Computerworld, Monday, July 1st, 2024
8 AI-Powered Apps That'll Actually Save You Time
Most AI apps are buzzword-chasing hype-mongers. These eight off-the-beaten-path supertools are rare exceptions. more →
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Thursday’s Briefing · July 11
CIO, Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
4 Essential Lessons In AI Governance
While some IT leaders have been caught off guard with emerging tech, others had the foresight to establish AI governance frameworks to keep things in check. Here, some share their proactive strategies and lessons learned. more →
IDC, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Why Supercloud Architectures Could Upend Cloud Computing - Or Not
The Future of Cloud Computing With Instant Cross-Cloud Migration more →
InformationWeek, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Is The Hybrid Cloud The New Normal In 2024?
Not only is the hybrid cloud expected to remain the dominant model for the rest of this year, but it is poised to become a business necessity for many more. more →
InformationWeek, Monday, July 1st, 2024
In The Wake Of Breaches, How And Why Cloud Security Must Change
What ways should cloud security evolve, especially as the impact of the Snowflake breach continues to cascade? more →
Virtualization Review, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Cloud Security: Despite All The Tech, It's Still A People Problem
Even with all the technology bells and whistles and alerts and services and multi-factor authentication and social engineering training and enterprise-wide integrated cybersecurity platforms -- and articles like this -- the human factor is still one of the biggest threats to cloud security. more →
VentureBeat, Saturday, July 6th, 2024
Beyond GPUs: Innatera And The Quiet Uprising In AI Hardware
While much of the tech world remains fixated on the latest large language models (LLMs) powered by Nvidia GPUs, a quieter revolution is brewing in AI hardware. As the limitations and energy demands of traditional deep learning architectures become increasingly apparent, a new paradigm called neuromorphic computing is emerging - one that promises to slash the computational and power requirements of AI by orders of magnitude. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
ITProToday, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
3 Reasons Why Your Business Should Switch To A Cloud-Based ERP System
Before deciding between a cloud-based or on-premises ERP solution, it's essential to understand the benefits of cloud-based ERP systems: anytime, anywhere access to real-time data, enhanced data security, and reduced operating costs. more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
Backup Central, Monday, July 1st, 2024
What Are Immutable Backups?
Immutable backups are a crucial part of modern data protection strategies. They offer a strong defense against cyber threats, especially ransomware attacks. But what exactly are immutable backups? Let's explore this important concept. (Boy have times changed since I wrote this blog on immutability in 2008.) more →
How-To Geek, Monday, July 1st, 2024
The Beauty Of Local Backups
Cloud storage is amazingly convenient. We can all agree on that. So why bother backing up stuff the old-fashioned way? Well, here's why. more →
StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Customers' Choice 2024 For Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software Solution
Enterprise backup and recovery software solutions enable organizations to back up their data by copying and archiving it to make it accessible in case of data loss or corruption. Infrastructure and operations leaders can learn from ratings and reviews by their peers shared on Gartner Peer Insights. more →
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
Enterprise data leaders face an aggressive mandate: deploy generative AI and autonomous agents that drive real operational efficiency. Yet, as teams move past isolated pilots into production, they run into a hard architectural barrier. That barrier? Data gravity. more →
ITProToday, Monday, July 1st, 2024
5 Best Practices For Achieving Healthcare Cloud Compliance
Healthcare data in the cloud must comply with regulations like HIPAA. Here's how healthcare organizations can ensure healthcare cloud compliance. more →
You Can't Scale Software Testing with Fragile Automation
In this exclusive webinar, Guy Currier, Analyst at Futurum Group, and Josh Duke, Test Cloud Specialist, at UiPath discuss how teams currently approach software testing and test automation, where they are experiencing the greatest friction, and how they are evaluating AI-powered and agentic approaches. more →
The Register, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
An Arc Welder In The Datacenter: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Not much if wielded by the experienced and careful operator in this story - but he was not the only actor in this tale more →
Dice, Friday, July 5th, 2024
Tech Certifications Paying Above Average And Gaining In Market Value
If you work in tech, you know that certifications can help you potentially land new jobs and advance your career. But which certifications offer a significant pay premium? Fortunately, we have some updated data on which certifications pay above average and are gaining in market value. more →
Dice, Friday, July 5th, 2024
Changing Your Tech Job Role In An Era Of AI
Whatever your feelings about generative AI, this new technology is making its way into many parts of companies' software stacks, raising existential questions for tech professionals everywhere. more →
Converged Analytics: Copy Once, Query Everything
In this session, we show a different approach and prove it live on EDB Postgres AI: copy once, query everywhere. Transactional and analytical engines query the same governed data in place, so there's less data moving and fewer pipelines to build and maintain between systems. more →
Codifin News, Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
IT Recruiter In Mexico: Codifin Experts In Nearshoring For Your Company
In an increasingly interconnected and competitive world, the search for technological talent has become a strategic priority for many companies. Mexico, with its geographical proximity to key markets such as the United States and Canada, is positioned as an ideal destination for nearshoring. more →
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 →
HPE News, Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Nice Brazil's Manufacturing Facility Optimizes Production With HPE Aruba Networking To Deploy IoT-Enabled Industrial Network
Italian multinational adopts cloud-managed, robust, segmented network architecture with improved insights and monitoring to enable hybrid work and improved automation more →
HPE News, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
HPE supports UNICEF ROSA and International Rescue Committee in efforts to combat modern-day slavery
HPE has launched the Human Rights Impact Accelerator Program, supporting non-profit and international organizations that are at the forefront of protecting human rights, to help support their need for technology solutions to achieve their mission. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Decoding How The Generative AI Revolution Began
NVIDIA Research's GauGAN demo set the scene for a new wave of generative AI apps supercharging creative workflows. more →
Kubernetes & AI: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Kubernetes has become the universal control plane for modern infrastructure - and now AI is accelerating that evolution. As organizations adopt AI native architectures, scale model training and inference, and push toward more autonomous operations, Kubernetes is emerging as the backbone for running intelligent, distributed systems at scale. more →
