Virtual News Digest 15.04 - April 2023

From the Virtual News Desk

Hi everyone, I can't believe it has been over a month already since my last newsletter. Well of course a lot has happened in the past month in our industry and especially with AI. I am sure that all of you are looking into AI and how it can help you, or your organization. I started a stealth project a few months ago to leverage this and I am making steady progress. I hope to be in Beta in the next month and hopefully have something to show you then. In the meantime anyone interested please feel free to message me and I will put you on my list for the beta. I think you will find it very interesting. As a quick summary, it leverages AI to help in a specific but also broad vertical industry. Yeah I?know very "stealth" but it is exciting times and taking advantage of new tech has always been something I am keen to do. I have been a part of many revolutions from distributed computing, to virtualization and?cloud, to containers and Kubernetes and now AI, with so much stuffed into the middle.

I hope you all enjoy this months news digest. Please reach out to me with anything at all. I am spending most of my time on the AI app as well as mentoring which I feel are two of my strengths and passions right now.?With that let’s get onto this months packed newsletter.

Kind regards

Neil Isserow

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AI NEWS

MIT News

• Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture
• Property assessments sit at the center of home appraisals, insurance claims, renovation projects, and a number of other ...
• AI system can generate novel proteins that meet structural design targets
• MIT researchers are using artificial intelligence to design new proteins that go beyond those found in nature. They d...
• Drones navigate unseen environments with liquid neural networks?
• In the vast, expansive skies where birds once ruled supreme, a new crop of aviators is taking flight. These pioneers of ...
• MIT CSAIL researchers discuss frontiers of generative AI?
• The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has ignited a deep philosophical exploration into the nature of cons...
• Understanding our place in the universe
• Brian Nord first fell in love with physics when he was a teenager growing up in Wisconsin. His high school physics progr...

Google AI Blog

• Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating machine learning prototyping with interactive tools
• Posted by Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, Google Augmented Reality, and Na Li, Tech Lead Manager,...
• Recent advances in deep long-horizon forecasting
• Posted by Rajat Sen and Abhimanyu Das, Research Scientists, Google Research Time-series forecasting is an important ...
• Responsible AI at Google Research: Technology, AI, Society and Culture
• Posted by Lauren Wilcox, Senior Staff Research Scientist, on behalf of the Technology, AI, Society, and Culture Team ...
• Differentially private heatmaps
• Posted by Badih Ghazi, Staff Research Scientist, and Nachiappan Valliappan, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research ...
• Beyond automatic differentiation
• Posted by Matthew Streeter, Software Engineer, Google Research Derivatives play a central role in optimization and m...

Mark tech Post

• Researchers from MIT and Harvard Introduce Language Models Trained on Media Diets that can Predict Public Opinion
• Traditional survey-based approaches for measuring public opinion have limitations, but public opinion reflects and infl...
• A New NVIDIA Research Turns LDM Stable Diffusion into an Efficient and Expressive Text-to-Video Model with Resolution up to 1280 x 2048
• Due to recent advancements in the underlying modeling methods, generative models of pictures have attracted interest li...
• Meet Window AI: A New Way To Use Your Own AI Models On The Web – Including Local Ones
• Window AI is a new experimental tool launched to introduce a new kind of AI app based on a browser extension. This allo...
• Cyborgs and Cherries: The Unlikely Connection- This AI Approach Uses Reinforcement Learning to Teach Robots How to Use Chopsticks
• Robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, from automated vacuum cleaners to drones delivering pack...
• Meet OpenAssistant: An open-source chat model That consists of a ~161K human-generated, human-annotated assistant-style conversation corpus, including 35 different languages
• Recent years have seen remarkable artificial intelligence (AI) development, especially in natural language processing. ...

Microsoft AI Blog

• How leaders will use AI to unleash creativity
• Tags: AI The post How leaders will use AI to unleash creativity appeared fir...
• Working with Microsoft, Italian fashion house Zegna adds AI to digital toolkit to engage clients
• Tags: AI The post Working with Microsoft, Italian fashion house Zegna adds A...
• Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Viva – a new way to boost employee engagement
• Tags: Work & Life The post Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Viva – a new...
• The new performance equation in the age of AI
• Tags: AI The post The new performance equation in the age of AI appeared fir...
• Microsoft and Epic expand strategic collaboration with integration of Azure OpenAI Service
• Tags: AI The post Microsoft and Epic expand strategic collaboration with int...

Unit AI Blog

• Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has made significant strides in the field of natural language processin...
• A Beginner’s Guide to Sentiment Analysis in 2023
• Humans are sentient beings; we experience emotions, sensations, and feelings 90% of the time. Sentiment analysis is beco...
• What is Responsible AI? Principles, Challenges, & Benefits
• Responsible AI (RAI) refers to designing and deploying AI systems that are transparent, unbiased, accountable, and follo...
• What is a Machine Learning Engineer? Salary & Responsibilities
• The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing exponentially, with machine learning playing an instrumental role i...
• Stability AI Launches StableLM: Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives
• Stability AI, the creator of the renowned image-generation software Stable Diffusion, has unveiled a collection of open ...

AI Hub

• Understanding AI-generated misinformation and evaluating algorithmic and human solutions
• Jiawei Zhou, a PhD student in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing. Existing machine learning (ML) models used...
• ChatGPT: what the law says about who owns the copyright of AI-generated content
• By Sercan Ozcan, University of Portsmouth; Joe Sekhon, University of Portsmouth, and Oleksandra Ozcan, University of Po...
• The Machine Ethics Podcast: AI, ethics and the future – Data Science Festival talk special edition
• Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, ...
• Koala: A dialogue model for academic research
• By Xinyang Geng, Arnav Gudibande, Hao Liu, Eric Wallace and Sergey Levine In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot...
• Benefits and control influence the acceptance of automated decision-making
• Algorithms will inevitably play an increasing role in our lives in the coming years. Yet it is often suggested that peo...

