Tue.Sep 24, 2024

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AWS Security Essentials: From Prevention to Detection

Xebia

As businesses move to the cloud, ensuring the security of the cloud environment is crucial. AWS offers a range of security services like AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie etc. designed to help you monitor and respond to security events for your workload and infra. It’s also important to ensure that these security services themselves should be always active and functioning correctly.

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Making AI real: It takes a CAIO

CIO

Inspired by the vast potential of generative AI, many IT and business leaders are concluding the best way to realize the transformative potential of all forms of AI is by handing responsibility to a single leader — a chief AI officer (CAIO). Although AI itself is not new, putting a single individual in charge of it is a novel approach that is becoming mainstream.

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Using GenAI to build a capability map and translate legacy systems

Martin Fowler

Alessio Ferri , Tom Coggrave , and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages.

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ServiceNow certificate error disrupts operations for hundreds of organizations

CIO

Enterprise cloud vendor ServiceNow faced widespread customer frustration after a root certificate error disrupted services for over 600 organizations. The issue began early Monday morning when a key SSL certificate expired and affected the company’s Management, Instrumentation, and Discovery (MID) Server, leaving users unable to integrate applications, access updates, and manage critical operations.

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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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OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack

DevOps.com

OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory.

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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried

Harvard Business Review

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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How your IT experts become consultants (and charge you more)

CIO

I’m an industry pundit (IP). I might even be a Recognized Industry Pundit (RIP). Ever wonder what it takes to achieve this exalted state of rentable wisdom? Once upon a time I was a lowly IT manager. I say “lowly” because the IT function I was responsible for was one of those absolutely essential but utterly thankless IT responsibilities where the “ invisibility index ” is the key success metric.

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Grafana Labs Looks to Make Composing Observability Platforms Simpler

DevOps.com

Grafana Labs, today at its ObservabilityCon event, unfurled a raft of additional offerings, including public previews of Explore Traces and Explore Profiles tools that make it simple to drill down into data without having to master a specific query language.

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Identificación y seguimiento de botellas de vino mediante etiquetas inteligentes; así se digitaliza la gestión bodeguera

CIO

La digitalización no entiende de fronteras. Eviden ha anunciado el desarrollo e implementación de una nueva solución de gestión de bodegas diseñada por Selartag, multinacional especializada en el desarrollo de soluciones inteligentes para el entorno vinícola. Basada en un concepto único e innovador de identificación y seguimiento de botellas de vino, la solución proporciona datos fiables y en tiempo real tanto a usuarios como propietarios de bodegas, enólogos, sumilleres y restaurantes, ayudándo

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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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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process

Harvard Business Review

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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FinOps and AI: Balancing innovation and cost efficiency

CIO

Accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is fuelling rapid expansion in both the amount of stored data and the number of processes needed to train and run machine learning models. This is driving an unprecedented hunger for extra compute power. To manage this power effectively, companies depend on cloud infrastructures that can handle giant processes at scale.

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SBOM as a Cornerstone of Secure Software Development

DevOps.com

By providing transparency into the software supply chain, an SBOM helps organizations identify and manage vulnerabilities in third-party and open-source components.

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La CAM estrecha lazos con Reino Unido para impulsar la transformación digital de los servicios públicos

CIO

La transformación digital conquista la esfera pública dada su capacidad para fomentar la mejora y modernización de los servicios públicos. Partiendo de esta premisa, la Comunidad de Madrid y Reino Unido colaborarán para promover proyectos de digitalización y aplicación de tecnologías emergentes como la inteligencia artificial en los servicios públicos que ambos organismos brindan.

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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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Corporate Venture Deal Numbers Are Down Despite Big AI Headlines

Crunchbase News

It seems every time a large generative AI company raises billions of dollars, one of the Big Tech pillars such as Nvidia , Microsoft or Google is leading the round. However, a look at Crunchbase data shows something surprising — corporate venture investments were actually down throughout the past two years. More than two-thirds of the way through 2024, U.S.

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CDOs and CDAOs: Rethink your role or fade away

CIO

Chief data and analytics officers need to reinvent themselves in the age of AI or risk their responsibilities being assimilated by their organizations’ IT teams, according to a new Gartner report. Three-quarters of CDAOs who fail to make companywide influence and measurable business impact their top priorities by 2026 will be swallowed up by IT functions, the analyst firm predicts.

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Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation

Ooda Loop

The report comes today from The Information, citing an unnamed existing investor who spoke to company leaders. It’s reported that talks are only in an early stage and that it’s not clear whether investors will agree to such a high valuation.

