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IBM doubles down on generative AI and hybrid cloud

Tony Baer — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:25:04 +0000

Returning to live in-person events, our overriding impression from IBM Corp.’s annual Think event a couple weeks back was that the company showed unusual discipline by confining the focus to a couple of core themes: generative AI and hybrid cloud. Given the hype around generative AI with the public preview of ChatGPT and the central […]

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CIOs’ relationship with AI is complicated, but they have hopes for a promising future

Paul Gillin and David Strom — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:07:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence — its value, risks and utility in enterprise scenarios — not surprisingly dominated the discussion at this week’s MIT CIO Symposium, one of the year’s biggest gatherings of senior information technology executives. Although the agenda revolved around tried-and-true topics such as digital transformation and the business value of IT, discussions invariably turned to […]

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Dear CEO: Your employees are already using AI to do their work. What’s your AI plan?

Joseph Hickman — Sun, 14 May 2023 23:54:10 +0000

Employees are already using AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to do some of their work. They are using it at work (on your network), on their phones and at home. Although AI is not yet fully integrated into every piece of software used within the workplace, one should be under no illusion that […]

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How technology service providers can raise their relevance in 2023

Mark McDonald — Sun, 14 May 2023 21:46:59 +0000

Economic challenges that include inflation and the looming possibility of a recession continue to create uncertainty in technology markets. Yet despite recent turbulence, a recent Gartner Inc. survey found that 72% of high-tech leaders have plans to grow revenue in 2023, and nearly half of those leaders believe they will be able to outperform their […]

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Searching for gold in enterprise AI

Dave Vellante with Andy Thurai — Sat, 13 May 2023 15:46:12 +0000

The artificial intelligence gold rush is on. The paths to monetization are seemingly endless but the most obvious converge on making humans more productive or supercharging existing business models such as search advertising or subscription licenses. Much of AI adoption in enterprise information technology is hidden. Our research shows a very high overlap (around 40% […]

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Isovalent’s Cilium Mesh bridges gap between Kubernetes and legacy workloads

Alice Gillin — Fri, 05 May 2023 21:03:00 +0000

Open-sourced platform Cilium was created by Isovalent Inc. to help address the rising security and networking challenges emerging as cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, grow in scale and complexity. Recently, Isovalent introduced Cilium Service Mesh, which goes even further by enabling users to now connect workloads and systems across multiple clouds and on-premise locations. “This week […]

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Reflections on Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU

Rob Strechay — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:25:34 +0000

In the run-up to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver next week, I wanted to reflect on what happened a week ago in Amsterdam. A sold-out event with more than 10,500 people showed up in real life at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in the Netherlands. Of those, 58% had never been to a KubeCon themselves, including […]

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Innovation targets hard problems at RSA Conference

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:16:27 +0000

The RSA Conference 2023 is now in the books, hosting more than 40,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibitors at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and giving chief information security officers and other cybersecurity professionals a mind-numbing shopping list of must-have security gear. My mission: Narrow down the throngs of vendors to a handful of innovative standouts – […]

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Plenty of gas: Innovations continue apace at the first post-pandemic KubeCon

Jason Bloomberg — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:01:38 +0000

The first post-Covid KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week did not disappoint, as a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 professionals turned up in person to learn about all things Kubernetes. The signs of maturity of this massive open-source ecosystem were everywhere. Some 58% of attendees were first-timers, illustrating the explosive interest in Kubernetes among […]

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API security playbook: What you need to do to protect your APIs

William Dupre — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:24:47 +0000

Application programming interfaces are modern application architecture solutions that enable digital business by improving connectivity and enabling composable architectures. They are used to support modern user experiences across web, mobile and other channels. They also support internal processes, customer and partner integration and automation. Growth of API deployments has exploded over the past decade, but […]

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Chief data and analytics officers must lead upskilling initiatives in data science and machine learning

Peter Krensky — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:30:29 +0000

As data scientist hiring continues to boom, many organizations report sustained difficulty finding, attracting and retaining data science talent. Even as initiatives to upskill quantitative professionals grow, machine learning literacy remains low in many organizations. Chief data and analytics officers, or CDAOs, must build development paths that support budding citizen data scientists with the right […]

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Databricks faces critical strategic decisions. Here’s why.

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:59:48 +0000

When Apache Spark became a top-level project in 2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big data scene, it along with the public cloud disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc. cleverly optimized its tech stack for Spark and took advantage of the cloud to deliver a managed service that has become a leading artificial intelligence […]

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Analysis: SAP starts weaving its own data fabric

Tony Baer — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:00:24 +0000

Almost any business, large or small, that uses technology typically has a strategic supplier that is, in effect, first among equals. It becomes the platform that drives choices for third-party applications, tools or databases. In small businesses, that strategic platform supplier is likely to be Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc., with the choice of Google […]

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Four key revenue growth opportunities from enterprise 5G

Gaspar Valdivia — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:22:05 +0000

Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are […]

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The evolving role of the data engineer

Tony Baer — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:03:43 +0000

It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: […]

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The big game is big business – for threat actors too

Mike Spanbauer — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:21:31 +0000

The numbers surrounding the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVII Sunday in Arizona are staggering. More than $150 million in bets will be placed, the host city will see upwards of $400 million in direct and indirect revenue surrounding the event day, 100 million pounds of chicken wings will be consumed and, of course, the […]

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Generative AI drives an explosion in compute: The looming need for sustainable AI

