CIO
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Xebia
JULY 29, 2024
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.
CIO
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Xebia
JULY 29, 2024
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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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?
CIO
JULY 29, 2024
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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CIO
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2024
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
CIO
JULY 29, 2024
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%.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2024
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.
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.
Confluent
JULY 29, 2024
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!
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2024
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.
DevOps.com
JULY 29, 2024
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).
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 29, 2024
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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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
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JULY 29, 2024
Effective customer support and project management are critical aspects of providing effective customer relationship management. Atlassian Jira , a platform for issue tracking and project management functions for software projects, has become an indispensable part of many organizations’ workflows to ensure success of the customer and the product. However, extracting valuable insights from the vast amount of data stored in Jira often requires manual efforts and building specialized tooling.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2024
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
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JULY 29, 2024
This post is co-authored by Daryl Martis and Darvish Shadravan from Salesforce. This is the fourth post in a series discussing the integration of Salesforce Data Cloud and Amazon SageMaker. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we show how Salesforce Data Cloud and Einstein Studio integration with SageMaker allows businesses to access their Salesforce data securely using SageMaker’s tools to build, train, and deploy models to endpoints hosted on SageMaker.
Daffodil Software
JULY 29, 2024
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.
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Crunchbase News
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
If your system is sluggish, the PNY 1TB can work wonders. It handled my stress tests remarkably well, proving it's a worthy investment.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 29, 2024
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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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
If you're looking for outstanding headphones for seriously sweaty exercising, the Mojawa Run Plus checks all the boxes.
Honeycomb
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Ooda Loop
JULY 29, 2024
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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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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
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.
The Daily WTF
JULY 29, 2024
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 29, 2024
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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