InfoWorld, Tuesday, July 4,2023
14 LLMS That Aren't ChatGPT
ChatGPT isn't your only option for generating content and insight from AI. Here are 14 large language models giving ChatGPT a run for its money. more →
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Monday’s Briefing · July 10
Networkworld, Friday, July 7,2023
AI Is Changing Server Sales But Paying Off For Enterprises
A pair of reports from Omdia paints a positive picture of the impact of AI on business as well as a decline in overall server shipments as buyers prioritize GPU-driven systems. more →
ComputerWorld, Thursday, July 6,2023
Digital Transformation, AI, And The Productivity Problem
There's a lot of talk about generative AI could boost productivity at companies in the midst of digital transformation. But moving too fast could make things worse. more →
eWeek, Monday, July 3,2023
Generative AI vs. Predictive AI
Generative AI is an emerging form of artificial intelligence that generates content, including text, images, video and music. Generative AI uses algorithms to analyze patterns in datasets to then mimic style or structure to replicate a wide array of content. more →
Techstrong.ai, Wednesday, July 5,2023
The Rise Of Shadow AI
The rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT is leading to a new version of Shadow IT with increased security and compliance risks. Generative AI large language models are complex and opaque, with few experts understanding how they work, leading to increased security risks. more →
datanami, Monday, July 3,2023
The Three Approaches To AI Implementation
There are three approaches to AI implementation emerging: the typical do-it-yourself approach where you do everything yourself that has the highest potential for failure; a services-based approach as highlighted by Lenovo's Innovators program; and an AI appliance like IBM's watsonx, with risk declining for each method in order. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, so let's cover each in turn. more →
CXOtoday.com, Friday, July 7,2023
5 Ways All-Flash Data Centers Can Drive Sustainability Goals
Enterprises worldwide are recognising the importance of sustainability as climate change becomes more important during boardroom discussions -and new regulations loom. However, the focus on digital transformation is causing data centers to consume more energy than ever before. more →
Enterprise Storage Forum, Thursday, July 6,2023
Is The Hard Disk Drive Obsolete? Flash Vs. HDDs
When IBM made the first hard disk drive (HDD) about 70 years ago, it weighed over a ton and provided just 3.75 MB of storage capacity. Despite huge gains in storage density and performance in the years since, flash memory has replaced HDDs in the consumer space in all but the lowest-end laptops and tablets. more →
SearchStorage, Friday, July 7,2023
SAS vs. NVMe: The Future of 2 Key Storage Interfaces
In SAS vs. NVMe, both interfaces play significant roles in enterprise storage. See how they stack up in terms of performance, scalability, flexibility and manageability. more →
ComputerWeekly, Friday, July 7,2023
Software-Defined Storage: What's Available From Key Players
What's available in software-defined storage from the big storage players, software-defined storage specialists, and SDS options focused on cloud, virtualisation and containers more →
FORTRA, Monday, July 3,2023
5 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Governance, Risk And Compliance (GRC)
Over the following years, the costs associated with cybercrime, projected at $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, will exceed the estimated worldwide cybersecurity spending-$267.3 billion annually by 2026. Leadership needs to change its perspective on managing cyber risks instead of just spending more money to match the losses incurred. more →
GCN, Thursday, July 6,2023
6 Steps To Securing Operational Technology In Critical Infrastructure
Securing the hardware and software systems in power plants, water treatment facilities, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure calls for network visibility, vulnerability assessment and holistic strategic and incident response plans. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, July 7,2023
How To Keep Your IT Infrastructure Invisible
IT infrastructure is critical. IT infrastructure enables businesses to run-from day-to-day operational execution to visionary strategic innovation and everything in between. What's interesting, though, is that people are only aware of it when there's a problem: HR can't access the payroll application, customers are complaining about how slow the transactional system is or this month's cloud bill was double what you expected it to be. more →
ComputerWeekly, Monday, July 3,2023
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Green IT Regulations And The Datacentre