Becoming Human

• What is MultiModal in AI?
• pixabay.comThe multimodal model is an important concept in the field of artificial intelligence that refers to the integ...
• Designing great AI products — Personality and emotion
• Designing great AI products — Personality and emotionThe following post is an excerpt from my book ‘Designing Human-Cent...
• The Ethics of AI: How Can We Ensure its Responsible Use?
• As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance and become more pervasive in our daily lives, it is crucial that we...
• AI and Art: How Artists are Using Artificial Intelligence to Create New Forms of Art?
• AI and ArtArtificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the way we live, work, and communicate, and it is now playing a s...
• AI-Based Voice Assistance Capabilities
• Think of software as a self-sustaining unit capable of connecting seamlessly with the human mind, and your first thought...

My Great Learning - AI and ML

• ChatGPT for Data Analysts
• Introduction As a data analyst, you are constantly swimming in a sea of data, looking for patterns, trends, and insights...
• ChatGPT Alternatives
• In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), language models and chatbots have been gaining immense popularity in recen...
• How to use chatGPT?
• Introduction OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a cutting-edge language model that can provide detailed responses to a wide range...
• ChatGPT for Digital Marketing
• Introduction Digital marketing has become an indispensable part of modern business strategies, with companies constantly...
• Revolutionize Your Business Communication with ChatGPT
• As technology continues to evolve, businesses are constantly seeking ways to streamline their communication processes to...

Singularity Weblog

• Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism
• My podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at?futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 orga...
• My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century
• This is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let ...
• Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI
• Prof. Massimo Pigliucci is one of those very rare people who manage to combine the pursuit of deep science and the livin...
• Ukrainian Transhumanist Alex Padalka: A War Against Our Democratic Values
• When the war in Ukraine started, I asked myself if I could do anything to help. I have no friends or family in Ukraine, ...
• Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios
• Ursula Eysin is the founder of Red Swan, a consultancy focusing on the development of future scenarios. She is a trained...

Big data Analytics News

• Sustainable Growth in the Global IT Industry: The Green Computing Revolution
• “The future is digital,” said Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. And he’s not wrong – the global informa...
• How the Internet of Things Helps Car Businesses Thrive
• Automotive businesses have been hit hard in recent years by the global pandemic, economic turbulence around the wor...
• 7 Best Practices to Scale Your Data Hosting Services + Tips to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan
• With the demand for data hosting services increasing rapidly, data hosting companies face a tough choice. They can ...
• Optimizing Data Processing: How DAS Storage Enhances Machine Learning Workflows
• Introduction Machine learning (ML) operations rely on effective data processing and storage in the rapidly devel...
• How to Prepare for Solar Panel Installation
• At the end of 2020 in the United States, there were about 2.7 million residential solar systems. As they become ...

DEVOPS NEWS

DevOps.com

• The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
• It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the t...
• GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains
• A global survey of 5,010 IT leaders, CISOs and developers published by GitLab this week found well over half (56%) of r...
• Preparing for Machine Learning Readiness to Unlock its Full Potential
• With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), companies need to understand and ...
• Continuous Testing: The Key to Quality Assurance in the DevOps Era
• Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has ...
• The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing
• We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have l...

DZone

• How to Handle Secrets in Jenkins
• Jenkins is a popular open-source automation server that is widely used for building, testing, and deploying software. It...
• What Is Platform Engineering? How To Get Started
• Platform engineering is the discipline of building and maintaining a self-service platform for developers. The platform ...
• Why Use Kong API Gateway
• Kong API Gateway is a cloud-native API gateway that is based on the Nginx reverse proxy. It is a simple, fast, and light...
• Angular for Workflow Processes
• Angular provides an excellent platform using which we can develop complex UI applications like workflow process manageme...
• Fearless Distroless
• With the rise of Docker came a new focus for engineers: optimizing the build to reach the smallest image size possible. ...

Devops Online (UK)

• Most Recent Trends of Digital Transformation
• Digital transformation has been one of the most significant trends in the business world for the past few years, and it ...
• Future of DevOps and Cloud
• It is undeniable that DevOps and cloud go hand-in- hand. DevOps is implemented in the vast majority of cloud developmen...
• Running PostgreSQL Database in a Cloud Native Environment with Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL has become the open source relational database of choice among organizations. For modern application d...
• DataOps isn’t DevOps plus data? So, what is it?
• What is DataOps? We know it’s gaining popularity among modern businesses, but is it simply DevOps plus data? No! DataOps...
• Cloud Migration
• We’ve covered a lot, from the importance of good planning to the inevitability of compromises. Of course, everyone...

InfoQ Devops Blog

• Article: Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable
• Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things t...
• Article: Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation
• As your APIs gain more popularity, API sprawl can become an issue. A top-down governance approach is best suited to mana...

DynaTrace Blog

• State and local agencies speed incident response, reduce costs, and focus on innovation
• Critical application outages negatively affect citizen experience and are costly on many fronts, including citizen trust...
• Financial services IT leaders can boost customer lifetime value with DevSecOps-driven innovation
• Customer lifetime value (CLV) has long been established as the key metric financial services firms use to gauge their pr...
• Data privacy by design: How an observability platform protects data security
• Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critica...
• RSA 2023 news guide: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations
• Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. Cloud appli...
• Ensure application resilience with AI-driven application health analysis
• Application resilience is a top priority for organizations in every industry. Even in higher education, IT staff depend ...

AWS Devops Blog

• Create a CI/CD pipeline for .NET Lambda functions with AWS CDK Pipelines
• The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure ...
• Multi-Architecture Container Builds with CodeCatalyst
• AWS Graviton Processors are designed by AWS to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Am...
• Announcing General Availability of Amazon CodeCatalyst
• We are pleased to announce that Amazon CodeCatalyst is now generally available. CodeCatalyst is a unified software devel...
• Monitoring Amazon DevOps Guru insights using Amazon Managed Grafana
• As organizations operate day-to-day, having insights into their cloud infrastructure state can be crucial for the durabi...
• Strategies to optimize the costs of your builds on AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces read...

