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Do I really need another tool?

Xebia

What is an Internal Developer Platform? Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) have been the ongoing trend for the past couple of years, and for good reasons. It is a transformative trend in software development, streamlining and optimising the development process. For readers trying to grasp the concept of IDPs, imagine a scenario where a developer needs a specific set of tools and resources.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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How To Properly Cut Your Cybersecurity Budget

Ooda Loop

Cybersecurity is one of those areas where cost cutting must be done with forethought. Cut the wrong things and it can lead to catastrophic results including government fines, criminal penalties and loss of customer confidence. Cut the right things and key risks can still be mitigated and they can be mitigated more efficiently.

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Women still underrepresented in top tech roles

CIO

Today is International Women’s Day, a day that provides an opportunity to acknowledge achievements and highlight struggles faced by women around the world. For the tech industry in particular, it’s a chance to reflect on progress made, and devise more robust strategies progress, given the work that still needs to be done. While a leadership gap is apparent across most industries, it’s far wider among tech companies.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Why Adopting GenAI Is So Difficult

Harvard Business Review

More than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, companies are still facing the same question when they first considered the technology: How do they actually go about putting it into business use? Many companies have simply discovered that generative AI tools like LLMs, while impressive, aren’t plug and play. Companies should consider a few suggestions when thinking of whether and how to onboard these tools: 1) choose performance over novelty, 2) combine GenAI with tools like vector databases, 3) n

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To Decide Where to Grow Next, Pinpoint What Makes Your Company Different

Harvard Business Review

In the ever-changing world of corporate growth, the mastery of ‘strategic clarity’ has become a pivotal element for success. Companies like Costco, Salesforce, Amazon, and Patagonia demonstrate the power of understanding and capitalizing on unique market differentiators. Strategic clarity is more than operational proficiency; it’s about deeply recognizing a company’s distinctive strengths and aligning every operation with this core identity.

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Unlock Team Success with Proven Strategies to Build a Better Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 247: In this episode, Tanya Luna discusses the principles of power with and how to a build better team. She emphasizes the importance of following a purpose rather than a person, relying on context instead of control, being a cultivator rather than a collector, and building a community rather than a crowd. Luna suggests implementing these principles by providing clear context and purpose for roles, allowing individuals to self-evaluate their progress, and creating opportunities for feedb

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What’s Driving Changes in Open Source Licensing?

DevOps.com

Years of SaaS innovation and disruption threaten the profitability of vendor-driven open source projects, forcing licensing changes.

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Unless You’re Nvidia, the AI Chip Business Is Complicated

Ooda Loop

Investors have been treating Broadcom like the next Nvidia. They forgot about the iPhone. Broadcom’s market value has more than doubled over the past year, and its stock has been the third-biggest gainer on the PHLX Semiconductor Index in that time behind Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices AMD.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How to Use the Personalization Connector for Salesforce Sales and Service Clouds

Perficient

Have you ever wondered what happens if you connected Personalization with Sales and Service Clouds? The Personalization connector for Sales and Service Clouds exposes user data and server-side campaigns in Salesforce CRM for your contacts and leads. The Key for Success To use Personalization for Sales and Service Clouds, you’ll need to have: User identity systems fully working.

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When a New Boss Makes You Hate a Job You Once Loved

Harvard Business Review

You’ve worked at your company for years and always loved your job. But everything changes when a new boss steps in. Feeling annoyed about having to prove yourself again is understandable, but it’s important to move past your resentment. In this article, the author outlines strategies to help you get back on track and regain your sense of accomplishment.

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Sumo Logic Eliminates Ingest Fees for Observability Log Data

DevOps.com

Sumo Logic will no longer charge a fee for ingesting log data into its observability platform to encourage DevOps teams to apply analytics more deeply.

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Capital Raise Or Company Sale? There’s A Third Strategic Option

Crunchbase News

By Itay Sagie So, you’ve successfully navigated your startup to a pivotal moment. You’ve secured some $10 million in funding, identified a product-market fit, and achieved an impressive $3 million in annual revenue with consistent year-over-year growth. The clock is ticking: Projections point to profitability in 12 months, but your runway is drying up in nine.

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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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What is RISC-V and Why Has it Become Important for Java?

DevOps.com

Arm-based processors, which are increasingly popular, may capture a significant share of the semiconductor market with RISC-V.

