Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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How Far? The Line Between Compassionate Care and Ruthless Efficiency

CTOvision

I recently read with horror and empathy several articles about a man who was told by a video linked “robot” doctor that he was going to die. We lived through a similar experience just one week ago. My son-in-law, dying from stage IV cancer, was subjected to a similar robotic doctor in Inova Loudoun […].

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Exec: How SDN, SD-WAN, security fit in VMware's strategy

Network World

It has been just 10 months since Tom Gillis became VMware 's senior vice president and general manager of its networking and security business, and in that time he has overseen some major changes in the company’s core products. Most recent is a milestone release of the company’s NSX-T Data Center software, making it VMware’s primary networking platform for organizations looking to support multivendor cloud-native applications, bare-metal workloads as well as the growing hybrid and multi-cloud wo

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There's No Tech Silver Bullet for Digital Transformation

Information Week

There are four common traits of executives and organizations that will be successful with digital transformation.

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How Can You Protect Your Company From Hackers?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How Can You Protect Your Company From Hackers? - Information Technology Blog. According to a Clark School Study at the University of Maryland, there is a cyber-attack every 39 seconds on average. If you are running a small business, you have more reason for concern as further studies reveal that 43 percent of hacker attacks target small businesses.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Our New Business Platform: Free Administrative Licenses

Linux Academy

In April, we are launching some major platform updates including a revamped Linux Academy for Business platform for our customers. Over the past few months, we’ve worked directly with our customers and our customer success team to build a platform for our business customers specifically for managing their teams. One of the great things about the new platform is that we’ve been building it with scale in mind.

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Q&A: Deloitte's Lisa Noon on Inclusivity and Cloud Evolution

Information Week

As adoption of the cloud accelerates, a broader mix of perspectives can help accelerate innovation.

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Looking Ahead: My 2019 Projects

Scott Lowe

It’s been a little while now since I published my 2018 project report card , which assessed my progress against my 2018 project goals. I’ve been giving a fair amount of thought to the areas where I’d like to focus my professional (technical) development this coming year, and I think I’ve come up with some project goals that align both with where I am professionally right now and where I want to be technically as I grow and evolve.

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AWS Careers: On the Road to All 9 AWS Certifications

Linux Academy

I had the pleasure of speaking with one of our amazing students about his experience training for AWS certifications on Linux Academy. Mike had a lot of great advice for others who are training for certifications and developing their AWS knowledge. Keep reading to meet Mike! Thanks for talking with me today, Mike! Tell me a little bit about what you do.

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Spousetivities at Oktane 2019

Scott Lowe

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m a huge supporter of Spousetivities , and not just because it was my wife, Crystal Lowe , who launched this movement. What started as the gathering of a few folks at VMworld 2008 has grown over the last 11 years, and this year marks the appearance of Spousetivities at an entirely new conference: Oktane 2019 !

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How to hire a developer for a startup

Hacker Earth

With the world accepting the fact that every company now is a tech company, no matter what its size or what product or service it offers, hiring the best developers is crucial to survival. “Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost any business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference,” says Peter Berg, founder of the consulting firm October Three.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How Agile Cloud Solutions Can Upgrade On-Prem Performance: The BI Business Case?

Dataconomy

Moving IT to the cloud is one of the main objectives for many companies. But once achieved, they find managing data in a hybrid environment a challenge. This is when metadata management becomes more important than ever. Cloud vs. on-premises? It’s one of those topics that you hear broached at. The post How Agile Cloud Solutions Can Upgrade On-Prem Performance: The BI Business Case?

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The Best “Systems Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

“ Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (25+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Powering an IT revolution with HCI and hybrid clouds at.NEXT 2019

Nutanix

Spring is around the corner and with the season comes.NEXT 2019—the IT industry’s leading enterprise cloud conference.

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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: The Thoughts and Quotes about Creativity Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “ 100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “ is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special c

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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10 steps guide on how to manage remote teams

Hacker Earth

Technology has been an enabler at workplaces. With the advent of solutions such as the Cloud, employers are now empowered to hire and manage a workforce that is no longer confined to brick-and-mortar offices. Gone are the days when organizations had to follow an office-based work culture and suffered losses when the employees couldn’t make it to the office.

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Three Aspects of Digital Multiplicity

Future of CIO

The digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. Consider digital organization as the self-organized but interlaced environments, there are many emergent digital characteristics. It is a self-adaptive and self-renewing system which is able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior during the execution of its adaptation to environmental changes.

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