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Changing Role Of The CIO
Chief information officers need to lean into the leadership aspects of their role to deal with the pace of change that 2024 promises. Here are five strategic areas to focus on this year....more
A CISO's Take On The Rise Of AI-Enhanced Phishing, Smishing, And Vishing - And How To Combat
In this episode of the SecurityANGLE, I'm joined by my fellow analyst and member of theCUBE Collective community, Jo Peterson for a conversation about the rise of AI-enhanced phishing. smishing, and vishing and how to combat that with Bil Harmer, the operating partner and CISO at Craft Ventures....more
3 Ways The CTO Can Fortify The Organization In The Age Of Generative AI
Few technologies have captured the public imagination quite like generative AI. It seems that with every passing day, there are new AI-based chatbots, extensions and apps being released to eager users around the world....more
Telco
NVIDIA: Telco AI Investment Still In 'Early Phase'
In its 'State of AI in Telecommunications: 2024 Trends,' respondents tell NVIDIA telco AI solutions are already 'improving both revenues and cost savings'...more
5G Standalone Forecast To Pick Up Speed This Year
Deployments of 5G standalone networks were relatively uncommon in 2023, but are expected to increase this year, according to a forecast from test and assurance equipment provider Spirent. Standalone 5G (SA) networks are not underpinned by previous-generation technology but instead are purpose-built to support 5G service....more
6G: A Glimpse Into The Future Beyond 5G
Even the most ambitious projections estimate that 6G networks won't be rolled out for another five years. Operators are still ramping up their 5G initiatives, and yet, telecom industry players know that this is exactly the time to think ahead to the next standard....more
AI
Google Gemma: Because Google Doesn't Want To Give Away Gemini Yet
Google has released Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models that let developers use the research that went into its flagship Gemini more freely....more
How To Train AI Image Models: A Practical Guide
Mastering AI image model training: A practical guide for success in modern applications...more
Why Fear The Artificial Intelligence Revolution?
In late 2023, Business Insider published an article exploring the three biggest fears people report having about artificial intelligence. At the top of the list was an 'AI takeover,' which some believe will involve AI using military systems to start a world war....more
FOSS
Best Open Source Tools For Your NLP Project
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has emerged as a transformative technology, enabling machines to understand, interpret, and generate human-like language...more
LibreOffice 7.6.5 Released For Productivity Environments
LibreOffice 7.6.5 Community is immediately available for Windows, macOS, and Linux...more
DR
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15 Backup And Disaster Recovery Best Practices To Consider
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) strategies are of paramount importance to enterprises due to their critical role in preserving data integrity, ensuring business continuity, and mitigating risks associated with various disruptions....more
Careers
10 Skills CIO Job Candidates Need In 2024
Learn which capabilities chief information officer candidates need in 2024 if they want to land top roles and which macro factors are driving changes in IT leadership....more
The Highest-Paid IT Skills - And Why You Need Them On Your Resume
Not surprisingly, generative AI skills topped a list of capabilities companies are seeking in new hires....more
DDN News
Unstructured Data Management Done Better With Infinia Object Storage
Most organizations have been dealing with fast data growth for a while. But we're in a different place now than we were even five years ago. Businesses today - maybe yours included - are dealing with a lot of unstructured data....more
StarTree News
From Noise to Insights: Anomaly Detection Made Easy with StarTree ThirdEye
Apache Pinot is a realtime distributed OLAP datastore, which is used to deliver scalable real time analytics with low latency. It can ingest data from batch data sources (S3, HDFS, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage) as well as streaming sources (such as Kafka)....more
Google News
Boost Your Productivity: Use Gemini In Gmail, Docs And More With The New Google One Plan
With the Google One AI Premium plan, you can get more creative and productive using Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet....more
Chrome's New AI Feature Can Help You Write On The Web
You can now turn on 'Help me write,' a new experimental AI feature in Chrome that can help you write content online....more
Gemini Image Generation Got It Wrong. We'll Do Better.
We recently made the decision to pause Gemini's image generation of people while we work on improving the accuracy of its responses. Here is more about how this happened and what we're doing to fix it....more
Unpacking The Google Hugging Face Partnership To Accelerate Gen AI And ML Development
On this episode of This Week in Tech, I'm joined by fellow analyst and member of the theCUBE Collective community, Jo Peterson, along with Google Cloud's Bobby Allen and Brandon Royal, for a conversation unpacking the new Google Hugging Face partnership, which is designed to accelerate generative AI and ML development....more
IBM News
IBM Report: Identity Comes Under Attack, Straining Enterprises' Recovery Time From Breaches
IBM released the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises worldwide....more
Operationalizing Responsible AI Principles For Defense
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, including the very character of national security. Recognizing this, the Department of Defense (DoD) launched the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in 2019, the predecessor to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), to develop AI solutions that build competitive military advantage, conditions for human-centric AI adoption, and the agility of DoD operations....more
Wipro and IBM Expand Partnership to Offer New AI Services and Support to Clients
Wipro launches an Enterprise AI-Ready Platform, leveraging IBM watsonx, to advance enterprise adoption of Generative AI...more
Red Hat News
Upcoming Improvements To Red Hat Enterprise Linux Minor Release Betas
For as long as there has been a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) there has been a beta ahead of each minor release update. Betas allows customers to get a preview of changes to come, test major features, and provide feedback or report issues before the final release....more
Friday Five - February 23, 2024
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your we ekly digest of things that caught our eye....more
5 Concepts Edge Architects Should Know To Get Started
There is no one edge. An edge architecture that deploys a 5G radio access network (RAN) for a telecommunications service provider is going to look quite different from one used by retailers to capture customer interactions, understand customer sentiments and predict and anticipate unspoken needs....more
Bridging Innovation And Standards Compliance: Red Hat's Drive Towards The Next-Generation Of Government Computing Standards
From FIPS 140-3 to Common Criteria to DISA STIGs, Red Hat is constantly pursuing the next iteration of compliance for our customers....more
CxO Security Events
Blackhat: Using AI In Cyber Defenses (March 7th)
In this webinar the speakers will discuss the merging realms of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting both the challenges and opportunities this intersection presents....more
IDC: Cybersecurity Norms and Trends: How Does Your Business Stack Up? (March 13th)
There's plenty of talk about the cybersecurity best practices businesses should embrace, but how many actually embrace them? What are the major gaps in enterprise cybersecurity today, and what does it take to set your business apart from the crowd in a good way?...more
Google Cloud: Security Talks 2024 (March 13th)
Join our security experts to kick off the new year and explore the latest threat intel trends for 2024, discover new GenAI security use cases and solutions, best practices for migrating from a legacy to modern SIEM, and more!...more
Blackhat: Forward Focus: Perspectives On AI, Hype, And Security (March 14th)
Join us for a grounded conversation where we puncture the hype and focus on the realities of AI affecting security professionals. We will discuss the impact of generative AI on the security industry, its risks, the realities, and what you need to know to travel the road ahead....more