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Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers ?

DevOps.com

Let's figure out what AI does well, where it falls short, and whether DevOps professionals should fear it and start re-skilling today.

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Generative AI’s killer enterprise app just might be ERP

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is ripe for a major makeover thanks to generative AI, as some experts see the tandem as a perfect pairing that could lead to higher profits at enterprises that combine them. The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report

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Supercharging Airflow & dbt with Astronomer Cosmos on Azure Container Instances

Xebia

Over the past few years, dbt has become the standard for data transformations. A very typical workflow now is to have some basic data extraction and ingestion take place, after which transformations are done in one or more dbt projects (a typical ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) workflow). Essentially, dbt, as advertised, takes care of the T in ETL/ELT/EtLT.

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What’s behind OpenAI’s appointment of an ex-NSA director to its board

CIO

OpenAI has appointed a former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to its board to help oversee safety and security. The company’s appointment of retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone is likely motivated by its need to turn a profit, a Gartner analyst said. Avivah Litan, distinguished VP analyst whose primary coverage areas include AI security and blockchain, had nothing but praise for his experience, but predicted his stay with the company will not last long.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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The Most Strategic Leaders Excel in 4 Disciplines

Harvard Business Review

Strategic fitness is a leader’s ability to learn from and adapt to their environment to set direction and create a competitive advantage. A study of 77 C-suite executives over four years found that strategically fit leaders excel in four disciplines : 1) Strategic fitness, or setting clear direction and calibrating when necessary; 2) Leadership fitness, or refining their style to meet the moment; 3) Organizational fitness, or investing in thinking about the future state of the business; and 4) C

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How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead.

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Beyond AI: Building toward artificial consciousness – Part I

CIO

As the race to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) hits a fever pitch across enterprises, the savviest organizations are already looking at how to achieve artificial consciousness—a pinnacle of technological and theoretical exploration. However, this undertaking requires unprecedented hardware and software capabilities, and while systems are under construction, the enterprise has a long way to go to understand the demands—and even longer before it can deploy them.

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When Your New Boss Is a Micromanager

Harvard Business Review

Building a relationship with a new boss can feel daunting, and it can be especially difficult if you feel like you’re being micromanaged. In this article, the writer talks with two experts about what to do in this demotivating situation. The first step is to figure out what’s behind your boss’s micromanaging tendencies. Maybe they’re genuinely trying to help, but their methods and cadence don’t match your work style or expectations.

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La salud conectada gana protagonismo en un contexto de digitalización de los servicios

CIO

En el contexto acelerado de digitalización motivado por la pandemia, la salud digital ganó protagonismo en unas sociedades con unas mayores necesidades de conexión. De hecho, la mayoría (63%) de organizaciones sanitarias , tanto biofarmacéuticas como de tecnología médica, ya tiene productos de salud conectada en el mercado o en fase de desarrollo. Independientemente de la fase de desarrollo de sus productos, las organizaciones sanitarias prevén que la salud conectada contribuya a generar más de

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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.

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Right Off The Batch: 50% Of YC W24 Is Built With AI. Who Got Funded?

Crunchbase News

Every cohort of Y Combinator startups “graduates” to great fanfare when the accelerator holds its closely watched demo days. But what happens next? Using Crunchbase data, we set out to track the funding trajectories of these seed- and pre-seed companies, starting with the very AI-centric winter 2024 batch , which wrapped up its demo day in early April.

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Beyond AI: Building toward artificial consciousness – Part 2

CIO

Beyond the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise lies the next step—artificial consciousness. The first piece in this practical AI innovation series outlined the requirements for this technology , which delved deeply into compute power—the core capability necessary to enable artificial consciousness. This piece looks at the control and storage technologies and requirements that are not only necessary for enterprise AI deployment but also essential to achieve the state o

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Research: Customer Referrals Are Contagious

Harvard Business Review

New research reveals the surprising power of “referral contagion,” where referred customers not only buy more but also refer 30-57% more new customers than others. This phenomenon, observed across industries, is driven by social factors like the perception of referring as appropriate and the tendency to befriend similar people. A simple experiment, reminding referred customers of their referral origin, increased successful referrals by 21%, highlighting the potential for leveraging referral psyc

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Los 10 mayores problemas de TI en la actualidad

CIO

Los CIO tienen una agenda desbordante, con numerosas cuestiones críticas y complejas que dominan su tiempo y atención. No es sorprendente que la capitalización de la inteligencia artificial (IA) encabece la lista de tareas pendientes, al igual que lidiar con las expectativas, la seguridad y la confianza adecuadas en torno a ella. Gestionar el cambio también es vital para los CIO hoy en día.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Kremlin calls NATO chief’s nuclear weapons remark an ‘escalation of tension’

Ooda Loop

On Monday, the Kremlin stated that a remark made by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stating that the NATO military alliance was holding talks on the decision to deploy more nuclear weapons was “an escalation of tension” Stoltenberg told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper that NATO members were in the process of consulting […]

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Compliance, security, and the role of identity

CIO

Every day, modern organizations are challenged with a balancing act between compliance and security. While compliance frameworks provide guidelines for protecting sensitive data and mitigating risks, security measures must adapt to evolving threats. However, the terms are often conflated, or one—usually compliance—is seen as a box to check as a means to support the other—security.

