Fri.Jul 12, 2024

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Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software

CIO

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. “When we were programming mainframes, every character counted,” says Sanjay Podder, chair of Green Software Foundation , an organization that aims to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for green software.

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Mindful spaces for introverts at Agile2024

Agile Alliance

Agile2024 offers Quiet Zones, Quiet Tables, Stoplight Dots, and an Observer Path to support attendees needing less stimulation or interaction. The post Mindful spaces for introverts at Agile2024 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Ulta Beauty embraces low-code to deliver better CX

CIO

About six years ago, Ulta Beauty formed a dedicated innovation team to identify technologies that resonate to improve the customer experience. As the VP of digital innovation, Michelle Pacynski heads up this team and oversees around 40 innovators whose job is to leverage new and emerging tech to come up with fresh and creative value propositions for the business.

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6 Ways to Bring Strategy into Your Work Every Day

Harvard Business Review

Business leaders are expected to be strategic, and while organizational obstacles can prevent you from translating intent into strategic actions, so can your personal limitations and practices. It doesn’t have to be this way. Even when it feels like the odds are stacked against you, you have more choices than you may realize. Small decisions about where to focus and what to do throughout your day may feel inconsequential, but their impacts accumulate.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Almacenamiento: el gran olvidado de las implantaciones de IA

CIO

A medida que las empresas comienzan a desplegar y utilizar la inteligencia artificial (IA), muchas se dan cuenta de que necesitarán acceso a una potencia informática masiva y rápidas capacidades de red, pero las necesidades de almacenamiento pueden pasarse por alto. Es probable que la puesta en marcha de un chatbot o la adopción de un asistente de IA no pongan a prueba la capacidad de almacenamiento de la mayoría de las empresas, pero los grandes proyectos de IA con acceso a millones de puntos d

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IFS acquires EmpowerMX to bolster its aviation sector offering

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider IFS has agreed to acquire EmpowerMX, a vendor of software for managing aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), adding to the capabilities of its fleet service management suite for the aviation sector. IFS already offers software for MRO providers and airlines, including end-to-end aircraft management for maintenance, repairs, operations (MRO) enterprises, defense contract management, and ERP for aerospace and defense organizations.

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To Improve Health Care, Focus on Fixing Systems — Not People

Harvard Business Review

When efforts to improve health care, the failures are often blamed on leadership and culture. But the main problem often is the underlying systems. To generate better outcomes, increase safety, and improve efficiency, health care organizations should shift their focus to designing systems that facilitate delivery of the highest-quality care.

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¿Cómo lidiar con el aumento de los costes de ‘cloud’?

CIO

La complejidad de las infraestructuras de TI es cada vez mayor, al igual que la presión sobre los presupuestos de TI, que los CIO deben gestionar de la forma más inteligente y eficiente posible. Administrar de forma eficaz los costes de los entornos de nube es, por tanto, cada vez más importante; sin embargo, a muchas empresas les sigue resultando difícil vigilar los costes del despliegue en estos entornos y optimizarlos continuamente.

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Most Active Investor Rankings Got Reshuffled In Q2 As VCs Got Busier

Crunchbase News

The Crunchbase rankings of active startup investors looked quite different in the second quarter of 2024 compared to a year ago. First, nearly all of the most active venture investors were busier in Q2 of this year. Second, several names at or near the top of the list of busiest and highest-spending investors — including Khosla Ventures , Coatue , and Accel — were much lower down a year ago.

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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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GitLab Fixes Security Flaw That Lets Attackers Run Pipeline Jobs

DevOps.com

If left unpatched, the vulnerability in the code repository could let threat actors run malicious code and access sensitive information.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Skild AI Grabs $300M To Build Robot Brains

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. After a quiet holiday week, investors were back in action dishing out big rounds to startups in robotics, biotech, healthcare and more. Half a dozen rounds hit nine figures — perhaps a good sign for startups for the rest of summer. 1.

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Venue.sh DevOps Tools Extend To Orchestration & Standardization

DevOps.com

Venue.sh has launched its own DevOps platform. Initially presented as a tool catalog for software engineering teams to access throughout their development and delivery phases, the company has lofty ambitions for extending the platform’s functionality, remit and scope.

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Sustainable Growth Strategies: How Top Executives Are Innovating for a Greener Future

N2Growth Blog

Embracing the Shift Towards Eco-Friendly Green Business Practices In today’s business environment, sustainability has become an essential component of corporate strategy. Forward-thinking organizations understand the need to go beyond mere regulatory compliance. They strive for business models that not only drive economic value but also make a positive impact on the environment.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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 make the Xfce desktop more user-friendly

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Give these Xfce tweaks a try if you want a lightning-fast desktop operating system that's as user-friendly as possible.

