Mon.May 20, 2024

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Article: The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability

InfoQ Culture Methods

Platform engineering is not just a technical problem to solve nor an end in itself. In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades from VMware and Stripe to Apollo GraphQL, including where we got stuck, how we unblocked ourselves, and what ultimately led to the right outcomes for our users and the business.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIO

The CIO position has morphed since its inception 40 years ago, shifting from a nuts-and-bolts techie job to an increasingly business- and strategy-focused executive role. Nearly half (49%) of IT leaders responding to the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com, say they expect to play more of a strategic role in the upcoming years, with another 36% anticipating a heavy emphasis on transformational responsibilities.

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Accelerating AI Innovation with Dell AI Factory Advancements

Dell EMC

Welcome to the Dell AI Factory, the industry's one-stop-shop to accelerate your path to AI outcomes.

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SAP customers see S/4HANA and AI as top digital transformation drivers

CIO

Feeling a sense of urgency to migrate to the cloud and digitally transform, SAP customers find themselves nearing a point of inflection, with skills shortages and data reservations poised to impact their outcomes. Two of the biggest sources of pressure are the looming 2027 end of SAP’s mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 — giving members a two-year window to adopt its successor, SAP S/4HANA — and the desire to embrace emerging technologies like AI.

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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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Transform Innovation into Value: The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

Dell EMC

The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA turbocharges AI adoption to simplify development, automate workflows and deliver up to 86% faster business outcomes.

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Dell NativeEdge Accelerates AI Innovation at the Edge

Dell EMC

Dell collaborates with NVIDIA, ServiceNow and Microsoft on NativeEdge.

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La UE avanza hacia la regulación del consumo de energía y agua en los centros de datos

CIO

La Unión Europea dará un gran paso en materia regulación del consumo de energía y agua en los centros de datos el próximo mes de septiembre, cuando las organizaciones que operan en ellos en los países de la UE tendrán que presentar informes detallando el consumo de agua y energía, así como las medidas que están tomando para reducirlo. La normativa de la UE sobre centros de datos forma parte de un paquete normativo más amplio cuyo objetivo último es reducir el consumo de energía en un 11,7% entre

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The Importance of Hybrid Cloud Visibility

Kentik

Hybrid cloud environments are a common architecture for modern networks, and for good reason. A hybrid cloud architecture spanning on-premises resources and public cloud is pretty much required to stay competitive, agile, and scalable. It allows businesses to leverage both the stability of on-premises infrastructure and the scalability of public cloud platforms.

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BBVA prueba con éxito la simulación cuántica distribuida en la nube

CIO

BBVA continúa abriéndose paso por la senda de la innovación. Para ello, en consonancia con la vocación de mejora continua que abandera, pone el acento sobre la tecnología de vanguardia con el firme propósito mejorar las operaciones corporativas redundando en la experiencia de cliente. En esta ocasión, la entidad financiera ha dirigido el foco sobre la computación cuántica, un área cuyo gasto por parte de las organizaciones se mantiene boyante.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Linguistic Lumberjack: Attacking Cloud Services via Logging Endpoints (Fluent Bit - CVE-2024-4323)

Tenable

Tenable Research has discovered a critical memory corruption vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack in Fluent Bit, a core component in the monitoring infrastructure of many cloud services. Key takeaways Fluent Bit is a logging utility heavily used by all major cloud providers. Tenable Research discovered a critical vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack (CVE-2024-4323) within Fluent Bit’s built-in HTTP server that could potentially allow for denial of service, information disclosure, or

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Digitalizzazione nelle PMI: le 7 sfide per i CIO e le strategie per superarle

CIO

“Per cambiare ci vuole la motivazione, e la motivazione è un vantaggio: l’utente deve vedere che, a fronte del suo sforzo, otterrà un miglioramento rispetto alla situazione precedente”. Con questa filosofia, Giuseppe De Vivo, CIO e ICT Manager di Rinaldi Group (manufacturing di materassi), ha vinto una delle principali sfide della trasformazione digitale nella piccola impresa in cui lavora: la resistenza mentale al cambiamento.

