Sat.May 07, 2022 - Fri.May 13, 2022

article thumbnail

9 Ways to Avoid Overspending on Your Nonprofit's Technology

TechSoup

When it's time for new technology, cost is one of the first things that comes to mind for most nonprofits. It can be a real balancing act. You want to get the right technology to help your organization work more efficiently and achieve your mission. But you don't want to pay for software that you don't need or face unexpected costs down the road.

article thumbnail

The Era of Responsible Cybersecurity Finally Arrives

Tenable

The SEC’s proposed rule on cybersecurity promotes transparency and encourages free market forces. The days of cyber negligence are numbered. While nobody can expect perfect cybersecurity, a vast supermajority of the painful breaches we learn about are the result of known vulnerabilities, lackadaisical security practices and poor cyber hygiene -- things that could have been avoided with diligence and care.

Policies 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

8 business concepts IT leaders should master

CIO

CIOs know they must be business leaders, but the business knowledge they must bring to the proverbial table is something of a moving target. There are, of course, the management fundamentals and the longstanding executive skills that remain constant must-haves. But there are, too, a list of topics that bubble up and dominate based on current trends and present-day realities.

Trends 358
article thumbnail

Slack’s former head of machine learning wants to put AI in reach of every company

TechCrunch

Adam Oliner, co-founder and CEO of Graft used to run machine learning at Slack, where he helped build the company’s internal artificial intelligence infrastructure. Slack lacked the resources of a company like Meta or Google, but it still had tons of data to sift through and it was his job to build something on a smaller scale to help put AI to work on the dataset.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata

Agile Alliance

The Agile Kata is an Agile approach to an Agile transformation that nurtures and fosters an Agile culture throughout the transformation process. The post Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile 267

More Trending

article thumbnail

Building Psychologically Safe Relationships with LaTonya Wilkins

Let's Grow Leaders

Real connections within teams can create a culture shift for an entire company. In this episode, LaTonya Wilkins gives you practical ways to lead below the “surface-ness” of traditional corporate culture, and how to build R.E.A.L. relationships with your team. Psychologically safe relationships with people who are different from you are the cornerstone for creating truly innovative, productive, diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures of belonging.

Culture 177
article thumbnail

Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning

TechCrunch

Hugging Face has closed a new round of funding. It’s a $100 million Series C round with a big valuation. Following today’s funding round, Hugging Face is now worth $2 billion. Lux Capital is leading the round, with Sequoia and Coatue investing in the company for the first time. Some of the startup’s existing investors participated once again. These investors include Addition, Betaworks, AIX Ventures, Cygni Capital, Kevin Durant and Olivier Pomel.

article thumbnail

How to Secure CI/CD Pipelines With DevSecOps

DevOps.com

Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn’t easy. Many of these companies—in finance, health care, government—are obligated to meet compliance requirements. For these organizations, DevSecOps adds necessary security focus to the DevOps methodology.

How To 145
article thumbnail

Quantum Computing without the Hype

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Several weeks ago, I had a great conversation with Sebastian Hassinger, now at Amazon, about the state of quantum computing. It’s exciting–but also, not what a lot of people are expecting. I’ve seen articles in the trade press telling people to invest in quantum computing now or they’ll be hopelessly behind. That’s silly. There are too many people in the world who think that a quantum computer is just a fast mainframe.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Confluent at a Fully Disconnected Edge

Confluent

Internet connectivity is something we sometimes take for granted. For many, most places we visit, work, or reside have some form of connectivity whether it be cellular, Wi-Fi, fiber, etc. […].

Internet 131
article thumbnail

Polygon among $9.3M investment in Paper to help onboard NFT buyers via email

TechCrunch

As more individuals join the NFT market, a common complaint exists around the accessibility and user experience for non-crypto natives. But Paper , a crypto-focused payments processing company launched in February, is working to make buying, using and holding NFTs easier for the everyday customer or fan trying to buy a digital collectible, James Sun, co-founder and CEO of the company, told TechCrunch.

article thumbnail

Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Agile and Scrum are increasingly getting a bad reputation, being associated with the worst aspects of toxic workplace culture. The post Agile/Scrum is a Failure – Here’s Why appeared first on DevOps.com.

SCRUM 145
article thumbnail

The Role Of Face-To-Face Communication In Big Companies

CEO Insider

The ability of proper communication of employees is the catalyst for the smooth development and course of the enterprise. The communication of employees within a company is the key to success for its organization and management. Employees use many and various means, to communicate with each other. Especially, nowadays with the evolution of technology, most […].

Company 124
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How Walmart Uses Apache Kafka for Real-Time Replenishment at Scale

Confluent

Walmart’s global presence, with its vast number of retail stores plus its robust and rapidly growing e-commerce business, make it one of the most challenging retail companies on the planet […].

