CIODIVE, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Chief AI Officers Made Enterprise Inroads In 2024
While most AI chiefs were internal hires, companies also tapped tech sector executives from Google, IBM and Oracle, an Altrata study found. more →
This WeekHome →Calendar →Back Issues/Search →Archive →RSS →Subscribe →
Thursday’s Briefing · December 19
CIODIVE, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Executives See Another Crowdstrike-Level It Outage On The Horizon
IT and business leaders admit to prioritizing security at the expense of service disruption readiness, a PagerDuty report found. more →
ComputerWeekly, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
CISOs: Don't Rely Solely On Technical Defences In 2025
From Covid-19 to war in Ukraine, SolarWinds Sunburst, Kaseya, Log4j, MOVEit and more, the past five years brought cyber to mainstream attention, but what comes next? The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank looks ahead to the second half of the 2020s more →
ComputerWeekly, Friday, December 13th, 2024
Decoding The End Of The Decade: What CISOs Should Watch Out For
From Covid-19 to war in Ukraine, SolarWinds Sunburst, Kaseya, Log4j, MOVEit and more, the past five years brought cyber to mainstream attention, but what comes next? The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank looks ahead to the second half of the 2020s more →
ComputerWorld, Friday, December 13th, 2024
The Macy's Accounting Disaster: CIOs, This Could Happen To You.
When Macy's on Wednesday reported more details about the 'hiding' of $151 million, it became clear their accounting controls simply didn't work. It exposed a massive software hole in just about every enterprise environment. more →
AiTHORITY, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Top Tips For CISOs Running Red Teams
Learning that your systems aren't as secured as expected can be challenging for CISOs and their teams. Here are a few tips that will help change that experience. more →
Gestalt IT, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Salt Typhoon Storms The Government
The big story this week is the continued fallout from Salt Typhoon. The US government is feeling the heat from the expsoure of so many telecom companies and they want answers. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
GigaOm Scale-Out Storage Report Redraws Vendor Landscape
Research house GigaOm has reviewed 19 suppliers of scale-out file storage in a single report, including data protection, hyperconverged infrastructure, and parallel file systems suppliers alongside existing scale-out filer vendors. more →
Storage Switzerland, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
What Is The Best Block Size For Testing Storage Performance?
If you noticed VergeIO's most recent press release, they reported their performance results (1 Million + IOPS) based on 64K block-sized tests-breaking away from the more common but less realistic 4K block-sized tests. more →
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
What Is 'Willow' Google's New Quantum Computing Chip?
Willow can solve problems in five minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputers 10 years to solve more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Top 10 Technological Breakthroughs To Watch In 2025
From Agentic AI to Hybrid Computing: Tech Trends of 2025 more →
CIODIVE, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Enterprise Technology Predictions To Watch In 2025
Executives and analysts expect businesses to reassess their AI priorities next year, grappling with vendor and workforce shifts along the way. more →
The Next Platform, Monday, December 9th, 2024
In GPU We Antitrust
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let's play the 'What if?' game for a just a moment. more →
ZDNet, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
5 Reasons Why Google's Trillium Could Transform AI And Cloud Computing - And 2 Obstacles
Google's sixth-generation TPU claims major cost and performance gains, but its single-cloud reliance faces stiff competition from NVIDIA GPUs and Amazon's Trainium. 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 →
Security Boulevard, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Quantum Computing: An Impending Threat To The Current PKI Systems
Public key infrastructure (PKI) has long been the bedrock of secure digital interactions, powering encryption, authentication and digital signatures that protect everything from financial transactions to personal communications. more →
Cyber Defense Magazine, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Beyond Encryption: Advancing Data-In-Use Protection
In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptography, traditional encryption methods safeguarding data at rest and in transit remain foundational to cybersecurity strategies. more →
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
New CISA Hardening Guidance Provides Valuable Insights For Network Security Engineers
Recent guidance from CISA and the FBI highlights best practices to monitor and harden network infrastructure. The guidance, published in response to high-profile attacks on telecom infrastructure, is applicable to a wider audience. This blog unpacks important points and explains how Tenable products can help with compliance scans. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
SiliconANGLE, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Google Debuts Android XR Operating System For VR And AR Devices
Google LLC today debuted Android XR, a new operating system for virtual reality and augmented devices. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Potential Advantages Of Virtual Reality
Staying ahead in today's ever-evolving work environment means you have to accept innovative tools and technologies. more →
AWS News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
From Colombia To The World! Colombian Sellers And Partners Will Be Available To Sell Directly In Amazon Web Services Marketplace
AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog thousands of third-party software, services, and data, now enables customers worldwide to discover and purchase solutions from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, including Resellers, SIs and GSIs" based in Colombia. more →
SiliconANGLE, Friday, December 13th, 2024
Three Insights You Might Have Missed From AWS Re:Invent
The AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas last week provided several newsworthy announcements, including the cloud giant's entry into the world of AI foundation models with the release of Amazon Nova, along with major enhancements for Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and Q Developer. more →
BigDATAwire, Friday, December 13th, 2024
The Biggest Security Announcements From Aws Re:Invent 2024
If you've been keeping up with tech news, you've likely seen a surge of updates from AWS re:Invent 2024 - Amazon Web Services' (AWS) annual conference for the global cloud computing community. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
IBM News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
IBM Brings the Speed of Light to the Generative AI Era with Optics Breakthrough
New co-packaged optics innovation could replace electrical interconnects in data centers to offer significant improvements in speed and energy efficiency for AI and other computing applications more →
IBM News, Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
2024 Call For Code Global Challenge Winners Improve Equitable Access To Essential Needs With Solutions Using IBM Watsonx
Winning teams from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Persistent, and independent consultants developed AI-powered solutions to help improve equitable access to essential resources and opportunities more →
IBM News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
IBM and State of Illinois to Build National Quantum Algorithm Center in Chicago with Universities and Industries
Anchored by next-generation IBM Quantum System Two in Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, new initiative will advance useful quantum applications as industries move towards quantum-centric supercomputing more →
IBM News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
IBM Study: Vehicles Believed to be Software Defined and AI Powered by 2035
The IBM Institute for Business Value today published its latest 'Automotive 2035' study which reveals an industry grappling with an erratic transition away from current products and business models. more →
IBM News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
New York Emerging Technology Advisory Board Publishes First Report Outlining Vision To Elevate Leadership In AI
The report builds on Governor Kathy Hochul's efforts to advance New York's global reputation as the place where businesses come to grow, innovate, and create the future of emerging technologies. 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 →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Built for the Era of AI, NVIDIA RTX AI PCs Enhance Content Creation, Gaming, Entertainment and More
High-performance, energy-efficient laptops from ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE and MSI are available to purchase; plus, the December Studio Driver is ready for download. more →
NVIDIA News, Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
Into the Omniverse: How OpenUSD-Based Simulation and Synthetic Data Generation Advance Robot Learning
Tools like NVIDIA Isaac Sim enhance synthetic data generation, improving AI model performance and accelerating robotics development. more →