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| sdxcentral - How to Create an Effective Cyberdefense Strategy in an AI-Driven World | The code generation capabilities of AI are also a potential risk, as Fisher noted they are more capable of writing scripts that are commonly used in ransomware. She noted that the barrier for somebody who doesn’t actually have much training to generate phishing emails and write ransomware has gone down dramatically. | Security |
| AiThority - Applause AI and Voice Applications Survey Shows ChatGPT Ahead of the Curve with User Satisfaction but Reveals User AI Bias Concerns | Applause, a world leader in testing and digital quality, reveals that nearly one-third (30%) of users of chatbots, interactive voice response (IVR) services and conversational assistants are dissatisfied with their experiences. In addition, the study has revealed concerns about inherent bias that can negatively influence engagements and outcomes with AI-driven voice applications. | ChatGPT |
| Network World - Cloud vs on-prem: SaaS vendor 37signals bails out of the public cloud | Hansson’s argument is simple: By pulling server workloads off the Amazon AWS infrastructure, purchasing new hardware from Dell, and running his business from a colocation facility, he will save millions of dollars. | Cloud |
| TechRepublic - Massive adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign bypasses MFA and mimics Microsoft Office | Microsoft has already seen millions of phishing emails sent every day by attackers using this phishing kit. Learn how to protect your business from this AitM campaign. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - 4 key trends from the Gartner IAM Summit 2023 | Identity is the new network perimeter. In a world powered by cloud computing, every human and machine identity, whether it exists on-premises or in the cloud, needs to be protected to prevent a breach. Yet the Gartner IAM Summit, which began yesterday in Grapevine, Texas, highlights that most organizations still have a long way to go. | Privacy & Security |
| sdxCentral - IDC Forecasts Security Spending to Outpace Rest of IT | “Almost all industries and company size segments will see low double-digit growth through 2026, driven by the expansion of cloud and container deployments, the need to secure remote access to resources, and the compliance requirements of privacy and data protection legislation.” | IT Management |
| Network World - How network pros can fight being squeezed out of cloud decisions | As cloud and IT professionals begin managing network hardware, it can be tempting for organizations to overlook the critical role that network experts play in ensuring the success of a multicloud infrastructure. "Far from becoming redundant, network professionals are uniquely equipped to tackle the complex and essential responsibilities that come with a multi-cloud environment," | Cloud |
| Blocks & Files - AIOps cuts support ticket numbers but not support desk jobs, claims report | More than 60 percent of business and MSP help and support desk operations saw an incident ticket cut with artificial intelligence (AIOPs) help, claims a 57 page OpsRamp research report that seems to indicate that AIOps doesn’t kill support desk jobs. HPE is buying OpsRamp and so enabling GreenLake to have an ITOM presence | IT Management |
| TechRepublic - Ransomware gangs’ harassment of victims is increasing | Targeting such sensitive information as health records and financial records, the attackers will publish the data on Dark Web leak sites where other criminals can access and exploit it for their own purposes. These incidents of data theft have shot up to around 70% of all cases on average, up from 40% in mid 2021. | Privacy & Security |
| sdxCentral - AI Has a Long-Term Memory Problem (How to Make Neural Networks Less Forgetful) | Many of today’s leading AI systems are recurrent neural networks (RNNs). This deep-learning method uses past information to improve performance on current and future inputs. One of the most applied of these is the Long short-term memory (LSTM) model. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Network World - Best-of-breed networking: There’s an opportunity for white boxes in the WAN | Today, 37% of those same enterprises say they have multivendor networks and another 9% say they have open networks. In the net, a bit over 40% of those single-vendor enterprises have shifted their vendor mix over time, and the biggest reason given is pedestrian: Acquisitions and mergers brought in other vendors. The second-biggest reason is more interesting: Their single vendor did something dramatic to discredit themselves. | Network Management |
| Blocks & Files - Infinidat hybrid array RoI? 11 months, says IDC in sponsored white paper | The IDC researchers claim the “interviewed companies uniformly found that InfiniBox provided a robust infrastructure for more efficient storage management and significantly improved data compression, with high value at low cost. | Data Storage |
