CIO, Friday, June 23, 2023
6 Strategic Imperatives For Your Next Data Strategy
As a dominant tech trend, AI has created an early-mover advantage for the data strategies that fuel it, and the business strategies that leverage it. more →
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Financial Times, Monday, June 19, 2023
AI Shakes Up Way We Work In Three Key Industries
A revolution that will free workers from gruelling tasks or the destroyer of millions of jobs? New artificial intelligence capabilities have simultaneously prompted huge excitement around workplace productivity and dire warnings for employees. The Financial Times has selected three industries that are among the first to adopt the technology to analyse how it is being used in everyday work. more →
Gartner, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
ChatGPT and Generative AI: What's a Communications Leader To Do?
The corporate world is abuzz pondering the use cases, risks, and other implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and corporate communications leaders find themselves at the center of this hot topic. more →
CIO, Thursday, June 22, 2023
How AI Is Reshaping Demand For IT Skills And Talent
With artificial intelligence poised to become a business priority across every industry, employers are eyeing the skills necessary to lead the next leap in AI-assisted digital transformation. more →
VentureBeat, Monday, June 19, 2023
How Generative AI Is Creating New Classes Of Security Threats
The promised AI revolution has arrived. OpenAI's ChatGPT set a new record for the fastest-growing user base and the wave of generative AI has extended to other platforms, creating a massive shift in the technology world. 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 →
InfoWorld, Friday, June 23, 2023
Cloud Computing Is No Longer A Slam Dunk
Data center hardware is cheap and cloud costs are high, complicating the business case for public cloud usage. Here's how to evaluate your options. more →
SiliconANGLE , Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Top Five Cloud Cybersecurity Threats - And What To Do About Them
Cybersecurity threats continue to plague cloud infrastructures, and sadly these threats are still mostly the same from years' past. more →
Dataversity, Friday, June 23, 2023
Logical Data Management For Environmental, Social, And Governance (Esg) Initiatives
Driven in large part by a growing awareness of the effects of unchecked carbon emissions, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives have been gaining momentum across companies in Europe and, more recently, the U.S. Some verticals, notably financial services, are beginning to tie ESG information directly to investment decisions, while all companies are realizing that a strong commitment to ESG is necessary to attract and retain today's consumers and business partners. more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
CIO, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
3 Ways To Advance Sustainability In High Performance Computing
Research reveals that sustainability is one of the top two priorities for HPC data centers. Here are three ways to advance your sustainability initiatives. more →
Gartner, Thursday, June 22, 2023
Aurora's 10,624 Blades In Place As Exascale System Nears Completion
Aurora, one of the first three U.S. exascale supercomputers, has not had a straightforward path to installation and operation. The system has been repeatedly reconceptualized and rescheduled over the years, with delivery slipping from 2021 to 2022, then from 2022 to 2023. more →
Search Security, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Blockchain Security: Everything You Should Know For Safe Use
Despite its reputation, blockchain is subject to many of the same vulnerabilities as other software. It helps to have a clear idea of its inherent strengths and weaknesses. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Microsoft News, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Accelerating Scientific Discovery With Azure Quantum
Microsoft is announcing new advances to Azure Quantum aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. more →
Microsoft News, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Space Education Day 2023: Inspiring The Next Generation Of Innovators
Space engages people of all ages by sparking curiosity of the unknown. With NASA's progress toward its first lunar missions in more than 50 years, a new generation of Americans can witness the awe-inspiring power and joy of a moon landing. It can also inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to pursue space-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, from astronauts to engineers and physicists to technicians. more →
NVIDIA News, Friday, June 23, 2023
Deep Learning Digs Deep: Ai Unveils New Large-Scale Images In Peruvian Desert
Groundbreaking technology expedites the discovery of mysterious, ancient land art, known as Nazca geoglyphs, etched into Peru's landscape. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Scientists Improve Delirium Detection Using AI And Rapid-Response Eegs
Researchers harness NVIDIA GPUs and AI for earlier, more accurate detection of delirium in ICU patients, promising a breakthrough in critical care. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Shell-e-brate Good Times in 3D With 'Kingsletter' This Week 'In the NVIDIA Studio'
NVIDIA DLSS 3 plugin support comes to Unreal Engine 5, plus latest 'Into the Omniverse' edition highlights OpenUSD framework for improved creative workflows. more →
Picking Your Winner in the Agentic AI Race
The biggest story in DevOps this year is the agentic AI revolution. Which platform will lead your pipeline? Join 3,000+ practitioners to evaluate, compare, and decide. more →
Red Hat News, Friday, June 23,2023
Application modernization: Promote, observe and process
The very act of modernizing means not only is there an application feedback loop to improve, there will be a similar loop running around infrastructure and security compliance that allows the application to operate in its current state in a production environment. Let's talk a bit about what this might look like and some challenges to keep in mind when modernizing. more →
Red Hat News, Thursday, June 22,2023
Confidential computing: 5 support technologies to explore
This article is the last in a six-part series (see my previous blog) presenting various usage models for Confidential Computing, a set of technologies designed to protect data in use. In this article, I explore interesting support technologies under active development in the confidential computing community. more →
Red Hat News, Thursday, June 22,2023
RHEL: Behind the scenes of a simple backport
Bug fixes and security updates are essential components of the value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription. These ensure that you, as a RHEL subscriber, have access to the latest essential updates so your systems remain protected and refreshed. And it's all possible thanks to Red Hat's practice of backporting patches. more →
Red Hat News, Wednesday, June 21,2023
RHEL confidential virtual machines on Azure: A technical deep dive
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 CVM Preview image for Azure confidential VMs has been released, and it represents an important step forward in confidential virtual machines. In this article, I focus on the changes Implemented to support the emerging confidential computing use-case, and some of the expected changes in the future. more →
Red Hat News, Wednesday, June 21,2023
Red Hat bringing open hybrid cloud to Red Hat IT provides key learnings for others
Here at Red Hat, we do things because they are the right things to do for our business, our future and our customers. But it never hurts to be acknowledged for them and to spread the word that what works at Red Hat can work for our current and future customers, too. more →
Red Hat News, Wednesday, June 21,2023
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
More than two years ago, Red Hat introduced CentOS Stream as the focal point for collaboration around Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). more →