CIO
JULY 30, 2024
In a perfect world, every digital investment would be based on a set of universally agreed upon facts. My summer survey of digital leaders indicates unambiguously that CIOs can’t just let facts “happen.” When thinking about the facts that drive information investment decisions, I recall the story of the three baseball umpires discussing the facts of strikes.
Martin Fowler
JULY 30, 2024
The steady increase in deployment of AI tools has led a lot of people concerned about how software makes decisions that affect our lives. In one example, its about “algorithmic” feeds in social media that promote posts that drive engagement. A more serious impact can come from business decisions, such as how much premium to charge in car insurance. This can extend to affecting legal decisions, such as suggesting sentencing guidelines to judges.
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CIO
JULY 30, 2024
Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White and Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell will leave the SAP Executive Board on August 31, 2024. White’s and Russell’s contracts were not due to expire until 2027. SAP’s explanation for why it is restructuring its Executive Board remains vague. “Scott and Julia have contributed significantly to SAP’s successful business transition in the cloud and our leadership in Business AI,” CEO Christian Klein said in a statement, thanking both for their effor
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2024
Women’s experiences as parents in the workplace are completely different from men’s. Men get a “fatherhood wage premium,” while mothers encounter a “motherhood penalty” in wages and advancement opportunities. One might think that women without children have workplace advantages on a par with their male counterparts. But they don’t. The maternal wall hinders all women’s careers, whether they plan to have children or not.
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CIO
JULY 30, 2024
Most workdays are already busy without the disruption of IT malfunctions. IT Service Management (ITSM) systems are designed precisely to minimize these interruptions, turning potential inconveniences into non-events so the day can go ahead—business as usual. But too many business leaders, in their eagerness to drive workplace efficiency, adopt the latest management systems without fully understanding their direct impact, leading to frustrating challenges that may take hours or even days to resol
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CIO
JULY 30, 2024
La caída de sistemas global causada por un fallo en la actualización de contenido de la plataforma de seguridad de CrowdStrike y que afectó hace unos días a millones de dispositivos con sistema Windows de Microsoft puso a múltiples empresas, proveedores de servicios cloud y de infraestructuras críticas en una situación crítica y ha puesto el foco en lo dominante que se ha vuelto la cuota de mercado de la empresa de seguridad, que ostenta aproximadamente el 24% del mercado de detección y respuest
Perficient
JULY 30, 2024
While upgrading from CMS v11 to v12, we ran into an error that read “Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance” Unfortunately, the stack trace didn’t really say what the problem was. Here is that stack trace: System.InvalidOperationException: Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance at EPiServer.DataAccess.Internal.LazyPropertyValueLoader.SetValue(PropertyData property, PropertyDataRecord dataRecord, Func`3
CIO
JULY 30, 2024
Enough has been said about generative AI and its capabilities to support and transform business operations, from personalizing customer and employee service to predictive analytics. It’s no wonder more organizations today are implementing genAI across their technology stack given how businesses are always looking for ways to improve productivity and boost efficiency.
Crunchbase News
JULY 30, 2024
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. July has come and (basically) gone, and along with it some pretty interesting rounds raised by startups. Think you may have missed some? Don’t worry, we have you covered as we recap some of the things that caught our eye through the last four weeks or so.
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.
CIO
JULY 30, 2024
El Real Madrid no ha tardado en asociarse con el recientemente creado operador Masorange , la joint venture resultante de la fusión de Orange y MásMóvil: el club de fútbol madrileño ha firmado un acuerdo con la marca estrella de este nuevo operador, Orange, para que se transforme en su socio oficial de telecomunicaciones , sustituyendo a Telefónica en ese rol.
Crunchbase News
JULY 30, 2024
London-based Flo Health , a provider of a popular women’s health app, announced Tuesday that it has raised more than $200 million in a Series C round backed by General Atlantic. The financing sets a valuation of over $1 billion for the company, making it, in Flo’s words, “the first purely digital consumer women’s health app to achieve unicorn status.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JULY 30, 2024
In today’s digital landscape, the demand for audio and video content is skyrocketing. Organizations are increasingly using media to engage with their audiences in innovative ways. From product documentation in video format to podcasts replacing traditional blog posts, content creators are exploring diverse channels to reach a wider audience. The rise of virtual workplaces has also led to a surge in content captured through recorded meetings, calls, and voicemails.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
Packed with cutting-edge features, enhanced durability, and a sleek design, the Galaxy Watch Ultra sets a new standard for a Wear OS device.
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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
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2024
Three questions to help you decide when and how to correct the course.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
The Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni is a jack-of-all-trades robot vacuum mop with a unique square form that sets it apart from the competition.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 30, 2024
Tools like Ilum will go a long way in simplifying the process of installing Apache Spark on Kubernetes. This guide will take you step-by-step through how to run Spark well on your Kubernetes cluster. With Ilum, deploying, managing, and scaling Apache Spark clusters is easily and naturally done. Introduction Today, we will showcase how to get up and running with Apache Spark on K8s.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
Is Apple's spatial computing headset worth the price? Can you try it before buying? ZDNET answers all your burning questions.
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.
DevOps.com
JULY 30, 2024
Wealth is in the eye of the beholder Wealth is in the eye of the beholder.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
With a bit of patience and experimentation, you can adjust your TV's basic settings for a better viewing experience.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 30, 2024
Getting Started With GitOps Most organizations are always looking for ways to streamline their processes and improve efficiency by implementing automation. In recent years, software deployment has been done multiple times in a day rather than weeks or months. Organizations have moved from the waterfall models to hyper-agile methodologies and particularly due to the adoption of microservices architecture, teams are releasing their software much faster.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
If you're an Android and Windows user, you'll be relieved to know that your PC will soon let you wirelessly browse the files on your phone as if it were a drive connected to your computer.
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Dell EMC
JULY 30, 2024
Discover how government agencies rely on IT solutions for mission-critical goals in the digital age.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
It's important - and easy! - to block and report those annoying and possibly malicious messages - not only to protect yourself, but to protect others from falling prey to the same attempt from the same number.
The Daily WTF
JULY 30, 2024
Mike was doing work for a mobile services provider. He found this in their code: private static YesNoType toYesNo (String isYes) { if (isYes != null ) { if (isYes.equalsIgnoreCase( "Y" )) { return YesNoType.fromString( "Yes" ); } else { return YesNoType.fromString( "No" ); } } else { return YesNoType.fromString( "No" ); } } /** * @param isYes * @return */ private static YesNoType toYesNo ( boolean isYes) { if (isYes) { return YesNoType.fromString( "Yes" );
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration supports open-data models - but acknowledges the risks. Here's how it plans to navigate the technology's pros and cons.
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JULY 30, 2024
When you face a true crisis, how do you react? Do you stress out? Do you look for someone to blame? Perhaps instead you can approach the crisis like a Hollywood director. Today’s post is by Tom Reilly, author of The Hollywood MBA I have spent three decades running movie sets which has always required me to anticipate and stave off problems on a daily, if not hourly, and even minute-by-minute basis.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2024
As pressure to harness generative AI to its full potential mounts, IT decision-makers are questioning whether their current network infrastructure is equipped to handle the growing demand.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 30, 2024
Enterprise networking is a radically different discipline in today’s microservices, containers, and Kubernetes paradigm than what it used to be in the old three-tier architecture world. Containers broke traditional networking models, and in this networking rethink for the distributed computing era, a lot has happened in a very short period of time. In this exclusive interview, Nicolas Vibert — senior technical engineer at Isovalent — traces this evolution and explains how open-source projects li
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