| Computerworld - Generative AI comes to Office: What it means (and who’s at risk) | The tool’s strongest power is quantitative, because you can do far more in less time with it. (It has some qualitative capabilities, too, but those are less mature at this stage.) All too often, people who focus on quality do so at the expense of quantity, so boosting output using AI tools might allow them to turn out more top-notch work; conversely, those who work quickly may be sacrificing quality — so increasing their output will only make things worse. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Shared spectrum, converged networks will shape enterprise connectivity in 2023 and beyond | In our experience, most enterprises that employ both networks see about 80 to 90% of traffic moving over Wi-Fi and the remainder over cellular, reinforcing that Wi-Fi is the workhorse of connectivity, and cellular as the specialized option for critical applications. | Network Management |
| The Verge - Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever | Copilot appears in Office apps as a useful AI chatbot on the sidebar, but it’s much more than just that. You could be in the middle of a Word document, and it will gently appear when you highlight an entire paragraph — much like how Word has UI prompts that highlight your spelling mistakes. You can use it to rewrite your paragraphs with 10 suggestions of new text to flick through and freely edit, or you can have Copilot generate entire documents for you. | Automation & Productivity |
| Blocks & Files - AWS S3: You can check out but can never leave | Only Alibaba, with its $6,150 charge, is worse than AWS’s $4,300 cost. OVH and Scaleway have zero egress charges. Backblaze charges $0.01/GB to download data, meaning $10 to download 50TB, the same as Digital Ocean. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - On-device AI is transforming computing for hybrid workforces | Millions of people turn on their cameras and microphones every day across multiple applications, from Discord and Google Meet to Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom and many more. A recent study showed that 75% of people judge colleagues based on their audio quality in meetings, while 73% judge based on video quality. | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - What is GPT-4? Here's everything you need to know | For example, with GPT-4, you could upload a worksheet and it will be able to scan it and output responses to the questions. It could also read a graph you upload and make calculations based on the data presented. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - SASE CTO Weighs In on the Future of Network Infrastructure ‘As-a-Service’ | Analyst firm Gartner reported enterprises are turning to internet services for their WAN connectivity as SD-WAN replaces aging network equipment. The analyst firm expects that by 2026, 45% of enterprise locations will exclusively use internet services for their WAN connectivity. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - How access management helps protect identities in the cloud | CISOs tell VentureBeat that access management (AM), identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) are under attack by threat actors who can quickly monetize stolen identities by becoming access brokers or working with access brokerages. | Privacy & Security |
| Blocks & Files - Most failed disk drives fail just before they hit 3 years’ use, says data recovery biz | The current pending sector count refers to the number of damaged or unusable sectors the hard drive developed during routine read-and-write operations.” It excluded drives that failed from non-predictable events such as electrical surges, malware, natural disasters, or accidental mishandling. | Data Storage |
| TechRepublic - How to prevent data theft by existing and departing employees | The i3 team investigated almost 700 cases of data theft by departing employees; this was twice as many cases as 2021. Based on the incidents, DTEX determined that 12% of employees take sensitive information with them when they leave an employer. The stolen information included customer data, employee data, health records and sales contracts. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Unleashing the potential of AI: The power of an end-to-end environment for innovation | Every enterprise technology wave of the last 20 years, from databases and virtualization to big data and others, has imparted a crucial lesson. AI – and the infrastructure that enables it – is no exception. To gain the traction and widespread adoption that can spark innovation requires standardization, cost management and governance. Unfortunately, many organizations today struggle with all three. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdx Central - What the Metaverse's Infrastructure Will Look Like (and Why Your Virtual Life Depends on It) | Ultimately, Nguyen said the metaverse will be an “ecosystem for innovation” with no single technology or infrastructure. Just as with the internet, infrastructure requirements will continually evolve. | Metaverse |