Sid Sheth — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 22:22:43 +0000

After years of preparation, 2022 highlighted the amazing potential for generative AI as models such as OpenAI LLC’s DALL-E and GPT-3 swept across the world. Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC have been training machine learning models for years, but the introduction of transformer-based large language models or LLMs that could “learn” created a […]

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OneSignal extends Series C funding round with strategic investment from ServiceNow

Mike Wheatley and Maria Deutscher — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:00:01 +0000

Customer engagement platform OneSignal Inc. said today it has closed on a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures. The funding, whose amount was not revealed, extends its recently announced $50 million Series C round of funding. OneSignal is the creator of a customer engagement platform that enables mobile, web, email, SMS and in-app message push […]

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The singularity (or at least a singular new tech bubble) is finally here

Ian Chaffee — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 21:34:54 +0000

Amid the worst week for tech layoffs in memory to kick off 2023, Nasdaq’s worst year since 2008, and a prolonged “crypto winter” that is wiping out nearly every letter in the blockchain alphabet soup, it has been a bad time to be bullish about long-promised futures. Only the slightly delusional could take comfort in […]

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Designing a flexible work policy that creates a great employee experience

Christina Janzer — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:57:01 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to adopt remote and hybrid work policies causing employees and employers alike to take a step back and examine the role that work plays in our lives. That role has certainly shifted over the past two and a half years, and expectations about when, where and how we work […]

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How to demonstrate the business value of data

Rita Sallam — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:22:23 +0000

Extreme business disruption, uncertainty and economic headwinds demand that organizations place their bets on investments that create opportunity and value. In the past, many technology investments were made on a leap of faith. Now, information technology leaders are being asked to explain the value of what they do to other executives. When it comes to data and analytics […]

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Transformative tech: Demand for cloud-native capabilities expands to more than meets than eye

Gabrielle Stenzel — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:39:02 +0000

For nearly a decade, the global cloud community has come together to improve enterprise technology, and by extension, the world. As demand for faster delivery, flexibility, scalability and resilience increases, so does the competition. The main way businesses optimize their cloud-native capabilities is by collaborating with a cloud partner. Since bundling together not only their […]

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Accenture Security and Palo Alto Networks partner to secure cloud cybersecurity gaps

Guest Author — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:31:46 +0000

As digital threats continue to multiply in both number and severity, cybersecurity has been a growing concern for IT leaders globally. Cybersecurity consultant group Accenture Security has been named Palo Alto Network Inc.’s Government Systems Integrator of the Year for four years, embracing zero-trust network infrastructures as the pandemic shakes up the remote workforce and […]

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How entrepreneurs can leverage the coming golden age of cybersecurity

Ofer Schreiber — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 23:46:48 +0000

As the markets continue to fluctuate, budget cuts and layoffs now extend across the tech industry, with cybersecurity no exception from tightening its belt and assessing its priorities. Investors are proceeding with caution and waiting to see a correction in valuations, while cybersecurity startups are examining their runway and long-term viability. The growing number and sophistication […]

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A bridge worth burning: How to shore up Web3’s biggest weakness

Ken DiCross — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:57:21 +0000

An internet is only as good as its weakest link, and it is clear that Web3’s weakest link has become the bridge. Chainanalysis estimates that there have been $2 billion in bridge attacks over the last year, with that type of attack now by far the most popular method of stealing cryptocurrencies. Traditional Web 1.0 […]

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AI goes mainstream, but return on investment remains elusive

Dave Vellante, with Andy Thurai — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:08:59 +0000

A decade of big data investments, combined with cloud scalability, the rise of more cost effective processing and the introduction of advanced tooling, has catapulted machine intelligence to the forefront of technology investments. No matter what job you have, your operation will be AI powered within five years and machines may be doing your job […]

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HashiCorp and Palo Alto team up to help users adopt multicloud infrastructure with zero-trust security solutions

Guest Author — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:20:21 +0000

Businesses are moving to multicloud adoption, with 81% of HashiCorp Inc.’s “State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2022” respondents reporting using more than one cloud, with larger organizations more likely to use multicloud solutions. Palo Alto Networks Inc. and HashiCorp Inc. recently released an updated cloud operating model, allowing users to use products across thousands of enterprises. “Palo […]

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Ascend.io speeds up data pipelines and analytics, increases engagement with developers

Kathleen Marshall — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:41:08 +0000

Today’s data teams must face the costs of maintaining fragmented solutions with lots of seams between tools. They deal with decreased productivity and velocity of data teams, as well as challenges in hiring and retaining data engineering expertise. Sean Knapp (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Ascension Labs Inc., aims to solve these challenges […]

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The maturation of supercloud drives the need for new tooling

John Mecke — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:25:07 +0000

Supercloud is quickly becoming a reality for enterprises and their business-critical applications. Organizations must be able to assemble infrastructure services from multiple cloud providers to deliver optimal results for their business. “You need consistent architecture, obviously not just for one cloud, but for any cloud,” said Steve Mullaney (pictured), president and chief executive officer of […]

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MariaDB helps on-prem orgs leverage cloud database as a path to the future

Kathleen Marshall — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:41:35 +0000

In today’s real-time world, companies must deal with data in a different way than they did 10 years ago. Enterprise technology and the amount of data being collected have evolved and increased. Modern companies need something that can support their core business practices and deliverables, as well as propel their IT into the future. MariaDB […]

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