Retail 128
article thumbnail

Finding your startup’s valuation: 5 factors to consider

TechCrunch

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor. Does your startup have enough runway? 5 factors to consider. Be an entrepreneur who leads with transparency. “What is your valuation?

Fintech 273
article thumbnail

Top 3 Requirements for Next-Gen ML Tools

DevOps.com

As the machine learning market matures, new tools are evolving that better match data science and machine learning teams’ needs. Vendors, both open source and private, have been quick to introduce new products that better meet requirements making it easier and faster to develop models and enable collaboration. These new offerings range from cloud-based platforms […].

Tools 140
article thumbnail

Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

Altexsoft

We live in the world of sounds: Pleasant and annoying, low and high, quiet and loud, they impact our mood and our decisions. Our brains are constantly processing sounds to give us important information about our environment. But acoustic signals can tell us even more if analyze them using modern technologies. Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Agile Book Club: Evolutionary Design

James Shore

Software typically becomes more expensive to change over time. That’s a problem for Agile, because if change becomes significantly more expensive over time, the Agile model doesn’t make sense. So instead, Agile teams can use evolutionary design: a way of starting simple and improving your design as you go. With evolutionary design, changes become cheaper over time, not more expensive.

Agile 121
article thumbnail

Salesforce acquires Troops.ai to make useful Slack bots

TechCrunch

Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce said that Troops will become a part of Slack when the acquisition closes in Q2 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. “When we started Troops, we wanted to reimagine how

Analytics 260
article thumbnail

Progress Expands Scope of Compliance-as-Code Capabilities

DevOps.com

Progress this week extended its DevSecOps portfolio—built atop the Chef automation framework it acquired in 2020—to now include the ability to programmatically address compliance mandates. At the same time, Progress has updated the Progress Chef InSpec framework for automating the discovery of compliance issues to add support for SAP ASE, IBM DB2, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, […].

article thumbnail

14 Questions to Supercharge Your People’s Performance by Using the New Science of Coaching

CEO Insider

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of soccer’s most highly regarded and successful managers. As Manchester United’s manager, his side dominated domestic and European soccer and won multiple trophies. In an interview with Sequoia Capital chairman Sir Michael Moritz on the Stanford Graduate School of Business YouTube channel, Ferguson explained how, before every game, he conducted […].

Coaching 119
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Optimizing Hive on Tez Performance

Cloudera

Tuning Hive on Tez queries can never be done in a one-size-fits-all approach. The performance on queries depends on the size of the data, file types, query design, and query patterns. During performance testing, evaluate and validate configuration parameters and any SQL modifications. It is advisable to make one change at a time during performance testing of the workload, and would be best to assess the impact of tuning changes in your development and QA environments before using them in product

article thumbnail

Postmates founder banks $23 million for his new crypto startup TipTop

TechCrunch

Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann’s new crypto startup TipTop was lightly teased out a few weeks ago, but now the stealth startup is sharing some info on its early funding, though there’s not much info on what they’re actually doing with that money. Lehmann notes that the company has raised a $23 million Series A from a16z with Marc Andreessen himself joining the startup’s board.

Banking 259
article thumbnail

Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology

DevOps.com

Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service Level Objective Development Lifecycle (SLODC) methodology represents an effort to create a set of best practices for achieving and maintaining SLOs that are […].

article thumbnail

The Future Is Smart: Cloud Native + AI

d2iq

Leading organizations around the world are adopting cloud-native technologies to build next-generation products because cloud native gives them the agility that they need to stay ahead of their competition. Although cloud native and Kubernetes are very disruptive technologies, there is another technology that is probably the most disruptive technology of our generation, and that is artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset, machine learning (ML).We already see AI in digital assistants like Sir

Cloud 114
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Article: Reducing Cognitive Load in Agile DevOps Teams Using Team Topologies

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article we will be sharing our experience learned from 12 months of adopting certain management and organisational insights from the book Team Topologies. It explores how we identified areas of responsibility and assigned those into mostly customer facing domains which could be given to our teams. It shows how an inverse Conway manoeuvre can be used to improve the architecture.

Agile 114
article thumbnail

Checkout.com to acquire identity verification startup Ubble

TechCrunch

A few months after raising $1 billion , payments startup Checkout.com has announced that it plans to acquire French startup Ubble , which operates a remote identity verification service. The deal should close later this year and Checkout.com isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal. With this acquisition, Checkout.com is adding a new product to its suite of financial products.

Fintech 256
article thumbnail

Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure

DevOps.com

Red Hat today announced general availability of a managed instance of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Announced at the Red Hat Summit 2022 event, this offering makes it possible to deploy the control plane for Ansible on the Microsoft Azure cloud as an alternative to existing support for Amazon […]. The post Red Hat Adds Managed Ansible Service on Azure appeared first on DevOps.com.

Azure 123