Wed.Jul 10, 2024

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Navigating Beyond the Apex: Reshaping IT Transformation and Organizational Evolution for Sustainable Growth

DevOps.com

This article aims to delve into not only the challenges and successes of DevOps but also the broader considerations essential for sustainable growth in the rapidly changing IT ecosystem.

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Cybersecurity GenAI features: Are they worth the money?

CIO

Businesses are investing great sums of money in generative AI – to the point that GenAI spending in 2025 will be nearly seven times greater than it was in 2022, according to IDC historical data and forecasts. Where is all that money going? In many cases, it’s cybersecurity, which ranks at the top of the list of factors driving increased IT spending in 2024.

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It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured

Harvard Business Review

Estimates suggest ESG investing could surpass $50 trillion by 2025, as investors around the world look for opportunities for their investment capital to have a broader social impact. However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased towards certain industries or types of companies.

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The customers and communities that drive Beyond Bank’s tech strategy

CIO

As the CIO of Beyond Bank, one of the largest customer-owned banks in Australia, Stevie-Ann Dovico is at the nexus of the business, from banking and technology, to data and business intelligence, all of which fuels the person-to-person customer experience and promotes financial well-being. “We’re a very relationship led bank,” she says. “A big part of my role is to ensure we always think about empowering the frontline to have more meaningful interactions with customers, and finding ways to use b

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Intune Migrations to Ivanti UEM

Ivanti

If you have purchased Ivanti UEM and are migrating to it from Microsoft Intune, you as an IT administrator must understand and execute several critical steps to make that transition smoothly. In this series of blogs, I will be looking from an Intune admin’s perspective at what it takes to migrate from Intune to Ivanti UEM. I will cover practical elements and best practices, translating terminology used across both products to pave the way for a seamless and successful transition.

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North American Startup Funding Jumped Higher In Q2

Crunchbase News

North American startup funding perked up in the second quarter, bolstered by early-stage investment around artificial intelligence. Overall, investors put $45.3 billion into seed- through growth-stage financings for U.S. and Canadian startups in the second quarter of 2024. That’s a 30% rise from the prior quarter and a 35% jump from the same period last year.

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Can a technology mindset save Paramount?

CIO

With Sunday’s announcement of Skydance’s $8 billion deal to purchase Paramount, the veteran movie maker is entering a new era. And Skydance, controlled by veteran producer David Ellison (son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison), is arguing that embracing technology is the only viable path. In many ways, Paramount’s struggles mirror what many enterprises are facing today as they try to adapt to current technology.

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Fine-tune Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock to boost model accuracy and quality

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Frontier large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic Claude on Amazon Bedrock are trained on vast amounts of data, allowing Anthropic Claude to understand and generate human-like text. Fine-tuning Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku on proprietary datasets can provide optimal performance on specific domains or tasks. The fine-tuning as a deep level of customization represents a key differentiating factor by using your own unique data.

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Accenture acquires Excelmax to bolster chip design expertise

CIO

Accenture has acquired Excelmax Technologies, a Bangalore-based semiconductor design firm to expand the range of chip design services it offers its clients. Excelmax was founded in 2019 and is into high-level semiconductor design, detailed physical layout and full turnkey execution. The firm offers custom silicon solutions for consumer devices, data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and edge computing applications, with clients in the automotive, telecommunications, and high-tech sectors.

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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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Designing a Successful Reskilling Program

Harvard Business Review

In this article, written as a follow up to the award-winning “Reskilling in the Age of AI”, the authors report the results of a reskilling survey that they conducted with chief human resource officers from approximately 1,200 organizations in the U.S., along with business leaders from around 200. Their main finding is that reskilling is on track to becoming mainstream — but that companies still have plenty of work to do.

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Familia Martínez apuesta por la digitalización para la toma y ejecución de decisiones estratégicas 

CIO

El sector de la alimentación ha sufrido una evolución muy importante en los últimos años con la adopción de tecnologías digitales en todas las etapas de la cadena de valor. Este es el caso de Familia Martínez, un grupo empresarial integrado por cuatro empresas de la industria alimentaria española: Embutidos Martínez, Platos Tradicionales, Cinco Tenedores y La Pila Food , cuyos inicios se remontan a una pequeña carnicería en Torrent, Valencia, en los años 60.

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Microsoft’s Black Eye Is a Warning to Other Cloud Providers

Ooda Loop

There is nothing new about vulnerabilities when it comes to software, hardware, and firmware, so it is essential that companies demonstrate responsibility and accountability for their prompt disclosure and providing fixes.

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Cómo gestiona la CIO de Pearson la deuda técnica

CIO

Pearson , una empresa que existe desde la década de 1840, ha sido testigo de importantes cambios en el mundo de la educación y en las expectativas de los clientes. La modernización, por tanto, forma parte de su ADN y, según la CIO Marykay Wells , realizar cambios técnicos en la infraestructura informática de una organización es una disciplina en constante evolución que debe gestionarse meticulosamente.

