CIO
JULY 11, 2024
The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find it difficult to keep an eye on the costs of their cloud deployment and to continuously optimize them.
Cherry Work
JULY 11, 2024
Organisations are constantly looking for ways to improve productivity and simplify their finance procedures in the fast-paced corporate world of today. Accounts Payable is one industry that has seen substantial change (AP). The way organizations manage their invoices and payments has completely altered with the advent of accounts payable automation.
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CIO
JULY 11, 2024
As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. Spinning up a chatbot or adopting an AI assistant aren’t likely to tax most enterprises’ storage capacities, but large AI projects with access to millions of data points may require many terabytes of new storage, potentially costing tens of millions of dollars, some AI and storage experts say.
Ooda Loop
JULY 11, 2024
With this post I reflect on some of the key lessons I have learned in the world of geopolitical intelligence analysis and reporting. My goal in sharing these lessons is to help you optimize your use of the reporting you see in the OODA daily pulse and the long form research and reporting done for our OODA network members.
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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?
CIO
JULY 11, 2024
Manufacturers are implementing generative AI initiatives slower than anticipated due to accuracy concerns, according to a report from Lucidworks. The study surveyed over 2,500 global AI decision-makers and found that 58% of manufacturing leaders plan to increase AI spending in 2024, down from 93% in 2023. Additionally, 44% of manufacturers have concerns about response accuracy, while only 3% are worried about job displacement.
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CIO
JULY 11, 2024
In a business environment defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), the most successful CIOs are more than technology leaders; they’re “chief intentional officers.” These CIOs have the vision, steadiness, and laser-sharp focus to navigate both the promise and the risks of disruptive technologies, positioning their teams and their organizations to gain and sustain an edge.
CEO Insider
JULY 11, 2024
They say a CEO’s work is never done, as there is always ‘one more thing’ that needs your attention. However, as a CEO, at some point, you will find yourself out of the office for an extended period. It could be a business trip, conferences, client meetings, or, in my case, a two-month trip to […] The post Keeping Your Company Afloat While the CEO’s Away appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
CIO
JULY 11, 2024
AMD turned its AI acquisition dial another notch this week, announcing a deal to buy Europe’s largest private AI lab, Finland’s Silo AI, for $665 million in cash. Last August it bought French AI inference startup Mipsology, with tiny open-source AI compiler outfit Nod.ai following in October. But those were small, tactical acquisitions, part of what AMD described at the time as a $125 million investment in AI.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2024
Navigating unsolicited ideas, advice, or suggestions at work is a common scenario. Consider the colleague who jumps in with a barrage of “Have you considered…?” or “What about…?” questions during your carefully crafted presentation. Or how about when you request specific information and the responses you get back include unsolicited advice on aspects of your work you didn’t ask about?
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.
CIO
JULY 11, 2024
Las conversaciones entre la startup de inteligencia artificial (IA) de Elon Musk, xAI, y Oracle para expandir su acuerdo de alquiler de servidores –una ampliación valorada en 10.000 millones de dólares- no han llegado a puerto. El mismo empresario lo confirmó en la red social X después de que el medio The Information diera a conocer la noticia. Ambas compañías estaban negociando ampliar un acuerdo existente mediante el cual xAI alquila 24.000 chips H100 de Nvidia por parte de Oracle para entren
Symantec
JULY 11, 2024
Activity levels dipped slightly in the first quarter of 2024 as two major ransomware operations were the targets of law enforcement operations.
CIO
JULY 11, 2024
To developers, OSSTest is an essential automated testing and quality checking system for anyone submitting code to the Xen Project’s open-source hypervisor. But all software runs somewhere. In the Xen Project’s case it’s virtual server infrastructure inside in a featureless colocation datacenter just outside Boston. Unfortunately — extraordinarily even — it seems that this facility can no longer be used because of a “sudden shutdown” as an announcement on the Xen Project website this week expla
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2024
Across industries, from manufacturing to health care, the luxury of waiting years to benefit from new talent is long gone. Thriving in today’s dynamic economy means bringing new hires up the learning curve faster than ever. Yet, the authors’ latest research suggests one catalyst for learning is often lacking when it’s needed most: psychological safety.
