Fri.Nov 01, 2024

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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Track, allocate, and manage your generative AI cost and usage with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI , they face challenges in managing the associated costs. With demand for generative AI applications surging across projects and multiple lines of business, accurately allocating and tracking spend becomes more complex. Organizations need to prioritize their generative AI spending based on business impact and criticality while maintaining cost transparency across customer and user segments.

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Artificial Intelligence in practice

CIO

The world has known the term artificial intelligence for decades. Until recently, discussion of this technology was prospective; experts merely developed theories about what AI might be able to do in the future. Today, integrating AI into your workflow isn’t hypothetical, it’s MANDATORY. No matter what market you operate in, AI is critical to keeping your business competitive.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. There may not have been a $1 billion raise this week, but large money deals did abound.

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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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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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With the right data plan, Australian Red Cross builds a digital spine

CIO

At the start of the Australian Red Cross’ digital transformation journey, CIO Brett Wilson quickly realized they had a data issue. “We have around 250 applications across the organization, and they all create massive amounts of data,” he says. But the information wasn’t doing anything for them. Much of it was siloed or ineffectively segmented, leading to making some business decisions and investments on incomplete or misinterpreted data.

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Use Amazon Q to find answers on Google Drive in an enterprise

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance enterprise operations. It’s a fully managed service that helps provide accurate answers to users’ questions while adhering to the security and access restrictions of the content. You can tailor Amazon Q Business to your specific business needs by connecting to your company’s information and enterprise systems using built-in connectors to a variety of enterprise data sources.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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Best practices and lessons for fine-tuning Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Fine-tuning is a powerful approach in natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI , allowing businesses to tailor pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for specific tasks. This process involves updating the model’s weights to improve its performance on targeted applications. By fine-tuning, the LLM can adapt its knowledge base to specific data and tasks, resulting in enhanced task-specific capabilities.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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Global MBBF 2024: Turkey hosts the rise of 5.5G and AI at the forefront of the mobile AI era

CIO

The 15th Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF 2024) in Istanbul has brought together top industry leaders to explore the transformative potential of 5.5G and artificial intelligence (AI). Under the theme “5.5G Leads Mobile AI Era,” this year’s forum focuses on the rapid convergence of 5.5G infrastructure and AI-powered applications. More than 1,000 participants, including mobile network carriers, ecosystem innovators, and technology leaders, gathered to share insights on how these advances will i

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Looking Back on Our First Women Leaders in Technology Event

Cloudera

Over the last few months, Cloudera has been traversing the globe hosting our EVOLVE24 event series. It has been a time full of excitement, innovative ideas, and connection with our partners and customers. It also provided a moment for us to launch an important initiative for Cloudera: our Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) initiative. WLIT is a global initiative developed to create a forum wherein women and allies in tech leadership roles can connect with and demonstrate to women and girls tha

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The latest trends in the threat landscape

CIO

Each quarter HP’s security experts highlight notable malware campaigns, trends and techniques identified by HP Wolf Security. By isolating threats that have evaded detection tools and made it to endpoints, HP Wolf Security gives an insight into the latest techniques used by cybercriminals, equipping security teams with the knowledge to combat emerging threats and improve their security postures [1].

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How Druva used Amazon Bedrock to address foundation model complexity when building Dru, Druva’s backup AI copilot

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post is co-written with David Gildea and Tom Nijs from Druva. Druva enables cyber, data, and operational resilience for thousands of enterprises, and is trusted by 60 of the Fortune 500. Customers use Druva Data Resiliency Cloud to simplify data protection, streamline data governance, and gain data visibility and insights. Independent software vendors (ISVs) like Druva are integrating AI assistants into their user applications to make software more accessible.

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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 to achieve seamless collaboration

CIO

We are experiencing a fundamental work-life shift. The way we work is developing and evolving constantly. Flexible and hybrid working patterns are also redefining where, when and how we do our jobs; whether it’s at the office, at home, on a train or in a coffee shop, we can now work anywhere, anytime. It’s also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine work using a hybrid model.