Amazic DevOps Blog

• Recap KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 with Sarah Polan at HashiCorp
• Couldn’t attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023? Just tune in to this recap with Sarah Polan, Field CTO at HashiCor...
• Recap KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 with Venkat Ramakrishnan at Portworx
• Couldn’t attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023? Just watch this recap with Venkat Ramakrishnan, VP Engineering and...
• Cycle simplifies infrastructure management with a Low Ops approach
• If you’ve had enough of Kubernetes complexity and are looking for a simpler way to manage cloud or on-prem infrast...
• PerfectScale brings you the best of both worlds – Optimize Kubernetes for both resilience and cost
• Organizations drift to one of two extremes – Overprovisioning, or under-provisioning resources for their Kubernete...
• It is time to Go: our journey into grown-up code part 7
• This is the seventh article in our series in learning GO, the first four articles can be found here: It is time to R...

App Developer Magazine

• AR glasses market on the rise
• AR glasses are a type of wearable technology that connects people to computers. Many functions of...
• Dogecoin searches skyrocket after Twitter logo change
• Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for 'Dogecoin' have surged 1,182 percent in ...
• Automated service to service access emerges from Otterize
• Otterize, an open-source solution that's re-inventing how to connect services securely, to each o...
• BPM self contained apps to improve agility and competitiveness
• The needs and objectives of business evolve fast, and continuously, in a competitive environment....
• Machine learning operations boosted by Alteryx
• Alteryx, the Analytics Cloud Platform company announced a strategic investment in Fiddler, a pion...

DevOps Done Right

• Unravelling the Mysteries of Platform Engineering: A Guide for the Curious
• Platform engineering has become an increasingly important aspect of modern software development. It provides the infrast...
• GitHub: Self-Hosted Runner on Kubernetes
• GitHub Actions is a powerful tool for automating software workflows, and it can be used to build, test, and deploy code ...
• Diving into Cloud Infrastructure: An Exploration of Its Different Components
• Cloud Implementation has become a key component of modern IT systems, enabling organizations to scale their operations a...
• Lambda Function Trigger Enabled Using Code Pipeline.
• Why are you doing a lambda function trigger enabled using pipeline? For the AWS service to invoke your function directly...
• Top 5 Metrics to Measure Your DevOps Performance
• DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations, with the goal of delivering high-qual...

Atlassian DevOps Blog

• Atlassian joins the Value Stream Management Consortium
• Subscribe to Work LifeGet stories about tech and teams in your inboxSubscribe The digital economy is global and affe...
• 3 key takeaways from our Open DevOps webinar
• Subscribe to Work LifeGet stories about tech and teams in your inboxSubscribe Our webinar on how to optimize the dev...
• Atlassian Open DevOps could net teams a potential ROI of 358%
• Subscribe to Work LifeGet stories about tech and teams in your inboxSubscribe For developer and operations teams tha...
• Why greater autonomy is the future of software development
• Subscribe to Work LifeGet stories about tech and teams in your inboxSubscribe There’s a lot that our industry ...
• Introducing Open DevOps
• Subscribe to Work LifeGet stories about tech and teams in your inboxSubscribe Ask one hundred development teams the ...

CLOUD NEWS

Cloud Tech Blog

• How test orchestration helps in releasing faster mobile app features
• In today’s digital world, consumers demand that enterprises release mobile app features faster and developers are facing...
• Scottish cloud tech developer receives ￡5m backing
• Native cloud platform specialist, Forrit, will expand its operation after receiving scale up support from the Scottish N...
• VMware enhances VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms
• VMware has developed new capabilities across the VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms to empower customers with the ca...
• Siloed automation and tool proliferation drain resources and money
• CloudBolt Software, the leader in automating, optimising, and governing hybrid-cloud, multi-tool environments for global...
• Alcatel-Lucent launches new Partner Programme for 3,400 partners?
• Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a provider of communications, cloud and networking solutions tailored to customers’ industrie...

TechRepublic Cloud Blog

• Google moves to keep public sector cybersecurity vulnerabilities leashed
• Google Cloud and The Center for Internet Security, Inc., launched the Google Cloud Alliance this week with the goal of a...
• API security becoming C-level cybersecurity concern
• With Neosec acquisition, Akamai gains capabilities around API visibility, a security challenge for organizations, many o...
• Quantum computing gets hardware boost with spin glass breakthrough
• Enterprises can take advantage of D-Wave’s newly published optimization improvement through a hardware-sharing cloud ser...
• Rippling vs Gusto: Payroll Software Comparison
• Rippling vs. Gusto: Are you wondering which payroll software is better for your business? Use this guide to compare feat...
• How to create Portainer teams for restricted development access
• Jack Wallen shows you how to create a team and add users in Portainer in a secure way. The post How to create Portainer...

AWS Cloud Blog

• Amazon S3 Compatible Storage on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Devices Now Generally Available
• We have added a collection of purpose-built services to the AWS Snow Family for customers, such as Snowball Edge in 2016...
• Discover Building without Limits at AWS Developer Innovation Day
• We hope you can join us on Wednesday, April 26, for a free-to-attend online event, AWS Developer Innovation Day. AWS wil...
• AWS Week in Review: New Service for Generative AI and Amazon EC2 Trn1n, Inf2, and CodeWhisperer now GA – April 17, 2023
• I could almost title this blog post the “AWS AI/ML Week in Review.” This past week, we announced several new innovations...
• Amazon EC2 Inf2 Instances for Low-Cost, High-Performance Generative AI Inference are Now Generally Available
• Innovations in deep learning (DL), especially the rapid growth of large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry ...
• Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available
• Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer I...

