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A $300 million annual #cloudbill triggered a rethink, a #repatriation - and a shopping spree on modular hardware at this company... 👉 https://lnkd.in/e878rMNQ #privatecloud #openhardware #cloudmigration #cloudrepatriation #opensource #ocp

While shiny innovators trigger #CTO FOMO and executives agitate for #AI in everything, over at some enterprises, the foundations need fixing... https://lnkd.in/eP3kT7fa #ERP #payroll #cyborgpayroll #COBOL #legacytech

Downstream impact from a #ransomware attack on supply chain heavyweight Blue Yonder continues to mount. #Morrisons, #Starbucks, #Fedex among those hit. https://lnkd.in/efAshzu8 #cyberresilience #disasterrecovery #resilience #ciso #blueteam

The Open Compute Project Foundation is building a powerful head of steam on #openhardware, #opensoftware -- with over 5,000 engineers from its 400+ members working on #liquidcooling, #AI, #firmware, #interconnect workstreams and more. Enterprise adoption meanwhile is climbing and spending on #OCP specification kit is set to hit $74 billion by 2028 says IDC. Cliff Grossner Ph.D. and Steve Helvie gave Edward Targett a tour from 10,000 feet. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGiY8pW7

Does that LinkedIn job offer look too good to be true? Then it probably is... Rob Waugh speaks to Grant Paling, Michael Balmer and Andrew Whaley to explore why "dream job offers" can turn into a nightmare for enterprises:

Microsoft's new AI innovation is described as "lazy" - when in reality it's anything but. Find out why:

CrowdStrike's CFO: "We are a little further from the sun" 🌦️ https://lnkd.in/eE8x4Np2 #CrowdStrike slumped to a net loss and new ARR tumbled (although revenues grew well) as an #outage in July continues to hurt the company. Our take on an #earnings call. #edr #cybersecurity #ciso

A powerful new framework from Anthropic called the "Model Context Protocol" aims to provide an industry standard protocol to connect #LLMs to data sources and popular enterprise applications. #Anthropic claims MCP provides a standardised way to "share contextual information with language models; expose tools and capabilities to AI systems; build composable integrations and workflows." The protocol uses JSON-RPC 2.0 messages to establish communication between LLM applications (hosts), "connectors" (clients) within the host application and services (servers) that provide capabilities. Read more below.

NATO: “Women are better at #wargaming than men” 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCnGhBy7 #womenintech #womenleaders #nato #gender

We get a lot of surveys of "IT leaders" in our inboxes at The Stack. PR agencies working for software vendors are typically the culprit and the story is often: "99% of IT leaders love the cloud" says CSP -- or "just 1% of IT leaders plan to stay in the cloud" says on-prem tin provider. Colour us surprised. Perhaps it's time we embarked on some real surveys, inspired by the #CISO we interviewed, who when asked what he was most worried about, responded, after a perfectly timed if slightly worrying pause: "Me." Good survey questions ideas to Jasper Hamill jasper@thestack.technology and Edward Targett ed@thestack.technology with "Lord of all I survey" in the subject line. We're deadly serious.