| Blocks & Files - Gartner: So long HCI MQs, hello full-stack HCI software | The full stack components are hypervisor, containers, storage, network, infrastructure management, cloud management and monitoring. The global full stack HCI market is worth more than $1 billion. The report writers think that, “as full-stack HCI software has evolved, the integrated support of orchestration tools such as Kubernetes has increased across many providers. | Network Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Study finds humans beat ChatGPT when creating phishing attacks | The study analyzed over 53,000 email users in over 100 countries, comparing the win rate of simulated phishing attacks created by human social engineers and those created by large artificial intelligence language models. Although the potential for ChatGPT to be used for malicious phishing activity exists, human social engineers outperform AI in inducing clicks on malicious links. | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - The 3 Building Blocks to Make AI Accessible | One of the biggest challenges in creating accessible AI is the complexity of the technology and the need for niche roles, such as data scientists, to operate it. Most AI systems require specialized knowledge and expertise to develop, deploy, and maintain. This can create a barrier to entry for many users, especially those with limited technical expertise. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - ChatGPT's most lauded capability also brings big risk to businesses | Its ability to mimic humans with its responses has ignited much of the hype currently swirling around the AI-powered tool and is also what presents the biggest threat. | ChatGPT |
| SiliconANGLE - R-Ladies aims to bridge data science gender gap, says Microsoft cloud advocate | “Data science such a broad field that it doesn’t require you to come from a specific background,” she noted. “The most successful data science teams are the teams that have all these different backgrounds. So if you think that we as data scientists … started programming when we were nine, that’s not true. You can be 30, 40 shifting careers.” | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - How NLP is turbocharging business intelligence | “NLP-driven analytical experiences have democratized how people analyze data and glean insights — without using a sophisticated analytics tool or craft[ing] complex data queries,” | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - Generative AI: hype or reality? AWS, Cohere and Stability AI analyze new tech applications | Despite the already brilliant capabilities that LLMs are showing with products like Bard and ChatGPT, their range of use is still quite limited. Advancing their potential would imply things like an external knowledge base, where these models stay up to date in real time. Equipping these AI tools to access and use APIs, for instance, can greatly improve how they approach end-user queries. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Cryptocurrency is fueling the ransomware boom. Here’s how to protect yourself | The way crypto has upended cybercrime payments has changed the nature of cybercriminals’ fraudulent schemes, too. Credit card fraud, e-gold Ponzi schemes, GreenDot Moneypak schemes and gift card fraud from some of the biggest retailers cumulatively earns cybercriminals hundreds of millions of dollars. | Privacy & Security |
| Computerworld - Unnecessary meetings draining employee productivity: Report | Knowledge workers surveyed for the report also estimate that 4.9 hours per week would be saved if their company had improved processes, such as streamlined application usage. The research found that the average number of apps used at work sits at 8.8 for knowledge workers and 10 for those at director level or higher. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - The hottest party in generative AI is productivity apps | After years of being relegated to nerdy, wallflower AI status while self-driving cars, robot dogs and the future of the AI-powered metaverse got the spotlight, generative AI’s email-writing, blog-producing, copy-powering abilities are suddenly popular. And top companies from startups to Big Tech are developing tools to gain admittance to the generative AI bash. | Automation & Productivity |
| sdxCentral - Why You Should Never Bet Against Ethernet | The Ethernet Alliance is also working on certification efforts for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE). While there have long been PoE standards, there hasn’t been a full-scale certification effort in the same way that there is for Wi-Fi in the wireless world. Jones said that while PoE mostly works today, there have been some instances of vendor technologies that weren’t interoperable. | Network Management |
| Computerworld - GrammarlyGo and the coming wave of generative AI productivity | GrammarlyGo is a prompt-based implementation of ChatGPT (though it could use other frameworks in the future). If you are writing a paper or a column like this one, it will ask you a series of questions — and from the resulting answers, it will write the piece faster than you could type it. | Automation & Productivity |
| sdxCentral - How OpenSSF Aims to Make Log4j-Like Incidents Rare | Founded in 2020, OpenSSF is a cross-industry organization hosted by the Linux Foundation that brings together individuals and companies including Cisco, GitHub, Google, and VMware, to develop better security tools and practices for open source application development without bias toward a specific ecosystem or vendor. | Security |
