Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

The prospect of a new career can hold a sense of excitement. But what should you do if your job search has become a disheartening slog and the gap on your resume just seems to be growing wider by the day? What can you do to protect your mental health and rekindle your optimism for the future? In this article, the author offers practical advice to help you navigate your career switch when you’re worried about a widening gap on your resume.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. “Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp.

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Martin Fowler

APRIL 4, 2024

Mainframe processing is often organized into pipelines of batch processes consuming and creating data files. Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave show a couple of ways they found to introduce seams into these pipelines , so that processing could be replaced by steps in a replacement platform.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Skim recent articles about enterprise architecture (EA) and you’ll notice a contradiction. Of them, plenty suggest that, unless a company develops a strong EA muscle, it will limit itself. Yet just as many seem to question the function’s value, or spotlight material that does. A recent report from Forrester, for example, opens: “[While] enterprise architecture remains a critical capability … many digital and IT professionals view enterprise architecture as a roadblock that adds no real value.

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Martin Fowler

APRIL 4, 2024

Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave move on to analyzing the internal seams of the application by treating the database as a coarse-grained seam. They describe how they introduced seams into the database readers and writers.

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Xebia

APRIL 4, 2024

Introduction How often can your organization boast about getting a steady and predictable flow of productivity? In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. A pleasant collaboration ensures smooth processes and timely deliveries with high-quality output. However, in practice this desired synergy is often elusive, in worst cases leading to a siloed work environment.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Mohammed Al Rawi was appointed as the first CIO of Los Angeles County Public Defender’s (LACPD) office roughly five years ago, signaling the beginning of an era where technology and justice intersect to help the most vulnerable in the court system. He arrived at a crucial time when the office, laden with paper records and outdated legacy systems, desperately needed a digital overhaul.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 4, 2024

"Q-Day" is a scenario where "no more secrets" becomes a reality, as previously secure communications and data could be vulnerable to decryption by entities wielding quantum computational power (also known as "Quantum Supremacy"). Find a breakdown, analysis, and future scenarios here.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. This move comes as the company seeks to streamline its operations and focus on areas that deliver a better return on investment. “We’ve identified a few targeted areas of the organization we need to streamline in order to continue focusing our efforts on the key strategic areas that

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

Surfacing the undiscussables on your team may be uncomfortable, but it must be an ongoing campaign, or they will sneakily build up in the background and impact your employees’ morale. In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

One thing that sets apart Foundry events is that they are informed by the always-insightful editorial coverage from titles such as CIO, CSO, and InfoWorld. Members of the event team are not only avid readers, we pick the brains of the journalists to help guide the event content and invite them to join us as session moderators. At our upcoming Data, Analytics & AI Summit – a virtual event taking place April 11 – attendees will hear from CIO editors and contributors, including Paula Rooney, Lu

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

Giving each generation — and, importantly, each individual — the opportunity to be seen, understood, valued, and leveraged in the workplace throughout the course of their career is essential for personal, social, and even societal well-being. This author offers five steps leaders can take to create healthy six-generation organizations.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Three years ago, Essen-based Eon’s IT function was in the dumps, according to CIO Sebastian Webers’ colleagues when he took on his new role. In his keynote speech at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days in February, Weber looked back on those first three years and the journey he and his team took during that time. At first, Weber made it clear his initial focus wouldn’t be on outstanding chatbot or AI projects, but basic work, or “cleaning up the basement,” as he said.

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Ivanti

APRIL 4, 2024

To Ivanti’s Valued Customers and Partners, Our organization strives to produce the most secure solutions for Everywhere Work. Events in recent months have been humbling, and I want you to hear directly from me about the actions we are taking to ensure we emerge stronger, and our customers are more secure. We and many others in our industry have witnessed, firsthand, the increasing complexity of the threat landscape and the specific evolution of threat-actor tactics.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and how CIOs in Australia can prepare for them. Australian privacy legislation is about to undergo a major overhaul with more than 100 proposals under consideration, you can see the detail here. While the exact details of changes to the law remain unknown, there is much that organisations can do to prepare.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 4, 2024

The first quarter of 2024 was the second-lowest on record for global startup funding since the beginning of 2018, according to an analysis of Crunchbase data. Global venture funding reached $66 billion in the first quarter, up 6% quarter over quarter but down 20% year over year, Crunchbase data shows. The lowest in the past six years was the previous quarter, Q4 2023.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Artificial Intelligence will be a big game changer in the global economy. We have seen a global shift towards AI and advanced technologies in the Middle East. According to PwCm the Middle East is expected to accrue 2% of the total global benefits of AI in 2030. This is equivalent to 320 billion USD. In absolute terms, the largest gains are expected to accrue to Saudi Arabia where AI is expected to contribute over 135.2 billion USD in 2030 to the economy.

