Tue.May 07, 2024

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Red Hat seeks to shrink IT skills gap with Lightspeed gen AI

CIO

For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). By infusing gen AI functionality across its portfolio, Red Hat aims to reduce the complexity of enterprise IT and help platform engineers and developers be more accurate a

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Starting your Internal Developer Platform journey

Xebia

If you work in the Tech industry, whether you provide a service or deliver a product, you have probably heard of the new Internal Developer Platform or Platform Engineering trend. Platform Engineering revolves around enabling self-service for developers by providing tools and workflows and integrating them into an IDP. You might be one of the lucky ones who is adopting the trend in your organisation and seeing first-hand the results of that adoption.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. Now, CDOs find themselves under additional pressure to make sure organizational data is accurate and complete, as companies launch AI projects hungry for clean and easy-to-access data.

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4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them

Harvard Business Review

Managers spend 20% of their time on average managing team conflict. Over the past three decades, the authors have studied thousands of team conflicts around the world and have identified four common patterns of team conflict. The first occurs when conflict revolves around a single member of a team (20-25% of team conflicts). The second is when two members of a team disagree (the most common team conflict at 35%).

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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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Innovating Services for a Digital, Intelligent Future

CIO

Digital transformation remains top of mind worldwide. According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognised as a keystone for future growth.

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SAP forecasts clarity in the cloud

CIO

Martin Bayer: At the moment, user companies are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing, but also SAP’s RISE and GROW programs, especially in Germany. Last year’s message that certain core innovations would only be offered in the cloud has also caused some resentment among users. How do you want to take your customers with you on their journey? Christian Klein: I understand there’s some reluctance among [German-speaking SAP user group] DSAG and some other customers to embrace the cloud.

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Oracle Plans to Apply Generative AI to Java and SQL

DevOps.com

Oracle today revealed it is developing a generative artificial intelligence assistant that leverages multiple large language models to create Java and SQL code, in a way that is tuned to the existing code bases and best practices that an organization employs.

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ADNOC, G42 and Presight partner to accelerate AI solutions

CIO

AI is revolutionizing entire sectors and ADNOC aims to be the most AI-enabled company in the energy industry. ADNOC has developed its digital infrastructure, enabling the company to rapidly expand its business, unlock untapped opportunities, and responsibly supply energy to meet customer needs. In 2023, ADNOC announced that it generated 500 USD million in value by deploying AI solutions, from the integration of over 30 industry-leading AI tools across its full value chain, from field operations

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Accelerating Real Time Security Outcomes with Precision AI

Palo Alto Networks

New capabilities enable customers to counter AI with AI, secure AI by design and simplify security. AI Is already transforming every enterprise. AI has been driving productivity for over a decade, but over the past 18 months, it has hyper accelerated with broad adoption of generative AI. This has fueled AI adoption across the entire enterprise with employees finding uses for GenAI in every department.

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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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Opening more opportunities for VMware Cloud Service Providers

CIO

Last month I had the opportunity to provide a comprehensive update on our new Broadcom Advantage Partner Program for VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners, and since that time, the response from our partner community has been tremendous. Many VCSP Pinnacle Partners have announced their expanded relationship with Broadcom, and hundreds of our partners have signed up for the Broadcom Advantage Program Premier and Registered tiers.

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My Misconceptions About Earning Career Success And How I Eventually Got it Right

CEO Insider

Very few of us have a straight-line career trajectory. Even the most successful leaders experience setbacks, changes in interests, passions and opportunities, and a continual mix of good fortune and misfortune. All the while learning and evolving. As our careers progress, one dynamic we seem to share is a desire to have known then what […] The post My Misconceptions About Earning Career Success And How I Eventually Got it Right appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Los consejos de 007 para que su empresa sea tan segura como el MI6

CIO

También te puede interesar: ¿Qué razones llevan a un hacker a atacar una empresa? Las 10 diferencias fundamentales de los ataques promovidos por estados El Gobierno de Canadá sufre un ataque DDoS Sites de la Armada de EEUU, víctimas de un ciberataque 1.- Credenciales con fecha automática de expiración para las nuevas contrataciones. Aunque su proceso corporativo de contratación no sea tan intenso como el de un agente secreto, al final del día no todo al que se contrata se queda finalmente.

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Global VC Funding Isn’t Slowing, But It’s Not Growing Either, April Numbers Show

Crunchbase News

Global venture capital funding reached just over $22 billion in April 2024 — flat month over month and up a few percentage points year over year — Crunchbase data shows. The slowdown in venture funding has continued despite the AI technology wave that has washed over startups in the past few years. Of the $22 billion invested in startups globally last month, around $2.4 billion, or 11%, went to about 1,000 seed-stage companies.

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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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Cuatrecasas apuesta por la inteligencia artificial para mejorar el trabajo de sus abogados

CIO

Con más de 1.900 profesionales y oficinas en 16 países, la firma legal Cuatrecasas lleva más de 100 años asesorando a sus clientes y ofreciéndoles soluciones adaptadas a sus necesidades empresariales. Para ello, la compañía apuesta desde hace tiempo por una cultura de innovación aplicada a la actividad legal que combina formación, procesos y recursos tecnológicos para aportar mayor valor y eficiencia a los clientes.

