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Time to Market: How your Company Can Keep Launching New Products and Features Ahead of Your Competition

Luis Goncalves

Time to Market: How your Company Can Keep Launching New Products and Features Ahead of Your Competition. Companies like Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have proven that innovation is the key to greatness. That’s why most businesses put a significant premium on it. However, just coming out with innovative products or new features is not enough. Companies also have to make sure their products and services reach the market in time.

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How to stop calendar spam

The Parallax

Nestled on your calendar between a 1:30 p.m. lunch and a 2:30 p.m. phone call sits an appointment you weren’t expecting. You didn’t create it, and you certainly didn’t accept an invitation for it, but there it is: “$$$ Playmate Wanted $$$.”. Congratulations, you’ve been hit with Calendar spam. Calendar services from Google, Microsoft, and Apple are susceptible by default to having appointments placed on them without user permission, says security expert Bryan Seely.

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How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional

Let's Grow Leaders

“Why does my manager care if I go directly to his boss with an idea? Good ideas are good ideas, right?” “Customers don’t need all that formality. They’re chill. Why can’t I just show up and give them an update?” “When the […]. The post How Do I Convince My Manager I’m a Professional appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Biggest DevOps Mistakes You Must Avoid

OTS Solutions

There are Five Biggest DevOps Mistakes You Must Need to Avoid. Introduction. Most business owners talk about DevOps, but when it comes to implementing them, problems start. Having gone through the process with many companies, a devops engineer told me the five common devops mistakes organizations make when carrying out devops development for the first time.

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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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Companies in China are moving quickly to embrace AI technologies

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jason Dai on the first year of BigDL and AI in China. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Jason Dai , CTO of Big Data Technologies at Intel, and one of my co-chairs for the AI Conference in Beijing. I wanted to check in on the status of BigDL , specifically how companies have been using this deep learning library on top of Apache Spark, and discuss some newly added features.

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Three People Factors to Include in Your Project Timeline

Change Starts Here

People can be the greatest risk to a project timeline. Making sure they are ready to adopt change and not obstruct it takes time and deliberate effort. If left off the schedule, the resulting resistance and confusion can prevent your project from delivering results. Trying to add it later will blow up your budget and […].

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Apache Cordova Tutorial: Developing Mobile Applications with Cordova

Toptal

Mobile applications are creeping in. Developing for each mobile platform can be an exhaustive task, especially if resources are limited. This is where Apache Cordova comes in handy by providing a way to develop mobile applications using standard web technologies - HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This article explores how one can get started with Apache Cordova and build mobile applications targeted at a wide range of mobile devices.

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Developers Should Abandon Agile

Ron Jeffries

The above was the title of my talk with Chet Hendrickson at deliver:Agile. I'll update this with a link to the talk when it is published. Meanwhile, here are some thoughts.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. Leave it to North Korea to combine them like peanut butter and jelly. Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor.

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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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How Creative Friction Can Help Your Team

Scott Berkun

Creative abrasion is Jerry Hirshberg’s term for the kinds of friction that helps develop better ideas. Hirshberg, a former design manager at Nissan, realized that some kinds of resistance are useful in the creative process and should be deliberately created by the leader of a team. This could be a timely critique, a barrage of difficult questions or even a temporary reworking of team processes and roles.

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All these vulnerabilities, rarely matter.

Jeremiah Grossman

There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.

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Facebook Seeks A Public Policy Manager, Cybersecurity Threat Disruption

CTOvision

My sincere hope is that one of our CTOvision readers is selected for a position that Facebook has just advertised for. The job, titled a Public Policy Manager for Cybersecurity Threat Disruption, is a recognition that the companies we trust with our data should, and will, play greater roles in protecting our data, including leaning […].

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With.app, Google plans to build a safer Web

The Parallax

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Bored of conventional website suffixes like.net,org,edu and.com? There’s now an app for that. But to be clear, it’s not exactly an app. It’s.app. It’s been in the works since 2012, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers standards organization decided to create more top-level domains , or TLDs, as the suffixes are known.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How to Be an Amazing Financial Consultant

Toptal

Fewer than 3% of applicants make it through Toptal Finance’s rigorous screening process. How do the best of the best become such effective financial consultants? We sat down with one of Toptal’s most on-demand financial consultants, Jeffrey Fidelman, who shared his proprietary methods for ensuring success for his clients and how he has grown his own business exponentially.