| AiThority - How ChatGPT Will Transform Customer Service | Neither automation nor AI can ever fully substitute humans—capable of empathy, flexibility, and emotional intelligence—who can manage the nuanced interpretations that are nearly always required to generate the best customer service outcome. | ChatGPT |
| Blocks & Files - Who’s winning and losing in the storage market? | NetApp is slowly distancing itself from HPE in storage revenue terms, though both rise above the rest. Three suppliers are edging towards HPE – Pure, followed by Snowflake and Nutanix, which has been overtaken by Snowflake. | Data Storage |
| Network World - Artificial intelligence helps solve networking problems | “The center of gravity has shifted from the corporate data center to a hybrid multicloud environment, but the network was designed for a world where all traffic still flows to the data center. This means that many of the network elements that dictate traffic flow and policy are now beyond the reach and control of the enterprise’s networking teams,” | Network Management |
| AiThority - Generative AI is Over-hyped: Bias and Security Risks Biggest Barriers | While implementing Generative AI remains the top priority for senior IT leaders (33%) in the next 18 months, there are perennial operational challenges, security risks, and latent biases in the technology that could douse the fiery intent of high-growth companies scaling with this technology. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechRepublic - CrowdStrike: Attackers focusing on cloud exploits, data theft | CrowdStrike said cloud-conscious actors gain initial cloud access by using valid accounts, resetting passwords or placing web shells designed to persist in the system, then attempting to get access via credentials and cloud providers’ instance metadata services. | Security |
| AiThority - ChatGPT Won’t Replace Your Marketing Job, But it’s Critical to Leverage for Success | At AiAdvertising, we believe that the power of marketers + machines is significant. Those in marketing and adtech who learn how to use ChatGPT, discover the best way to prompt the machine, and understand how to validate and leverage the data will be the ones who succeed. | ChatGPT |
| Blocks & Files - A tale of two realities: women in hi-tech balancing progress and backlash | While the proportion of women graduating with core STEM degrees is increasing steadily, the gender split remains at 26 percent, since the number of men graduating with core STEM degrees is increasing at a faster rate. This trend is also reflected in the STEM workforce, with women accounting for just 24 percent. | Tech Jobs |
| Dark Reading - Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears | In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2% of the 1.6 million workers at its client companies because of the risk of leaking confidential information, client data, source code, or regulated information to the LLM. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - The good, the bad and the ugly: The world of data is changing | Beyond needing to meet companies’ goals to create more compelling customer experiences and optimize operations, technology leaders will see data play an increasingly integral role in their career evolutions in new and interesting ways: According to Gartner, 25% of traditional large enterprise CIOs will be held accountable for digital business operational results — effectively becoming “COO by proxy” by next year. | Data & Analytics |
| Computerworld - Jamf VP explains enterprise security threats — and how to mitigate them | The report points to a range of ways in which privacy, once broken, creates security instability, including nation states that subvert device security to watch, photograph, and record what people do in order to blackmail or otherwise exploit victims. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Research shows two-thirds of orgs have had breaches caused by remote working | More specifically, respondents cited network access control, antivirus solutions, multi factor authentication (MFA) and cloud security solutions such as cloud access security broker (CASB) as the most important tools for securing work-from-anywhere environments in the future. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Palo Alto Networks report finds organizations struggle to detect and respond to cyberattacks | More than 80% of respondents say they have embedded security professionals in DevOps teams at an average ratio of 10 developers for every security professional. The report notes that security must enable development and it’s critical to an organization’s success to equip developers with the proper security tools that don’t hinder their ability to build and deploy applications quickly. | Security |
| sdxCentral - 5G SASE Marketing Heats Up, But Is It All Hype? | Most network and security vendors agree that as 5G deployments proliferate, changes in network architecture will require cybersecurity to change too. “Centralized internet breakout and backhauled user connections contradict the intent of 5G. This is why SASE and 5G are naturally complimentary,” | Security |
