsearch 7.10.2, the version from which it was derived. The GA version adds a few enhancements since the beta, including support for the ARM64 architecture, artifacts for the […].

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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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A founder’s guide to effectively managing your options pool

TechCrunch

Allen Miller. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Allen Miller is a principal at Oak HC/FT based in San Francisco. He invests in early- and growth-stage companies, with a particular focus on fintech. More posts by this contributor. Amid the IPO gold rush, how should we value fintech startups? The last decade in real estate, and a peek into the next one. There’s an old startup adage that goes: Cash is king.

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The Key Benefits of Observability for SREs

DevOps.com

In today’s technology landscape, organizations strive to champion innovative ideas, techniques and technologies to achieve success and outshine their competitors. For this reason, site reliability engineering (SRE) has become one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and a set of organizational practices for fast and reliable software delivery. SREs use various tools and practices at their […].

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Speech Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning

Dataiku

In this rapidly advancing AI world, human computer interactions (HCI) are of extreme importance. We live in a world where Siri and Alexa are physically closer to us than other humans. Soon the world will get more populated with physical and virtual service robots to accomplish tasks that range from caring for the elderly to assessing the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

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How You Can Invest in the Metaverse

CTOvision

In this video, I will be talking about the metaverse and how you can invest in companies that will gain from this phenomenon. This is the second part of my metaverse series. The first one covered what the metaverse is, what it could become, and what it certainly is not. Where to invest To be […].

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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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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

TechCrunch

Panorama Education , which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic. Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collective, Uncork Capital, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Tao Capital Partners also participated in the financing, which brings the Boston-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $105 million.

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How to Achieve Cloud Operational Excellence

DevOps.com

Cloud operational excellence means delivering the right mix of cloud-based services at the optimal cost and quality to support your organization’s mission and strategy. You might be thinking, “Why go to the trouble? Isn’t ‘almost good enough’ sufficient?” It turns out that it matters—a lot. The difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10% […].

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How AIOps is a game-changer for predictive analytics and CloudOps

TechBeacon

If your enterprise is like most others, the pandemic took your CloudOps work remote and spread it over a widely distributed team. Everyone collaborates using a series of web-delivered AIOps dashboards that report issues with your applications and data in the cloud and provide interfaces to most systems and infrastructure to remotely fix the issues. Could things be any better?

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BlackSky Secures Investment from Palantir and Enters into Multi-Year Strategic Partnership Following Successful Pilot Project

CTOvision

BlackSky Holdings, Inc. (“BlackSky”), a leading technology platform providing real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring, announced today that Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) has committed to making an equity investment in BlackSky, which is scheduled to close after the completion of BlackSky’s business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp.

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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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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

TechCrunch

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value. Oana Olteanu from SignalFire will be joining the board under the terms of the deal, which includes warrants of $12 million in additional investment at the same price. “Fundamentally, Explos

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Securing Open-Source Apps

DevOps.com

Securing Open-Source Apps with API Scans and Observability Businesses building applications have always made great use of open-source software. The move to cloud-native applications, use of low code development, and embracement of composable architectures have made open-source use even more pervasive. As such, businesses need a way to ensure the composite apps are reliable, perform […].

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7 Most Infamous Cloud Security Breaches

Arcserve

Several approaches are behind some of the biggest cloud security breaches we’ve seen to date, but the consequences are the same. A company’s reputation is sullied, its customers may leave in droves, and the final cost may sink the company itself. For all of us in IT, there are lessons to be learned from each.

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What people don't get about value stream management

TechBeacon

There's nothing wrong with value stream management (VSM) itself, but there's plenty wrong with how it's being considered and discussed by bloggers, industry marketing types, and others, who often conflate it with DevOps and Agile. It's not the same thing.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.

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Point raises $46.5 million for its premium debit card

TechCrunch

Challenger bank Point has raised a $46.5 million Series B funding round. The company offers an account associated with a debit card. And the startup positions itself as a premium debit card company and tries to offer credit card rewards with debit cards. Existing investor Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures is investing more money in the company and leading the Series B round.

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That Other Continuous: Data Protection

DevOps.com

Looking around at things to add to our current project’s toolchain (that is one of the reasons we do these side projects; to check out all sorts of new ideas/tools/etc), and researching the company where a former coworker is the CMO, I was drawn into the resurgent world of continuous data protection (CDP). It is […]. The post That Other Continuous: Data Protection appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Tooltime: SCM-Manager

Dzone - DevOps

If you and your team are dealing with tools like Git or Subversion, you may need an administrative layer where you are able to manage user access and repositories in a comfortable way, because source control management systems (SCM) don’t bring this functionality out of the box. Perhaps you are already familiar with popular management solutions like GitHub, GitBlit or GitLab.

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