CIO
DECEMBER 24, 2024
The past year was filled with big IT news: The hype surrounding AI and its widespread adoption, huge numbers of tech industry layoffs , major cyberattacks , and major mergers. Like most years, 2024 also saw its share of IT disasters. Some were forgotten within days or weeks, but others have had long-lasting effects, with damages running into the billions of dollars in one case.
Xebia
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Modern Pay-As-You-Go Data Platforms: Easy to Start, Challenging to Control It’s Easier Than Ever to Start Getting Insights into Your Data The rapid evolution of data platforms has revolutionized the way businesses interact with their data. Today, tools like Databricks and Snowflake have simplified the process, making it accessible for organizations of all sizes to extract meaningful insights.
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CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations.
Xebia
DECEMBER 21, 2024
With modern clouds, you can build awesome things. You can bring your ideas to life within the hour, enabling experimentation and driving innovation. One of the significant advantages of the cloud is that you get a lot of security controls out of the box. But these security controls can also block you from being productive! How are these security controls blocking me?
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Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
After several slow quarters, were seeing a pick up in funding to digital banking startups. In the past three months, investors have plowed close to $1.2 billion into a geographically dispersed group of online banking providers, Crunchbase data shows. Three of the largest funding recipients One , Tyme and Current announced new rounds this past week.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 24, 2024
In just two years, AI has gone from hype to essential skill, offering massive productivity gains and increasing creativity among teams who use it. Here's how.
Xebia
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Still using sensitive service account keys in your GitLab repository? Want to enhance the security of your CI/CD pipelines? In this blog post, I will show you the process of authenticating your GitLab CI/CD pipelines to Google Cloud using OpenID Connect (OIDC). By leveraging OIDC, you can eliminate the need to store sensitive credentials in your repository, significantly reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
Crunchbase News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
By Rob Biederman As we turn the page into 2025, my colleagues and I at Asymmetric Capital Partners are optimistic for what the next year holds for growth and innovation. We do not expect these gains to be shared uniformly, however, we see distinct winners and losers. On the positive side, we expect to see truly valuable AI companies outperform and prosper as flash-in-the-pan and hype companies falter.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 24, 2024
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2024
USB-C is great, but the ports can be fragile and vulnerable to damage. This breakaway accessory eliminates the chances of damaging your port.
CIO
DECEMBER 22, 2024
Para las empresas que operan en la nube, la seguridad y la gestin de costes son preocupaciones crecientes. Por lo general, estos problemas se abordan de forma aislada, con los equipos de seguridad y los equipos de FinOps siguiendo sus objetivos y prioridades por separado, y sin pensar demasiado en las oportunidades de colaboracin entre dos divisiones que podran aprovecharse para obtener mejores resultados comerciales.
Xebia
DECEMBER 19, 2024
GitHub has made GitHub Copilot available to every single GitHub user on the planet, which allows you to get started discovering GitHub Copilot for free, right now! Here is how to get started and what you need to know. GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered pair programming buddy that can help you write, review, understand code, and more! As it is available inside of coding editors as well as on github.com, it has the context of the code (or documentation, or tests, or anything else) that you are workin
Palo Alto Networks
DECEMBER 24, 2024
This post was originally published on Automation.com. As organizations around the globe rapidly adopt AI, it is becoming clear that this transformation brings both significant opportunities and serious risks. In the latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI, 65% of participants said their companies regularly used AI, a dramatic increase in a very short period.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Five ways leaders can correct for the bias that drives people to seek out those most similar to them.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2024
If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files.
CIO
DECEMBER 24, 2024
La proliferacin de la computacin en la nube ha transformado radicalmente la forma en que las empresas gestionan sus cargas de trabajo crticas, transformando la nube en una herramienta estratgica y un facilitador de negocios. Los hiperescalares (proveedores de servicios en la nube que ofrecen soluciones de computacin en la nube escalables y flexibles), como Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure y Google Cloud, han revolucionado la escalabilidad y la flexibilidad.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Training large language models (LLMs) models has become a significant expense for businesses. For many use cases, companies are looking to use LLM foundation models (FM) with their domain-specific data. However, companies are discovering that performing full fine tuning for these models with their data isnt cost effective. To reduce costs while continuing to use the power of AI , many companies have shifted to fine tuning LLMs on their domain-specific data using Parameter-Efficient Fine Tuning (
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2024
The companies that succeed with AI arent necessarily those with the most advanced models or the largest data sets theyre the ones that bring together diverse expertise to make the smartest decisions. Finance, with its ability to ascertain value, ensure accountability, and provide an objective perspective, plays an indispensable role in making AI investments truly pay off.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2024
In 2024, AI became truly helpful. Here are 15 clever ways I integrated it into my workflow for quicker, better results - and what I hope to do with it in 2025.
CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2024
CIO Jason Birnbaum has ambitious plans for generative AI at United Airlines. With the core architectural backbone of the airlines gen AI roadmap in place, including United Data Hub and an AI and ML platform dubbed Mars, Birnbaum has released a handful of models into production use for employees and customers alike. Chief among these is United ChatGPT for secure employee experimental use and an external-facing LLM that better informs customers about flight delays, known as Every Flight Has a Stor
Xebia
DECEMBER 22, 2024
In this blog, we aim to inspire you to use Steampipe to analyze your cloud configuration. Steampipe is elegant, fast, and works with any API! When analyzing cloud configurations, you often start by exploring the console to understand what is there. Once you have a grasp, you may start to use some shell scripts. Although shell scripts work well for simple queries, they quickly become complex when dealing with resource relationships.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 19, 2024
There is a growing reliance of technology leaders on software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools to support software development, with 84% of IT leaders indicating that they depend on SaaS solutions.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Digital twins enable businesses to repeatedly simulate and optimize complex multivariable problems, cutting the learning costs that come with experimenting in the physical world. Once the exclusive province of big business, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can now use AI to advanced digital twins that enable them to repeatedly simulate and optimize complex multivariable problems.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2024
TunnelBear is one of our favorite free VPNs, thanks to its secure encryption, access to over 40 servers, and access to most features with a free plan.
CIO
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Este ao surgieron riesgos derivados de la inteligencia artificial , interrupciones catastrficas como el incidente de CrowdStrike y la superacin de las fragilidades de la cadena de suministro de software , as como el riesgo de que los ciberataques y la computacin cuntica rompan los algoritmos de cifrado ms avanzados de la actualidad. En el clima incierto actual, todas las empresas, independientemente de su tamao, son propensas a sufrir interrupciones.
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Xebia
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Modern Pay-As-You-Go Data Platforms: Easy to Start, Challenging to Control It’s Easier Than Ever to Start Getting Insights into Your Data The rapid evolution of data platforms has revolutionized the way businesses interact with their data. Today, tools like Databricks and Snowflake have simplified the process, making it accessible for organizations of all sizes to extract meaningful insights.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 24, 2024
CentOS 7's official end of life is June 30th. What should a DevOps team do? We help you consider your choices.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Customers need better accuracy to take generative AI applications into production. In a world where decisions are increasingly data-driven, the integrity and reliability of information are paramount. To address this, customers often begin by enhancing generative AI accuracy through vector-based retrieval systems and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectural pattern, which integrates dense embeddings to ground AI outputs in relevant context.
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