Cloud Tweaks

• Data Center Energy Efficiency: Innovations in Cooling and Power Management
• The Future of Energy-Efficient Data Centers There is a saying that anyone who believes that exponential growth can last ...
• AWS vs. Azure Pricing: A 2023 Guide
• What Are AWS and Azure? AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Azure are two of the most popular cloud computing platforms curren...
• Unpredictability and the Unfulfilled Promise of Cloud Discount Programs?
• Unfulfilled Promise of Cloud Discount Programs As companies seek to cut cloud costs, more are looking to take advantage ...
• Sustainable Solutions for the Data Center: Net Zero Emissions Designs
• Net Zero Emissions Designs Sustainability has become an increasingly frequent topic of discussion for data center operat...
• The Rise of DCRs: A New Era of Customer Data Insights
• Data Clean Rooms are Changing the Game for Marketers It’s no surprise that data clean rooms (DCRs) have become the go-to...

Azure Blog

• Unleash the power of APIs: Strategies for innovation
• Modern businesses increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and deliver innovative experiences to their customers....
• 4 cloud cost optimization strategies with Microsoft Azure
• We have seen many businesses make significant shifts toward cloud computing in the last decade. The Microsoft Azure publ...
• Inside Azure for IT: 3 cloud strategies to navigate market uncertainty
• The saying, “the only thing constant is change,” is one I can’t seem to get out of my head these days,...
• Isovalent Cilium Enterprise in Azure Marketplace
• This post was co-authored by Narayan Annamalai, Partner PM Manager, Microsoft Azure. In December 2022, Microsoft and ...
• Announcing the general availability of Azure CNI Overlay in Azure Kubernetes Service
• This post was co-authored by Qi Ke, Corporate Vice President, Azure Kubernetes Service. Today, we are thrilled to ann...

Cisco Cloud Blog

• Simplify multi-cloud operations: How to optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP workloads with IWO
• This is the final blog in a series on cloud optimization. Also see “Reduce Public Cloud Spend with Intersight Workload O...
• Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer Named a Leader in GigaOm Radar for Cloud Resource Optimization
• In a December 2022 article in Data Center Dynamics, Luca Collacciani hits the nail on the head regarding public cloud sp...
• Getting to the Cloud: How IWO can help you plan cloud migration
• This blog is the second in a series on public cloud optimization. Also see “Reduce Public Cloud Spend with Intersight Wo...
• Reduce Public Cloud Spend with Intersight Workload Optimizer
• This blog is the first in a series on cloud optimization. Join us the next few weeks as we explore why moving applicatio...
• Application Resource Management in Healthcare
• Four Ways Healthcare Providers Have Benefited from Intersight Workload Optimizer IT operations teams are like doctors. ...

Compare The Cloud

• Why cost remains king in the on-prem vs cloud debate
• Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of companies that were previously ‘all in’ on cloud moving their data back...
• Changing People’s Mindsets When Measuring ROI
• Any business, regardless of its size or industry, can benefit greatly from the ability to calculate return on investmen...
• The passwordless future
• It’s nearly two decades since Bill Gates predicted the passing of the traditional username and password, warning ...
• Cloud-delivered Windows: What Are the Best Options?
• It’s a cliché to say, but it remains true: uncertainty is the only constant in today’s working world, and it can be dif...
• How businesses can boost security with a strong data privacy culture
• In the corporate world, data privacy stands for the ethical business decision to use collected consumer data in a safe,...

Cloud Security Alliance

• CSA’s Enterprise Architecture: Business Operation Support Services
• Written by CSA’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group. The Enterprise Architecture is both a methodology and a set of t...
• Report Shows Cloud Adoption is Higher Than Ever and So is Risk
• Originally published by Skyhigh Security. Written by Rodman Ramezanian, Global Cloud Threat Lead, Skyhigh Security. — He...
• HITRUST CSF Releases v11 to Increase Efficiencies and Stay Threat-Adaptive
• Originally published by BARR Advisory. Written by Kyle Cohlmia. HITRUST CSF recently released version 11, which includes...
• From Code to Cloud, the Case for Cloud-Native App Protection
• Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries. Written by Rich Campagna, SVP & GM, Posture Control, Zscaler. A Cloud N...
• The Discovery of the First-Ever Dero Cryptojacking Campaign Targeting Kubernetes
• Originally published by CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike discovers the first-ever Dero cryptojacking operation targeting Kuberne...

Cloudwards

• How to Watch the FA Cup Semi-Finals Live Stream for Free in 2023
• Avid football fans have a lot to be excited about this weekend, with the Football Association Challenge Cup semi-finals...
• From Tearjerkers to Action: Exploring What the World Is Watching by Genre in 2023
• The world of cinema is constantly evolving, so we’re here to unveil the most popular TV and movie genres streaming acro...
• How to Get a Yemen IP Address With a VPN in 2023: Best VPNs With Yemeni Servers
• Many people from Yemen who are vacationing or working abroad may find themselves locked out of some Yemen websites. The...
• How to Move Files From Google Drive to Google Photos in 2023: Transferring Images Made Easy
• If you want to move files from Google Drive to Google Photos so you can use the latter’s photo-specific management feat...
• How & Where to Watch Deadliest Catch in 2023: Streaming Season 19 Online from Anywhere
• Crab season is back and reality series Deadliest Catch is set to return for more real-life adventure and action on the ...