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Tencent Cloud partners with S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurship Club to build smart businesses with AI Digital Human solution

CIO

At the recent 2024 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of the global leading technology company Tencent, announced a strategic partnership with the S.M.A.R.T Entrepreneurship Club , a club dedicated to connecting business needs with leading AI solutions and fostering international collaborations that enhance value for all stakeholders.

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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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Simple and Effective Personalization with Optimizely Data Platform (ODP)

Perficient

As we dive into the amazing capabilities of Optimizely One , let’s shine a spotlight on the Optimizely Data Platform (ODP). This simple tool unifies all your customer data in one place, making segmentation and personalization a breeze for your marketing team. With ODP, you’ll gain a complete view of your customers’ interactions and behaviors, empowering you to create personalized experiences, optimize your email marketing campaigns, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.

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Cinco cosas que su junta directiva debe saber sobre innovación y liderazgo intelectual

CIO

Hay muchas formas de educar a su junta directiva sobre la preparación de la organización para tiempos difíciles. He aquí cinco áreas específicas en las que centrarse en relación con la innovación y el liderazgo intelectual. La innovación, fundamental a pesar de los ciclos económicos o los resultados de la empresa Especialmente en tiempos difíciles, la junta directiva puede buscar formas adicionales de mejorar los márgenes de beneficio y, en general, apretarse el cinturón.

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Are We At The End Of The Startup M&A Era (And The Tech Dominance Of Silicon Valley)?

Crunchbase News

By Alberto Onetti The ability to continuously produce innovation has been one of Silicon Valley’s main key drivers. VCs invest in startups, and startups use the funds to acquire other startups, allowing them to grow and innovate at a faster pace. Big Tech companies buy startups too — to onboard talent and innovation. Eventually, startups exit and return capital to VCs, who then invest in a new wave of startups.

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Handling the Producer Request: Kafka Producer and Consumer Internals, Part 2

Confluent

Learn how your data goes from a producing client all the way to disk on a broker—along the way traversing buffers, threads, queues and more.

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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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Beyond Backend: Honeycomb for Frontend Observability is Now GA

Honeycomb

Real user monitoring (RUM) tools are great if you want to give your developers a very high level view of the health of your frontend. But when it comes to actually debugging issues in your web app, you’re often left piecing together outputs from browser devtools, with details (if you’re lucky) from customer support tickets to replicate issues locally in hopes of identifying the source of the issue.

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Driving Industry Development of Zero Trust Through Best Common Practices

CableLabs

In recent years, the U.S. government has undertaken efforts to adopt a zero trust architecture strategy for security to protect critical data and infrastructure across federal systems. It has also urged critical infrastructure sectors — including the broadband industry — to implement zero trust concepts within their networks. The industry plays a key role in managing the National Critical Functions (NCFs) as a part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) critical infrastru

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AI-Powered Customer Support Startup Ujet Raises $76M

Crunchbase News

Perhaps no space is more ripe for an AI takeover than the contact centers industry — and VC investors seem to agree. Ujet , an AI-powered cloud contact center startup, locked up a $76 million Series D led by Sapphire Ventures , with participation from new investors KeyBank and Ion Pacific , and existing investors GV , Kleiner Perkins , Citi Ventures , DCM Ventures and Ericsson Ventures.

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Forrester Names Palo Alto Networks a Leader in Attack Surface Management

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex Xpanse is recognized with the top vendor score in the strategy category, receiving the highest possible scores in the Vision, Innovation and Roadmap criteria. Organizations are modernizing their network architectures by adopting new security models, cloud computing, SaaS and remote workforce support. This shift adds complexity to security efforts, stretching them thin as both known and unknown IT infrastructures expand.

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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 2-in-1 laptop I recommend for the office is not a Dell or a Lenovo ThinkPad

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

HP's EliteBook x360 1040 is a professional laptop/tablet combo with a feature set that enables one of the best video call environments for a work laptop.

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Forrester Names Palo Alto Networks a Leader in Attack Surface Management

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex Xpanse is recognized with the top vendor score in the strategy category, receiving the highest possible scores in the Vision, Innovation and Roadmap criteria. Organizations are modernizing their network architectures by adopting new security models, cloud computing, SaaS and remote workforce support. This shift adds complexity to security efforts, stretching them thin as both known and unknown IT infrastructures expand.

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Google Photos adds one-tap video editing for faster clip sharing, thanks to AI

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Along with making tools easier to access, Google is introducing new editing tools to save you time and effort while you create 'stunning' clips.

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