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On Nomads, Nomadism, the Emergence of the Nation-State, and Digital Nomadism

Ooda Loop

We explore the digital nomadic lifestyle and the global community of purveyors of the life of a digital nomad through the prism of our Digital Self-Sovereignty Research Initiative.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? There are major considerations as IT leaders develop their AI strategies and evaluate the landscape of their infrastructure. This blog examines: What is considered legacy IT infrastructure?

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Get rid of client secrets with OAuth authorization code PKCE flow

Xebia

In this article, we’ll dive into the OAuth 2.0 Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) flow, an extension of the Authorization Code flow that helps prevent CSRF and authorization code interception attacks. PKCE was originally designed to protect the authorization code flow in public clients (applications that cannot securely store secrets due to their execution environment, e.g., single-page web applications).

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AI success depends on a culture of innovation

CIO

In 2001, Steve Jobs called it as big a deal as the PC and venture capitalist John Doerr said it might be bigger than the internet. What revolutionary technology were they referring to? The Segway. You know, the personal transport device that flopped in the marketplace and became synonymous with mall security guards. The fanfare around artificial intelligence (AI) today is even bigger than the lofty talk about the Segway over twenty years 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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Survey Surfaces Varying Levels of Enthusiasm for AI Coding Tools

DevOps.com

A survey of 406 developers, software engineers, CTOs, CISOs and application security professionals finds that while the majority of respondents (80%) said their organization is ready to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to write code, the level of enthusiasm for these tools is far higher among C-level executives.

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When and How Family Businesses Should Use Shareholder Agreements

Harvard Business Review

Two studies by the authors demonstrate that the presence of robust shareholder agreements in publicly traded family firms in France adds 18% in market value to shareholders because they protect shareholders against misuse of capital by groups of family members. This article describes the critical provisions in such agreements and presents data showing the impact of these provisions on market value.

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How PlatformDIGITAL® enables private AI

CIO

What is required to enable Private AI for enterprises? Chris Sharp, CTO, discusses AI’s unique requirements for power density and interconnectivity and how PlatformDIGITAL® has been the home of AI and HPC deployments for many years. Watch this video to hear how these early deployments influenced our AI and HPC solutions. One of the reasons why Digital Realty and PlatformDIGITAL® have been the home of AI is just our core expertise and support for many years of different power density requirement

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3 Reasons Your Team Building Activities are Tanking Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

Stop Cringeworthy Team Building Activities By Avoiding These 3 Mistakes Done well, team building activities deepen connection and trust. They can get your team thinking (and talking about) what matters most. The best team building experiences make it easy to show up a bit more human. And give your team important insights into the humans they work with.

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Cybersecurity strategies for protecting data against ransomware and other threats

CIO

Data volumes continue to expand at an exponential rate, with no sign of slowing down. For instance, IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will grow to 12.8 ZB by 2026. To watch 12.8 ZB worth of movies in 780p HD, you’d need to plant yourself in front of the TV for more than 154 million years. Protecting these ever-increasing volumes of data is a high priority, and while there are many different types of cybersecurity threats to enterprise data, ransomware dominates the field

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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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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.

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Ahead of the curve on advanced cooling for AI & HPC

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) have emerged as key areas of opportunity for innovation and business transformation. The challenge for IT leaders is to enable these high-density workloads with the right IT infrastructure, and increasingly the community is discussing advanced cooling technologies like liquid cooling.

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Accounting Startup Klarity Books $70M Series B — Report

Crunchbase News

It’s weird to say, but accounting is hot — at least in the startup world. Klarity became the latest accounting-related startup to raise big in the sector. The San Francisco-based company raised a $70 million Series B led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross and included participation from Scale Venture Partners , Tola Capital , Picus Capital , Invus Capital and Y Combinator — per a report in The Information.

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Determining the best architecture for your CX platform

CIO

Innovation with respect to the customer experience remains crucial as global CX technology spending grows year-over-year , including increased spending on generative AI, the cloud, and digital services. Yet this acceleration can aggravate business management and create fundamental business risk, especially for established enterprises. Without the right cloud architecture, enterprises can be crushed under a mass of operational disruption that impedes their digital transformation.

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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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High Stakes, High Risk: Master Supply Chain Management with These 5 Scuba Diving Techniques

CEO Insider

What do scuba diving and supply chain management have in common? A lot, as I realized while on a scuba diving break from the hectic business world. It was while underwater, surrounded by calm, that I realized just how similar they are. Learning to scuba dive and mastering the complexities of supply chain management share […] The post High Stakes, High Risk: Master Supply Chain Management with These 5 Scuba Diving Techniques appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Harness AI’s potential and navigate disruption with Digital Realty

CIO

It may seem like artificial intelligence (AI) became a media buzzword overnight, but this disruptive technology has been at the forefront of our agenda for several years at Digital Realty. We’ve seen how the advent of cloud technology significantly transformed the landscape of digital business, and AI is set to disrupt industries in ways we are only beginning to understand.

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Why Cross-Functional Collaboration Stalls, and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that 78% of leaders report “collaboration drag” — too many meetings, too much peer feedback, and too much time spent getting buy-in from stakeholders.

