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3 data security disciplines to drive AI innovation

CIO

AI hype and adoption are seemingly at an all-time high with nearly 70% of respondents to a recent S&P report on Global AI Trends saying they have at least one AI project in production. While the promise of AI can fundamentally reshape business operations, it has also created new risk vectors and opened the doors to nefarious individuals that most enterprises are not currently equipped to mitigate.

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Tracking your security posture in AWS

Xebia

How do you track your security posture in AWS? You have services like Security Hub, but it will only show you the scores of a limited set of standards. This blog post will continue on the previous 2 blog post that I wrote: Use custom rules to validate your compliance Deploy config rules across your organization In this blog we will look at how you can track your security posture in your organization.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

Suppose you lead IT at a VC-backed startup. It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. It’s exciting stuff. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You start to see the cracks in its foundation.

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How to Actually Execute Change at a Company

Harvard Business Review

The author analyze project teams across 257 firms to identify why only 60% of planned value is typically realized in change initiatives, focusing on four key factors: effective initial communication (“ACE the Memo”), ensuring resource accessibility and autonomy (“Master the Means”), employing mechanisms to align actions with goals (“Amplify with Mechanisms”), and strategic measurement to influence future outcomes (“Measure to Account”).

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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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Navigating the Rise of AI-Generated Code in Software Development

DevOps.com

The year 2023 saw the rise of many technologies and innovations, but none quite as prominent as generative AI. Trained on vast amounts of data, these models are designed to “generate” the next sequence of values based on inputs and create novel content for various purposes.

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i-SOON Data Leak Is Interesting but Mostly Unsurprising

Ooda Loop

The i-SOON leak tells us nothing new perhaps as much as solidify points that have long been suspected and acknowledged of Chinese cyber operations. Beijing tasks out orders on areas of interest to a variety of collection means, much like any other government. In this case, one company has been identified, and there are likely other companies doing similar work, as well.

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Adapt Your Strategy to Higher Interest Rates

Harvard Business Review

While many executives and investors were thrown by last year’s interest rate increases, the cost of capital needn’t be a threat. Companies that integrate the cost of capital into their strategy and planning reap real benefits. When something is cheap, people waste it. With the cost of capital back to normal levels, it’s simply irresponsible not to make it a management discipline that changes the way you do business.

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Perficient Included in Forrester’s The Adobe Services Landscape

Perficient

In a dynamic digital landscape, choosing the right provider among the Adobe services landscape is paramount for businesses seeking to maximize their Adobe investments. The selection process can be daunting with a diverse set of providers that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and business scenario differentiation. So where do marketing leaders start?

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Putting People First: The Promise of Human Centered Capitalism

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 246: Megan Gluth-Bohan, CEO & Owner of TRInternational, Inc. and owner of ChemBlend of America, discusses human centered capital, and the importance of compassion, empathy, and resilience in leadership. She emphasizes the need for leaders to be authentic and honest about their own experiences and to create a culture that values and supports the growth of individuals.

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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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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports hybrid search

AWS Machine Learning - AI

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the general availability of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. With a knowledge base, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). In a previous post , we described how Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock manages the end-to-end RAG workflow for you and shared details about some of the recent feature launches.

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Accelerating Cloud Adoption Across the Scottish Public Sector

Palo Alto Networks

The cloud is here to stay. It’s no longer a buzzword or the new tech kid on the block. Cloud technologies are used by organisations and individuals alike, providing scalable on-demand computing on a global scale. As a result, governments across the world are deploying cloud services at scale, and the capabilities are at the heart of most digital transformation journeys.

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New Relic Streamlines Observability Data Management

DevOps.com

New Relic is moving to make it simple to analyze and store telemetry data regardless of when it was collected.

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Musk Sues Altman, OpenAI For Breach Of Founding Agreement

Crunchbase News

Two of the biggest names in tech right now may be bound to face off in court. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its executives — including co-founder and CEO Sam Altman — for allegedly breaching the founding agreement of the company to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, claims the company and its leaders have set that agreement “aflame” by letting the company be “transformed into a clos

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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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JetBrains Compose Multiplatform debuts UI testing API

InfoWorld

JetBrains has released Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company’s declarative UI framework that introduces a UI testing API and improves the common resources API. Compose Multiplatform allows developers to build UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, and web from a shared code base. Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0 was unveiled on February 28. Instructions for getting started with Compose Multiplatform can be found at jetbrains.com.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Fervo Energy And Glean Lead The Way In Another Strong Week

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. After two crazy weeks where we saw 18 raises of $100 million or more, this week saw a slight slowdown but was still relatively strong when it came to big-dollar deals

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Questioning cloud’s environmental impact

InfoWorld

I recently participated in a documentary called “Clouded II: Does Cloud Cost the Earth?” Please watch it. It looks at the issues surrounding cloud computing, its consumption of power, and thus its potential impact on the planet. The documentary did an excellent job of balancing perspectives. I don’t think anyone is arguing that data centers should not exist, but those data centers should be efficient and minimize power consumption.