Cloud Academy Blog

• Updates to the Microsoft 365 Certification Portfolio
• With job roles and technologies constantly changing, Microsoft regularly reviews its certification and exam offerings f...
• Updates to the AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS-C02) Exam
• In April 2023, AWS announced that the current version of the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam (SCS-C01) w...
• 4 Steps to Hiring Top Tech Talent
• The prevalence of digital transformation has increased significantly over the past decade, creating a heightened need f...
• Get 40% Off Individual Plans at Cloud Academy
• Unlock your full career potential with Cloud Academy’s advanced training and expert guidance Are you feeling stuck i...
• Google Cloud Run: Automatically Scale Stateless Containers
• Modern software development relies heavily on containers as a portable, standardized method of packaging apps and their...

NEGOTIATION NEWS

Harvard Program on Negotiation

• New Great Negotiator Case and Video: Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary
• The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School periodically presents the Great Negotiator Award to an individual...
• Union Negotiations Show How to Bring Reluctant Parties to the Table
• On April 24, 2013, an eight-story building in Bangladesh known as Rana Plaza collapsed, killing 1,134 people, many of th...
• What Is Distributive Negotiation?
• What is distributive negotiation? Distributive negotiation involves haggling over a fixed amount of value—that is, slici...
• Cross-Cultural Communication in Business Negotiations
• When preparing for cross-cultural communication in business negotiations, we often think long and hard about how our cou...
• What Is an Umbrella Agreement?
• Business negotiators tend to want the best of both worlds. When reaching an agreement, they want to pin down parties’ re...

K&R Negotiaiton

• K&R Negotiation Associates: Our Guiding Philosophy Revisited
• Everything we do at K&R Negotiation is based on our philosophy, honed over several decades of helping the world’s l...
• Negotiating Contracts In A Volatile Economic Environment
• For firms delivering services on long-term contracts, rising inflation has hit like a sledgehammer. The inability to rai...
• Agenda Management Can Be Your Difference Maker (or Game Changer) in Negotiations
• In one of my previous articles, I wrote about the “time factor” — not only how you can manage it against other considera...
• Three Essential Negotiation Do’s and Don’ts
• During our conversation on the Sales Reinvented podcast, host Paul Watts asked me what I considered to be the three most...
• Five Reasons Soft Skills Are Crucial To Successful Negotiation
• In a previous article, Negotiate Like a Pro: Ask the Right Questions, I wrote about the importance of understanding how ...

Kluwer Mediation Blog

• From theory to practice – BATNA in the spotlight
• As long ago as 1981, in the very first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger...
• The art of the possibilist
• I recently had the pleasure of taking part in a workshop led by William Ury in which small teams of participants were in...
• Reflections on Mediation in Practice and Bringing Parties Together
• It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog just about mediation practice. Other things always seem more important! Howev...
• Dear President Putin….a thought experiment
• I have been musing about what a mediator might say to President Putin given the opportunity. That led me to compose a le...
• Opening Statements in Mediation: what world are we making?
• “The world is made, not found.” (W Barnet Pearce) I had been a mediator for about 10 years before I heard pa...

Positive Purchasing Blog

• The top tactics to become a negotiation master
• Be yourself and play to your strengths, advises global negotiation master Jonathan O’Brien, and it is OK to bluff –...
• Dealing with price increases in 4 easy steps
• Amid today’s unprecedented inflationary environment, Jonathan O’Brien considers a four-step sequence of tactics that pro...
• Negotiation tactics: How having a decoy in your repertoire can get you the result you want.
• Jonathan O’Brien, CEO of Positive Purchasing, explores the concept of repertoire in negotiation and use of the decoy tac...
• Mastering negotiation: Conquer the enemy within
• Perhaps the most important challenge in mastering negotiation is the one closest to home. Human nature, specifically o...
• Negotiation: It isn’t just what you say…
• Positive CEO Jonathan O’Brien, considers the importance of language during a negotiation, and how tone of voice and phra...

MENTORING NEWS

Chronus Mentoring Blog

• Aid Knowledge Transfer with People-Centric Learning
• Employees have always been a company’s greatest asset. Yet historically, only a few companies have designed their ...
• Long-Term Career Goals [Examples & How to Succeed]
• Setting goals is the first step to achieving anything you want out of life, and your career is no exception. Long-term c...
• Drive Employee Skill Development with Mentoring
• A fast-changing world requires a labor force with a wide range of skills, just as it requires businesses to adapt to cha...
• Bridge the Workforce Skills Gap with Mentoring
• With the evolution of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the continued march of automation and the rise of th...
• Overcoming America’s Worker Shortage with Mentoring
• Layoff news may dominate the headlines, but U.S. employers are still struggling to fill open roles and retain top perfor...

Mentoring.org

• MENTOR Texas Names Lauren Love Richard CEO
• Richard to Serve as Founding CEO, Lead Organization’s Development and Growth April 12, 2023 – MENTOR announced today...
• A Conversation With the Director of Workplace Mentoring, Jeronima Nix
• Jeronima Nix is the Director of Workplace Mentoring at MENTOR. She shares her insights on mentoring, partnerships, and ...
• MENTOR Announces the 2023 National Corporate Mentoring Honor Roll
• Recognizing Corporations Across the Country Dedicating Outstanding Support for the Youth Mentoring Movement April 4,...
• MENTOR Names Jermaine Myrie as New CEO
• Myrie brings deep nonprofit leadership expertise to national mentoring movement March 28, 2023 – MENTOR, the unifyin...
• Capitol Hill Day Recap- Building Relationships and Expanding the Mentoring Movement
• This January, during National Mentoring Month, MENTOR hosted its annual Capitol Hill Day. Over 530 advocates from aroun...

Mentorly

• Prince’s Trust Canada uses Mentorly to Scale Mentorship
• Prince’s Trust Canada partners with Mentorly to Efficiently Connect Veterans with Entrepreneurial Mentors documen...
• Mentorship Best Practices: Lessons From Industry Leaders
• Mentorship programs play a vital role in employee job satisfaction, retention rates, and career development. According t...
• The Link Between Diversity and Inclusion and Effective Mentorship
• Diversity and inclusion are vital for the success of any modern business. The two factors also have an undeniable link w...
• The Impact of Mentorship on Employee Retention and Career Development. Why belonging matters.
• The average tenure at the top 10 tech companies is less than two years. This means that by the time an employee get?...
• How to Be a Better Mentor: the Secrets to Active Listening ????
• Starting a new mentorship may feel rocky at times – you or your mentee might sense that something’s off. You can’t...

