Tue.Jul 02, 2024

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovator’s Mindset

Harvard Business Review

If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you need to do more than meet deadlines and produce strong results. Employees who quickly move up often have an innovator’s mindset. These people ultimately position themselves as valuable assets by questioning assumptions and pushing their organizations to stay competitive. By consistently bringing fresh ideas to the table and demonstrating a proactive approach to problem-solving, they naturally attract the attention of higher-ups.

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10 ways AI can make IT more productive

CIO

When it comes to maximizing productivity, IT leaders can turn to an array of motivators, including regular breaks, free snacks and beverages, workspace upgrades, mini contests, and so on. Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence. Any task or activity that’s repetitive and can be standardized on a checklist is ripe for automation using AI, says Jeff Orr, director of research for digital technology at ISG’

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IBM Makes Generative AI Platform for DevOps Available

DevOps.com

IBM has made generally available a framework, dubbed IBM Concert, that leverages generative artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs to surface in real-time dependencies.

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The essential AI checklist: Future-proof your workforce in six simple steps

CIO

When you’re constantly bombarded with conflicting messages about AI, and perhaps more pertinently, the right way to implement AI, it can be hard to know what to listen to. Of course, as 72% of business leaders anticipate AI enhancing employee productivity, listen we must [1]. So, to help offset the dizziness of the relentless AI whirlwind, relax—HP offers this six-point AI checklist to help you optimize AI deployment to unlock more meaningful work.

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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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How Part-Time Senior Leaders Can Help Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Bringing on seasoned leaders in “fractional” roles can help companies gain expertise without the expense and commitment of a full-time hire.

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How to Configure ServiceNow Knowledge Articles for Microsoft Graph Connector

Perficient

If you use ServiceNow as your knowledge management platform, you might want to make your knowledge articles searchable and accessible from Microsoft Search. Microsoft Search is a unified search experience that helps you find what you need across your organization, including files, sites, people, and more. By connecting your ServiceNow knowledge articles to Microsoft Search, you can enable your users to find and request them directly from the Microsoft 365 apps.

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Balancing innovation with value, cost, and practicality: The CIO’s guide to future proofing technology investments

CIO

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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Open-Source Software Community Riled by Yet Another CVE

DevOps.com

Another maintainer of an open-source software project has decided to no longer actively update IP address parsing utilities used widely by JavaScript developers.

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Handle demanding LLMs and large-scale AI inferencing with purpose-built servers

CIO

Generative AI (genAI) has created much hype and excitement for enterprises with its promises of new possibilities, from process automation and content creation to improved customer service and enhanced productivity. Almost every sector can benefit from genAI, yet many organizations struggle to embrace it. This is because their existing IT infrastructure cannot handle the computing requirements genAI demands nor remain sustainable in the process.

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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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Access control for vector stores using metadata filtering with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In November 2023, we announced Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock as generally available. Knowledge bases allow Amazon Bedrock users to unlock the full potential of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by seamlessly integrating their company data into the language model’s generation process. This feature allows organizations to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) while making sure that the generated responses are tailored to their specific domain knowledge, regulations, and busines

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Progress in ICT industry policy and cybersecurity standards drive MENA and Central Asia toward an intelligent era

CIO

Telecom networks are an integral backbone of the digital infrastructure that powers our economies today. They’re the driving force behind every industry’s digital transformation, connecting businesses, people, and information like never before. The rapid proliferation of connected devices and increasing reliance on digital services have underscored the need for comprehensive cybersecurity measures and industry-wide standards to mitigate risks and protect users’ data privacy.

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Building Resilient Software Systems: The Power of Clean Architecture

DevOps.com

Clean architecture is a software design philosophy that prioritizes the separation of concerns within a software system. Its primary aim is to develop systems that are simple to comprehend, maintain and extend.

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Inteligencia artificial para desentramar el tejido informativo de 70 espacios de RTVE

CIO

El proyecto RTVE 2030 celebra su primer aniversario con unos datos “extraordinarios”: más de 18.000 horas de programas de televisión analizadas para determinar su contribución a la Agenda 2030. La herramienta desarrollada para ello utiliza inteligencia artificial (IA) con el fin de conocer cuánto tiempo dedican los informativos, programas y documentales de TVE a temas de interés social como la pobreza, la salud o la movilidad sostenible.

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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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What is Incident Response?

xmatters

Incident response is a crucial process for any organization, addressing situations where services are disrupted, systems fail, or security incidents occur. This process ensures that organizations can quickly recover and resume normal operations. However, incident response is not limited to major incidents—even routine actions such as rebooting a computer to fix a problem qualify as incident response.