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In A Latin American VC Winter, 6 Reasons For Optimism

Crunchbase News

By Gina Gotthilf and Tomas Roggio “Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.” — Pablo Neruda Latin America was the fastest-growing venture capital market in the boom of 2021 , dispelling historical neglect by investors. Leading up to it, the past decade showed record highs in startup creation, funding and growth. Gina Gotthilf That boom gave way to a bust , a characteristic cycle in developing economies: we’ve been facing a startup winter for two years.

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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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Software Engineering Trends in the Industry

Dzone - DevOps

This article identifies some basic trends in the software industry. Specifically, we will explore how some well-known organizations implement and benefit from early and continuous testing , faster software delivery, reduced costs, and increased collaboration. While it is clear that activities like breaking down silos, shift-left testing, automation , and continuous delivery are interrelated, it is beneficial to take a look at how companies strive to achieve such goals in practice.

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Tech Layoffs Stay High As Extended Runways Reach Their Limit

Crunchbase News

In the runup to the 2021 market peak , the word most often used in conjunction with the technology job market was “up.” Hiring was up. Salaries were up. And optimism was too. More recently, coverage of tech employment invariably includes much use of the word “down.” Openings are down. Job mobility is down. About the only thing stubbornly remaining up is layoff announcements.

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What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

The Citus Data

When I think about naming something—like a feature or product or even an event—this quote always comes to mind. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; –William Shakespeare What’s in a name, after all? I’m no expert on Romeo and Juliet, but friends tell me Shakespeare’s point was that names don’t matter.

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What is JavaScript? The full-stack programming language

InfoWorld

JavaScript is a wildly popular interpreted scripting language that was the most in-demand language of 2023 , with 29% of job offers requiring programming experience with JavaScript or TypeScript. There are various reasons for JavaScript's success, starting from the fact that it's an open standard, not controlled by any single vendor, with numerous implementations and a syntax that is easy to learn.

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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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Logz.io Leverages AI to Identify Anomalies in Real-Time

DevOps.com

Logz.io added a real-time anomaly detection capability to its observability platform that simplifies correlation of the impact IT events have on business processes.

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GitHub rolls out push protection on public repos

InfoWorld

GitHub has begun rolling out push protection for all of its users, a secrets scanning feature that gives users the option to remove secrets from commits or bypass a block. The policy, announced February 29 , affects supported secrets. It might take one to two weeks for this change to apply to an account; developers can verify status and opt in early in code security and analysis settings.

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Observe Inc. Adds Tool for Exploring Distributed Traces

DevOps.com

Observe Inc. added a Trace Explorer tool to its observability platform that simplifies search, analysis and visualization of billions of traces.

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Biden executive order protects personal data

InfoWorld

President Joseph Biden has issued an executive order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation from countries of concern including China, Russa, Iran, and North Korea. Issued February 28 , the order authorizes the attorney general to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ personal data to countries of concern and offers safeguards around other activities that can give these countries access to this sensitive data.

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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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Data or Content? Which One Is the New King?

IDC

Many B2B marketers are wondering if they can focus on both customers and data at the same time. Can you be customer-focused and data-focused at once? The quest to resonate with customers with B2B marketing content, while leveraging data-driven insights has become paramount. Content marketing services now prioritize building relationships with the audience and providing [.

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Couchbase Server and Capella to gain vector support

InfoWorld

NoSQL document-oriented database provider Couchbase on Thursday said that it was working to add support for vector capabilities to its database offerings, including its Capella managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The vector capabilities will include similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) , the company said, adding that the addition of these capabilities will also enhance the performance of the database as all search patterns can be supported within a single index to l

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Maximizing Feedback for Developers With Continuous Testing

Dzone - DevOps

Developers need feedback on their work so that they know whether their code is helping the business. They should have “multiple feedback loops to ensure that high-quality software gets delivered to users”[1]. Development teams also need to review their feedback loops so that they can maximize useful feedback. Testing provides feedback and should be continuous so that it provides quick and continuous feedback to the developers.

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