Mon.Jul 29, 2024

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What it takes to win your first CIO role

CIO

Joy Brown’s rise through the upper echelons of digital and IT roles models what is now requisite preparation for technology leadership. Primed by a rotational program that cycled through varied assignments to build a technology-plus-business foundation, Brown was able to develop a robust process orientation in addition to skills in communications, large-scale change management, even a Master Black Belt Six Sigma certification.

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How to define AWS ECS task image definitions to play nice with ECS new version consistency behaviour

Xebia

In this blog I will provide two ways to work with the new ECS image version consistency behaviour: Either enable the ECR tag immutability or add the image digest to all your task definition images. ecs version consistency Since June 25, 2024, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) enforces software version consistency for containerised applications.

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Less is more: le strategie dei CIO per ridurre i costi e continuare a investire

CIO

C’è un ruolo molto importante che il CIO può giocare oggi nella sua azienda: guidare le strategie di riduzione di costi. I CIO che definiscono un linguaggio comune e un approccio strutturato alla gestione della spesa all’interno dell’IT e con i business partner riescono a costruire dei meccanismi efficaci di ottimizzazione dei costi, proattivi e programmatici, rendendo l’IT una fonte di valore per tutta l’organizzazione.

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Bridging the Gap Between Business Stakeholders and Data Modelers

Xebia

Introduction Data modelers frequently communicate in terms of entities, constraints, and other technical terms. This does not always translate well for business stakeholders. They are generally more interested in strategy and business outcomes. Data modelers need input from the business to understand what data is important and how it should be used.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce

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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Mosaic builds a global IT foundation for growth

CIO

Getting disparate facets of a global business on the same page — and the same processes — can be a force multiplier. That has been the objective of The Mosaic Company’s global digital transformation, which aims to yield at least three times its investment of $300 million. CIO Jeff Wysocki has high expectations for this wholesale transformation to the cloud and top SaaS platforms, which was approved by the company board two years ago, just before the CIO joined the company.

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La Agencia Tributaria de Madrid cimienta su estrategia digital sobre el dato y la IA

CIO

Cuatro años han transcurrido desde que Álvaro Tapias Sancho asumiera la subdirección general de Tecnología e Información Tributaria en la Agencia Tributaria de Madrid. Desde entonces, el organismo autónomo encargado de la recaudación de los ingresos de derecho público del consistorio capitalino –en torno a 5.000 millones de euros al año– se ha visto inmerso en un profundo proceso de transformación digital.

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AI Has a Revolutionary Ability to Parse Details. What Does That Mean for Business?

Harvard Business Review

Humans have relied on generalizations forever as a mental shortcut — and a way of running a business efficiently. But just as advancements in AI are making it possible to move beyond a handful of customer personas to infinitely personalizable products and messaging, they are also revealing to us a broader world full of ever-changing unique detail. Weinberger, a technology philosopher, and Zanini, a business innovation strategist, show us four areas in which the particular is making itself known

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Valencia potencia sus centros tecnológicos con una inversión de 36 millones de euros

CIO

La carrera por la digitalización en España está más competitiva que nunca, con iniciativas de modernización y dotación de fondos para la innovación tecnológica por parte de comunidades autónomas y municipios que buscan liderar la transformación digital de sus territorios y Administraciones. La Comunidad Valenciana no se queda atrás: en uno de sus últimos esfuerzos, la Generalitat, a través del Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad e Innovación (Ivace+i), ha decidido conceder ayudas por 36 millo

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Make the Most of Your Vacation When You Can’t Fully Unplug

Harvard Business Review

While working while on vacation isn’t ideal, there may be times when projects, deadlines, or client obligations prevent you from being fully offline. While it’s not easy to balance these competing priorities, it is possible to get critical work done while enjoying some refreshing time off. The key is to do a little pre-planning, making sure to avoid a few common mistakes people make when mixing business and personal travel.

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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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The challenges of implementing Generative AI in identity management

CIO

Generative AI has been the topic of conversation since OpenAI thrust it into the mainstream. In fact, there are few industries not feeling significant shifts from the technology, from customer service to healthcare and everywhere in between. One only needs to look at the numbers: a recent John Snow Labs study revealed that GenAI budgets have increased significantly from 2023, with nearly 20% of healthcare technical leaders reporting a budget growth of over 300%.

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Introducing Apache Kafka® 3.8

Confluent

Apache Kafka 3.8 adds 17 new KIPs (13 for Core, 3 for Streams & 1 for Connect). Highlights include 2 new Docker images, the ability to set task assignors, and more!

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The Hidden Costs of Climate Change on the Workforce

Harvard Business Review

As companies prepare for climate change, many overlook the critical impact on employee health from events like wildfires, extreme heat, and flooding. This oversight can lead to significant financial costs due to increased healthcare expenses, reduced productivity, and decreased labor availability. To address these risks, companies should conduct health audits, implement early-warning systems, learn from public sector practices, support mental health, and maintain transparent communication.

