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10 Steps to Achieve Enterprise Machine Learning Success

Cloudera

You’ve probably heard it more than once: Machine learning (ML) can take your digital transformation to another level. It’s a pie-in-the-sky statement that sounds great, right? And while you’d be forgiven for thinking that it might sound too good to be true, operational ML is , in fact, achievable and sustainable. You can get the very kind of ML you need to increase revenue and lower costs.

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The Problem With Agile Scrum (and Why We Use Kanban Instead)

CloudZero

Every engineering team has their own approach when it comes to development methodologies. Most teams have embraced popular frameworks, Agile Scrum seems to be the most popular, both putting their own spin on it and choosing the parts that work for them.

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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Cloud technology is the new normal for tech-savvy people who consider themselves Digital Nomads. With the rise in a shift towards cloud technology, especially IT people, have changed the way they work. Besides, it has made it easier for professionals and even ordinary people to access the data on any device from anywhere. Shells is one such platform for hosting a Virtual Desktop/ Computer on the cloud.

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5 product lessons to learn before you write a line of code

TechCrunch

Before a startup can achieve product-market fit, founders must first listen to their customers, build what they require and fashion a business plan that makes the whole enterprise worthwhile. The numbers will tell the true story, but when it happens, you’ll feel it in your bones because sales will be good, customers will happy and revenue will growing.

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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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Upcoming Agile Community Events in April, May, and June

Agile Alliance

While we’re all really excited about the big events on the horizon, I want to give a quick shout out to some upcoming Agile community events which are sponsored by Agile Alliance. Community is what we do. APRIL April 22: If you’re looking for ideas about how to find a new job or … Continued. The post Upcoming Agile Community Events in April, May, and June first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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This Is Recruiting: How To Limit Bias In Tech Recruiting?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Domina McQuade, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Recruiting Manager had some interesting things to share when it comes to recruiting, and all of its highs and lows. Confronting and limiting bias in tech recruiting comes with education and experience. In her early days of recruiting, Domina McQuade, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Recruiting Manager, recalls one such experience where an interview panel hiring for a female Sales Manager role had no women interviewers on the panel.

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Billion-dollar B2B: cloud-first enterprise tech behemoths have massive potential

TechCrunch

Dharmesh Thakker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dharmesh Thakker is a general partner at Battery Ventures and a former managing director at Intel Capital. More posts by this contributor. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. More than half a decade ago, my Battery Ventures partner Neeraj Agrawal penned a widely read post offering advice for enterprise-software companies hoping to reach $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

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Human Resources: How Leaders Partner to Transform Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Strategic partnerships with human resources professional can be game-changers. Your human resources professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results—but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. Too many leaders miss out on the huge strategic potential of their human resources partnerships.

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Avalanche (AVAX) integrates with The Graph (GRT)

CTOvision

Decentralized smart contracts platform, Avalanche, has integrated with The Graph to expand querying and indexing on the platform. According to a press release shared with Coin Rivet, developers building on Avalanche can easily query custom on-chain data requests, without having to run a full node, via subgraphs, which are indexes of specifically-defined blockchain data.

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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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Do You Need a Cloud AI Engineer?

DevOps.com

For all the technological advancements we are witnessing in AI and machine learning, the practical benefits remain elusive in the non-tech business world, frustrating decision-makers as AI investment climbs. For example, over the past several years, many Fortune 500 companies have invested in strong data science teams and AI labs, but still struggle when it comes […].

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. He said yes, but soon realized that creating a message that could satisfy a majority of players was a “struggle throughout the process.”. While the class did pretty well, Kasparov found it “a little bit annoying” that he had to downplay concepts and stick to a specific structure.

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How Do I Deal With a Jerk at Work? (With Videos)

Let's Grow Leaders

Strategies For Dealing With the Most Difficult Co-Workers. Today on Asking For a Friend, I interview Peter Economy the Inc. Leadership Guy on how to deal with a jerk at work. Peter and I are kindred spirits and have been passionately connected on this topic of dealing with jerks at work for some time. Here’s a very early Inc. interview on being a jerk at work, after my very first book on Overcoming an Imperfect Boss came out in 2014.

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Ethereum Popularity on YouTube Surpasses Bitcoin

CTOvision

According to a recent report by Total Processing, Ethereum (ETH) is the most-watched cryptocurrency on YouTube. The top altcoin has clocked over 231 million views, even more than Bitcoin. In contrast, Bitcoin has a little under 200 million views. Other top-ranking cryptos like LINK, Cardano, and Ripple achieved 45 million, 43 million, and 38 million views […].

