Tue.Feb 27, 2024

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

Improvements in communications technology have led an increasing number of teams that work in a Remote-First style, a trend that was boosted by the forced isolation of Covid-19 pandemic. But a team that operates remotely still benefits from face-to-face gatherings, and should do them every few months. Remote-first teams have everyone in a separate location, communicating entirely by email, chat, video and other communication tools.

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Managing the ‘H’ out of AI

CIO

To survive in the Paleolithic Age, you had to be able to hunt and gather. In the Agrarian Age, thriving meant being able to farm. In today’s post-Industrial Age, you will need to master artificial intelligence. Full stop – end of conversation. Well, “master” might not be the right word. Like outrunning the proverbial lion, you will need to be better than the next guy at AI to be competitive in this day and age.

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Two Chinese Supercomputers (with Mystery Hardware Components) Go Online

Ooda Loop

Conspicuous, controversial and notorious is the Chines unwillingness to participate in global benchmarking list of the world's most power supercomputers. So, the "top 500" list goes out - with the U.S. on top. The lack of participation by the Chinese then fuels rumors that they in fact possess capabilities that transcend all the participants in the global benchmarking lists.

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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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How CIOs in the Middle East address talent shortages

CIO

IT organizations are having to transform themselves to meet the evolving needs of the future enterprise, and CIOs are increasingly being tasked with leading this transformation as IT becomes the enterprise operating system. As the world of work continues to evolve and organizations shift to hybrid work models, new challenges and opportunities present themselves.

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Introducing Apache Kafka 3.7

Confluent

Apache Kafka 3.7 introduces updates to the Consumer rebalance protocol, an official Apache Kafka Docker image, JBOD support in Kraft-based clusters, and more!

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Drop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market Decline

Crunchbase News

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the state of venture funding to Black-founded startups in the U.S., based on 2023 data from Crunchbase and its Diversity Spotlight feature. Look for Part 2, which will explore funding trends in several major metro areas in the U.S., on Thursday. Venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups last year totaled only $705 million — marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even reach $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows.

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How to Get People to Seize Opportunities at Work

Harvard Business Review

People don’t always make use of opportunities and programs offered to them. Organizations can find ways to improve the take-up rates of products and programs by utilizing concepts from behavioral economics. These techniques have been used to convince more citizens to apply for tax benefits and more franchised hotels to use a new algorithmic pricing system, among other examples.

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Do You Have An Enterprise Data Strategy?

Perficient

This time of year, I like to talk about updating the data strategy for the new year to include new business goals and new technology and in doing so I sometimes forget that there are still many companies that do not have a data strategy to update. What is a Data Strategy and why do I need one? Most organizations have multiple data management initiatives underway including master data management, data governance, data migration, data modernization, OLTP operational data cleanup, data ingestion, a

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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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A New Generation of Drug Therapies Requires New Business Strategies

Harvard Business Review

The shift to advanced therapeutic modalities (ATMs) promises to change the nature of competition in the pharmaceuticals industry. ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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What Has Changed? Almost Everything.

CEO Insider

Recently, after giving a keynote at a major conference about The New Political Capitalism I was asked a question: “But business has always had a political dimension. So, what has changed?” Good question. The answer – almost everything has changed. What a business is for? The first thing that has changed is that the Milton […] The post What Has Changed?

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Forget Shift Left: Why ‘No Shift’ is the Future of Software Innovation

DevOps.com

A no shift strategy argues for developing and testing directly in production, bypassing the traditional dev-to-production delivery pipeline.

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AI-Powered Work Assistant Glean Grabs $200M At $2.2B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Despite some predictions about a slowdown in AI investing, investors are showing the same insatiable appetite for the sector they showed last year. AI-enhanced work assistant and enterprise search startup Glean became the latest to hit it big, locking up a $200 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation in a round led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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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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Investing in the Development of Young, Remote Employees

Harvard Business Review

With the ascent of remote and hybrid teams over the past few years, the landscape of our work has undergone a profound transformation. Many young professionals started their careers during this tumultuous period, interviewing for and starting new jobs in remote environments. Smart companies are taking proactive steps to support this cohort’s professional development.