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Astera Labs Seeks Up To $534M In IPO As AI Craze Continues

Crunchbase News

Chip startup Astera Labs is targeting a valuation of up to $4.5 billion in an initial public offering, riding a wave of interest from investors for all things AI. The Santa Clara, California-based company will offer nearly 14.8 million shares, while current stockholders will offer approximately 3 million shares, per its regulatory filing. In total, the company aims to raise up to $534 million by selling shares priced between $27 and $30 each.

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Google API brings LLMs to Android and iOS devices

InfoWorld

Google has released an experimental API that allows large language models to run fully on-device across Android, iOS, and web platforms. Introduced March 7 , the MediaPipe LLM Inference API was designed to streamline on-device LLM integration for web developers, and supports web, Android, and iOS platforms. The API provides initial support for four LLMs: Gemma , Phi 2 , Falcon , and Stable LM.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Alumis Leads Big Biotech Week

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Another week with more big rounds.

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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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Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons

Ooda Loop

Dario Amodei, chief executive of the high-profile A.I. start-up Anthropic, told Congress last year that new A.I. technology could soon help unskilled but malevolent people create large-scale biological attacks, such as the release of viruses or toxic substances that cause widespread disease and death.

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Are the different public clouds really that different?

InfoWorld

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature in the object storage system on one provider is better than the object storage feature on another provider, I know they are not exactly the same.

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Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid

David Heinemeier Hansson

The Gemini AI roll out should have been Google's day of triumph. The company made one of the smartest acquisitions in tech when they bought DeepMind in 2014. They helped set the course for the modern AI movement with the Transformer paper in 2017. They were poised to be right there, right at the fore font of a whole new era of computing. And then they blew it.

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Swift language achieves data-race safety

InfoWorld

Apple has released Swift 5.10, an update to the company’s open-source programming language that reaches a major milestone: providing safety against data races via full data isolation in the concurrency model. The improvement prepares the way for the planned Swift 6 release. Binaries for Swift 5.10, introduced March 5 , can be found at swift.org for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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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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The Rundown on AI Phones and Devices at MWC24

IDC

AI dominates device announcements, with a focus on phones & a surprising spotlight on AI PCs, led by Intel's vPro chips.

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LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse

InfoWorld

LinkedIn has decided to open source its data management tool, OpenHouse, which it says can help data engineers and related data infrastructure teams in an enterprise to reduce their product engineering effort and decrease the time required to deploy products or applications. OpenHouse is compatible with open source data lakehouses and is a control plane that comprises a “declarative” catalog and a suite of data services.

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Cybercriminals Spoof US Government Organizations in BEC, Phishing Attacks

Ooda Loop

Since at least 2021, organizations in the US have faced targeted phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns by a threat actor known as TA4903, as revealed by Proofpoint.

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Understanding DbContext in Entity Framework Core

InfoWorld

Entity Framework Core is an object-relational mapper, or ORM, that isolates your application’s object model from the data model. That allows you to write code that performs CRUD operations without worrying about how the data is stored. In other words, you work with the data using familiar.NET objects. In Entity Framework Core, the DbContext connects the domain classes to the database by acting as a bridge between them.

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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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Future Computer Models Under AI Conditions

CEO Insider

What will the future of computers look like? Can we anticipate these futuristic products today? The answer is actually yes. Information analysis often employs a window observation method to predict future trends. This year, such a “window” comes from Samsung. On January 17, the South Korean tech giant officially hosted its annual flagship product launch […] The post Future Computer Models Under AI Conditions appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The February 2024 OODA Network Member Meeting Discussion of the Current Geopolitical Terrain

Ooda Loop

After the annual OODA CEO Matt Devost and OODA Network Members Review the OODA Almanac 2024 – Reorientation at the February 2024 OODA Network Member Meeting – which was held on Friday 16, 2024 - the network ended the monthly meeting with a discussion of the current geopolitical "free for all" and potential geopolitical futures. Find a summary of that conversation here.

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Celebrating Women in Digital at Adobe Summit 2024

Perficient

March is not just about the arrival of spring. It’s a celebration of women’s achievements, history, and ongoing societal impact. As we continue to recognize women this month, we’re excited to take the celebration to Adobe Summit 2024! Join us on Tuesday, March 6 for our Women in Digital Breakfast at the Grand Lux Cafe in The Palazzo.

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