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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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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports advanced parsing, chunking, and query reformulation giving greater control of accuracy in RAG based applications

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that helps you implement the entire Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow from ingestion to retrieval and prompt augmentation without having to build custom integrations to data sources and manage data flows, pushing the boundaries for what you can do in your RAG workflows. However, it’s important to note that in RAG-based applications, when dealing with large or complex input text documents, such as PDFs or.txt files, queryin

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PwC develops solution for automated CSRD reporting

CIO

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has long believed that joining the battle against climate change is one of the most significant actions a company can take to benefit society. The multinational professional services leader is hardly alone. At many companies, executives are advocating for comprehensive environmental measures, investors are demanding more sustainable ventures, and customers are increasingly seeking low-carbon products to combat pollution and preserve biodiversity.

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AI Provides an Rx for Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Palo Alto Networks

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider As cyberthreats evolve and proliferate, healthcare organizations are increasingly recognizing the need to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in their cybersecurity efforts. This can be especially difficult due to the inherent challenges of integrating new technologies into their complex and often legacy-laden environments.

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Securing Confidential and Protected Data Today. Exploring VMware’s VCF Sovereign Cloud Solution (v2).

CIO

In today’s rapidly, and continually, evolving data landscape, maintaining the sovereignty and security of sensitive data is paramount. With data privacy and security becoming an increased concern, Sovereign cloud is turning from an optional, like-to-have, to an essential requirement, especially for highly protected markets like Government, Healthcare, Financial Services, Legal, etc.

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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 progress update on our commitment to safe, responsible generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Responsible AI is a longstanding commitment at Amazon. From the outset, we have prioritized responsible AI innovation by embedding safety, fairness, robustness, security, and privacy into our development processes and educating our employees. We strive to make our customers’ lives better while also establishing and implementing the necessary safeguards to help protect them.

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7 tendenze per portare in azienda una buona strategia sui dati

CIO

I CIO di oggi non solo comprendono il valore dei dati, ma sono anche ben consapevoli che attivare un’intelligenza aziendale alimentata da dati di alta qualità porta a decisioni migliori e a operation più efficienti. Tuttavia, la raccolta di informazioni accurate è un processo tutt’altro che statico che richiede, invece, un’attenta pianificazione, l’accesso a fonti rilevanti, e una capacità di gestione forte e flessibile.

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Streamline generative AI development in Amazon Bedrock with Prompt Management and Prompt Flows (preview)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Today, we’re excited to introduce two powerful new features for Amazon Bedrock: Prompt Management and Prompt Flows, in public preview. These features are designed to accelerate the development, testing, and deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, enabling developers and business users to create more efficient and effective solutions that are easier to maintain.

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Introducing Cloudera Observability Premium

Cloudera

There’s nothing worse than wasting money on unnecessary costs. In on-premises data estates, these costs appear as wasted person-hours waiting for inefficient analytics to complete, or troubleshooting jobs that have failed to execute as expected, or at all. They manifest as idle hardware waiting for urgent workloads to come in, ensuring sufficient spare capacity to run them amidst noisy neighbors and resource-hungry, lower-priority workloads.

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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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Designing and Building Domain-Specific Languages for Business Flexibility

Mentormate

Modern businesses must constantly navigate unprecedented challenges to quickly adapt to evolving market dynamics and customer demands. The integration of technology plays a pivotal role in enabling organizations to define and modify their business logic with unparalleled flexibility and precision. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are instrumental tools, offering tailored solutions that cater to specific industry needs and drive sustainable growth.

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Google Maps will show speedometer and speed limits on iPhone and CarPlay

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Long available for Android users, a Google Maps navigation perk is rolling out to iPhone users globally. Now, your speedometer and the current speed limit will appear in miles or kilometers depending on the region.

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Designing and Building Domain-Specific Languages for Business Flexibility

Mentormate

Modern businesses must constantly navigate unprecedented challenges to quickly adapt to evolving market dynamics and customer demands. The integration of technology plays a pivotal role in enabling organizations to define and modify their business logic with unparalleled flexibility and precision. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are instrumental tools, offering tailored solutions that cater to specific industry needs and drive sustainable growth.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 vs Z Flip 5: Which phone model should you buy?

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

With the new Galaxy Z Flip 6 launching, you may wonder if the new model is worth the upgrade and how it stacks up to the previous version. We'll help you compare.

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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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Hayden AI Raises $90M To Make Sure You Don’t Park There

Crunchbase News

Next time you think about double parking, remember a San Francisco-based startup just raised a big Series C to help make sure you don’t. Hayden AI , a vision AI platform, locked in a $90 million growth equity round led by The Rise Fund — TPG ’s impact investing platform — with participation from existing investors Drawdown Fund , Autotech Ventures and others.

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How to clear your Google search cache on Android (and why you should)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you're concerned about your privacy, you should regularly clear your Google search cache on Android. Here's how to do this manually and set up auto-delete.

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The Solution to Application Security’s Biggest Challenge, Vulnerability Remediation, May Finally Arrive

Jeremiah Grossman

The importance of vulnerability management is simple — find and fix issues before an adversary finds and exploits them. Unfortunately, the remediation rates reported by leading application security vendors average only around 50% or far less. And when vulnerabilities are fixed it takes weeks or months. The rest of the vulnerabilities? They’re often never fixed and this has been the reality for many years [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ].