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Can AI Replace DevOps Engineers ?

DevOps.com

Let's figure out what AI does well, where it falls short, and whether DevOps professionals should fear it and start re-skilling today.

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Generative AI’s killer enterprise app just might be ERP

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is ripe for a major makeover thanks to generative AI, as some experts see the tandem as a perfect pairing that could lead to higher profits at enterprises that combine them. The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report

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Supercharging Airflow & dbt with Astronomer Cosmos on Azure Container Instances

Xebia

Over the past few years, dbt has become the standard for data transformations. A very typical workflow now is to have some basic data extraction and ingestion take place, after which transformations are done in one or more dbt projects (a typical ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) workflow). Essentially, dbt, as advertised, takes care of the T in ETL/ELT/EtLT.

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What’s behind OpenAI’s appointment of an ex-NSA director to its board

CIO

OpenAI has appointed a former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to its board to help oversee safety and security. The company’s appointment of retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone is likely motivated by its need to turn a profit, a Gartner analyst said. Avivah Litan, distinguished VP analyst whose primary coverage areas include AI security and blockchain, had nothing but praise for his experience, but predicted his stay with the company will not last long.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Improving air quality with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As of this writing, Ghana ranks as the 27th most polluted country in the world , facing significant challenges due to air pollution. Recognizing the crucial role of air quality monitoring, many African countries, including Ghana, are adopting low-cost air quality sensors. The Sensor Evaluation and Training Centre for West Africa (Afri-SET) , aims to use technology to address these challenges.

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Generative AI for Farming

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’re planning a live virtual event later this year, and we want to hear from you. Are you using a powerful AI technology that seems like everyone ought to be using? Here’s your opportunity to show the world ! AI is too often seen as a “first world” enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. We’re going to take a look at a Digital Green ’s Farmer.Chat , a generative AI bot that was designed to help small-scale farmers in developing countries access critical agricultural information.

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Dell recently announced the Dell AI Factory. Here’s what you should know.

CIO

ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini have quickly become household names in this Generative AI (genAI) era due to their accessibility and ease of use. Alongside these popular platforms, we’re seeing more genAI-driven enterprise tools and applications emerging in the marketplace. Whether it’s text and image generation, video creation, or even voice generation, genAI applications exist for a whole range of enterprise use cases designed to drive productivity, efficiency, and automation.

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Palo Alto Networks Hits the Mark in MITRE Managed Services Evaluation

Palo Alto Networks

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services : menuPass + ALPHV BlackCat Today, MITRE Engenuity unveiled the results of its second ever ATT&CK Evaluations for Managed Services. For the second consecutive year of this evaluation, we accurately identified the adversaries and their techniques and proudly delivered an exceptional report with crucial information for response and remediation.

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La salud conectada gana protagonismo en un contexto de digitalización de los servicios

CIO

En el contexto acelerado de digitalización motivado por la pandemia, la salud digital ganó protagonismo en unas sociedades con unas mayores necesidades de conexión. De hecho, la mayoría (63%) de organizaciones sanitarias , tanto biofarmacéuticas como de tecnología médica, ya tiene productos de salud conectada en el mercado o en fase de desarrollo. Independientemente de la fase de desarrollo de sus productos, las organizaciones sanitarias prevén que la salud conectada contribuya a generar más de

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Use zero-shot large language models on Amazon Bedrock for custom named entity recognition

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Name entity recognition (NER) is the process of extracting information of interest, called entities , from structured or unstructured text. Manually identifying all mentions of specific types of information in documents is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Some examples include extracting players and positions in an NFL game summary, products mentioned in an AWS keynote transcript, or key names from an article on a favorite tech company.

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Beyond AI: Building toward artificial consciousness – Part 2

CIO

Beyond the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise lies the next step—artificial consciousness. The first piece in this practical AI innovation series outlined the requirements for this technology , which delved deeply into compute power—the core capability necessary to enable artificial consciousness. This piece looks at the control and storage technologies and requirements that are not only necessary for enterprise AI deployment but also essential to achieve the state o

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Right Off The Batch: 50% Of YC W24 Is Built With AI. Who Got Funded?

Crunchbase News

Every cohort of Y Combinator startups “graduates” to great fanfare when the accelerator holds its closely watched demo days. But what happens next? Using Crunchbase data, we set out to track the funding trajectories of these seed- and pre-seed companies, starting with the very AI-centric winter 2024 batch , which wrapped up its demo day in early April.

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Los 10 mayores problemas de TI en la actualidad

CIO

Los CIO tienen una agenda desbordante, con numerosas cuestiones críticas y complejas que dominan su tiempo y atención. No es sorprendente que la capitalización de la inteligencia artificial (IA) encabece la lista de tareas pendientes, al igual que lidiar con las expectativas, la seguridad y la confianza adecuadas en torno a ella. Gestionar el cambio también es vital para los CIO hoy en día.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Only 10% of Organizations are Doing Full Observability. Can Generative AI Move the Needle?

DevOps.com

Generative AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), introduces a transformative solution to the challenges of modern observability.

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Compliance, security, and the role of identity

CIO

Every day, modern organizations are challenged with a balancing act between compliance and security. While compliance frameworks provide guidelines for protecting sensitive data and mitigating risks, security measures must adapt to evolving threats. However, the terms are often conflated, or one—usually compliance—is seen as a box to check as a means to support the other—security.

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Streamline financial workflows with generative AI for email automation

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Many companies across all industries still rely on laborious, error-prone, manual procedures to handle documents, especially those that are sent to them by email. Despite the availability of technology that can digitize and automate document workflows through intelligent automation, businesses still mostly rely on labor-intensive manual document processing.

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Telefónica Tech e IBM lanzan una solución de IA y datos en el mercado español

CIO

Telefónica Tech e IBM han sellado una alianza en España para desplegar soluciones de inteligencia artificial (IA), analítica y gobierno del dato en un entorno “heterogéneo y cambiante, para poder extraer todo el valor de las mismas en los procesos de negocio”. Estas estarán unificadas e la plataforma SHARK.X, que será abierta híbrida y multicloud y especializada en gestión de datos e IA.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Huntress Captures $150M Series D At $1.5B-Plus Valuation

Crunchbase News

Maryland-based Huntress became the newest cybersecurity unicorn after it raised a $150 million Series D at a $1.5 billion-plus valuation. The new round was led by Kleiner Perkins , Meritech Capital and existing investor Sapphire Ventures. The startup focuses on security services for small business to small enterprise customers — an often overlooked sector in cyber as many companies chase Fortune 500 companies.

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La IA generativa revolucionará el ERP

CIO

Los sistemas de planificación de recursos empresariales (ERP) están a punto de dar una nueva vuelta de tuerca gracias a la IA generativa. Aunque el uso de esta última tecnología dentro del ERP aún es emergente, los expertos esperan que este tándem proporcione a las compañías y sus empleados diversos beneficios, como ayudar a los trabajadores a crear funcionalidades del ERP especializadas por su cuenta a través de asistentes de código, como afirma Liz Herbert, analista de Forrester y autora princ

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Kremlin calls NATO chief’s nuclear weapons remark an ‘escalation of tension’

Ooda Loop

On Monday, the Kremlin stated that a remark made by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stating that the NATO military alliance was holding talks on the decision to deploy more nuclear weapons was “an escalation of tension” Stoltenberg told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper that NATO members were in the process of consulting […]

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PortAventura World lanza Pawla, el ‘chatbot’ concebido para mejorar la experiencia en el resort

CIO

PortAventura World se sube al carro de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa con el lanzamiento de su nueva herramienta para mejorar la experiencia del visitante y satisfacer todas sus necesidades durante su estancia en el resort. Bautizado como Pawla, se trata de un chatbot diseñado para comprender y responder a todo tipo de consultas, hacer recomendaciones y guiar a los visitantes teniendo en cuenta todas las especificidades de cada uno de los parques y servicios de PortAventura World.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Debugging Kubernetes: Troubleshooting Guide

Dzone - DevOps

As Kubernetes continues to revolutionize the way we manage and deploy applications, understanding its intricacies becomes essential for developers and operations teams alike. If you don't have a dedicated DevOps team you probably shouldn't be working with Kubernetes. Despite that, in some cases, a DevOps engineer might not be available while we're debugging an issue.

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Three ways AI is raising the stakes around endpoint security

CIO

AI has made endpoint security even more challenging by accelerating attacks, raising the value of information at the endpoint, and making seemingly benign data highly sensitive. Read the three things you need to know. AI is supercharging attacks Generative AI is accelerating the volume and sophistication of attacks, allowing bad actors to evade traditional defenses.

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Resource Management in Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automates application management like deployments, scaling, etc. While there are many benefits of Kubernetes, one key feature is its resource management. This blog walks through how resource management works on Kubernetes and includes technical details and examples.

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Salesforce debuts gen AI benchmark for CRM

CIO

Salesforce today announced a first-of-its-kind gen AI benchmark for CRM, which aims to help businesses make more informed decisions when choosing large language models (LLMs) for use with business applications. “Customers don’t just want the best model,” explains Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI. “They want to make sure it’s the best model that’s compliant, fits their security standards, and doesn’t break the bank.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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How AI is impacting data governance

InfoWorld

More than any other factor, the hyperabundance of accessible data has powered today’s surge in AI adoption and generative AI capability. Collecting, cleaning, organizing, and securing that data for AI and machine learning have become a project in itself—a governance endeavor in which AI tools themselves play an important role. The result can be an enormous improvement in data governance that benefits the entire enterprise.

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Hybrid Cloud Deployments: Integrating On-Premises Containers With AWS ECS Anywhere

DevOps.com

AWS ECS Anywhere is a game-changing service designed to extend the sophisticated capabilities of AWS containers to virtually any infrastructure, whether it is on-premises, in a corporate data center, or even in a different public cloud environment.

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How to avoid cloud whiplash

InfoWorld

“Cloud whiplash” refers to the challenges and rapid changes organizations face while adopting and managing cloud computing infrastructures. The term captures the often disorienting and disruptive shifts as enterprises try to keep up with rapidly evolving technologies, varied cloud services, and changing business requirements. Cloud whiplash is usually due to frequent changes in cloud strategies, resulting in inefficiencies, security vulnerabilities, and operational disruptions.

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