CIO, Monday, May 1,2023
9 Ways To Avoid Falling Prey To AI Washing
CIOs are under increasing pressure to call out misleading AI claims from vendors. Various strategies offer the best line of defense. more →
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AiTHORITY, Wednesday, May 3,2023
AI vs. Human Ingenuity: Why AI Is Not Yet Ready To Replace Creativity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting technologies right now. AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have attracted mainstream media for many reasons, from passing exams to generating alarmingly accurate imagery. more →
ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Artificial Intelligence: Business Leaders Start To Realise The Risks
ChatGPT and other large language models can rewrite value, and business leaders now realise they need a plan more →
VentureBeat, Friday, May 5,2023
Data Is Choking AI. Here's How To Break Free.
AI is a voracious, data-hungry beast. Unfortunately, problems with that data - quality, quantity, velocity, availability and integration with production systems - continue to persist as a major obstacle to successful enterprise implementation of the technology. more →
Gartner, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Gartner Poll Finds 45% Of Executives Say Chatgpt Has Prompted An Increase In AI Investment
70% of Organizations Currently in Exploration Mode with Generative AI more →
SearchCIO, Thursday, May 4,2023
Generative AI In The Enterprise: Lessons Learned
The use of generative AI in the enterprise is changing software interactions and customer engagement. Four use cases can help IT leaders better understand the tech's potential. more →
SearchCIO, Friday, May 5,2023
MIT-CIO Event Explores Digital Resilience Amid Disruption
Allan Tate, executive chair of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, shares an overview of the 2023 event, including focus areas such as cybersecurity and tech evaluation. more →
Forrester, Friday, May 5,2023
The Tale Of The Chief Digital Officer Is Still Being Written
New executive roles have historically emerged from macro shifts. For example, chief financial officers appeared in the 1960s as a response to the rising trend of conglomerates requiring complex bookkeeping to meet financial regulations; chief sustainability officers arose in response to decarbonization efforts. Chief digital officers (CDOs) are no exception. more →
Forrester, Tuesday, May 2,2023
Insights From The 2023 RSA Conference: Generative AI, Quantum, And Innovation Sandbox
RSAC 2023 is a wrap! The Forrester security and risk team had 11 attendees at the RSA Conference last week. We really enjoyed meeting with clients and colleagues old and new - and now we're *exhausted.* It's no mystery why; as a team, we collectively participated in over 230 meetings and took more than 1.5 million steps (thank you, smartwatches!). more →
DARK Reading, Friday, May 5,2023
The (Security) Cost Of Too Much Data Privacy
The online fraud prevention industry has taken the brunt of increased privacy actions. more →
DARKReading, Tuesday, May 2,2023
The Daily Number Of Human-Driven Cyber Incidents Increased By 1.5 Times In 2022
Research based on the analysis of incidents reported to customers of Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) has revealed that Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts discovered more than three high-severity incidents with direct human involvement every day in 2022. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenAI
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
The Verge, Wednesday, May 3,2023
You No Longer Need A Password To Sign In To Your Google Account
Google's next step into a passwordless future is here with the announcement that passkeys - a new cryptographic keys solution that requires a preauthenticated device - are coming to Google accounts on all major platforms. Starting today, Google users can switch to passkeys and ditch their passwords and two-step verification codes entirely when signing in. more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
enterprise times, Friday, May 5,2023
Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) Strategy- Is This Essential For Your Business?
It has been difficult to read the news recently without the letters ESG being mentioned at some point. Frequently, it is either news from the investment world or large companies discussing their agendas, because they are required to. more →
VentureBeat, Friday, May 5,2023
How To Deliver A Successful ESG Strategy
Over the last 20 years, there has been a massive cultural shift in the business world. The elements that have always been considered essential for business success (e.g., a strong value proposition, product-market fit and sound financial planning) remain relevant, but they are no longer enough. more →
HPCWire, Monday, May 1,2023
LANL Report - Looming Fortran Talent Scarcity is Threatening
A new report from Los Alamos National Lab sounds alarms over the declining number of Fortran programmers, the shrinking number of efforts to teach Fortran, and the reduced appetite of scientists and developers to learn Fortran. more →
Agentic Security Needs to Operationalize Threat Intel
Agentic AI has changed attacks for both adversaries and defenders, but AI has not changed the fundamentals of security. Triage is not the end goal for defenders; prevention is. This means hyperfast AI-powered triage is still not a solution, just one more (very necessary) tool. more →
How-To Geek, Friday, May 5,2023
6G: What Is It, How Fast Will It Be, & When Will It Launch?