VIRTUALIZATION NEWS

Open Source Blog

• Comparing Container Scanners for Detection Accuracy
• In this blog post, I’ll share my findings regarding scanner detection accuracy of open source inventory for containers ...
• Dependency Management: Prioritizing Risk Over Crisis Management
• This past March, we had the privilege of delivering our talk entitled “Dependency Management: Risk versus Crisis Manage...
• Blooming and Booming: Amsterdam Hosts KubeConEU
• For visitors to Amsterdam two weeks from now, the City will seem slightly out of balance. While tulips will be top of m...
• Shining a Light on Women in Open Source
• In celebration of women’s history month, we gathered together eight women within our Open Source Program Office and ask...
• VMware’s Inspirational Women: Spotlight on Catherine McGarvey
• Catherine McGarvey is the VP of Software Engineering for VMware’s Tanzu line of products, leading a distributed enginee...

Network Virtualization Blog

• Learn How to Conquer Lateral Cybersecurity Risks with VMware at RSAC 2023
• In a world without neatly defined network perimeters, lateral security—means detecting and mitigating threats fr...
• NSX Multi-Tenancy Journey
• From Data-plane Multi-tenancy to a Complete Multi-tenancy Framework We are delighted to announce Projects in NSX, a new ...
• Securing the NSX management plane against exploits
• Helping organizations protect their assets and infrastructure from evolving attack tactics and techniques is a priority ...
• Introducing New Networking and Advanced Security Capabilities in NSX 4.1
• We’re delighted to announce the general availability of VMware NSX 4.1, a release that delivers new functionalities for ...
• Join VMware Networking and Security at Mobile World Congress
• VMware NSX Powers Service Acceleration and Energy Efficiency for VMware Telco Cloud Platform Mobile World Congress 2023 ...

vSphere Blog

• vSphere 8 Update 1 Achieves Initial Availability
• Originally introduced on March 14th, today we are excited to announce the initial availability of the vSphere 8 Update 1...
• Learn about Okta Support on vSphere 8 Update 1 | Breakroom Chats Episode 18
• Introduction to the vSphere Breakroom Chat Series In this series, we share vlogs with industry-recognized experts from ...
• The vSphere 8 Release Model Evolves
• Since the release of vSphere 8.0, we’ve been using a new Release Model to encourage the adoption of our vSphere releases...
• Announcing VMware Cloud Packs To Accelerate Your Cloud Transformation
• When it comes to removing barriers to cloud adoption and accelerating the unique cloud journeys of our customers, we kno...
• Photon 5.0 RC is now Live!
• Following the release of Photon OS 5.0 Beta earlier this year, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Releas...

Cloud management Blog

• Metric-Based Search Improvements in VMware Aria Operations
• With the April 2023 release of the VMware Aria Operations product for both SaaS and on-prem (v8.12), we have made some ...
• What’s in a Name? Multi-Cloud Management and VMware Aria
• As part of our efforts to strengthen our cloud management portfolio, we are excited to announce that we have officia...
• What’s New in VMware Aria Operations 8.12
• *Formerly vRealize Operations I am very excited to announce many updates for VMware Aria Operations. We’ll be walking...
• VMware vRealize Suite Cloud for U.S. Public Sector Achieves FedRAMP JAB High Certification
• As more government agencies have adopted cloud computing for their operations, security of their sensitive data...
• Launchpad Overview in VMware Aria Operations
• With the April 2023 release of the VMware Aria Operations product for On-prem (v8.12) as well as SaaS, we have made a fe...

EUC Blog

• Four ways a well-known public university leverages VMware Horizon so students can study from anywhere?
• A respected university in the northeast prioritizes equipping its students with practical, real-life experiences to prep...
• Boost video and graphics delivery in Horizon with VMware Blast and AV1 enabled on Intel GPUs
• One of the biggest challenges of delivering virtual desktops and apps is creating a parity of experience for end users w...
• Announcing Workspace ONE UEM support for Chrome Education
• Workspace ONE UEM now supports management for Chrome Enterprise and Education! Following a beta launch in September, we ...
• VMware Horizon 8 version 2303 release improves customer experience and advances support for Horizon Cloud next-gen
• The newest release of VMware Horizon? 8 version 2303 is now available. It includes features that enhance the end-user ex...
• Introducing enhanced search for data-driven profiles in the Workspace ONE UEM console
• As unified endpoint management (UEM) has evolved over the last decade, device management policies available across opera...

Cloud Foundation Blog

• Why Data Center Modernization is the Key Outcome of Your IT Strategy
• In today’s digitally-driven world, data center modernization has become the cornerstone of any successful IT strat...
• Ice Norway Simplifies Multi-Cloud Operations for 5G Growth Strategy with VMware Cloud Foundation
• According to the Thales Group, by the end of 2022, there were more than a billion 5G connected consumers across the ...
• VMware Cloud Packs Accelerate Business Outcomes
• The announcement of VMware Cloud Packs is a huge step forward in streamlining customers multi-cloud journey accelerating...
• VMware Validated Solutions – March 2023 Update
• Welcome to the March 2023 update for VMware Validate Solutions. Highlights for this update include: * New Solution &#...
• VMware Validated Solutions – Feb 2023 Update
• Welcome to the February 2023 update for VMware Validate Solutions. Highlights for this update include: Added enhance...

