Mon.Jul 01, 2024

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Why Adaptability Makes You an Asset in Today’s Job Market

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Adaptability can propel your career with confidence and resilience by helping you learn how to be comfortable in changing environments and pivot quickly. Today’s guest post is b y Paul Bramson, CEO — The Paul Bramson Companies Today’s job market is characterized by rapid technological advancements, globalization, and shifting market demands, leading to constant changes.

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Provider or partner? IT leaders rethink vendor relationships for value

CIO

Shane McDaniel was nearly a year into a modernization effort when he and his IT team for the City of Seguin, Texas, cut over from the city’s legacy network to the upgraded version. On hand for much of the work that Saturday in June 2019 was the rep from Extreme Networks, a Morrisville, N.C.-headquartered company that McDaniel had selected as the provider on the project.

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Things to Consider When Hiring React JS Consulting Services

The Crazy Programmer

Applications and websites are now an essential component of practically every company. They can draw in a wider audience and serve as a company’s online persona, after all. Experts even argue that a well-designed website or application can provide a business owner with the highest possible revenue and profit potential. Online companies are increasingly choosing the technology and developers for their initiatives with greater caution as a result.

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AI incident reporting shortcomings leave regulatory safety hole

CIO

Shortcomings in incident reporting are leaving a dangerous gap in the regulation of AI technologies. In other safety-critical industries, such as aviation and medicine, incidents are tracked and investigated but such incident reporting is lacking in the increasingly important are of AI, warns the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) , a UK think tank.

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Provide Real Value in your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Ooda Loop

Tech companies scouring the country for electricity supplies have zeroed in on a key target: America’s nuclear-power plants. The owners of roughly a third of U.S. nuclear-power plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity to new data centers needed to meet the demands of an artificial-intelligence boom.

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How to Structure Customer Service Calls to Boost Satisfaction and Sales

Harvard Business Review

Researchers found that service agents yield better results when they use warm language to start and end conversations, focusing on problem-solving in the middle.

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Morgan Stanley’s gen AI launch is about global analysis

CIO

When Morgan Stanley announced its new generative AI support tools for financial advisors last week, it talked about gaining efficiencies from its notetaking abilities. But those who track the $54 billion financial firm said that its goal is much larger. The announced intent of AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief, one of a suite of generative AI tools the company is developing for its financial advisors, is to record, transcribe and then summarize key points from the more than 1 million conference calls

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Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing – Or Not

IDC

Supercloud enables seamless app migration and multi-cloud operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP without reconfiguration. Collaboration among providers is key but challenging.

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The importance of integrating security in planning and implementing SD-WAN

CIO

The global cyber threat landscape continues to become a concern for organizations, with the number of reported attacks growing consistently. Last year saw a 90% increase in ransomware cases, wherein the victims were publicly extorted. Around 5,000 organizations were affected, twice the number of victims recorded in the previous year. Also, ransomware-as-a-service is a growing problem as cybercriminals use generative AI to aid their attacks.

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SaaS Evolution: The Critical Role of Embedded Finance

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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Fauna Adds Declarative Tool to Update Namesake Database

DevOps.com

Fauna has added an ability to maintain strict enforcement of schema to its document-relational database using a declarative language that makes it simpler to update databases within the context of a DevOps workflow.

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How small businesses can develop a technology strategy that leverages AI

CIO

Many small business leaders are still trying to build out an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to drive efficiencies, supercharge automation and spark creative productivity among their people. What’s clear though, is that these organisations risk being left behind if they aren’t maximising the potential of AI. Analysts expect small businesses to quickly grasp the nettle.

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Research: Speed Matters When Companies Respond to Social Issues

Harvard Business Review

An analysis of Instagram posts by Fortune 500 companies after George Floyd’s murder found that customers were skeptical of those who waited too long to make a statement.

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Morgan Stanley lanza una IA generativa para el análisis global

CIO

Cuando Morgan Stanley anunció la semana pasada sus nuevas herramientas de apoyo basadas en la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa para asesores financieros , habló de ganar eficiencia a partir de sus capacidades de toma de notas. Pero quienes siguen la pista de la firma financiera de 54.000 millones de dólares dicen que su objetivo es mucho mayor.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Use AWS Generative AI CDK Constructs To Speed up App Development

Dzone - DevOps

In this blog, we will use the AWS Generative AI Constructs Library to deploy a complete RAG application composed of the following components: Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock : This is the foundation for the RAG solution. OpenSearch Serverless collection: It supports the vector search collection type that provides similarity search capability. An S3 bucket: This will act as the data source for the Knowledge Base.