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Survey: IT Teams Spend About a Third of Time Responding to Disruptions

DevOps.com

A global survey of 1,700 IT professionals finds on average teams are grappling with 280 hours of median annual downtime a year, which at 12 hours of a 40-hour work week equates to about 30% of their time.

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Freedom to securely create and collaborate from anywhere

CIO

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations. HP Anyware helps keep teams productive with secured access to their digital workspaces without a VPN, using the PCoIP protocol.

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Navigating the Risks, Challenges, and the Future of Trust in an Era of Synthetic and AI-Generated Media

Ooda Loop

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) recently released the report "Synthetic Content: Exploring Risks, Technical Approaches, and Regulatory Responses", exploring the impact of synthetic media on trust, regulation, and the evolving digital landscape - including a fast-approaching future when, by 2026, online content generated by non-humans will vastly outnumber human-generated content

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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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Find the right solution for every meeting space

CIO

When the modern world runs on hybrid work, the challenge for every business is how to enable virtual meetings that offer an inclusive, collaborative, and productive experience. Successful businesses know hybrid collaboration is not a choice but a necessity. You need to connect with your customers, partners, and employees across different locations and devices.

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Unlocking Creativity: How to Cultivate a Fun Work Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Are your employees enjoying their work—or just going through the motions? What if a fun work culture could boost both morale and performance? In this episode, leadership expert Phil Geldart shares how bringing genuine, meaningful fun into the workplace can transform team dynamics, engagement, and productivity. For leaders facing resistance or a need for change, this episode offers actionable insights to create a more engaging and motivated environment.

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Threat containment for AI-based attacks

CIO

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming an endless number of industries and business processes, a fact not lost on cyber security threat actors. AI is already being used by cyber adversaries of all kinds, from amateurs to nation states. A popular technique is to use AI to craft more believable phishing and spearphishing content. By gathering information easily available in sources such as social media posts, AI can craft malicious emails, documents and websites that are both targeted to ind

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AI in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Care… With Caution

Perficient

Remember the days when robots and artificial intelligence (AI) were confined to the realms of science fiction? Fast forward to today, and AI in healthcare is rapidly transforming how we diagnose, treat, and care for patients. From intelligent algorithms diagnosing diseases faster than the human eye, to virtual health assistants providing round-the-clock support, AI is revolutionizing the healthcare industry.

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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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Embrace your future of work with Windows 11

CIO

Are you prepared for the end of Windows 10 support in October 2025? With 67% of devices estimated to still be running on Windows 10, the time to act is now [1]. With our enterprise know-how and industry expertise, HP Professional Services [2] can help you simplify the complexity of migrating to Windows 11 and modern management with Microsoft Intune by offering a dedicated portfolio of services to ensure your applications [3] , devices and infrastructure are Windows 11 ready.

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DataStax Aims to Reduce Friction by Extending Support for GitHub Copilot

DevOps.com

DataStax this week at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference revealed it has extended its support for the GitHub Copilot generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to now include the ability to write data to its Astra databases-as-service (DBaaS) platform based on the open-source Cassandra database.

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Download the AI in the Enterprise (for Real) Spotlight

CIO

This issue showcases practical AI deployments, implementation strategies, and real-world considerations such as for data management and AI governance that IT and business leaders alike should know before plunging into AI.

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Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta’s Llama

Ooda Loop

Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People’s Liberation Army have used Meta’s publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to three academic papers and analysts.

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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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New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform

DevOps.com

New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.

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Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

'The window for proactive risk prevention is closing fast,' the company warns. Here's why.

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Unpacking 3 of the Biggest Controversies in AI Today

Dataiku

As AI (including Generative AI) reshapes industries, organizations are making decisions that reach far beyond technical specs; these choices influence innovation, security, and strategic direction. Should AI be regulated to ensure transparency and accountability, or could this stifle its growth? Is it wiser to build custom AI platforms tailored to unique needs, or leverage ready-made solutions for efficiency?