Network planning initiatives in the U.S. and around the world have 6G all over the news, but you may be wondering when it'll be all over your town. Curious about 6G and when upgrading to 6G will even a possibility? Here's what we know. more →
Search Networking, Tuesday, May 2,2023
7 Characteristics Of Next-Generation Networking
Network modernization has become important for many organizations. Discover which technologies -- such as SASE, AI, automation and more -- can help build next-generation networks. more →
IDC, Friday, May 5,2023
IDC Telecom Services Tracker Finds The Market Growth Is Speeding Up As The Effects Of Inflation Are Becoming Visible In All Global Regions
Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1,478 billion in 2022, increasing by 2.2% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
TechTarget, Friday, May 5,2023
3 Critical Elements Of A Successful Partner Marketing Plan
As more and more pressure is placed on partner marketing teams to execute and scale their programs, having a strong plan in place is critical to the road to success. Of course, what this plan looks like can vary depending on program size, type of partners and many other factors. more →
AiTHORITY, Tuesday, May 2,2023
5 Ways To Use ChatGPT In Marketing And Sales
Last year's talking points included the pros and cons of AI, but with ChatGPT's bombshell debut in late 2022, AI has become an even hotter topic in the business world. more →
AWS News, Friday, May 5,2023
AWS Application Migration Service Best Practices
Large-scale cloud migrations present challenges such as multiple tasks, scaling complexities, manual processes, numerous tools, and stakeholders involvement that could be difficult to integrate at times. more →
AWS News, Thursday, May 4,2023
How Canva Saves Over $3 Million Annually In Amazon S3 Costs
Canva is an online design tool that empowers users worldwide to design, edit, and publish anything they can dream up. more →
AWS News, Friday, May 5,2023
Reduce Incident Management Response Times For Container Workloads Using AWS Chatbot
One of the key focus areas for customers running their mission-critical container workloads on AWS, is to be able to analyze and act on operational events quickly. more →
Building the AI Factory: CI/CD, GitOps, and Delivery for GenA
Join our expert panel to discover why you shouldn't build a separate AI stack. Instead, learn actionable, engineering-focused solutions to manage GenAI by extending the disciplines you already use, including GitOps, CI/CD, policy-as-code, and declarative delivery. more →
IBM News, Thursday, May 4,2023
Cadence Leverages IBM Cloud HPC to Accelerate Electronic Chip and System Design Software Development
As part of Cadence's hybrid, multi-cloud strategy, IBM Cloud HPC is helping perform large-scale tasks with speed more →
IBM News, Thursday, May 4,2023
Don't Pause AI Development, Prioritize Ethics Instead
The introduction of generative AI systems into the public domain exposed people all over the world to new technological possibilities, implications, and even consequences many had yet to consider. more →
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 5,2023
IBM Diamondback Tape Library
IBM Diamondback Tape Library offers flexible configurations to unleash the benefits of high density in your storage ecosystem. more →
IBM News, Tuesday, May 2,2023
SAP To Embed IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence Into SAP Solutions
SAP SE and IBM announced that IBM Watson technology will be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP solution portfolio. more →
IBM News, Thursday, May 4,2023
Supporting Teachers In Their Stem Skilling Journeys
Teachers play an essential role in helping the next generation of learners develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills that will prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow. more →
IBM News, Monday, May 1,2023
What Policymakers Need To Know About Foundation Models
The last few years - even the last few months-have seen artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs come at a dizzying pace. AI that can generate paragraphs of text as well as a human, create realistic imagery and video from text, or perform hundreds of different tasks has captured the public's attention. more →
Lenovo News, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Lenovo Recognized As Best Employer For Diversity By Forbes
Lenovo was recently recognized as one of America's Best Employers for Diversity 2023 by Forbes in partnership with Statista. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
Veeam News, Friday, May 5,2023
Cisco Hybrid Cloud Data Management With Veeam Platform
So much of the discussion about hybrid cloud is focused on moving workloads from data centers to the cloud (typically public cloud, but also managed cloud services). This makes intuitive sense: the cloud offers flexibility and simplicity of services that can be easily scaled up and down as needed. more →
Veeam News, Thursday, May 4,2023
Ubuntu Linux Essentials: Booting Into Single User Mode And Protecting Against Unauthorized Access
Anyone with console access to a Linux machine can get root access on the machine by booting into 'single user mode'. In this blog, I will show how to boot into single user mode and how to protect the bootloader against unauthenticated attempts to boot into single user mode. more →
Veeam News, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Veeam's Anomaly Detection For Ransomware
Veeam's Data Protection Trend report surveyed over 4,000 anonymous companies and found that 85% of organizations have experienced some form of ransomware in the past year. more →
The High Stakes Dilemma: Protection Strategies for 2026-27
Out-of-control data can cause cybersecurity breaches, privacy law violations, AI hallucinations, higher storage costs, and more. In this virtual event, learn why and how to begin to clean up shop. more →