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Only 10% of Organizations are Doing Full Observability. Can Generative AI Move the Needle?

DevOps.com

Generative AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), introduces a transformative solution to the challenges of modern observability.

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Telefónica Tech e IBM lanzan una solución de IA y datos en el mercado español

CIO

Telefónica Tech e IBM han sellado una alianza en España para desplegar soluciones de inteligencia artificial (IA), analítica y gobierno del dato en un entorno “heterogéneo y cambiante, para poder extraer todo el valor de las mismas en los procesos de negocio”. Estas estarán unificadas e la plataforma SHARK.X, que será abierta híbrida y multicloud y especializada en gestión de datos e IA.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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Palo Alto Networks Hits the Mark in MITRE Managed Services Evaluation

Palo Alto Networks

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services : menuPass + ALPHV BlackCat Today, MITRE Engenuity unveiled the results of its second ever ATT&CK Evaluations for Managed Services. For the second consecutive year of this evaluation, we accurately identified the adversaries and their techniques and proudly delivered an exceptional report with crucial information for response and remediation.

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La IA generativa revolucionará el ERP

CIO

Los sistemas de planificación de recursos empresariales (ERP) están a punto de dar una nueva vuelta de tuerca gracias a la IA generativa. Aunque el uso de esta última tecnología dentro del ERP aún es emergente, los expertos esperan que este tándem proporcione a las compañías y sus empleados diversos beneficios, como ayudar a los trabajadores a crear funcionalidades del ERP especializadas por su cuenta a través de asistentes de código, como afirma Liz Herbert, analista de Forrester y autora princ

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Use zero-shot large language models on Amazon Bedrock for custom named entity recognition

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Name entity recognition (NER) is the process of extracting information of interest, called entities , from structured or unstructured text. Manually identifying all mentions of specific types of information in documents is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Some examples include extracting players and positions in an NFL game summary, products mentioned in an AWS keynote transcript, or key names from an article on a favorite tech company.

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PortAventura World lanza Pawla, el ‘chatbot’ concebido para mejorar la experiencia en el resort

CIO

PortAventura World se sube al carro de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa con el lanzamiento de su nueva herramienta para mejorar la experiencia del visitante y satisfacer todas sus necesidades durante su estancia en el resort. Bautizado como Pawla, se trata de un chatbot diseñado para comprender y responder a todo tipo de consultas, hacer recomendaciones y guiar a los visitantes teniendo en cuenta todas las especificidades de cada uno de los parques y servicios de PortAventura World.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Improving air quality with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As of this writing, Ghana ranks as the 27th most polluted country in the world , facing significant challenges due to air pollution. Recognizing the crucial role of air quality monitoring, many African countries, including Ghana, are adopting low-cost air quality sensors. The Sensor Evaluation and Training Centre for West Africa (Afri-SET) , aims to use technology to address these challenges.

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Three ways AI is raising the stakes around endpoint security

CIO

AI has made endpoint security even more challenging by accelerating attacks, raising the value of information at the endpoint, and making seemingly benign data highly sensitive. Read the three things you need to know. AI is supercharging attacks Generative AI is accelerating the volume and sophistication of attacks, allowing bad actors to evade traditional defenses.

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Shift Left is Dead

DevOps.com

By setting up a strategy and outlining product and IT requirements, developers need not take shortcuts and security risks.

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Salesforce debuts gen AI benchmark for CRM

CIO

Salesforce today announced a first-of-its-kind gen AI benchmark for CRM, which aims to help businesses make more informed decisions when choosing large language models (LLMs) for use with business applications. “Customers don’t just want the best model,” explains Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI. “They want to make sure it’s the best model that’s compliant, fits their security standards, and doesn’t break the bank.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Streamline financial workflows with generative AI for email automation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Many companies across all industries still rely on laborious, error-prone, manual procedures to handle documents, especially those that are sent to them by email. Despite the availability of technology that can digitize and automate document workflows through intelligent automation, businesses still mostly rely on labor-intensive manual document processing.

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Generative AI for Farming

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’re planning a live virtual event later this year, and we want to hear from you. Are you using a powerful AI technology that seems like everyone ought to be using? Here’s your opportunity to show the world ! AI is too often seen as a “first world” enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. We’re going to take a look at a Digital Green ’s Farmer.Chat , a generative AI bot that was designed to help small-scale farmers in developing countries access critical agricultural information.

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Debugging Kubernetes: Troubleshooting Guide

Dzone - DevOps

As Kubernetes continues to revolutionize the way we manage and deploy applications, understanding its intricacies becomes essential for developers and operations teams alike. If you don't have a dedicated DevOps team you probably shouldn't be working with Kubernetes. Despite that, in some cases, a DevOps engineer might not be available while we're debugging an issue.

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