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Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

CIO

Mike Mainiero was awakened at around 2 a.m. on July 19 by someone on his incident response team. Catholic Health’s IT systems and those of its partners were crashing, with one of its radiology vendors being among the first to experience technical difficulties. With nearly 16,000 employees, the Long Island-based healthcare system supports six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health service, a hospice, and a network of physician practices.

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Highlights from Agile2024 & The European Experience

Agile Alliance

Managing Director Teresa Foster reflects on an amazing week for the Agile community, celebrating the successful completion of Agile2024 and the European Experience in Manchester. The post Highlights from Agile2024 & The European Experience first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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5 reasons women make top team-first collaborators in tech

CIO

1. Women drive equality in conversations One interesting study found that in working groups of two to five individuals, groups that had more women usually had more “equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.” In other words, each member of the group was more likely to be given an opportunity to make a contribution if there were more women involved.

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Beyond Magical Thinking: How to Ensure Your Team “Gets It”

Let's Grow Leaders

Don’t assume your team knows just because you told them Magical thinking means you assume your team knows what you know. For example, you might think that explaining a task once is enough and everyone will understand and execute it perfectly. Of course, your team might not get it. It’s your job to ensure expectations are clear. How Magical Thinking Leads to Workplace Conflict Think about any significant conflict you’ve been a part of.

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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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AI-powered mindfulness: The human element of innovation

CIO

Almost every business across the globe now uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) in some form. The trick is to ensure they are cashing in on the promise of the technology with real, tangible benefits. At Avaya, our enterprise customers using AI in the contact center report a 65% reduction in after-call work and a 50% increase in efficiency with solutions like conversational AI and AI analytics – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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How to build a safe path to AI in Healthcare

CIO

Healthcare adheres to an elevated standard. This is evident in the rigorous training required for providers, the stringent safety protocols for life sciences professionals, and the stringent data and privacy requirements for healthcare analytics software. The stakes in healthcare are higher, as errors can have life-or-death consequences. Therefore, every innovation must be approached with utmost caution.

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When Your Boss Suddenly Reduces Your Scope

Harvard Business Review

All careers have highs and lows, and scope reductions can be particularly challenging. You may feel like immediately handing in your resignation or retreating and disengaging. It’s natural, but neither response is helpful. Your manager and coworkers are watching how you respond, making it even more critical to approach this difficult situation with composure and pragmatism.

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7 razones por las que la analítica y el aprendizaje automático no cumplen los objetivos empresariales

CIO

El informe State of the CIO 2024 de Foundry señala que el 80% de los CIO se encargan de investigar y evaluar posibles adiciones de inteligencia artificial (IA) a su pila tecnológica, y el 74% trabaja más estrechamente con sus líderes empresariales en aplicaciones de IA. A pesar de enfrentarse a la demanda de aportar valor empresarial a partir de los datos, el aprendizaje automático (ML, por sus siglas en inglés) y las inversiones en IA, sólo el 54% de los CIO informan de aumentos en el presupues

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Your Exposure Ends Here: Introducing the New Tenable Brand

Tenable

At Tenable, our mission is to manage and reduce cyber risk, because cyber risk is business risk. Feedback from dozens of top CISOs is reflected in our latest brand evolution. Tenable is the exposure management company that helps customers know where their weaknesses lie, expose their risk and close the gaps. Welcome to Tenable. Your exposure ends here.

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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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Cinco riesgos de TI que deberían tener paranoicos a los CIO

CIO

Como líder de transformación digital y exCIO, llevo una dosis saludable de paranoia. Llámelo instinto de supervivencia: los riesgos que pueden impedir que una organización se mantenga fiel a su misión y cumpla sus objetivos deben salir a la luz constantemente, evaluarse y mitigarse o gestionarse. ¿Se está transformando la organización con suficiente rapidez?

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How Companies Can Take a Global Approach to AI Ethics

Harvard Business Review

Many efforts to build an AI ethics program miss an important fact: ethics differ from one cultural context to the next. Ideas about right and wrong in one culture may not translate to a fundamentally different context, and even when there is alignment, there may well be important differences in the ethical reasoning at work — cultural norms, religious tradition, etc. — that need to be taken into account.

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Team up with HP to power your future of work

CIO

HP sees a future of work where IT plays a more strategic role in business growth. As we accelerate to October 14th, 2025, when Windows 10 support ends, the coming months mark a critical time for many IT Teams. The move to Windows 11 is an opportunity for IT to drive improved employee experiences and deliver more business impact. In the same way the expertise of an F1 pit crew is essential to success, at HP we have the enterprise know-how, expertise and global reach across hardware, software, and

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Build an end-to-end RAG solution using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock and AWS CloudFormation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a state-of-the-art approach to building question answering systems that combines the strengths of retrieval and foundation models (FMs). RAG models first retrieve relevant information from a large corpus of text and then use a FM to synthesize an answer based on the retrieved information. An end-to-end RAG solution involves several components, including a knowledge base, a retrieval system, and a generation system.

