CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

The pressure is on for CIOs to deliver value from AI, but pressing ahead with AI implementations without the necessary workforce training in place is a recipe for falling short of their goals. At the organizational level, CIOs are being called on to help ensure employees are up to speed on the skills necessary to make good on the promise of AI. For many IT leaders, being central to organization-wide training initiatives may be new territory.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2024

While much has been said about the potential benefits of remote work for women, recent research examines how working from home affects the professional development of female software engineers at a Fortune 500 company, revealing that its impact varies by career stage. Junior women engineers benefit significantly from in-person mentorship, receiving 40% more feedback when sitting near colleagues, while senior women face reduced productivity due to increased mentoring duties.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications. That definition was well ahead of its time and forecasted the current era’s machine learning and generative AI capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2024

There is a critical need to reassess the focus on continuous growth in the global economic system. The concept of “degrowth” challenges the necessity of perpetual economic expansion for human prosperity, suggesting it contradicts ecological sustainability on a planet with finite resources. Despite some resistance, especially from the business sector, the arguments supporting degrowth underscore the inextricable link between economic growth and environmental degradation, proposing a shift toward

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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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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Downtime cost large enterprises an average of $200 million annually, cutting 9% from yearly profits, according to a study commissioned by Splunk. And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it. For the study, titled “The Hidden Costs of Downtime,” Oxford Economics quizzed executives from Global 2000 companies about the causes and costs of downtime in IT systems.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Pegasystems has announced plans to expand the capabilities of its Pega GenAI enterprise platform by connecting to both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud large language models (LLMs). By moving beyond Microsoft Azure OpenAI, Pegasystems is broadening the options available to its Pega platform customers for developing AI-based workflow automations.

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Ivanti

JUNE 11, 2024

This month is a much milder Patch Tuesday compared to the zero-day lineup from last month. Looking at CISA’s KEV Catalog from the end of May up to Patch Tuesday, there was another Chrome zero-day ( CVE-2024-5274 ) on May 28; Justice AV Solutions ( CVE-2024-4978 ) on May 29; a Linux Kernel Use-After-Free vulnerability ( CVE-2024-1086 ) on May 30; an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Check Point Quantum Security Gateways ( CVE-2024-24919 ) on May 30; and most recent, but also an interesting

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

With a shortage of IT workers with AI skills looming, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering two new certifications to help enterprises building AI applications on its platform to find the necessary talent. One of the certifications, AWS Certified AI Practitioner, is a foundational-level certification to help workers from a variety of backgrounds to demonstrate that they understand AI and generative AI concepts, can recognize opportunities that benefit from AI, and know how to use AI tools respon

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2024

Being a leader in today’s evolving workplace is more emotionally demanding than ever — and especially so if you’re quietly sustaining the emotional well-being of your team or others. In this article, the author outlines five strategies to help you perform this vital organizational role without burning yourself out: 1) Seek to understand — not to feel. 2) Install boundaries. 3) Savor your positive impact. 4) Show yourself equal care. 5) Tie your contributions to performance.

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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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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

En un escenario cada vez más digitalizado y automatizado, la importancia de la formación en inteligencia artificial (IA) se torna más evidente que nunca. Según se desprende de una reciente encuesta realizada por la asociación internacional ISACA, únicamente el 3% de los trabajadores de tecnologías de la información (TI) poseen actualmente un certificado en habilidades de IA.

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Tenable

JUNE 11, 2024

1 Critical 48 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 49 CVEs in its June 2024 Patch Tuesday release with one rated as critical and no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Our counts omitted two CVEs that were not issued by Microsoft, which include CVE-2023-50868 (issued by MITRE) and CVE-2024-29187 (issued by GitHub). Microsoft patched 49 CVEs in its June 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with one rated critical and 48 rated as important.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Como responsable de transformación, inteligencia artificial (IA) y delivery en Guardian Life, John Napoli está impulsando las iniciativas de IA de su empresa. Y gran parte de ello consiste en aumentar el talento en IA. Pero Napoli, al igual que muchos CIO, se enfrenta a un panorama difícil para las competencias más buscadas, especialmente en el terreno de la IA.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 11, 2024

Phishing threat insights from a study of 500 cybersecurity leaders. Phishing has been around for decades and yet with each passing year, attacks are becoming increasingly pervasive and destructive. According to an independent study of 500 cybersecurity leaders conducted by UK security vendor Egress, 95% of leaders are stressed about email security, questioning their effectiveness.