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Does Your Organization Have the Energy to Transform?

Harvard Business Review

In a business environment that requires companies to adapt on an almost continuous basis, burnout is a real risk for many companies. This article describes the four key steps companies embarking on transformation initiatives should take if they are to make sure they don’t fall victim to burnout on the way: 1) understand the organization’s change capacity; 2) measure and manage disruption meticulously; 3) recognize and reward success; and 4) expand change capacity.

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Boost employee productivity with automated meeting summaries using Amazon Transcribe, Amazon SageMaker, and LLMs from Hugging Face

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The prevalence of virtual business meetings in the corporate world, largely accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is here to stay. Based on a survey conducted by American Express in 2023, 41% of business meetings are expected to take place in hybrid or virtual format by 2024. Attending multiple meetings daily and keeping track of all ongoing topics gets increasingly more difficult to manage over time.

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Why Companies Must Recommit to the Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 20 years, there have been dramatic gains for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S.: gay, queer, and trans individuals fought for and won equal treatment at work, legal marriage, the freedom to raise children, and the ability to openly serve in the military, and more. But now, many of these new-won rights are at risk. Many countries (mostly in the Middle East and Africa) continue to brutally repress LGBTQ+ individuals.

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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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Information extraction with LLMs using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) have unlocked new possibilities for extracting information from unstructured text data. Although much of the current excitement is around LLMs for generative AI tasks, many of the key use cases that you might want to solve have not fundamentally changed. Tasks such as routing support tickets, recognizing customers intents from a chatbot conversation session, extracting key entities from contracts, invoices, and other type of documents, as well as analyzing customer f

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Cloud Security Firm Wiz Raises $1B At $12B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Cloud security startup Wiz locked up the biggest cybersecurity round of the year thus far as it raised $1 billion at a $12 billion valuation. The round — announced as the industry’s RSA Conference is getting underway in San Francisco — could be another sign of investors coming back to the cybersecurity space. Cyber startups are coming off their best funding quarter in three quarters , and late last month Microsoft -backed data security firm Rubrik had a successful IPO.

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Dell and Red Hat Transform AI Complexity into Opportunity

Dell EMC

Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift empowers organizations to implement impactful AI initiatives quickly and easily.

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Are Products Really Better Than Services? Maybe It’s Time To Reevaluate 

Crunchbase News

In the investment community, a consensus has long been that products, especially those with a recurring business model, hold a definitive edge over services. This perspective is often reflected in valuation practices, where product-based revenue typically commands higher multipliers than service-based revenue. This preference underscores an inclination toward the scalability and predictability that products can offer.

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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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Oracle unveils AI-powered coding assistant

InfoWorld

Oracle has announced Oracle Code Assist, an AI-powered coding assistant that will provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization’s best practices and codebases. Oracle did not provide an availability date for Oracle Code Assist, but said that developers at Oracle have been using the tool to build Oracle products and services.

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Florida Startup Funding Has Stopped Shrinking

Crunchbase News

Florida, and Miami in particular, generated a lot of hype a few years ago as a hot and low-tax hub for startup founders and investors. At the peak in 2022, nearly $9 billion flowed to Sunshine State startups. But the buzz died down shortly after. Last year, Florida companies pulled in less than $2.6 billion in venture funding, with investment contracting much more sharply than the national average, Crunchbase data shows.

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Copilots in Cybersecurity — Realizing the Promise of Precision

Palo Alto Networks

There’s been a dramatic leap forward in what’s possible around Precision AI, and security professionals are looking for ways to leverage these advances in meaningful ways. Early instances of copilots within the cybersecurity industry left many practitioners uneasy, as demos and proof of concepts returned erroneous or even offensive responses to standard security-related questions.

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British Self-Driving Car Maker Wayve Revs Up With Whopping $1B SoftBank-led Round

Crunchbase News

London-based self-driving car startup Wayve has raised $1.05 billion in a SoftBank -led round, marking one of the largest funding deals on record for a British startup and signaling continued investor fervor for all things artificial intelligence. Nvidia and existing investor Microsoft , both active investors in the AI space, also joined in the Series C funding.

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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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Microsoft working on an LLM to take on Gemini, GPT-4

InfoWorld

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new large language model (LLM) to take on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4. Codenamed MAI-1, the new LLM is currently in the development phase and is being led by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, The Information reported citing two sources.

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Radar Trends to Watch: May 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the past month, we saw a blizzard of new language models. It’s almost hard to consider this news, though Microsoft’s open (but maybe not open source) Phi-3 is certainly worth a look. We’ve also seen promising work on reducing the resources required to do inference. While this may lead to larger models, it should also lead to reduced power use for small and mid-sized models.

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Deno boosts language server performance

InfoWorld

With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript / TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1 , Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Deno language server, commonly referred to as Deno LSP, which provides auto-completion in the editor and other capabilities.