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Understand SASE ROI for Network Security Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

In the fast-paced world of enterprise technology, staying ahead of the curve is not just an option. It's imperative. With the rise of hybrid work models and increased cloud adoption, businesses are seeking simpler, unified solutions to address their networking and security needs. Enter secure access service edge (SASE) , a revolutionary approach that converges networking, security and operations into one, cloud-based platform.

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White House urges developers to dump C and C++

InfoWorld

US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++. The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to reduce the risk of cyberattacks by using programming languages that don’t have memory safety vulnerabilities.

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2024 PHP Report Overview: PHP App Development and Deployment Trends

Zend

In this blog, we give details on the top PHP application trends, including application types, common integrations, and deployment preferences -- as told by the 2024 PHP Landscape Report.

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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 Anna Karenina Principle For Tech (Or, How To Cultivate A ‘Happy Family’ For Your Startup)

Crunchbase News

By Saanya Ojha Whether you’ve read the novel or not, you’ve likely heard the opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In other words, there’s only one way to be happy, but there are infinite ways to be unhappy. It’s an idea that captures the truth of many relationships — and many startups.

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How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

Harvard Business Review

Tracking and measuring carbon emissions play important roles in the university’s efforts to decarbonize its supply chain.

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3 dynamic use cases for Apache Flink and stream processing

InfoWorld

The real world is made up of people and things in constant motion, and the applications developers build need to reflect this reality. Picture an airport with thousands of planes and passengers arriving and departing daily who need to be updated when delays or other changes happen as fast as possible. Or a payment network that processes millions of transactions each minute.

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Universal API Access from Postgres and SQLite

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In SQL: The Universal Solvent for REST APIs we saw how Steampipe’s suite of open-source plugins that translate REST API calls directly into SQL tables. These plugins were, until recently, tightly bound to the open-source engine and to the instance of Postgres that it launches and controls. That led members of the Steampipe community to ask: “Can we use the plugins in our own Postgres databases?

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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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Rethinking Growth at All Costs

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with HBS professor Gary Pisano about setting realistic, strategic goals.

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Enhanced External Integrity Checking Tool to Provide Additional Visibility and Protection for Customers Against Evolving Threat Actor Techniques in Relation to Previously Disclosed Vulnerabilities

Ivanti

As part of our exhaustive investigation into the recent attack against our customers, Ivanti and Mandiant released findings today regarding evolving threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). These findings were identified in the ongoing analysis of the previously disclosed vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA gateways, and include potential persistence techniques that we are monitoring, even though to date they have not been deployed successfully i

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Deno shrinks deno compile binaries

InfoWorld

The developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime have reduced the size of deno compile binaries and introduced an official Linux ARM64 build with the newly released Deno 1.41 version. This latest release of the Node.js rival was unveiled February 22. Users can upgrade their Deno installation by running the following command in the terminal: deno upgrade Deno Land said the binaries produced by the deno compile command in Deno 1.41 are as much as 50% smaller than in previous versions.

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An Approach To Synthetic Transactions With Spring Microservices: Validating Features and Upgrades

Dzone - DevOps

In fintech application mobile apps or the web, deploying new features in areas like loan applications requires careful validation. Traditional testing with real user data, especially personally identifiable information (PII) , presents significant challenges. Synthetic transactions offer a solution, enabling the thorough testing of new functionalities in a secure and controlled environment without compromising 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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Amazon Bedrock: A solid generative AI foundation

InfoWorld

Amazon Web Services’ fully managed service for building, deploying, and scaling generative AI applications, Amazon Bedrock offers a catalog of foundation models, implements retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector embeddings , hosts knowledge bases, implements fine-tuning of foundation models, and allows continued pre-training of selected foundation models.

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Effortless Stream Processing on Any Cloud – Flink Actions, Terraform Support, and Multi-Cloud Availability

Confluent

Learn about key new features added to our serverless Flink offering this year including Topic Actions, Terraform support, and expansion into GCP and Azure.

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What’s going on with cloud finops?

InfoWorld

Hey, remember finops ? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted by the FinOps Foundation to collect information about critical priorities, industry trends, and the direction of finops practices.

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