VMware on VMware Blog

• Connect the Clouds. How VMware IT Modernized a Mission-Critical, Customer-Facing Application to Propel the Customer Experience for Millions of Users?
• By VMware Director, Customer Experience and Success Engineering, Moin Tavargere, and VMware Senior Director, Digital Cu...
• Money Matters. Why Involving Finance Is Vital to Beyond Zero Trust Program Success?
• By VMware Director, Information Security Strategy, Craig Savage, and VMware Senior Program Manager, Eddie Eriksson Thi...
• You Talking to Me? How Proper Comms Management Accelerates Beyond Zero Trust Initiatives?
• By VMware Director, Information Security Strategy, Craig Savage, and VMware Senior Program Manager, Eddie Eriksson ...
• How VMware Handles Cloud Security: Part Two of Two
• by: VMware Director of Security Architecture Bharath H C, VMware IT Director Sarita Kar and VMware Director, Informatio...
• Roll with the Changes? How Beyond Zero Trust Mitigates Organizational Change Management Pushback?
• By VMware Director, Information Security Strategy, Craig Savage, VMware Senior Program Manager, Eddie Eriksson, and VMw...

Mystic Marvin

• The traditional vSphere 8 update 1: “What’s new?”
• VMware recently announced the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 1 (build 21495797) bringing several new features and improv...
• MysticMarvin: The Blog Strikes Back
• We’re excited to announce our return to the world of blogging after a brief hiatus. While we were away, a lot has...
• ChatGPT is not the only AI!
• While #chatGPT holds sway over the media, we shall not forget that other artificial intelligences are busy in the shado...
• The VMware Entire Portfolio in 1-click – February 2022
• March 2020, I published the 1rst article “VMware ENTIRE portfolio“- easy to use – in just 1-click! Si...
• Denis’s Trek For Lisa: a Phenomenal Sporting and Solidarity Challenge
• I met Denis back in 2016, when we were both new at VMware. Journey with VMware starts with START Onboarding Training...

David Stamen

• Using CloudFormation to Manage EC2 in AWS
• An update to a topic I previously covered! How can we automate management of virtual machines in AWS? Cloud Formation (C...
• Using the AWS CLI to Collect Amazon S3 Bucket Object Information
• Data collection is the theme of the month! This next ask was to easily identify S3 bucket objects, based on name, class ...
• Using the AWS CLI to Collect Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Information
• Most of my recent blogs have been focused on not just how to “do” something, but provide some information on...
• Site Recovery Manager - Rename Datastore After Recovery
• During a failover, or whenever a datastore is re-signatured VMware will append snap-PREFIX-DataStoreName. In some cases,...
• How to Map an Raw Device Mapping (RDM) to a Pure Storage Volume using PowerCLI
• When running operations against an RDM, you may need to know the backing volume. Unfortunately with RDM’s there is...

Virtual Simon

• Streamlit powered What To Watch App
• Streamlit powered What To Watch App A comon conversation in the house after we’ve finshed work and eaten begins, &...
• Data Information Knowledge… Wisdom?
• Data is the new oil Data is the new oil, or so it is stated almost everywhere. What that means is open to interpretatio...
• Revisiting VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations
• Revisiting VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations Back in March 2021 I wrote a quick one line PowerShell sn...
• Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit
• Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit Following on from the quick API demo I built for the Vehicle Enquiry Se...
• Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo
• Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo The Goal To build a web based application that allows the retrieval of vehicle i...

ESX Virtualization

• VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 1 Released – Download Now
• VMware just released their latest VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 1. This is a significant update to their flagship product. T...
• Sync data between several folders, systems and NAS devices with this cool software called Echosync
• Have you been looking for a fast and reliable software that can backup your local folder(s) and files, replicate them to...
• Don’t Miss VeeamON 2023 – Discount code for in-person event or FREE Online
• VeeamON 2023 Community Event for DataRecovery Experts is around the corner. For in-person event be ready for sunny Miami...
• VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 4.10 – Manage virtual machine (VM) template versions
• Today is a day where we go for another topic that is present on the latest VMware Blueprint, that covers all chapters of...
• VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 7.12.1 – Convert a non-encrypted virtual machine to an encrypted virtual machine
• Today is a day where we go for another topic that is present on the latest VMware Blueprint, that covers all chapters of...

Cormac Hogan

• LDAP Integration in VMware Data Services Manager
• I had a recent question about integrating VMware Data Services Manager with Microsoft Active Directory for users. This i...
• Monitoring and Metrics in VMware Data Services Manager
• VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) has a substantial amount of built-in monitoring, not just for analyzing the health an...
• Configuring Clustered MySQL in VMware Data Services Manager (Video)
• In this video, you will see how easy it is to create a clustered MySQL database through VMware Data Services Manager (DS...
• Self-Service Database Clone in VMware Data Services Manager (Video)
• This short video steps through the cloning of an existing database, highlighting another self-service feature of VMware ...
• Self-Service Database Backup & Restore in VMware Data Services Manager (Video)
• In this short video, one of the really nice self-service features of VMware Data Services Manager is demonstrated. In th...

Scott's Weblog

• Technology Short Take 167
• Welcome to Technology Short Take #167! This Technology Short Take is a tad shorter than the typical one; I’ve been...
• Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on Azure with Pulumi
• A little over a month ago I published a post on creating a Talos Linux cluster on AWS with Pulumi. Talos Linux is a re-t...
• Technology Short Take 166
• Welcome to Technology Short Take #166! I’ve been collecting links for the last few weeks, and now it’s time ...
• Creating a Talos Linux Cluster on AWS with Pulumi
• Talos Linux is a Linux distribution purpose-built for running Kubernetes. The Talos web site describes Talos Linux as &l...
• Technology Short Take 165
• Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share wi...

vSphere-land

• Update on vSphere version adoption
• I recently published some metrics on which version of vSphere customers were running which highlighted that a large perc...
• The Past, Present and Future of VASA and VMware vVols
• VMware Virtual Volumes has been in development for quite a long time, almost 10 years now if you count the development b...
• Why are so many VMware customers still on vSphere 6.5 & 6.7?
• vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 is set to go end of support next week and vSphere 7.0 has been released for over 2 and a half years ...
• vVols 2022 Adoption Update: Current barriers and will it ever go mainstream?
• It has been over 7 years now since VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) was released as part of vSphere 6.0 but adoption remai...
• My thoughts and observations on VMworld 2021
• Another VMworld here and gone, blink and you might have missed it with it being a all virtual event again this year. I p...

