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Accenture forms new Nvidia business group focused on agentic AI adoption

CIO

“Many of you probably have heard from our recently closed fiscal year earnings that generative AI demand drove $3 billion in Accenture bookings,” Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, said in a press conference Tuesday. However, many of our clients, many business organizations, do not see the full benefits of gen AI yet.”

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO

Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center.

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How to Monitor Packet Loss and Latency in the Cloud

Kentik

Most of us have experienced packet loss, like choppy video in a conference call. Since we are focused on the cloud in this article, we find that SNMP is great for LANs and WANs, but we can’t use it to see inside devices within the cloud. These packet retransmits introduce latency.

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Strategies for Managing Network Traffic from a Remote Workforce

Kentik

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). Making this change reduces the volume of traffic being sent to the enterprise network, but also provides a better user experience for the employees, especially as the users conduct more video and audio conferences.

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A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix

Netflix Tech

The weeklong conference brought speakers from across the content, product, and member experience teams to learn about methodological developments and applications in estimating causal effects. The conference was a great way to celebrate each other’s work and highlight the ways in which causal methodology can create value for the business.

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Palo Alto Networks Secures Black Hat from Itself

Palo Alto Networks

Founded by Jeff Moss in 1997, the Black Hat conference has grown considerably. The network and security operations center (NOC/SOC) at the Black Hat USA Conference serves the critical role of ensuring that the conference's entire network is running smoothly and efficiently, as well as detecting and responding to any security threats.

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Accelerate Generative AI Inference with NVIDIA NIM Microservices on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

At the 2024 NVIDIA GTC conference, we announced support for NVIDIA NIM Inference Microservices in Amazon SageMaker Inference. Qing Lan is a Software Development Engineer in AWS. This post is co-written with Eliuth Triana, Abhishek Sawarkar, Jiahong Liu, Kshitiz Gupta, JR Morgan and Deepika Padmanabhan from NVIDIA.