CIO, Monday, July 3,2023
4 Key Roles That Define Transformational IT Leaders Today
CIOs are reshaping their leadership profile beyond the traditional IT paradigm to expand their business impact and elevate their career opportunities. more →
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Wednesday’s Briefing · July 12
SearchCIO, Wednesday, July 5,2023
6 Reasons Legacy Systems Are Still In Use
Staying with tried-and-true legacy systems can feel like the safest route. But as the world changes at a dizzying pace, IT leaders might want to reconsider that strategy. more →
Dataversity, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Developing A Digital Transformation Framework
In today's world, digital transformation is no longer an option. Instead, it is a necessity for businesses to stay competitive. The rapid pace of technological advancements, coupled with changing consumer behavior and expectations, has forced companies to rethink their strategies and embrace digital transformation. more →
Gartner, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Gartner Survey Finds 79% Of Corporate Strategists See AI And Analytics As Critical To Their Success Over The Next Two Years
Strategists Believe More Strategic Planning and Execution Activities Could Be Automated Seventy-nine percent of corporate strategists said that technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will be critical to their success over the next two years, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. more →
ITPro, Thursday, July 6,2023
How CIOs and CTOs Can Collaborate More Effectively
A partnership that is based on trust, humility, and empathy is more likely to improve IT decisions and technology decisions. Both the role of chief information officer (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO) are rooted in technology, but their responsibilities and functions couldn't be more different. While the two remits can sometimes blur, perhaps the most obvious difference is in their focus on either internal or external drivers of change. more →
CIODIVE, Wednesday, July 5,2023
How CIOs Select Their Inner Circle
To assemble the right team, CIOs must start by knowing themselves, what they can do - and what they can't. more →
Technative, Monday, July 3,2023
Top DevOps Tools in 2023
DevOps tools are a broad category of software platforms and apps that can help teams throughout the software development lifecycle, from collaboration to code reviews to deployment. Because the category encompasses so many different types of tools, navigating the marketplace can be a challenge. more →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
SearchStorage, Friday, July 7,2023
PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks
When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards - and PCI-Express controllers and switches. And the switches are increasingly important in system designs that have a mix of compute and memory types and for clusters that will be sharing components like accelerators and memory. more →
The Next Platform, Wednesday, July 5,2023
The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game
If you want to get the attention of server makers and compute engine providers and especially if you are going to be building GPU-laden clusters with shiny new gear to drive AI training and possibly AI inference for large language models and recommendation engines, the first thing you need is $1 billion. After that, things will be easier for you when it comes to building out your next platform. more →
TechCrunch, Monday, July 3,2023
The M4 Robot Transforms To Roll, Fly And Walk Across Various Terrains
If you've followed robots with any frequency, you've no doubt encountered the wheel versus leg debate. Why, for instance, should a warehouse opt for a legged Digit robot instead of a rolling Locus system? The explosive popularity of drones has led to similar debates with flying. Recent interest in inventory automation has prompted similar debates between UAVs and rolling systems when it comes to dealing with tall shelves. more →
Data & AI Leaders Summit (Sept. 21-23)
This three-day summit is designed for enterprise technology and business leaders responsible for turning AI potential into operational reality. It brings together leaders and practitioners to build modern data foundations, operationalize AI, and govern it for trust. more →
insideBIGDATA, Tuesday, July 4,2023
Why Do We Prefer ELT Rather than ETL in the Data Lake? What is the Difference between ETL & ELT
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) are two different types of processes to move data from a source system to a destination system. ETL extracts raw data from a source and transforms it into a structured format and then loads it into a destination system. more →
insideBIGDATA, Saturday, July 8,2023
Why You Need A Plan For Ongoing Unstructured Data Mobility
In the hybrid cloud, AI-enhanced enterprise, unstructured data is everywhere . and growing exponentially. Unstructured data mobility is not a one-time event, but an opportunity to continually right place data to meet organizational needs. more →
EdTech, Thursday, July 6,2023
Cybersecurity Remains The Top Concern For School IT Leaders For The Fifth Year Straight
In its 10th annual survey, the Consortium for School Networking notes that a 'complexity of challenges' faces today's leaders more →
CIO, Thursday, July 6,2023
Steps Tech Leaders Are Taking To Meet New Accessibility Mandates
No longer a side issue, new regulations mean accessibility is rising up the business technology leadership agenda. more →
eSchool News, Friday, July 7,2023
The Top 6 Education Trends For 2023
Edtech trends evolve, but dedicated teachers will learn to use new tools to foster students' minds and encourage them to reach their potential more →
eSchool News, Friday, July 7,2023
Top EdTech At ISTELive 23
There was a lot to see at ISTELive 23--here are some of the best edtech tools, resources, products, and services more →
eSchool News, Friday, July 7,2023
Why Education Leaders Should Prioritize Asset-Based Edtech
Edtech tools that focus on students' deficits make them feel isolated and less resilient--here's how education leaders can identify and model asset-based design 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 →
CXOtoday.com, Thursday, July 6,2023
3 Ways How HRs Can Leverage Technology To Help Employees And Enterprises Meet Their Growth Expectations
Over time, HR's role has evolved from being reactive and disjointed to becoming proactive and strategic. There is now a greater emphasis on target setting, planning, and supporting the organization's long-term objectives. 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 →
Citrix News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Citrix in Google Cloud is now more powerful with 3000 VDAs support
With the rise of remote work, organizations are increasingly turning to cloud solutions, and Citrix DaaS has emerged as a popular choice for deploying workloads to Google Cloud with Machine Creation Services (MCS). To meet this demand, we're excited to announce that the Citrix engineering team has significantly improved the performance of the MCS Google Cloud plugin. more →
Citrix News, Saturday, July 8,2023
The Time Is Now To Prioritize Connected Ecosystems In The Manufacturing Industry
If ever there was a time for the manufacturing industry to futureproof themselves and their supply chains, that time is now. Recent global events have created unprecedented change, forcing companies to look for ways to embed security, resilience, and agility into their operations - and more often than not, the answer lies in IT. more →
DDN News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
Q&A: The Future Of AI And Banking
When it comes to artificial intelligence, banks are at a turning point. They are moving beyond the mere use of customer service bots and stepping into a promising new environment. Advanced AI applications are helping them do everything from predicting the market to stopping fraud. more →
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference
The conference centers on helping IT and cybersecurity leaders transition from reactive concern to proactive planning regarding quantum threats. more →
IBM News, Thursday, July 6,2023
AI Vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. Neural Networks: What's The Difference?
The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the evolving ransomware landscape and the Fortinet solutions that protect against those variants. This latest edition of the Ransomware Roundup covers the Rancoz ransomware. more →
IBM News, Thursday, July 6,2023
Data Science vs. Machine Learning: What's The Difference?
While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field. more →
IBM News, Friday, July 7,2023
Data Security: Why A Proactive Stance Is Best
Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. more →
IBM News, Wednesday, July 5,2023
How To Modernize Data Lakes With A Data Lakehouse Architecture
Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Some argue though that the vast majority of these deployments have now become data 'swamps'. Regardless of which side of this controversy you sit in, reality is that there is still a lot of data held in these systems. Such data volumes are not easy to move, migrate or modernize. more →