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PowerStore Prime: Smart Choice for Unstoppable Storage Advantage

Dell EMC

How to enable continuous innovation in the age of AI.

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How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one

CIO

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. Agile practices are a set of software development methodologies centered around the idea of iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.

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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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How Dell Makes the AI Factory Real

Dell EMC

You need a new type of data center to handle the speed and scale of generative AI: the AI Factory.

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Unlocking DevOps Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Success

DevOps.com

DevOps is about breaking down silos, fostering collaboration, and promoting a culture of shared ownership and accountability. But at its core, DevOps is as much about culture as it is about technology.

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Dell PowerScale: AI Success Starts With AI-Ready Storage

Dell EMC

The latest addition to our next-gen all-flash lineup: the F910, purpose-built storage to address the demands of AI innovation.

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The 49-Year Unicorn Backlog

Crunchbase News

If the current sluggish pace of IPOs and acquisitions continues, it would take more than 49 years for every U.S. unicorn to generate an exit. That was the finding from an analysis of recent exits for American companies on the Crunchbase Unicorn Board. Over the past 12 months, just 15 private, venture-backed companies valued at $1 billion more have gone public or gotten acquired.

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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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Dell Technologies World: Unleashing Innovation for Partners

Dell EMC

Partner Feedback the Catalyst for AI, Dell APEX, Storage and client updates.

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Skills, AI and the Enterprise: Three Strategies for the Road Ahead

IDC

Enterprises must plan for AI skills now. Focus on enhancing employee capabilities, fostering a learning culture, and promoting AI-human collaboration to thrive in the AI age.

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Reimagining Smart Cities with Seamless Connectivity, Enhanced Citizen Experiences

Dell EMC

The Dell Validated Design for Unified Operations Center with AVEVA aggregates data from diverse city systems to produce actionable intelligence.

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Why Leaders Solve the Wrong Problems

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

We have been taught to find answers to problems, not to question the problem itself. Today’s guest post is b y Roger L. Firestien, Ph.D., author of SOLVE THE REAL PROBLEM: Because What You Think Is The Problem Is Usually Not The Problem. Based on my experience working with thousands of people and hundreds of organizations, when it comes to solving problems, 99% of the time what we think is the problem is actually not the problem.

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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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IT Operations Needs a New Wardrobe

Dell EMC

Dell, IBM and Moogsoft help you dress for success with AIOps.

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Defining DevSecOps for IoT

DevOps.com

By embedding security practices at every stage of the IoT development lifecycle, from design through deployment, organizations can significantly enhance the security and integrity of their IoT ecosystems.

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Accelerate Your AI Outcomes with Dell Services

Dell EMC

Think systematically across all stages of AI system development, deployment and operations.

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CyberArk Buys Thoma Bravo-Backed Venafi For $1.5B

Crunchbase News

CyberArk Software began the week with an M&A splash, agreeing to buy machine identity company Venafi for $1.5 billion. The deal involves approximately $1 billion in cash and $540 million in CyberArk shares. The price marks a 34% increase from Venafi’s valuation back in late 2020, when private equity giant Thoma Bravo made a growth investment valuing it at $1.15 billion.

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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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Safeguarding AI Infrastructure with Dell Data Protection

Dell EMC

Understanding the crucial role of data protection for AI.

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Woman Accused of Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate Hundreds of US Firms

Ooda Loop

As a part of an effort to disrupt a North Korean IT workers scheme, the U.S. government announced charges, seizures, arrests, and reward incentives. A network of North Korean IT workers has earned millions of dollars for North Korea by infiltrating hundreds of companies.

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What Is Desktop Management?

Kaseya

Desktop management is vital for any business wanting to keep their IT systems efficient and secure. This approach helps simplify the oversight of computer systems, ensuring they run smoothly and safely. In this post, we delve into the essentials of desktop management, its significant role across industries and best practices for effective implementation.