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The (All Too) Often Missing Link To Awesome Team Building

Terry Starbucker

These are the people that are thrown into their jobs head first. They typically know their stuff, but are lacking in certain skill sets that directly relate to their new responsibilities. Worse, they don’t get a lot of guidance from their bosses before AND after they take that dive. Sound familiar? This is the usual story for a first-level supervisor – the person directly overseeing the personnel who serve customers, make the widgets, or code the software.

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In Cybersecurity, Accountability Could be the Ultimate Innovation

CTOvision

When accountability is used as innovation, it not only drives social change but also helps solve seemingly intractable problems. Here’s a recent example: In the fall of 2014, CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes. The company would forego $2 billion in revenue, because “the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose – helping […].

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Tips to Become a Thought Leader in Your Industry

Women on Business

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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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Art vs. Design – A Timeless Debate

Toptal

Two Toptal designers engage in a lively debate about aesthetics, objectivity, and the definition of art and design.

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Microsoft Word Document Upload to Stored XSS: A Case Study

Coalfire

Anytime I see a file upload form during an application test, my attention is piqued. In a best-case scenario, I can upload a reverse shell in a scripting language available on the webserver. If the application is running in PHP or ASP for example, it becomes quite easy. If I can’t get a backdoor uploaded, I will attempt to try to upload an HTML page to get my own client-side javascript uploaded for XSS attacks.

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Google We Have A Problem With Duplex: Cool tech, but needs bounding

CTOvision

Have you seen the really cool demo of Google Duplex? This is a fantastic demonstration that combines voice recognition, machine learning and very capable voice synthesis to show how AI can interact with people to get things done. Watch the video and you can see for yourself how very smooth this AI bot can be: […].

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The Rise of Encryption, the Fall of All-Flash

Infinidat

The Rise of Encryption, the Fall of All-Flash. Eric Klinefelter. Thu, 05/10/2018 - 8:46am. I realize the title of this blog sounds ominous. For any companies that have adopted an all-flash data center initiative, the situation IS ominous. Simply stated, if you are invested in all-flash today, you have big problems coming soon. End-to-end encryption will destroy your data reduction, increasing your TCO by 5-10X!

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Meaningful Design and the Art of Delightful UX

Toptal

Creating meaningful designs, capturing customer attention, and influencing their behavior is something that designers and marketers will agree is one of the most difficult things to achieve.

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So You Want to Write an Article?

A List Apart

So you want to write an article. Maybe you’ve got a great way of organizing your CSS, or you’re a designer who has a method of communicating really well with developers, or you have some insight into how to best use a new technology. Whatever the topic, you have insights, you’ve read the basics of finding your voice , and you’re ready to write and submit your first article for a major publication.

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How Amazon and Starbucks are Impacting the Cryptocurrency Market

CTOvision

According to statista, Amazon and Starbucks reported net sales of $178 billion and $2.88 billion in 2017, respectively, evidence these two companies are major players with global presence. Recently, both Amazon and Starbucks have showed intention to use blockchain technology and/or virtual currency in their systems. Amazon hinted at this move through a survey targeting […].

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Best PHP Frameworks for 2018

VironIT

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and is used in major projects. For instance, Facebook uses PHP to maintain and create its internal systems. WordPress utilizes PHP to power its internals, which in return is powering more than 26% of the web. According to W3Techs, PHP is used by […].

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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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Selling a Business for Maximum Value in a Challenging M&A Market

Toptal

With $936 billion of uninvested private equity capital inching down market, why do 46% to 80% of lower middle market sell-side transactions fail to close? The usual answer is that companies are not ready for buyers’ examination and owners can be overly optimistic or even greedy. Business owners can do much more to put themselves in the driver’s seat.

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Why Google+ is an Effective Platform for Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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What The Board Needs To Know About the GDPR

CTOvision

Executives in businesses around the globe have been tracking The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect 25 May 2018. Those who operate primarily in the EU have had plenty of time to focus on this and no excuses for not paying attention. Those who operate primarily elsewhere also have […].

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