NTPRO.NL

• vSphere 8 Update 1 What's New?
• Learn about the exciting new features and enhancements that vSphere 8 Update 1 brings to improve operational ef...
• VMware Labs has released a new Fling - Power Actions
• Power Actions is a remote plug-in that enables you to run PowerCLI scripts from the vSphere Client, and implement c...
• VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing April 2023
• The VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing is a quarterly online series designed to help organizations succeed with their ...
• Free e-book - The Legacy Trap
• Most organizations have hit a legacy wall. They’re now unable to change how their core business works because their...
• New Technical White Paper - VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 Tagging Best Practices
• Writing code to use VMware vSphere tags can be challenging in large-scale environments. In this technical paper, VM...

Virten.net

• ESXi on 13th Gen Intel NUC Pro (Arena Canyon)
• Intel's Raptor Lake-based 13th Gen "Arena Canyon" NUC Professional series is now available to purchase. This article tak...
• vSphere 8 vCLS Machines High CPU Usage
• Yesterday, vSphere 8.0 Update 1 has been released and as usual, before reading any release notes, I hit the update butto...
• 10" Rackmount Kit Collection for Intel NUC (3D Printer Models)
• In the last 10 years, I've purchased plenty of Intel NUCs to run my VMware home lab. Keeping all the equipment organized...
• 10" Rackmount Kit for 7th Gen Intel NUC
• Last week I published 3D models for a 12th Generation NUC 10-inch Rack Kit. This was only the start of a series I'm goin...
• 10" Rackmount Kit for 12th Gen Intel NUC
• With all the equipment that is necessary to run a homelab, it can be challenging to keep the space organized. I'm runnin...

vSwitchZero

• Synology Active Backup for Business
• Synology’s Active Backup for Business is a powerful, license-free backup tool included with many of their higher ...
• Synology Storage Console for VMware
• I’ve been playing around with Synology’s DS1621+ in my home lab the last couple of weeks and have been thoroughly impre...
• Synology DS1621+ iSCSI Configuration
• In my previous post on the Synology DS1621+, I configured storage pools and volumes. Now that our storage is ready ...
• Synology DS1621+ Storage Pool and Volume Creation
• In my previous post, I got the hardware all setup on the DS1621+ test unit that Synology was gracious enough to loa...
• vCenter VAMI Login Fails Due to Expired Password
• A few years back, VMware implemented a password expiry policy of 90 days for the root account on the vCenter Server...

vNinja

• Upgrading to vCenter 8 Update 1: Invalid Type, expected String, instead got NoneType
• vCenter 8.0 Update 1 was released on April 18th, and I quickly jumped to upgrading my existing home lab vCenter, but ran...
• Are Your (old) ESXi Hosts Publicly Available? — They won't be for long.
• Back in February 2021, I published a post named Is Your VMware vCenter Publicly Available?. It is February 2023, and her...
• VMware Explore 2023 Dates and Venues
• Info Update 5. jan 2023: The dates and location for US and EMEA hs now been made official by VMware at?vmware.com/explor...
• My Experience: VCP-DCV for vSphere 7.x 2V0-21.20 Exam
• Guest Post # Info This is a guest post by Stine Elise Larsen, Senior Datacenter Consultant for Proact. #You can find her...
• CloudBytes Podcast — Season 3
• The CloudBytes Podcast recently released Season 3 of their series of podcasts. The main topic this season is core compon...

VMExplorer

• VMware Workstation 17 Nested Home Lab Part 1
• In Part 1, I go into some of the Goals, Requirements, and a bit of planning around developing your own Nested Workstatio...
• VMware Workstation 17 Nested vSAN ESA Overview
• In this high level video I give an overview of my #VMware #workstation running 3 x nested ESXi 8 Hosts, vSAN ESA, VCSA, ...
• Home Lab Generation 8 Parts List (Part 2)
• Today I’m releasing the parts that I plan to use for my Generation 8 Home Lab! I’ll be using three Dell T782...
• Home Lab Generation 7: Archive Page
• Today I’m retiring my Generation 7 Home lab as my Generation 8 lab will be posted in my Home Lab BOM section very ...
• How to upgrade a Dell T7820 to a U.2 Backplane
• In this video I show how I upgraded my Dell T7820 SATA backplane to a U.2 backplane. I’m doing this upgrade to ena...

KB Articles

• Support Requests: How to Read Release Notes
• Tweet As previously mentioned, VMware Support might ask you to upgrade to the latest release to fix an issue. Statistica...
• New Knowledge Articles for VMware Cloud on AWS in March, 2023?
• Tweet Stay informed with the latest VMware Knowledge Base (KB) articles created in March. The articles address common i...
• New Knowledge Base Articles for VMware Cloud on AWS in March 2023.
• Stay informed with the latest VMware Knowledge Base (KB) articles created in March. The articles address common issues ...
• New Knowledge Articles for VMware Horizon, WorkspaceONE, End User Computing (EUC) , and Personal Desktop for March, 2023?
• Tweet Attention VMware customers! There have been some new Knowledge Base (KB) articles created in March that you shoul...
• New VMware Skyline Collector 3.4 and Advisor Pro Release
• Tweet VMware Aria Operations for Log Endpoint Discovery and Product Name Updates We’re pleased to announce new VMware S...