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Managing Change: How to Cultivate Forward Thinking Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? If it’s been a year or more since you experienced a significant change for yourself or your team, you might be missing out on great opportunities to build morale, build your career, and enjoy your work.

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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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To Monetize HashiCorp, IBM Must Perform an Unprecedented Balancing Act

DevOps.com

IBM’s multi-billion dollar deal to buy HashiCorp has left the hybrid cloud industry guessing what the future holds in store for the most popular provider of tools for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

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Companies Need a New Approach to Investing This Election Year

Harvard Business Review

In the U.S., it’s normal for policy uncertainty to increase before a major election, then decrease once the results are in. In any other election cycle, the predictable increase and decrease in uncertainty offers shrewd managers unique opportunities for operating, investment, and financing decisions. Election years are the time to pursue projects that entail minimal commitments and expenditures but will produce tremendous first-mover advantage and large payoffs if post-election policy turns out

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Supply Chain Startup Altana Hits Unicorn Status, Raises $200M

Crunchbase News

Altana AI , a supply chain management startup, locked up a $200 million Series C investment led by the US Innovative Technology Fund that values the company at $1 billion. Other investors in the new round include March Capital , Generation Investment Management , Salesforce Ventures 1 , Friends & Family Capital , and existing investors GV , Activate Capital , Floating Point and Omers Ventures 2.

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The tablet I recommend most for work travel is not an iPad or ThinkPad

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Microsoft's first Copilot+ PC is off to a flying start, with the 11th-edition Surface Pro featuring a brilliant OLED screen, solid performance, and a flexible form factor.

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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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Automating Databases for Modern DevOps Practices: A Guide to Common Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Database Automation Techniques

Dzone - DevOps

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures. As companies increasingly depend on data for decision making, operational improvements, and enhanced customer experiences, the manual management of large and complex databases becomes a daunting task, as shown in Figure 1.

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Does your old PC need a speed boost? This thumb-sized accessory did the trick for me

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If your system is sluggish, the PNY 1TB can work wonders. It handled my stress tests remarkably well, proving it's a worthy investment.

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Implementing AI-driven Dynamic Pricing: Benefits and Challenges

Daffodil Software

What if one could accurately estimate customer demand and raise or lower prices accordingly in real-time? This appealing possibility is what AI-driven dynamic pricing offers. This isn't just a futuristic concept. It’s a reality that leading companies are already using to increase revenue and customer satisfaction.

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Making Room for Some Lint

Honeycomb

It’s one of my strongly held beliefs that errors are constructed, not discovered. However we frame an incident’s causes, contributing factors, and context ends up influencing the shape of the corrective items (if any) that get created. I’ll cover these ideas by using our June 3rd incident where a database migration caused a large outage by locking up a shared database and making it run out of connections.

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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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The best live TV streaming services of 2024: Expert tested

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

We tested the best live TV streaming services like Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, and others that let you watch your favorite shows, news, and sports in real time, so you can finally cut the cord.

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This Week, The Future of AI and “Accelerated Compute” is in the Mountain West of the USA

Ooda Loop

ACM SIGGRAPH - The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - is the premier annual conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques. This annual conference is positioned for another 40-year run as the best-in-class annual confab for research and development and strategic insights for competitive advantage for your organization on the future of AI, Visual Compute, the Industrial Metaverse, and Virtual Wor

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Got a PC with a 13th or 14th gen Intel Core CPU? You need to read this

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Intel is preparing a patch for a widespread instability issue that has been plaguing its Core 13th and 14th Gen processors. But if your PC is already crashing, I've got bad news for you.

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CodeSOD: Mailing it In

The Daily WTF

Dan B is working on software which interacts with a bank. We'll get the REAL WTF out of the way right at the top: "The bank has requested that we send them an email containing the total of all the transactions…" Yes, core financial business functions being handled over email. I imagine some readers are probably thinking about drinking something stronger than coffee at the thought of it.

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Solving Open Source Complexity with a Managed Data Infrastructure Platform

With its unparalleled flexibility, rapid development and cost-saving capabilities, open source is proving time and again that it’s the leader in data management. But as the growth in open source adoption increases, so does the complexity of your data infrastructure. In this Analyst Brief developed with IDC, discover how and why the best solution to this complexity is a managed service, including: Streamlined compliance with some of the most complex regulatory guidelines Simplified operations, li

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Your Costco membership comes with a free $40 gift card right now

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Don't miss this rare Costco deal that gives you a $40 store card with your Gold Star membership purchase -- effectively cutting the price down to just $20. (I bought one and highly recommend it.

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NIST releases new tool to check AI models’ security

Ooda Loop

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new open source software package, Dioptra, that allows developers to determine what type of attacks would make an AI model perform less effectively.

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5 Bitwarden features that make it my favorite password manager

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Bitwarden is the password manager I recommend to everyone. Here are five reasons why.

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