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AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Ethics

Invid Group

Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Intellectual Property, Privacy, Ethics By Leticia N. Ruiz, Data Scientist at INVID Group In recent years, the rise of Large Language Models (LLM), such as Chat GPT, has significantly increased the general public’s interest in incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday solutions to improve workplaces, households, and society.

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Get an Echo Pop smart speaker for just $18 with this Prime Day deal

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

An Echo Pop is the perfect way to add a little pop of Alexa to your life this Prime Day, pun intended.

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API Implementation on AWS Serverless Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

This article describes the implementation of RESTful API on AWS serverless architecture. It provides a detailed overview of the architecture, data flow, and AWS services that can be used. This article also describes the benefits of the serverless architecture over the traditional approach. What Is Serverless Architecture? Serverless architecture, also known as serverless computing or function as a service, is a software design approach that allows developers to build and run applications without

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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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How Coaching Can Elevate Your Leadership Skills

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 262: In this Leadership Without Losing Your Soul episode, you’ll hear from Kim Ades, the founder of Frame of Mind Coaching, as she dives into the challenges leaders face and the significance of coaching in elevating leadership skills. Ades emphasizes leaders’ need to prioritize self-care, ensuring that critical aspects of your life don’t get neglected.

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7 Essential Tips for a Production ClickHouse Cluster

Dzone - DevOps

ClickHouse is the fastest, most resource-efficient OLAP database which can query billions of rows in milliseconds and is trusted by thousands of companies for real-time analytics. Here are seven tips to help you spin up a production ClickHouse cluster and avoid the most common mistakes.

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How Coaching Can Elevate Your Leadership Skills

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 262: In this Leadership Without Losing Your Soul episode, you’ll hear from Kim Ades, the founder of Frame of Mind Coaching, as she dives into the challenges leaders face and the significance of coaching in elevating leadership skills. Ades emphasizes leaders’ need to prioritize self-care, ensuring that critical aspects of your life don’t get neglected.

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Advancing Healthcare With Dataiku and NVIDIA

Dataiku

Last month, in an insight-packed webinar , Kelci Miclaus, Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences AI Solutions at Dataiku, Shashank Gaur, Solution Engineer at Dataiku, and Brad Genereaux, Global Lead Healthcare Alliances at NVIDIA, shared and discussed the state of AI in healthcare and how NVIDIA AI services are helping organizations in unlocking digital health and medical imaging workflows, followed by demonstrations of seamlessly using NVIDIA AI services in Dataiku.

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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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Investing in Success: Why Executive Coaching is Crucial for Start-Up Entrepreneurs

N2Growth Blog

The Benefits of Executive Coaching for Start-Up Entrepreneurs Executive coaching has become increasingly popular among start-up entrepreneurs, and for good reason. The benefits of executive coaching for these ambitious individuals are undeniable. By working with a seasoned coach, start-up entrepreneurs gain invaluable guidance and support that help them navigate the complexities of building a successful business.

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Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple

David Heinemeier Hansson

It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been immensely enjoyable. What seemed so difficult at first now appears trivial, since it's been done.

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The Succession Planning Playbook: Practical Tips for Smooth Board Chair Transitions

N2Growth Blog

The Need for Effective Leadership Succession Regardless of size or industry, every organization goes through leadership transitions. This inevitable change can sometimes cause instability and uncertainty within the workforce if not managed carefully. Effective leadership succession fills the vacancy left by a departing leader, ensuring a seamless transition and continuity in the organization’s strategic direction and operations.

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The best VPN services of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best VPNs and ranked them based on speed, security, and features, to help protect you as you browse and stream online.

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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 N2Growth Advantage: Accelerating Chief Customer Officer Search

N2Growth Blog

Tasked with aligning company objectives with customer needs, the Chief Customer Officer role has grown prominently over the years. As the executive in charge of client and customer relationships, the CCO ensures that all customer-facing operations consider the customer perspective. With their leadership, an organization can develop strategies to enhance the customer experience and cultivate long-term customer loyalty.

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The best Chromebooks for students in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best Chromebooks for students that are great for note-taking, videoconferencing, essay writing, and more.

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CISA, FBI Urge Immediate Action on OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities in Network Devices 

Ooda Loop

Recent intrusions are exploiting Cisco NX-OS, Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, and Ivanti Connect Secure. In response, CISA and the FBI are calling upon business leaders and device manufacturers to take action. They want these actors to eliminate OS command injection vulnerabilities at the source.

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