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CIO
JULY 11, 2024
La modernización se ha convertido en una apuesta segura para las organizaciones, pero la transición a la nube requiere una nueva pila tecnológica. Cada vez más, los líderes de TI están recurriendo a las tecnologías de nube y Kubernetes para ayudar a los desarrolladores y equipos de operaciones a implementar, gestionar y escalar aplicaciones más fácilmente.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JULY 11, 2024
In the diverse toolkit available for deploying cloud infrastructure, Agents for Amazon Bedrock offers a practical and innovative option for teams looking to enhance their infrastructure as code (IaC) processes. Agents for Amazon Bedrock automates the prompt engineering and orchestration of user-requested tasks. After being configured, an agent builds the prompt and augments it with your company-specific information to provide responses back to the user in natural language.
Crunchbase News
JULY 11, 2024
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Last quarter was a great quarter if you were a founder of an AI-related startup looking for funding — maybe. Such startups saw more money in 2Q than they ever have before, raising a whopping $24.2 billion in 1,001 deals, per Crunchbase data. This is more than twice as much as raised by similar startups in the first quarter and also about twice what was raised in the same quarter last year.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2024
Over the past few decades, we have undergone significant transformations, enhancing our ability to improve software delivery and creating new methodologies and frameworks to improve collaboration among teams. Despite these advancements, the existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) is still far from flawless.
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.
Crunchbase News
JULY 11, 2024
Despite a slight resurgence across the global venture funding landscape , Asia seems to be left behind. The region suffered its worst quarter for venture funding since the final quarter of 2015, with Asia-based startups raising only $14.6 billion — a 24% decline from Q1 and a 32% dropoff year to year. In addition, deal volume in the region continues to decline, with only 1,511 funding deals announced in Q2.
AWS Machine Learning - AI
JULY 11, 2024
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a popular paradigm that provides additional knowledge to large language models (LLMs) from an external source of data that wasn’t present in their training corpus. RAG provides additional knowledge to the LLM through its input prompt space and its architecture typically consists of the following components: Indexing : Prepare a corpus of unstructured text, parse and chunk it, and then, embed each chunk and store it in a vector database.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 11, 2024
Clearing the cache on your TV can be a great way to improve its performance, fix bugs, and ensure you get the best viewing experience. But what exactly is a cache, and why is it important to clear it?
MagmaLabs
JULY 11, 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever wondered, how to build a Ruby on Rails app for PDF analysis with OpenAI API? imagine creating an application that not only handles file uploads but also leverages advanced AI to analyze and extract insights from your documents. Amazing! right? Today, we'll explore how to do just that by building a small Rails application that allows users to upload PDFs, extract text, and analyze it using the OpenAI API.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 11, 2024
Though mercenary spyware attacks are rare and typically sent only to targeted individuals, Apple has alerted iPhone users about them for the second time this year.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2024
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is going to do for IT operations what open-source software originally did for application development.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 11, 2024
If Gemini is your go-to AI and MacOS is your operating system of choice, you'll be glad to know there are ways to interact with Google's AI from Apple's desktop.
DevOps.com
JULY 11, 2024
Bringing together the power of LLMs (for conversational troubleshooting) with ML purpose-built for root cause analysis gives your team the best of both worlds
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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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 11, 2024
At Unpacked yesterday, Samsung unveiled several new products, including two foldable phones, smartwatches, earbuds, and a smart ring that competes with Oura.
Aqua Security
JULY 11, 2024
The importance of cybersecurity and operational resilience in the financial sector has never been more pronounced. The European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of addressing these critical issues, enacting comprehensive legislations to safeguard the digital infrastructure and ensure the continuity of financial services. Two pivotal pieces of legislation in this domain are the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS 2 Directive) and the Digital Operational Resilience
Confluent
JULY 11, 2024
confluent-kafka-javascript offers two APIs for calling Kafka from JS, one KafkaJS-like & one node-rdkafka-like. Learn it by making an app w/producer, consumer & UI.
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