| Computerworld - Maybe one day every platform will be as secure as Apple | The proposal suggests that privacy protection will no longer be something big tech can argue against – companies will be required to prioritize privacy. That’s fine if you run a business that does not require wholesale collection and analysis of user information, which has always been Apple’s approach. The best way to keep information private, the company argues, is not to collect it at all. | Privacy & Security |
| Axios - Chatbots trigger next misinformation nightmare | Generative AI programs like ChatGPT don't have a clear sense of the boundary between fact and fiction. They're also prone to making things up as they try to satisfy human users' inquiries. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Virtual reality is finally ready to revolutionize education | In fact, their labs are structured to provide 15 minutes of immersive experiences for every three hours of traditional learning. And no, their goal is not to replicate the stale 1950s-era labs that many students still must endure in high schools and colleges today. Instead, their approach is to use the creativity and flexibility of virtual worlds, combined with Hollywood-style storytelling, to engage students in an interactive narrative that keeps them focused while addressing specific learning goals. | VR |
| TechRepublic - To deliver innovative experiences, organizations must develop a clear cloud strategy | Cloud strategy starts by determining which workloads are not cloud-ready — cases where data sovereignty, security and latency (and, in some cases, costs) rule out public cloud in the near- to medium term. Simply transitioning the rest of your applications and data to cloud can result in greater resilience, but without modernization, it is simply a change in data centers. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - A SaaS leader’s guide to pricing in 2023 | The focus is shifting from rapid growth to efficiency. Already, CFOs are carefully examining contracts to identify potential cost savings: 57% of IT teams say they’re under pressure to reduce their SaaS spend, and the trend is likely to escalate in 2023. It’s up to SaaS vendors to anticipate this: Only those demonstrating real value and flexibility to their customers will survive | Security |
| AiThority - Research Reveals LockBit Ransomware Surges While Android Droppers Emerge as Top Business Threat | “This report acts as a guide to those organizations by focusing their limited time on a small number of critical threats across Windows, Mac, and Android. If organizations can understand what it takes to prevent these threats, they are well placed to stop a huge number of other attacks as well.” | Security |
| TechRepublic Top 10 open-source security and operational risks of 2023 | According to Endor’s report, attackers can target legitimate resources from an existing project or distribution infrastructure to inject malicious code into a component. For example, they can hijack the accounts of legitimate project maintainers or exploit vulnerabilities in package repositories. This type of attack can be dangerous since the malicious code can be distributed as part of a legitimate package and can be difficult to detect. | Security |
| The Hacker News - Security and IT Teams No Longer Need To Pay For SaaS-Shadow IT Discovery | In 71.4% of companies, employees use an average of 2.4 SaaS applications that have been breached in the past three months. On average, 58% of SaaS applications are used by only one employee. A quarter of organizations' SaaS users are external | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - 5 key factors for successful cloud transformation | Data is the lifeblood of innovation, and there’s no stemming the flow: A survey published in January 2022 revealed that in North American enterprises with more than 1,000 employees, the average monthly rate of growth in data volume was a staggering 63%, and the average number of data sources was 400. It is absolutely unviable to manage information of this size and complexity with on-premise infrastructure. This is why more than 99% of respondents said they would migrate their data to the cloud within two years | Cloud |
| Computerworld - IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now | There are few pieces of technology — ever — that have enjoyed a deeper lovefest from the media and the consumer public than ChatGPT and other efforts built atop vanilla GPT-3. And enterprise IT executives have been stampeding to develop homegrown apps based on GPT-3. | Emerging Tech |
| Network World - MWC analysis: Conditions are ripe for cloud providers to drive faster network services. | The bad news is that the API focus of MWC was aimed mostly at exposing providers’ OSS/BSS features to developers or exploiting things like knowing device location, things that given the GPS in smartphones could be as easily exploited by a cloud provider or even a smartphone vendor. | Cloud |
| Venturebeat - Device virtualization is key to IoT adoption | Second, success in IoT adoption is earned through iteration: Since the IoT has a myriad of elements, organizations need to gather data from devices, convert it into analysis, act upon that insight, and do it all over again in a continuous feedback loop that’s always refining, learning and improving the various IoT constituents | IoT |
