CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.
Martin Fowler
MARCH 27, 2024
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output of the processing pipelines. API access points can be covered with a proxy and traffic gradually directed to the new implementation.
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CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
When the leadership team at Erie Insurance planned a large-scale transformation, they knew it couldn’t be an IT-only effort. The themes of the transformation — modernization, best-in-class agent experience, multi-channel customer experience, product excellence, and innovation — are so business centric that they could only be achieved with an enterprise-wide effort.
Martin Fowler
MARCH 27, 2024
John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
Le aziende italiane investono in infrastrutture, software e servizi per la gestione e l’analisi dei dati (+18% nel 2023, pari a 2,85 miliardi di euro, secondo l’Osservatorio Big Data & Business Analytics della School of Management del Politecnico di Milano), ma quante sono giunte alla data maturity? Il Data Strategy Index incluso nel report rileva che solo il 20% delle grandi aziende italiane ha una strategia avanzata sui dati.
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CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
Michael Fagan, former chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, examines the proposed changes to the Privacy Act and what CIOs in Australia need to be aware of. I received 7 unsolicited CVs and resumes in the last 12 months, from well-educated and qualified people, seeking to join the organisation where I was working. Unbeknownst to the senders, they put me at risk of breaching one of the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APP), despite me not really knowing these people, and never askin
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2024
Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. Successful companies integrate an experimental approach, constantly adapting their CSR practices based on local feedback and knowledge. This strategy fosters genuine community engagement and responsive initiatives, as seen in a mining company’s impactful HIV/AIDS program.
CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
One of the few certainties in this world is that customers will always expect more from their service providers, and that whether they remain customers depends greatly on whether that expectation is met. And it isn’t just customers whose expectations are rising. Employees have witnessed what modern technology can do to enhance internal services and processes and may be quietly asking why these innovations haven’t been brought into their own workplaces.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2024
It’s insufficient to just share the goals and objectives of your strategy and hope implementation will succeed. In this article, the author explains how to shift from an operational to a contextual mindset so that you can better identify the hidden obstacles that may be thwarting your strategy’s implementation so you can address them before they take root.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
CIO
MARCH 27, 2024
Digitalisation plays a key role in the evolution of manufacturing industries. Foundry’s Digital Business Study 2023 shows that 93% of manufacturers surveyed have adopted or plan to adopt a digital-first business strategy, driven by internal demands like cost reduction, operational efficiency improvements, continuous innovation and R&D as well as external pressures due to evolving enterprise client needs and even individual customer-experience requirements.
DevOps.com
MARCH 27, 2024
Day Two DevOps is a phase in the SDLC that focuses on enhancing, optimizing and continuously improving the software development and deployment processes to ensure increased efficiency, reliability and collaboration between development and operations teams.
Palo Alto Networks
MARCH 27, 2024
{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Our objective is to present different viewpoints and predictions on how artificial intelligence is impacting the current threat landscape, how Palo Alto Networks protects itself and its customers, as well as im
Crunchbase News
MARCH 27, 2024
By Kip Knight Advisory boards can be a decisive competitive advantage for a company, but too often they fail to deliver on their potential. The typical life cycle of many advisory boards follows a familiar pattern: Initial excitement surrounding the creation of the board. Initial meetings discussing potential ways to help the company. Scheduling issues leading to a loss of momentum and interest.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
Agile42
MARCH 27, 2024
We’ve been working with organizations for over 15 years and despite numerous existing frameworks and models, we’ve learned that there is no silver bullet when it comes to scaling Agile teams. Every context is different and complex. However, we believe that by applying Agile principles and some good practices, any organization can create a framework or model for scaling Agile teams: one that is best adapted to its respective environment and can grow organically.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 27, 2024
There are few drawbacks to getting fit. Investing in fitness companies, however, comes with plenty of downside risks. Over the past four years, as the pandemic boom in home workouts slowly gave way to a return to the gym, investors in fitness companies can attest. Valuations for both public and private companies have declined, investment is down, and fitness-related consumer spending remains tough to forecast.
Aqua Security
MARCH 27, 2024
Cloud workload security (CWS) plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity and resilience of cloud-native workloads. Defined through the lens of GigaOm, CWS primarily revolves around fortifying the dynamic and continuously evolving workloads within cloud environments. Its significance lies in bolstering security measures by pinpointing vulnerabilities, ensuring adherence to compliance standards, and swiftly mitigating potential threats.
Crunchbase News
MARCH 27, 2024
Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund. With the explosion of generative AI, both compute power availability and memory capacity are becoming more and more crunched — and marriage between compute and memory causes both to increase simultaneously. However, Celestial’s photonic fabric platform helps separate computers and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and more energy-efficient c
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2024
For members of minority groups, finding their identity omitted in an organization’s demographics forms can make them question whether their identity is valued and respected by that organization. The seemingly mundane choices companies make when designing demographics forms — such as those used in job applications or employee engagement surveys — can have relatively major implications.
InfoWorld
MARCH 27, 2024
Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment, and not only because it has excellent code-editing features and language support. Thanks to its rich culture of extensions , VS Code supports many tasks besides editing. You’ll find VS Code extensions for everything from a speedier way to navigate the editor to effortlessly inserting placeholder text and images.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 27, 2024
Do you struggle to get things done because you overthink your work? Try these three tips to overcome “analysis paralysis.” Many times I’ve heard it said that perfect is the enemy of done. A big barrier to executing initiatives is analysis paralysis. The team gets bogged down on proving their case is 100% accurate and risk-free before they act.
CableLabs
MARCH 27, 2024
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, connectivity is more essential than it ever has been before. It’s as much a part of our lives as the air we breathe. It’s all around us — the lifeblood of nearly every facet of our digital lives. And it puts the broadband industry at the forefront of some of the most promising innovations that will guide us into a future of ever-expanding potential.
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
InfoWorld
MARCH 27, 2024
Data lakehouse provider Databricks has released a family of open-source large language models (LLM) , DBRX, that it says outperforms OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and open-source models such as Mixtral, Claude 3, Llama 2 , and Grok-1 on standard benchmarking tests.
DevOps.com
MARCH 27, 2024
A global survey of 500 IT professionals suggests organizations are not making a lot of progress in their ability to truly observe application environments.
InfoWorld
MARCH 27, 2024
Graceful error handling is an essential aspect of well-designed software. It’s also tricky. This article offers an overview of error handling in React applications and how to use React error boundaries to handle render-time errors. React error types We can divide React application errors broadly into two types, and error handling into two aspects. The two React error types: JavaScript errors: These are conventional JavaScript errors that occur in the code portion of a component.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 27, 2024
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (made into law in December 2022) included some specific military-related cybersecurity provisions, including a required study of cybersecurity and national security threats posed by foreign-manufactured cranes at United States ports" to assess whether foreign manufactured cranes at United States ports pose cybersecurity or national security threats.
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
InfoWorld
MARCH 27, 2024
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database , an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with self-help for database administration. Microsoft announced the preview on March 21. To sign up for the preview, users can request access.
Ooda Loop
MARCH 27, 2024
The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows for the system to keep chugging even after a module is damaged.
InfoWorld
MARCH 27, 2024
In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins , which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries-included Postgres, are now also available as stand-alone distributions that you can load into your own instances of Postgres or SQLite. Now Steampipe itself is unbundled: its dashboard server and benchmark runner have migrated to a new open-source project, Powerpipe.
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