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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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Grupo Torrent digitaliza su operativa interna con vistas a encarar los desafíos de futuro

CIO

Hace un trienio que Miguel Llorca desembarcó en Grupo Torrent. Desde entonces, según reconoce en entrevista para CIO España , su rol como director de Tecnologías de la Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) le ha llevado a liderar una transformación significativa en la firma especializada en brindar soluciones de cierres para los sectores del aceite de oliva, licores y vinos a nivel mundial.

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Microsoft GitHub Alignment Fuels Birth of the AI Developer

DevOps.com

Microsoft is partnering with GitHub to enable its 100 million+ developers to build AI applications directly on the GitHub platform.

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Leader e people manager: come cambia il ruolo del CIO nel 2024

CIO

Il Chief Information Officer sta prendendo sempre più consapevolezza del suo ruolo in azienda. In piena trasformazione digitale, il CIO – anche in Italia – non si limita a “fare IT”, ma partecipa al business grazie alla sua conoscenza e supervisione dell’IT come base fondante dell’attività d’impresa. In una parola sola, il CIO è e deve agire da vero “leader”.

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Oversees Transfer of Missile Launchers to Border

Ooda Loop

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has presided over a ceremony to mark the delivery of 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers to military units at the border.

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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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Supply Chain Slowdown — Venture Funding Plummets In Sector

Crunchbase News

Altana AI locked up a $200 million Series C last week to become one of the latest unicorns. A well-funded startup reaching a $1 billion valuation is nothing new in this day and age. However, what was notable was a supply chain management startup raising big money at such a valuation after the astonishing drop-off in venture funding the industry has seen since its salad days of 2021.

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Catalog, query, and search audio programs with Amazon Transcribe and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Information retrieval systems have powered the information age through their ability to crawl and sift through massive amounts of data and quickly return accurate and relevant results. These systems, such as search engines and databases, typically work by indexing on keywords and fields contained in data files. However, much of our data in the digital age also comes in non-text format, such as audio and video files.

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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU

David Heinemeier Hansson

Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures, even with years of evidence in the bag. The bureaucratic maze almost guarantees that all the noble intentions eventually find a dead end in which to get stuck.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Stephanie Han

Cloudera

In this Employee Spotlight, we sat down with Stephanie Han to learn about her tenure at Cloudera, her journey from accounting to leading diversity, equality & inclusion (DEI) programs, and her impressive volunteer work. Meet Stephanie Han Stephanie is a Senior Program Manager in the HR team at Cloudera. She’s been with the company since 2019 and plays a key role in a variety of employee-centric initiatives including Cloudera’s employee volunteering program , talent management program, a

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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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Apple finally starts paying off qualifying MacBook owners as part of a class action settlement

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you bought a MacBook with a faulty butterfly keyboard between 2015 and 2019 and filed a claim, the check should be in the mail.

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Seamless GitHub Integration with Azure Storage for Enhanced Cloud File Management

Perficient

In the modern digital landscape, efficient collaboration and streamlined workflows are proven elements of successful project management. Integrating GitHub repositories with Azure Storage proves to be a robust solution for the management of project files in the cloud. Whether you’re a developer, a project manager, or a technology enthusiast, understanding how to push files from a GitHub repository to an Azure Storage container can significantly enhance your productivity and simplify your d

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Can AI even be open source? It's complicated

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AI can't exist without open source, but the top AI vendors are unwilling to commit to open-sourcing their programs and data sets. To complicate matters further, defining open-source AI is a messy issue that has yet to be settled.

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Turning Data into Action: Intelligence-Driven Vulnerability Management

Tenable

Prioritizing vulnerabilities with context has always been a challenge for vulnerability management teams – and this task isn’t getting easier as published CVEs continue to grow. To remedy this, many enterprises are forced to invest in products and services to protect their environments with various intelligence data and tools. In this blog, we explain how Tenable Vulnerability Intelligence and Exposure Response help organizations to make data-driven decisions to better prioritize and operational

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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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The best VPN for Windows: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best VPNs for your Windows PC on everything from speed to server count to security. Here are some of the top VPNs for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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CodeSOD: Required Requirements

The Daily WTF

Sean was supporting a web application which, as many do, had required form fields for the user to fill out. The team wanted to ensure that the required fields were marked by an "*", as you do. Now, there are a lot of ways to potentially accomplish the goal, especially given that the forms are static and the fields are known well ahead of time.

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Buy a subscription to Microsoft 365 for $45 with this deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With this 35% off deal, you can Access Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, along with 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, for the lowest price we've seen.

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