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La Comunidad de Madrid agilizará los trámites administrativos de los consistorios de la región

CIO

La Comunidad de Madrid trabaja actualmente en un proyecto piloto para agilizar los trámites administrativos de los ayuntamientos de la región a través de la digitalización. En concreto, se trata de automatizar gestiones que ahora son manuales y rutinarias para mejorar la eficiencia de las entidades locales y su interacción con los ciudadanos. Así lo ha anunciado el consejero de Digitalización, Miguel López-Valverde, tras la reunión mantenida con el alcalde de Torrejón de Ardoz, Alejandro Navarro

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Aqua Security Shines Spotlight on Secrets Management Blindspots

DevOps.com

A report published by Aqua Security finds that as many as 18% of secrets inadvertently exposed are not being discovered.

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Broadcom Pinnacle Partners: Guiding enterprises throughout their cloud journeys

CIO

This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. Together, they create an infrastructure leader uniquely qualified to guide enterprises through every facet of their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud journeys.

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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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A Deep Dive Into Flaky Tests

DevOps.com

Managing flaky tests is an ongoing iterative approach where you identify, understand and fix intermittent or unpredictable tests.

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Hijos de Rivera aúna supercomputación e IA para investigar “los sabores del futuro”

CIO

Hijos de Rivera está desarrollando un ambicioso proyecto de investigación en el que, según relatan, por primera vez a nivel mundial se ha utilizado la computación cuántica y la inteligencia artificial (IA) para realizar una simulación de la percepción del sabor. Esta iniciativa, realizada en colaboración con el Fujitsu International Quantum Center, el Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA) y la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), tiene como objetivo e xplorar las posibilida

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM? Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like OpenSans—you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this is a massive vulnerability or a way to embed AI in almost any text-based application. Probably both. It may just be a coincidence, but several new programming languages have come on the scene in the past month or two.

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Industry Ventures Raises $900M For Early-Stage Investment

Crunchbase News

San Francisco-based Industry Ventures announced Tuesday that it has closed on $900 million for a fund that will invest in early-stage technology’s emerging managers and companies. The firm describes the vehicle as a “hybrid fund” as it will make commitments to venture and seed investors, back rounds for individual startups, and buy stakes in early-stage funds from existing shareholders.

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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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Unlocking Smiles: HappyCo’s Observability Success 

Honeycomb

Challenge With a diverse range of applications, HappyCo sought to advance their system investigations with a modern observability solution while embarking on an application refactor project. Since its start in 2011, HappyCo has experienced rapid growth through both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions. As a result, the company has a diverse range of applications for customers to smile about.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of June: Cruise And AlphaSense Nab Top Spots For Month

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here. Lots of big rounds last month, including two huge ones well over a half-billion dollars. While June started slow, it ended in a flurry of massive-money deals — making this list tough to crack. 1. Cruise , $850M, autonomous cars: In for a penny, in for a pound.

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Serverless cloud technology fades away

InfoWorld

It is becoming increasingly evident that serverless technology is losing relevance and will soon fade away in the cloud technology space. Why did this happen? What can we learn from this evolution of technology? When serverless computing first hit the streets over a decade ago as a cloud computing paradigm, it saved us from needing to handle detailed compute and storage configurations.

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Resilient and Secure Data Protection for VMware Telco Cloud

Dell EMC

PowerProtect Data Management for VMware Telco Cloud ensures data protection in the dynamic landscape of rapidly evolving 5G networks.

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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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Anthropic launches fund to measure capabilities of AI models

InfoWorld

AI research is hurtling forward, but our ability to assess its capabilities and potential risks appears to be lagging behind. To bridge this critical gap, and recognize the current limitations in third-party evaluation ecosystems, Anthropic has started an initiative to invest in the development of robust, safety-relevant benchmarks to assess advanced AI capabilities and risks.

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CodeSOD: Looks Guid to Me

The Daily WTF

Today, we have an interesting one. It's not technically a Code SOD, because it doesn't have any code. It isn't quite a feature, because it doesn't contain a story. It's just some data, from a database table. But it does tell a story. Today's anonymous submitter was browsing through the tables underlying a bit of enterprise software.

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How evolving AI regulations impact cybersecurity

InfoWorld

While their business and tech colleagues are busy experimenting and developing new applications, cybersecurity leaders are looking for ways to anticipate and counter new, AI-driven threats. It’s always been clear that AI impacts cybersecurity, but it’s a two-way street. Where AI is increasingly being used to predict and mitigate attacks, these applications are themselves vulnerable.

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