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Engineering

CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Los programas de transformación digital prometen una gran cantidad de ventajas, pero los retos imprevistos pueden anular el valor cuantificable. Una planificación cuidadosa y una evaluación holística de las propuestas de sus socios de integración de sistemas (SI) son pasos fundamentales en su iniciativa de transformación. Es importante identificar claramente qué valor espera obtener de sus socios en comparación con el precio que está pagando, así como el riesgo que está asumiendo como cliente.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 11, 2024

At O’Reilly, we’re not just building training materials about AI. We’re also using it to build new kinds of learning experiences. One of the ways we are putting AI to work is our update to Answers. Answers is a generative AI-powered feature that aims to answer questions in the flow of learning. It’s in every book, on-demand course, and video, and will eventually be available across our entire learning platform.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Once perceived as an abstract concept, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative AI (genAI) have become more normalized as organizations look at ways to implement them into their tech stack. From improving the customer experience to enabling intelligence-driven business decisions, organizations recognize the need for AI to thrive in today’s digital economy.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 11, 2024

Another busy day when it comes to big raises in the world of AI. Paris-based Mistral AI finally secured its much talked about round that values the OpenAI and Anthropic competitor at $6 billion, per a report in the Financial Times. According to the report, Mistral AI raised $500 million in equity and $140 million in debt. The round was led by General Catalyst and includes a long list of investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners , Andreessen Horowitz , Nvidia , Samsung Venture Investment ,

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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.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

As a senior executive coach, I get to work with a lot of really smart people who have serious processing power upstairs. Smart, however, doesn’t always mean wise. In a nutshell, intelligence is usually about generating or acquiring knowledge while wisdom is about exercising good judgment in applying that knowledge. There are other simple distinctions between intelligence and wisdom that you can use as a guide to determine in which direction you lean or, better yet, what it looks like to strike a

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 11, 2024

In today’s competitive business environment, mastering revenue metrics is pivotal for sustainable growth. Two key metrics are GRR, or gross revenue retention, and NRR, or net revenue retention. I will not dive into how to calculate them as it is widely available information, the benchmarks are also available and periodically change. Instead I will focus on when they should be used and under what conditions one may be more important than the other.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JUNE 11, 2024

Wiz is a cloud security platform that enables organizations to secure everything they build and run in the cloud by rapidly identifying and removing critical risks. Over 40% of the Fortune 100 trust Wiz’s purpose-built cloud security platform to gain full-stack visibility, accurate risk prioritization, and enhanced business agility. Organizations can connect Wiz in minutes to scan the entire cloud environment without agents and identify the issues representing real risk.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 11, 2024

Education is not a hot area for venture investors lately. So far in 2024, startups in the space have pulled in just over $1 billion in total funding, 1 per Crunchbase data. Consequently, investment in edtech is on track to hit its lowest total in years. For a sense of how steeply funding has fallen, we charted out total annual investment and deal counts since 2019 below.

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Cloudera

JUNE 11, 2024

More than two-thirds of companies are currently using Generative AI (GenAI) models, such as large language models (LLMs), which can understand and generate human-like text, images, video, music, and even code. However, the true power of these models lies in their ability to adapt to an enterprise’s unique context. By leveraging an organization’s proprietary data, GenAI models can produce highly relevant and customized outputs that align with the business’s specific needs and ob

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Ivanti

JUNE 11, 2024

Interest in generative AI has skyrocketed since the release of tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and others. Along with the hype comes concerns about privacy, personal identifiable information (PII), security and accuracy. Organizations are treading cautiously with generative AI tools despite seeing them as a game changer. Many seek the “sweet spot” – enabling benefits right now while identifying more strategic future uses, all without compromising security.

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InfoWorld

JUNE 11, 2024

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write expressions for your Java programs. In many cases, you'll use operators to write your Java expressions, and there are many operator types to know how to use. I'll briefly introduce Java's operator types, including the additive, bitwise, logical, conditional, shift, and equality types and their operands.

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Tenable

JUNE 11, 2024

More than 80% of all breaches involve data stored in the cloud, and security teams that don’t use cloud workload protection (CWP) may never get ahead of attackers who want to access as much data as possible with the least effort. A single cloud breach is often the most straightforward way into these sensitive environments. On average, it costs nearly $5 million to respond and recover.

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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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InfoWorld

JUNE 11, 2024

In a past column , I talked about how the fat cats of social media profit from all of the value that normal folks like you and I provide. Social media sites have complete control over the attention-creating value that we provide for them, and give us little to no say over how that content is managed. They can even take away access to our profiles. All the money generated by our work ends up in their coffers.

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Confluent

JUNE 11, 2024

Build with Confluent helps system integrators develop joint solutions faster, including specialized software bundles, support from data streaming experts to certify offerings, and access to Confluent’s Go-To-Market teams to amplify audience.

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InfoWorld

JUNE 11, 2024

The potential of generative AI has captivated both businesses and consumers alike, but growing concerns around issues like privacy, accuracy, and bias have prompted a burning question: What are we feeding these models? The current supply of public data has been adequate to produce high-quality general purpose models, but is not enough to fuel the specialized models enterprises need.

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