GenAI Redefines Collaboration, AndroidTV OS Wars Update, SASE in Enterprise Networks, Cost of Data Mismanagement and Cloud Operating Models

Enterprise-wide Strategies for Generative AI Redefine Collaboration Across Strategic, Technological and Operational Decision-Makers

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to drive urgent interest in its ability to accelerate the disruption of current business models and technology modernization strategies. As business leaders better understand the technology, it is becoming increasingly clear that GenAI will also leave an indelible mark on relationships and interactions across enterprise departments and operational disciplines.

These were among the central conclusions of a recent cross-industry CIO.com executive roundtable co-hosted by Christine Livingston ingston, Managing Director of AI for Protiviti and Bryan Throckmorton , Managing Director of Digital Strategy and Transformation for Protiviti. The Chatham House Rule executive discussion included over a dozen senior executives examining the impact that GenAI is likely to have on their operations.

In a podcast interview following the event, Livingston observed how a critical mass of organizations now recognize GenAI as a technological development with immediate and long-term implications for organizations. Read on Here.

Connected TV & Set Top Operating System Market Forecast 2023-2028; Rethink Technology Research Reports

Huawei’s ambitions to become a global challenger to Android appear to have been completely neutered, since the last time that Rethink TV examined the operating system landscape of video devices. Specifically looking at the set top boxes of operators, as well as smart TVs and connected TV devices from retail sources, it is now clear that Android will achieve complete dominance over RDK on the global stage, with HarmonyOS confined to China. However, will that position, against the backdrop of a turning tide of sentiment for the Silicon Valley titans, lead to antitrust turmoil?

Betting on politicians is a fool’s errand, but the tension between Google’s Android ecosystem and the operators and video services that have been essentially forced into it is palpable. To this end, Huawei at one point did offer a chance of something different, but it has been so thoroughly beaten down by international sanctions that its limited role as a potential savior has been ground into dust. Read on here.

Increasingly Complex and Heterogeneous Enterprise Infrastructures Drive Demand for SASE and SSE – Yuval Yatskan, Cisco

Cloud migration and on-prem modernization initiatives have fundamentally changed how enterprise IT and security teams assess threats and manage risks to protect mission-critical assets. As a result, organizations across industries and geographies are expressing growing interest in the role that Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies play in managing risks associated with today’s complex hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures.

So says Yuval Yatskan , Cisco ’s senior director of solutions and product marketing for SSE, SASE, Cloud and Network Security, in a podcast interview for journalists.

“Compared to legacy architectures, today’s hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures are much more complex and consequently harder to protect. On average, organizations globally are experiencing over 1,200 weekly attacks and it takes as many as 287 days to discover and contain these breaches. With the average cost of a data breach now estimated at $4.5 million, much is at stake,” explains Yatskan.

As a result, organizations are looking for ways to deliver – and protect – a consistent and seamless user experience regardless of where people work, what apps and resources they access, and what devices they use, whether managed or unmanaged. Read on here.

Fines Related to Mismanagement of Data Subject Rights Will Exceed $1 Billion by 2026, Predicts Gartner

By 2026, fines due to mismanagement of subject rights will have increased tenfold from 2022, to total over $1 billion, according to Gartner , Inc.

Gartner defines subject rights requests (SRRs) as a set of legal rights that enable individuals to make demands and, in some instances, changes for clarity regarding the uses of their data.

“For security and risk management (SRM) leaders in B2C organizations, automating subject rights or consumer privacy rights management has become a basic requirement and a prerequisite for building trust,” said Nader Henein , Research Vice Presiden at Gartner. “The management of SRRs can enhance customer trust levels by providing a positive privacy user experience (UX).”

However, inefficient handling of SRRs and an immature privacy UX can erode the benefit from millions of dollars spent on developing positive customer sentiment. Read on here.

Successful Application and Data Modernization Initiatives in Heterogeneous Enterprise Environments will Hinge on Embracing Cloud Operating Models

If organizations are to achieve sustained success in their technology modernization initiatives, senior leaders should stop thinking of "cloud" as a "place" to send their workloads. According to Thoughtworks North America executives Ajay Chankramath (Head of Platform Engineering) and Wesley Reisz (Technical Principal), business and technology leaders ought to instead embrace the notion that "cloud" is a platform-based "operating model" that will lay the foundation for enterprise-wide systems integration, agility and resilience.

Chankramath and Reisz sat down for a podcast interview after a series of executive roundtable discussions in New York City exploring the state of application modernization in the context of accelerating business transformation initiatives.

"When we first started talking about cloud computing around a decade ago, it was usually discussed as a location to put compute capacity that was not on-premises," explains Reisz.

This conceptualization – which primarily positioned the cloud as a method of OPEX outsourcing – has not served the enterprise community particularly well. It prompted many organizations to pursue lift-and-shift strategies that simply moved workloads from on-prem to public infrastructure-as-a-service platforms without making many – if any – changes to applications. In many cases, repositioned workloads have ended up returning to on-prem resources because of poor economic and technical performance.

"There are definitely organizations that are on a journey that is only about lift and shift. To realize the full benefits of digital transformation requires much more. Cloud is increasingly understood as an 'operating model' that fundamentally changes how enterprises build and deliver software. It's a whole thought process, not just a location," says Reisz.

According to Chankramath, embracing cloud operating models provides the foundation for moving applications around enterprise infrastructures in a much more agile and performant manner. Read on here.

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