Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. Most of these will be day-long offsites for client company leadership teams to help them make sure they step back from the day-to-day swirl three times a year to set a course, assess their progress, and ensure that their time and attention are focused on the things that matter most.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. While cloud risk analysis should be no different than any other third-party risk analysis, many enterprises treat the cloud more gently, taking a less thorough approach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Wind energy is experiencing a boom, but in a pattern eerily reminiscent of the nineteenth century Pennsylvania oil boom, wind farms are building ever larger turbines to farm wind energy further and further from shore. This trend carries risks, especially as turbines come with largely hidden costs. Increasing evidence suggests that although larger turbines can capture more energy, at a certain point the costs of maintaining and decommissioning large turbines located far offshore will outweigh the

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sometimes knowing history (aka “remembering what happened”) can keep you out of trouble. Artificial intelligence presents a case in point. To succeed with AI, your rollout could benefit from a rear-view mirror. Take, for example, how IT’s strategic planning process paved the way for smoothly deploying personal computers throughout the enterprise. Oh, that’s right.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When tensions run high, miscommunication is far more likely to occur. And tensions are likely high: In a recent global survey, 44% of employees reported they had experienced a lot of stress the previous day. To avoid creating unnecessary anxiety during times of uncertainty, leaders need to be especially thoughtful about how they communicate with their teams.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

According to the Robot Report, The International Federation of Robotics recently "noted that the stock of operational robots around the world attained a new record of about 3.9 million units in 2022. The average robot density, or number of robots per 10,000 human workers, rose to 151 and the trend of using artificial intelligence in robotics and automation keeps growing.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds. The Earth’s weather or natural disasters would no longer interrupt communications.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There’s a growing movement to track employee productivity through increasingly sophisticated technology, such as desktop surveillance, biometric smart badges, location tracking, or desk heat sensors. While this can be intrusive, it also presents opportunities for gaining profound insights into employee behavior, such as which applications employees use most frequently or whether employees are at risk of overworking based on their work patterns and productivity.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Governments and public services agencies are keen to push forwards with generative AI. Recent research by McGuide Research Services for Avanade found 91% of organisations in the sector believe they need to shift to an AI-first operating model within the next 12 months, while 87% of employees feel generative AI tools will make them more efficient, and more innovative.

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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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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Although most startup chipmakers have not seen much love from investors so far this year , Recogni seems to have bucked that trend. The San Jose, California-based firm, which is developing its AI inference chip for both the generative AI and automotive industries, raised a $102 million Series C co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures. Existing investors Mayfield 1 , DNS Capital , BMW i Ventures and SW Mobility Fund also participated, along with new investors Pledge Ventures and Tasaru

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Governments and public service agencies understand the enormous potential of generative AI. Recent research by McGuire Research Services for Avanade, shows 82% of government employees are using AI on a daily or weekly basis, while 84% of organisations plan to increase their IT investments by up to 24% to take advantage of AI. Many see AI as a driving force for a sector that has often lagged behind on technology, but which now has an opportunity to take a leadership position.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Introducing the all-new all-flash PowerScale F210 and F710 nodes. Drive AI innovations faster with Dell’s AI-ready data platform.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the face of increased competition, shrinking profit margins, and increasing ESG obligations, manufacturers are looking for ways to make products better, faster, and with less waste. Others are weighing the advantages of subscription-based business models where industrial equipment, automation, and processes are delivered as a service. As the manufacturing sector evolves in these and other ways, generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot will come into their own.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Generative AI provides a unique competitive edge, enabling superior digital experiences, innovative products and services and proactive responses.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Manufacturers have long held a data-driven vision for the future of their industry. It’s one where near real-time data flows seamlessly between IT and operational technology (OT) systems. Where all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured – is sourced, unified, and exploited in automated processes, AI tools and by highly skilled, but over-stretched, employees.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By Joey Mak In 2017, the #MeToo movement took down some of the most powerful men in entertainment, business and politics, as women everywhere emerged from the shadows to bravely share their stories. A few years later, the murder of George Floyd galvanized millions of people to organize and march for racial justice. Amid the unrest was the hope that a change was going to come.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As generative AI becomes better understood, attitudes towards the technology are shifting dramatically. This can be seen clearly in the healthcare sector, where practitioners are embracing AI applications as a much-needed boost to productivity. New research from Avanade, a technology company that specialises in the Microsoft platform, has revealed that 56% of healthcare and life-science professionals already use AI daily in their current roles.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s not a trip to the airport if you don’t check for your passport at least a dozen times on the ride over. But what if you could rid yourself of that anxiety — and of your passport altogether? While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. Experimental programs are already underway in airports around the country: Delta Digital ID allows PreCheck members to scan their faces instead of boarding

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The demand for energy has never been greater. Traditional sources of energy, such as coal, oil and natural gas, cannot keep up – and are also not environmentally friendly. We need new, more sustainable options for generating power. The solution may lie in a surprising innovation: space solar power systems. Solar power is clean, inexhaustible, and readily available, with its practical applications becoming increasingly compelling.

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Prisma Clud

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The data loss prevention (DLP) landscape has taken a long while to catch up with the realities of the public cloud. In this post, we’ll explain why this tooling, developed in the on-premises era, struggles to adapt to the dynamic nature and unique characteristics of cloud environments. We’ll then suggest an alternative framework for designing cloud DLP based on five core components.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

最近のクラウド市場はまさに成熟の様相を呈しています。 クラウドインフラストラクチャの序列は比較的安定しています。AWSの市場シェアは33％、2番目のMicrosoft Azureは22％、3番目のGoogle Cloudは11%で後塵を拝しています。（IBM、Oracle、Salesforceは2～3％程度） 収益成長率は業界全体で安定していますがやや伸び悩んでいます。ビッグ3のどれもが勢力図を大きく変えるほど他を上回っていません。市場全体の安定性は価格にも及び、いくつかの例を覗いては比較的均一価格です。現時点では、大手企業が同様の製品を提供するまで市場が成長しています。 しかしジェネレーティブAIの出現がすべてを変えます。 OpenAIのChatGPTの一般公開が招いた狂乱は、ハイパースケーラーの間に軍拡競争を引き起こしました。

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Developer experience infrastructure refers to the set of tools, processes, and practices that aim to enhance and streamline the overall experience of software developers throughout the development lifecycle. This encompasses various aspects, including collaboration, automation, efficiency, and support, to create an environment that allows developers to be more productive and focused on writing high-quality code.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There is a certain artistry to elegantly written computer code. Programmers pride themselves on the craftsmanship that goes into program design, including attention to detail and functionality. Superior craftsmanship also requires superior tools, which is why more developers are adopting low-code development solutions. They want to focus on application services, not the coding process.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A conversation with University of Georgia professor Malissa Clark dispelling myths about workaholism.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for IaC remains relatively small, interest in Python and artificial intelligence is accelerating adoption, as Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy notes in an interview.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Almost every company has undertaken AI projects, including companies that, at least on the face of it, have “no AI” policies. Last August, OpenAI stated that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have ChatGPT accounts.

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InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There's no doubt that generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) are disruptive forces that will continue to transform our industry and economy in profound ways. But there's also something very familiar about the path organizations are taking to tap into gen AI capabilities. It's the same journey that happens any time there's a need for data that serves a very specific and narrow purpose.

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organizations must reduce attack surfaces, detect and respond to threats and recover from cyberattacks.

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