There is an ever-growing list of rules and regulations for enterprises to get their heads around when it comes to sustainability, but what can they do to keep on top of things? more →
Search CIO, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Replacing vs. Maintaining Legacy Systems
Understanding issues such as which systems hinder organizational performance can help IT leaders decide which legacy systems to replace and which to maintain. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Networkworld, Wednesday, July 5,2023
5 Ways To Boost Server Efficiency
Right-sizing workloads, upgrading to current generation servers, and managing power consumption can help enterprises reach their data center sustainability goals. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
Technative, Wednesday, July 5,2023
How To Leverage Edge Computing To Get The Most Out Of Enterprise IoT Solution
The fact is that edge computing has high hopes for unleashing the potential of ever-increasing volume of data that is produced by IoT devices. By 2025, this volume is expected to reach a whopping 73.1 ZB, but to extract value from it, data flows respectively need to be competently allocated, managed, and analyzed. Edge devices might be helpful here. more →
Why Your Observability Vendor Can't Solve Your P1s: Breaking the Ingestion Tax and Agent Silos
Join Techstrong and NeuBird AI to learn why the future of production-ops AI isn't another data store, but a virtualized context layer. Discover how querying live tools in place delivers accurate root cause analysis in minutes without data movement or security risks. more →
Heinz Marketing, Saturday, July 8,2023
B2B Reads: 9 Tips To A Good Sales Pitch, 11 Customer Engagement Strategies, 7 Overlooked Sales Qualification Tactics & More
In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. We'll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing please email me. more →
Search Cusomer Experience, Monday, July 3,2023
The 5 Indicators Of Healthy Sales-Marketing Alignment
How can a business ensure sales and marketing teams communicate and are on the same page? Ask these five questions and make sure both teams share a common language. more →
Salesforce News, Thursday, July 6,2023
Air France LKM Martinair Cargo's Data-Driven Customer Service Takes Flight With Salesforce
Global airline group Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) is partnering with Salesforce to transform its global customer service. more →
Salesforce News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert Discuss the Ascent of AI, Trust, and Stakeholder Capitalism
Salesforce Chair & CEO Marc Benioff recently sat down with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert to talk about why today is arguably the most important time in recent history for technology - calling out the power of generative AI, the importance of trust in approaching new technology, and the role of business in society. more →
Veeam News, Friday, July 7,2023
Automating Veeam Backup With Cisco Intersight Orchestration
Veeam product management alliances completed a project to create a sample workflow for Cisco Intersight Orchestration. This sample workflow automates the deployment of Veeam Agents to newly provisioned bare-metal servers and creates data protection policies for these new servers. more →
Veeam News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Enhancing Compliance And Observability With Multi-Cloud Data Protection In Veeam One V12
In the accelerating world of cloud computing, enterprises of all sizes have diversified their infrastructures across multiple cloud environments like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. There could be multiple factors behind this trend, including per-region discounts. Sometimes, discounts to specific verticals like science research get better deals, and the compute is therefore more optimized in specific cloud offerings. more →
Veeam News, Thursday, July 6,2023
The Essential Guide To Salesforce Metadata Backup
In today's digital age, protecting data is paramount for businesses of all sizes. One crucial aspect of data protection is safeguarding the underlying configuration of your Salesforce environment. Enter Salesforce metadata - commonly defined as 'data that describes other data.' In this blog post, we will explore what Salesforce metadata is, the importance of backing it up and how to perform a backup. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
VMware News, Friday, July 7,2023
The Advantages Of Multi-Cloud Adoption
The popularity of cloud infrastructure has risen rapidly over the last few years. An upward trend in adoption got boosted by the pandemic and the need to rapidly provision services to support remote work. more →
Cloud Incident Response: Forensics in Distributed Environments
This webinar addresses the unique challenges of cloud forensics, including ephemeral resources, limited access to underlying infrastructure, and multi-tenant considerations. more →
