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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

Despite digital transformation being a highly effective way to further develop the long-term business model, it can be a very drawn-out and arduous process. But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing

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Announcing a new strategic alliance with The Agile Network

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance has partnered with The Agile Network, a new interactive streaming platform, which launched at Agile2024, offering members and the broader Agile community access to a comprehensive range of Agile content and resources. The post Announcing a new strategic alliance with The Agile Network first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Early IT takeaways from the CrowdStrike outage

CIO

Whether you’ve survived the CrowdStrike incident or didn’t use CrowdStrike and are merely seeing the impact to others, taking time to learn lessons from this event is vital. After all, if you couldn’t recover easily from this, then you may be lost trying to recover from a ransomware attack. At issue are potential shifts you might want to consider making to your staffing strategies, technical processes, and communication channels and culture, as well as your approach to ensuring hardened assets o

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How to Find More Joy at Work and Disrupt the Monotony

Let's Grow Leaders

Find Joy in Contribution, Connection and Challenge Are you looking for more joy in your work? Has work gotten monotonous? Does today feel too much like yesterday? Important work is hard. And sometimes repetitive tasks are a vital part of the gig. But if your job feels monotonous and boring, find ways to mix it up and find more joy. 3 Ways to Break the Disrupt the Monotony and Find More Joy at Work Here are a few places to start to find more joy at 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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CISO viewpoint part 1: AI’s impact on people, policies & processes

CIO

The use of AI in 2024 is swiftly moving in enterprises, transforming and impacting employees and how business gets done across industries. Enterprise CTOs and CISOs understand the need to integrate AI technologies to streamline operations, speed up decision-making, and increase productivity. At the same time, they realize that AI has an impact on people, policies, and processes within their organizations.

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The secret to CIO success? Unleash your inner CEO

CIO

Embrace AI or die. That’s the modern mantra across global business, putting CIOs in the driver’s seat of the enterprise’s success — and in some cases pitting them against their CEOs. Not all IT chiefs take the expanded calling to heart. But Chris Bedi of ServiceNow is one who does. He is not gunning for the CEO position but does not mind “being a positive source of constructive tension” when insisting the C-suite and board of directors heed his advice about digital initiatives — especially gener

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CrowdStrike CEO: 97% of Windows Systems Back Online After Crash

DevOps.com

More than 97% of the Windows desktops that were suddenly disrupted a week ago by a problematic software update from CrowdStrike are back online, according to the cybersecurity company’s top executive, but the pain from the worldwide outage will continue to be felt.

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Why are Salesforce and Workday building an AI employee service agent together?

CIO

Salesforce and Workday are partnering to build a new AI -based employee service agent based on a common data foundation, and accessible via their respective software interfaces. The new AI-based employee service agent, which is akin to the recently released Einstein Service Agent , uses Salesforce’s Einstein 1 platform as the base and connects to Workday’s AI platform, the companies said in a joint statement, adding that the agent uses large language models (LLMs) to communicate with employees i

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Why You Feel Underappreciated at Work

Harvard Business Review

Despite working hard and meeting our goals, sometimes it’s not clear why we aren’t getting ahead at work. In the absence of strong feedback, we may begin to feel underappreciated or undervalued. While leaders and managers can help boost employee morale by bridging communication gaps around performance, it can be frustrating to wait for that change to happen.

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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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Counting the cost of CrowdStrike: the bug that bit billions

CIO

As eye-popping estimates emerge for the cost to enterprises of dealing with aftermath of last week’s CrowdStrike-induced outages, it’s crucial to break down the sources of these expenses and understand how much of the financial burden will be absorbed by cyber insurance. Parametrix, known for its cloud monitoring and insurance solutions, has pegged the total loss for the 25% of Fortune 500 companies affected (excluding Microsoft) at a staggering $5.4 billion.

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The Ultimate Guide to Having Brave Conversations at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 264: In this episode of the Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, you’ll dive into the importance of brave conversations at work and tackling those tough conversations head-on. Have you ever wondered how to make those difficult chats a little easier? Ed Evarts joins us to share his insights and experiences navigating these tricky waters.

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ServiceNow: Latest news and insights

CIO

ServiceNow is an enterprise software and workplace management orchestration vendor based in Santa Clara, Calif. Its cloud-based enterprise service management (ESM) platform, Now, helps companies automate workflows across the enterprise, including those involved in IT service management (ITSM) , IT operations management, IT asset management, and HR service delivery, among other domains.

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The Risks of the Cloud Oligopoly

DevOps.com

The cloud oligopoly, insofar as it stifles competition, represents a potentially overlooked area in which businesses must assess their supply chain commitments.

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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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Broadcom amplía seis meses el soporte a usuarios de VSphere 7.0, la plataforma de virtualización de servidores de VMware

CIO

Broadcom ha anunciado que los usuarios de vSphere 7.x, la plataforma de virtualización de servidores de VMware (compañía ya propiedad de la anterior) obtendrán seis meses adicionales de soporte para este producto. Estaba previsto que la solución, que se lanzó en 2020, dejara de recibir soporte en abril de 2025, pero ahora éste continuará hasta octubre de dicho año.