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Empowering teams with people-centric planning

CIO

We’ve all heard the definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Within that context, the way many teams handle technology planning and funding is, well, let’s just say a little less than sensible. Historically, these efforts have been grounded in a project-focused philosophy. Consequently, over and over again, the same pattern is repeated: Teams across business units make massive investments in time and money to establish a strategic long-term plan,

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InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2024 Nominations Now Open

InfoWorld

The 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards will recognize the best and most innovative products across 26 categories in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and AI and machine learning. Nominations for the 2024 awards are now open. Products in the following categories are eligible to win: AI and machine learning: Applications AI and machine learning: Development AI and machine learning: Models API management API security Application management Application networking App

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Why smaller businesses need AI PCs to make hybrid work a success

CIO

As hybrid working increasingly becomes the norm, businesses must ensure their digital strategy is enabling high quality collaboration in order to succeed. Recent research found that 9 in 10 organisations globally had embraced hybrid working, with only 14% reporting that employees had returned to the office full time. 1 Yet a recent study suggests only 30% of European employees say they have all the necessary technology to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues. 2 Conditions in the average home o

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Terraform Tips for Efficient Infrastructure Management

Dzone - DevOps

Terraform is a popular tool for defining and provisioning infrastructure as code (IaC) , improving consistency, repeatability, and version control. But you need to know how to use it properly to extract maximum value from it as an infrastructure management tool. In this article, we explore best practices for using Terraform to streamline your infrastructure management effectively and avoid common pitfalls.

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El Cuerpo de Marines Estadounidense recurre a la tecnología para renovar su fuerza de combate

CIO

Garantizar que el Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos (EE.UU) cuente con el equipamiento adecuado, en plena forma, incluso a medida que evolucionan sus necesidades de combate, no es tarea fácil. Hoy en día, esa operación, llevada a cabo por el Mando de Mantenimiento de los Depósitos de los Marines de EE.UU. (MDMC), está mejor engrasada gracias a una transformación basada en las TI.

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Build a self-service digital assistant using Amazon Lex and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Organizations strive to implement efficient, scalable, cost-effective, and automated customer support solutions without compromising the customer experience. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots play a crucial role in delivering human-like interactions by providing responses from a knowledge base without the involvement of live agents.

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How small businesses can take advantage of the AI PC productivity surge

CIO

Often in business we see the recurring phenomenon of the first-mover advantage that comes when organisations pounce on a trend to steal a march on rivals. The opportunity to be an early adopter in AI is here now as new products provide big advantages for those bold enough to commit to change. An example presenting itself today comes with AI PCs. Gartner says worldwide shipments of AI PCs – and generative AI (genAI) smartphones – are projected to total 295 million units by the end of 2024, up fro

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Using Data & Analytics for Improving Healthcare Innovation and Outcomes

In the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, delivering data insights to end users or customers can be a significant challenge for product managers, product owners, and application team developers. The complexity of healthcare data, the need for real-time analytics, and the demand for user-friendly interfaces can often seem overwhelming. But with Logi Symphony, these challenges become opportunities.

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Mental Health Startup Funding Holds Steady As Therapy Demand Grows

Crunchbase News

Therapy is a growth market. That, at least, was the trend following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Total annual U.S. mental health spending, estimated at around $280 billion in 2020, rose sharply in subsequent years across age groups, boosted in part by the rise of telehealth platforms. These days, more than one-fifth of American adults receive mental health treatment in a given year, per a recent federal government estimate.

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Ibercaja se hace con la plataforma tecnológica de Orange Bank España

CIO

Ibercaja ha firmado el acuerdo de adquisición de la plataforma tecnológica de Orange Bank España , con el objetivo de impulsar la transformación y el crecimiento del negocio de financiación al consumo. Un movimiento en sintonía con el roadmap presentado recientemente para los próximos tres años ; y es que la hoja de ruta contempla la operación como una de las iniciativas estratégicas para la compañía.

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Your genAI project is going to fail

InfoWorld

Your genAI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that wisdom has been slow to reach enterprise executives. For example, data scientist Noah Lorang once suggested , “There is a very small subset of business problems that are best solved by machine learning; most of them just need good data and an understanding of what it means,”

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What key features underpin best-in-class AI PCs?

CIO

As businesses seek to leverage AI in all aspects of their operations, it’s vital that IT leaders understand how this transformative moment will impact hardware. CIOs who aren’t actively investigating the possibilities risk being left behind. IDC expects AI PCs will represent nearly 60% of all PC shipments worldwide by 2027. 1 IDC’s Tom Mainelli, group vice president, Devices and Consumer Research, says: “Promises around enhanced user productivity via faster performance, plus lower inferencing co

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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Eclipse Theia IDE arrives for desktop, browser

InfoWorld

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the release of the Eclipse Theia IDE. Based on the Theia cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript , the Theia IDE is avialable for Windows, Linux, and macOS and can be tried online. With development led by EclipseSource CEO Jonas Helming, the Theia IDE was announced on June 27. The Theia IDE serves as an addition to the Eclipse Cloud DevTools ecosystem and provides an extensible coding experience across both desktop and browser environments.

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Despite adoption hurdles, healthcare is all-in on Generative AI

CIO

Generative AI (GenAI) is having a renaissance, but few industries are experiencing this like healthcare. As early adopters, everything from hospital operations and administrative duties, to clinical trials and drug discovery are being impacted by the technology. Despite the rosy outlook, it doesn’t paint the full picture of GenAI in healthcare. The 2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey , however, does a better job at that.

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Your generative AI project is going to fail

InfoWorld

Your generative AI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that wisdom has been slow to reach enterprise executives. For example, data scientist Noah Lorang once suggested , “There is a very small subset of business problems that are best solved by machine learning; most of them just need good data and an understanding of what it