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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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11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021

DevOps.com

DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the most well-loved DevOps tools available today. But, throwing loads of money into fancy SaaS solutions can quickly gobble up the cloud budget. These DevOps tools all are open source, and […]. The post 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

TechCrunch

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice. The startup behind the “uncanny valley” audio deepfake of Einstein is Aflorithmic (whose seed round we covered back in February).

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4 reasons AIOps should be part of your digital transformation

TechBeacon

The pandemic encouraged organizations to accelerate their digital transformation plans, and many are already kicking off new initiatives. An important shift is an increased focus on performance-driven milestone planning.

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Scoping out the Job Landscape: Palantir Gets National Nuclear Security Administration Award

CTOvision

Read Jillian Hamilton explain how the Palantir Technologies $89.9 million contract with the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration could help the job landscape on Clearance Jobs : In a cleared market, passive candidates with an active clearance are a recruiters dream. It pays to keep your eye on the job landscape so that you’re ready […].

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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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7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools

DevOps.com

DevOps is a software development strategy that incorporates agile practices for fast, efficient product creation and release. It focuses on integration of development and operations teams, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and automation of tasks and processes. Typically, DevOps teams use pipelines to streamline and standardize processes.

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Expect an even hotter AI venture capital market in the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal

TechCrunch

Microsoft’s huge purchase of healthtech AI company Nuance led the technology news cycle this week. The $19.7 billion transaction is Microsoft’s second-largest to date, only beaten by its purchase of LinkedIn some years ago. For the AI space, the sale is a coup. Nuance was already a public company, but to see Microsoft offer a firm premium over its public-market value demonstrates the value that AI technology can have to wealthy companies.

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Citus Talk at CMU: Distributed PostgreSQL as an Extension

The Citus Data

Last month we released Citus 10 and we’ve received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback on the new columnar compression and single node Citus features, as well as the news that we’ve open sourced the shard rebalancer. The new and exciting Citus 10 features are bringing in lots of new users of Citus open source and the managed Hyperscale (Citus) option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

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The Missing Link: How Chainlink’s Pallet Aims to Deliver Greater Informational Access

CTOvision

Read explain how Chainlink’s modular oracle for Substrate framework can give greater informational access to De-Fi applications, users and developers on Bitcoin News : As demand for smart contracts climbs, Chainlink’s modular oracle for the Substrate framework aims to power developers and defi applications with trusted off-chain information and pricing data needed to attract projects […].

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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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Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs

DevOps.com

A survey of 400 developers and DevOps team members in the U.S. and Europe found, on average, 15 hours a week are being spent managing tasks such as debugging pipelines and waiting for tests and builds to complete. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Garden, a provider of a platform […]. The post Survey Shows Mounting DevOps Frustration and Costs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How startups can ensure CCPA and GDPR compliance in 2021

TechCrunch

Beth Winters. Contributor. Beth Winters, JD/MBA , is the solutions marketing manager of Aparavi , a data intelligence and automation software and services company that helps companies find and unlock the value of data. Data is the most valuable asset for any business in 2021. If your business is online and collecting customer personal information, your business is dealing in data, which means data privacy compliance regulations will apply to everyone — no matter the company’s size.

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Intl.NumberFormat

David Walsh

Formatting numbers on the client side is an important task, especially when you consider how much raw API usage is in play these days. What’s also important is ensuring those numbers are meaningful to users, no matter where they are in the world, especially if you’re an eCommerce website. Writing internationalization code can be a nightmare but luckily JavaScript provides us Intl.NumberFormat , an API for internationalizing numbers as currencies and more.

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Anduril Is About To Give An AI Brain Transplant To Area-I’s Drones

CTOvision

We had reported about Anduril Industries, Inc’s acquisition of drone maker Area-I, David Hambling takes a look at how the acquisition will pan out on Forbes: Defense startup Anduril has moved closer to its ambition to build a new industry giant with the acquisition of drone maker Area-I. Combining Anduril’s cutting-edge AI with Area-I’s proven […].

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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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Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?

DevOps.com

There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in between, there are hundreds – if not thousands – of crisis scenarios that can result from gaps in security. Data security is an […].

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Data scientists: Bring the narrative to the forefront

TechCrunch

Peter Wang. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Peter Wang is CEO and co-founder of data science platform Anaconda. He’s also a co-creator of the PyData community and conferences, and a member of the board at the Center for Humane Technology. By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates. (For perspective, one exabyte of storage could hold 50,000 years of DVD-quality video.

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Kubernetes Version 1.21: What You Need to Know

Aqua Security

As with every new Kubernetes release there are a great number of new features, however there are a couple of key changes which could have impacts to security and are worth looking at in more details. In addition to the deprecation of PodSecurityPolicies , we’ll also look at some newly promoted features being put in place to block Kubernetes vulnerabilities and things like the new IPv6 support which will be one to take account of when designing cluster network security controls.

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