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Monday’s Briefing · May 20

CIO, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

10 Things To Watch Out For With Open Source Gen AI

Open source generative AI models can be downloaded for free, used at scale without racking up API call costs, and run securely behind corporate firewalls. But don't let your guard down. Risks still exist and some aren't only magnified, but new ones specific to gen AI are emerging. more →

10 Things To Watch Out For With Open Source Gen AI

CIO, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

How Can CIOs Build An Effective Generative AI Strategy?

2023 was the year of Generative AI (GenAI). Businesses rapidly moved to adopt GenAI tools and LLMs, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot, and Google Gemini. The consequence of this GenAI movement is that AI is now a top issue for CEOs, leading them to ask CTOs and CIOs how they are implementing AI. more →

How Can CIOs Build An Effective Generative AI Strategy?

CIO, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

Private Cloud Makes Its Comeback, Thanks To AI

Cost uncertainty and AI data leak fears have CIOs rethinking cloud strategies in the coming AI era, with a hybrid mix the likely long-term solution for balancing experimentation, cost control, and data security. more →

Private Cloud Makes Its Comeback, Thanks To AI

Search Cloud , Friday, May 17th, 2024

The State Of The Serverless Market In 2024

Serverless computing continues to grow in popularity to build modern applications. Evaluate the risks and rewards, as well as recent developments related to IoT and containers. more →

The State Of The Serverless Market In 2024

InformationWeek, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

AI, Data Centers, And Energy Use: The Path To Sustainability

The increasing use of AI and data centers is leading to a surge in energy consumption, posing risks for energy, tech, and data companies. It also presents an opportunity for these companies to decarbonize, build trust, and reduce long-term costs. more →

AI, Data Centers, And Energy Use: The Path To Sustainability

InformationWeek, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

Sustaining Future Workers And Consumers Moves Up In ESG Efforts

Regulations in place or pending require that all companies report their Scope 1-to-3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and to achieve that organisations can adopt an approach based on the following broad avenues: data collection, measurement standards and data analytics. - Data collection - How data is collected will depend on what hosting options are employed. Typically, enterprises have applications hosted in both on-premise datacentres and in hyperscale cloud facilities - and these environments have very different reporting demands. more →

Sustaining Future Workers And Consumers Moves Up In ESG Efforts

HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024

Argonne's Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier

The Aurora supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has officially surpassed the exascale threshold, measuring over a quintillion calculations per second on the new Top500 list. more →

Argonne's Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier

HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024

EuroHPC Supercomputers Maintain Prominence with 3 in TOP500's Top 10 and Deucalion's Debut

The results were announced today at the ISC High Performance 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany. In its latest submission to the semi-annual list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Aurora registered 1.012 exaflops using 87% of the system's 10,624 nodes. After making its Top500 debut in November 2023, the Argonne system retained its spot as the second fastest supercomputer and joined DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier as the world's second exascale machine. Aurora also earned the top spot in a measure of artificial intelligence (AI) performance, achieving 10.6 exaflops on the HPL-MxP benchmark. more →

EuroHPC Supercomputers Maintain Prominence with 3 in TOP500's Top 10 and Deucalion's Debut

HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024

Jupiter Exascale Supercomputer Claims 1St Place In Green500

The first module of the exascale supercomputer JUPITER, named JEDI, is ranked first place in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers worldwide, as announced today by Forschungszentrum Julich and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the ParTec-Eviden supercomputer consortium at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg. more →

Jupiter Exascale Supercomputer Claims 1St Place In Green500

HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024

NVIDIA: Data Centers Need New Metric For Energy Efficiency

Data centers need an upgraded dashboard to guide their journey to greater energy efficiency, one that shows progress running real-world applications. The formula for energy efficiency is simple: work done divided by energy used. Applying it to data centers calls for unpacking some details. more →

NVIDIA: Data Centers Need New Metric For Energy Efficiency

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 13 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Modernization That Ships with AI (Oct. 13th)

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

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 →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)

Search Disaster Recovery, Friday, May 17th, 2024

7 Ways To Use AI In It Disaster Recovery

AI is everywhere these days, and disaster recovery is no different. IT teams can use AI to mitigate, prevent and recover from disruptions faster than traditional methods. more →

7 Ways To Use AI In It Disaster Recovery

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 8 · 2:00pm

Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth

As AI, cloud, and connected technologies rapidly expand the attack surface, security teams must focus on the risks that matter most. Join CISO leaders to explore how exposure management strengthens visibility, prioritization, and resilience, thus enabling organizations to innovate confidently while reducing their most critical cyber risks. more →

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Innovation at Speed, Security at Scale: Exposure Management for the Next Era of Growth (Oct. 8th)

Calltastic News, Friday, May 17th, 2024

Unlocking Growth: How Outsourcing Boosts Small Business Expansion

Small businesses often face significant challenges when it comes to growth. Limited resources, time constraints, and the need to wear multiple hats can hinder expansion. However, there's a powerful strategy that can help small businesses overcome these hurdles: outsourcing. more →

Unlocking Growth: How Outsourcing Boosts Small Business Expansion

Upcoming Event · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:00pm

Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes (Sept. 24th)

IBM News, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

IBM Expands Qiskit, World's Most Performant Quantum Software

Qiskit now refined as a comprehensive quantum software stack, focused on performance and stability to fully harness the power of utility-scale quantum hardware, and enable users to run increasingly more complex quantum circuits in the search for quantum advantage. more →

IBM Expands Qiskit, World's Most Performant Quantum Software

Red Hat News, Friday, May 17th, 2024

Friday Five - May 17, 2024

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your we ekly digest of things that caught our eye. more →

Friday Five - May 17, 2024

Red Hat News, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Remote Server Management For Edge Computing

Sensible placement of workloads is important, especially for data-intensive applications performing real-time analysis using artificial intelligence (AI). These workloads require computing that happens on the edge, near where data is collected. more →

Remote Server Management For Edge Computing

SiliconANGLE , Thursday, May 16th, 2024

Three Insights You Might Have Missed From thecube's Coverage Of Red Hat Summit

However, this manner of distributed computing implies many servers in many remote environments that may not have on-site IT staff, or indeed any on-site staff at all. Those edge servers have to be managed remotely, and at high scale. Red Hat can help you extend your hybrid cloud management strategy to edge environments. more →

Three Insights You Might Have Missed From thecube's Coverage Of Red Hat Summit