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Desmontando mitos en torno a la IA y su impacto en el ámbito corporativo

CIO

En el entorno empresarial actual, la inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha consolidado como una fuerza transformadora, prometiendo optimizar procesos, impulsar la innovación y abrir nuevas fronteras en la eficiencia operativa de las corporaciones. Sin embargo, a pesar de su enorme potencial, la adopción generalizada de esta herramienta en las empresas sigue siendo cuestionable, sobre todo en las pymes.

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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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Leaner Times Persist For Alt Protein Funding

Crunchbase News

Lab-produced meat may be one of the weirder sectors for startup innovation. But in terms of funding and hype trajectory, it’s about as typical as it gets. The investment heyday for the space roughly coincided with the peak of the bull market. Cultivated meat companies pulled in over $1.6 billion in 2021 and 2022, per Crunchbase analysis. Leading names like Upside Foods , Believer Meats and Good Meat consumed over a billion between them.

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Sostenibilidad y tecnología, un binomio de futuro para el grupo bodeguero González Byass

CIO

Rondan las 10 de la mañana cuando sobre la tarima colocan una mesa con dos copas de vino. Un poco pronto para dar cuenta de ellas, pensarán, no sin acierto, los miles de espectadores que esperan a que hablen los ponentes. Estamos en Barcelona, en el marco del evento Sapphire 2024 del gigante alemán de ERP, SAP, y a escena sale, acompañada del ejecutivo de la firma Scott Russell, Elisabet Braza, responsable de proyectos SAP en González Byass, el grupo bodeguero casi bicentenario –nace en 1835 en

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Research: Using AI at Work Makes Us Lonelier and Less Healthy

Harvard Business Review

The promise of AI is alluring — optimized productivity, lightning-fast data analysis, and freedom from mundane tasks — and both companies and workers alike are fascinated (and more than a little dumbfounded) by how these tools allow them to do more and better work faster than ever before. Yet in fervor to keep pace with competitors and reap the efficiency gains associated with deploying AI, many organizations have lost sight of their most important asset: the humans whose jobs are being fragment

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Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Not on our watch…

CIO

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. How do we ensure that data centers built for the simple enterprise use case of web hosting can support the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and the huge volumes of data that must be stored, transmitted, and processed?

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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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OpenTelemetry Best Practices #3: Data Prep and Cleansing

Honeycomb

Having telemetry is all well and good—amazing, in fact. It’s easy to do: add some OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries to your stack and they’ll fill your disks with data pretty quickly. However, having good telemetry data—data that’s curated into being useful—is something that is both cost-effective and represents good value. Observability is about getting answers about how your production system is functioning by using telemetry data.

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Prosegur aúna tecnología y procesos bajo el paraguas Avos Tech

CIO

Prosegur ha optado por i ntegrar en España su negocio de externalización de procesos y servicios tecnológicos (BPO, por sus siglas en inglés) bajo la marca Avos Tech. El propósito de esta decisión no es otro que aportar soluciones integrales de alto valor añadido basadas en desarrollos tecnológicos propios. Esta transición, que se completará en 2025 con la incorporación de las operaciones en Chile bajo la nueva marca, refleja la evolución de la propuesta de valor que incluye hoy soluciones de BP

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Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

InfoWorld

When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer, Google Bard, and GitHub Copilot in June of 2023, CodeWhisperer could generate code in an IDE and did security reviews, but it lacked a chat window and code explanations. The current version of CodeWhisperer is now called Amazon Q Developer , and it does have a chat window that can explain code, and several other features that may be relevant to you, especially if you do a lot of development using AWS.

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Cybersecurity and compliance take centre stage at IT Directors’ Dinner in London

CIO

What is playing on the minds of senior IT executives confronted with the multiple challenges of cybersecurity and compliance? At a recent supper roundtable in London, convened by the endpoint and IT management vendor NinjaOne , attendees discussed some of the industry’s most complex issues. Yet throughout the evening, the common denominator was the need to reduce uncertainty and manage risk.

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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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JetBrains AI Assistant to integrate Google Gemini AI models

InfoWorld

JetBrains plans to use the Google Cloud Vertex AI development platform to bring Google Gemini AI models into JetBrains’ AI Assistant , the company’s AI-powered programming assistant that integrates with JetBrains IDEs (integrated development environments). JetBrains announced the plan on June 18. AI Assistant will combine the functionality of OpenAI’s GPT-4o , the Gemini models, and several of JetBrains’ proprietary models, automatically selecting the most suitable LLM for each task, JetBrains s

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Qatar’s Ooredoo and Nvidia partners for AI expansion

CIO

In a significant move towards advancing its digital infrastructure capabilities, Ooredoo Group has announced its partnership with NVIDIA, marking a pivotal step in fostering the AI revolution across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This collaboration solidifies Ooredoo’s commitment to becoming a leading digital infrastructure provider in the MENA region, leveraging NVIDIA’s cutting-edge accelerated computing platform.

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Unparalleled Productivity: The Power of Cloudera Copilot for Cloudera Machine Learning

Cloudera

In the fast-evolving landscape of data science and machine learning, efficiency is not just desirable—it’s essential. Imagine a world where every data practitioner, from seasoned data scientists to budding developers, has an intelligent assistant at their fingertips. This assistant doesn’t just automate mundane tasks but understands the intricacies of your workflows, anticipates your needs, and dramatically enhances your productivity at every turn.