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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.

Artificial Inteligence

Crunchbase News

APRIL 4, 2024

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Microsoft recently made waves when it was revealed it would lure two co-founders of generative AI startup Inflection AI away from the company, hire most of its 70-person staff, and license its technology. The deal — seemingly framed in a way to get around any regulatory hurdles since it is not officially an acquisition — once again showed the tech titan’s insatiable appetite for all things AI.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

Amazon’s US-based Amazon Fresh stores will no longer offer customers the option to “just walk out,” and will move to a system of scanners attached to carts instead of the more advanced computer vision system that obviated the checkout process altogether. Amazon confirmed the report, first published this week by The Information , in a statement today, saying that it would prioritize the Dash Cart as the checkout option over “just walk out,” which uses a system of smart vision cameras to track cus

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Data Virtualization

APRIL 4, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing timely, intuitive access to information has been top-of-mind for many companies, and their data professionals in particular. Over the past few decades, we have been storing up data and generating even more of it than we have known what. The post Querying Minds Want to Know: Can a Data Fabric and RAG Clean up LLMs? appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

SASE is going to be worth $25 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 29%, according to Gartner. Given that SASE is an approach that addresses the challenges of delivering seamless and secure connectivity for decentralised work environments, and remote working has remained a key trend over the last few years, this growth is unsurprising. “Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture that consolidates connectivity and security into a single cloud platform.

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The Citus Data

APRIL 4, 2024

PgBouncer is probably the most popular connection pooler for Postgres. It is essentially a transparant middleware between clients and the server. However, it is not %100 transparent in practice. There are a few intricacies that should be taken into account when using PgBouncer. One such consideration is that PgBouncer does not support the use of all session variables in transaction pooling mode.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2024

L’intelligenza artificiale generativa ha il potere di reinventare ogni aspetto di un business. Le aziende si stanno rendendo conto del suo potenziale, ma prima di poter spostare le loro strategie gen AI dallo status di “promesse” a quello di “profitti”, dovranno rispondere a diverse domande legate alla tecnologia: ho il giusto LLM per il mio settore e la mia funzione?

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 4, 2024

Smarter Security {{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its custome

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Ruby on Rails

APRIL 4, 2024

Hi, Wojtek here exploring this week’s changes. Rails World 2024 edition website is now live With tickets going on sale in April. Allow to register transaction callbacks outside of a record ActiveRecord::Base.transaction now yields an ActiveRecord::Transaction object, which allows to register callbacks on it. Article. transaction do | transaction | article. update ( published: true ) transaction. after_commit do PublishNotificationMailer. with ( article: article ). deliver_later end end Added Act

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Leadership

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 4, 2024

Our reader poll today asks: How frequently do you deal with rumors and misinformation at your company? All the time. It’s non-stop 11.02% Frequently. I hear it more than I’d like 30.51% Sometimes. We face occasional distractions 26.70% Not often. Maybe once or twice a month 16.94% Not at all. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

The picture that accompanies this post was taken this morning, Thursday, April 4, 2024. It’s the photographic record of my fourth annual birthday handstand. So, this is me at age 63. My yoga teachers would certainly point out ways that I could improve my form, but I’m happy enough with this one. Honestly, if you had told me on my 43 rd birthday that I’d be doing handstands on my 63 rd , I would have politely told you you were nuts.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 4, 2024

Quiz #23 was: As a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer, you’ve encountered an alert indicating that the “worker-prod queue message age” has exceeded its threshold. This alarm could potentially impact the system’s performance and reliability. To effectively troubleshoot and address this issue, which of the following steps should you prioritize?

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