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Overcome Your Fear of Giving Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Managers often have pre-conceived notions that can act as a barrier to giving timely, helpful, and honest performance feedback. Three of the most common preconceived notions are: 1) the feedback conversation is going to be long and drawn out; 2) the feedback needs to be perfect; and 3) the feedback might be taken the wrong way. It’s understandable that you don’t want to upset your direct reports.

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El Grupo Moldtrans se digitaliza en aire y mar con un nuevo ERP

CIO

La implementación de un nuevo software de gestión empresarial (ERP) en sus divisiones marítima y aérea le permitirá al Grupo Moldtrans optimizar y automatizar todos sus procesos, ser más eficiente operativa y comercialmente y mejorar el servicio de atención al cliente y de sus colaboradores. Así lo ha anunciado la compañía española, que ofrece todo tipo de servicios de transporte terrestre internacional, marítimo y aéreo, además de distribución nacional, transporte express, logística y aduanas.

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How to Find More Joy at Work and Disrupt the Monotony

Let's Grow Leaders

Find Joy in Contribution, Connection and Challenge Are you looking for more joy in your work? Has work gotten monotonous? Does today feel too much like yesterday? Important work is hard. And sometimes repetitive tasks are a vital part of the gig. But if your job feels monotonous and boring, find ways to mix it up and find more joy. 3 Ways to Break the Disrupt the Monotony and Find More Joy at Work Here are a few places to start to find more joy at work.

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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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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech Startup Astranis Tops List

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Another big week for startups raising large rounds.

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The Ultimate Guide to Having Brave Conversations at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 264: In this episode of the Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, you’ll dive into the importance of brave conversations at work and tackling those tough conversations head-on. Have you ever wondered how to make those difficult chats a little easier? Ed Evarts joins us to share his insights and experiences navigating these tricky waters.

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Celebrating Amarender Peddamalku’s Second Microsoft MVP Award

Perficient

Perficient is thrilled to announce that Amarender Peddamalku has been awarded the prestigious “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) status in Business Applications by Microsoft for the second time. This achievement is especially significant, highlighting his continued excellence and commitment to the Microsoft community. Amarender Peddamalku serves as the Microsoft Modern Work practice lead and digital transformation leader at Perficient.

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How to Find More Joy at Work and Distrupt the Monotony

Let's Grow Leaders

Find Joy in Contribution, Connection and Challenge Are you looking for more joy in your work? Has work gotten monotonous? Does today feel too much like yesterday? Important work is hard. And sometimes repetitive tasks are a vital part of the gig. But if your job feels monotonous and boring, find ways to mix it up and find more joy. 3 Ways to Break the Disrupt the Monotony and Find More Joy at Work Here are a few places to start to find more joy at work.

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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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Texas Startup Funding Declines, Led By Dip In Austin-Area Investment

Crunchbase News

In startup circles, it’s popular to predict that funding to smaller innovation hubs will rise and that Silicon Valley will lose some of its dominance. In reality, however, that’s not how things are playing out. Certainly, at least, that’s not what’s playing out in Texas. Funding to Lone Star State startups in 2024 is on track to decline year over year, even as overall U.S. venture funding has been perking up , driven by record investment around artificial intelligence.

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When It Comes to Automatic Software Updates, Lack of Transparency Is a Challenge

TechSoup

OK, quick question: Without looking, do you know which apps on your computer are automatically installing updates without your knowledge?

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Global Funding To Financial Services Slowed Down In The Past 5 Quarters

Crunchbase News

Global funding to private companies in financial services — a leading sector for investment — has slowed significantly in the past five quarters. In the second quarter of 2024, financial services companies raised $9.7 billion, up a bit year over year and up 17% quarter over quarter from the $8.3 billion invested in the sector in the same quarter in 2023.

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Save Cloud Costs with FinOps

QBurst

Cloud has become indispensable for business operations today. While it lends flexibility and agility, it can also present a major cost management challenge. Unlike regular IT costs that don’t change much, cloud costs can go up and down based on usage and other factors. This is where FinOps becomes relevant. Short for Cloud Financial Operations, […] The post Save Cloud Costs with FinOps appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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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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Paris Is Also France’s Startup Champion

Crunchbase News

When one visualizes Paris, the image probably doesn’t feature tech founders. Yet while this year’s Olympics host city may be better known for art, food, architecture and history, it’s actually a significant startup hub as well. In a typical year, Parisian upstarts raise billions in venture funding. The city is by far the country’s reigning startup capital, usually pulling in the majority of French venture investment.

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What to expect from Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Watch, Android 15, AI, and more

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Google's next big product launch takes place on August 13. Here's everything you can expect from the event.

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Succeeding at DevSecOps Requires a Rubric for SDLC Governance

DevOps.com

Now is the time to engage your SDLC stakeholders and begin the journey of securing your development pipelines — the future of your organization’s security depends on it.

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