| sdxCentral - How Security Vendors Can Support the White House National Cybersecurity Strategy | “the new White House cyber strategy is a rallying cry for developer security. Organizations should address developer security now before rules are put in place that will impose fines and other penalties on organizations that fail to do so.” | Security |
| CSO - Unpatched old vulnerabilities continue to be exploited: Report | The top five exploited vulnerabilities in 2022 include several high-severity flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Zoho ManageEngine products, and virtual private network solutions from Fortinet, Citrix and Pulse Secure. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking | Supporters say it could have the same impact on the telecommunications industry that Unix and TCP/IP had on the data center in the 1990s when open standards disrupted the proprietary – and highly profitable – domain of a few large equipment makers, brought prices crashing down and changed the economics of data processing | Network Management |
| Technical.ly - The remote work scam that’s blowing up in the recruiting industry | Once the target is “hired,” they’re told that they’re going to send them some money to help them get set up with office expenses, which requires the target to give them their bank information, which they say they’ll also use to send your paychecks. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - OpenAI has grand ‘plans’ for AGI. Here’s another way to read its manifesto | The AI Beat | “If someone told me that Silicon Valley was ran by a cult believing in a machine god for the cosmos & “universe flourishing” & that they write manifestos endorsed by the Big Tech CEOs/chairmen and such I’d tell them they’re too much into conspiracy theories. And here we are.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| The Sofware Report - The Power 500 Software Companies of 2023 | In addition, investors in both the public and private markets are eager to back those software companies that will catapult us into the next era of operational efficiency. And with a growing emphasis on remote and hybrid work environments, we’re still in the early innings of pervasive business adoption of cloud-based infrastructures, strategies, and solutions. | Tech Trends |
| sdxCentral- Crowdstrike Reports Cloud Attacks, Microsoft Vulnerabilities, SIM Swapping Biggest Threats | Among the key findings in the report is that cloud exploitation grew by 95%. Perhaps even more troubling is that there are now more “cloud-conscious” threat actors – that is attackers with an emphasis and skills in the cloud – than ever before by a wide margin. | Security |
| The Verge - This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years | With regards to the VR roadmap, employees were told that Meta’s flagship Quest 3 headset coming later this year will be two times thinner, at least twice as powerful, and cost slightly more than the $400 Quest 2. | AR/VR |
| VentureBeat - AI-generated content detection tools put to the test | Why not automate it? Ever since ChatGPT hit the news, many software companies — including OpenAI — have launched authentication tools that help users identify text written by AI software. In this article, we examine some of the top automated AI-content detection tools and put them to the test | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Just how big is this new generative AI? Think internet-level disruption | One fundamental limit to ChatGPT's capabilities is the hard stop on its knowledge. Its corpus ends in 2021. ChatGPT is oblivious to any information, trends, issues, or popular cultural themes that have occurred since 2021. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - Q&A: ChatGPT isn't sentient, it’s a next-word prediction engine | "The best we understand right now is these models intrinsically are word prediction engines. At its most basic level, it’s just predicting the next best word. In some cases, when it predicts that next best word, that word is no longer factually accurate for the particular question. But given that word, the next best word given after that continues down that path, and then you build a series of words that go down a path that’s no longer accurate — but it’s very convincing in the way it’s been written. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - NCA executive director shares top cybersecurity risks in 2023 | “So, although attacks there will continue — and sufficient deterrence measures have a long way to go — bad actors are now seeking out more nascent spaces to execute low-tech, high-impact attacks within education, gaming, aviation and automotive. In fact, we’ve already seen several high profile DDoS attacks in the latter two categories in the last months. Expect that to continue. | Security |
| sdxCentral - IBM, Microsoft, and Google Race to Close Quantum Skills Gap | “People who have traditional software development experience, are good at creating control electronics, have experience working in a lab with radiofrequency electronics, and [have] a traditional EE [electrical engineering] background are all in very high demand,” she added | Tech Jobs |
| Datanami - Big Data Services Market to Grow by $154B from 2023-27: Technavio | By component, the market will observe significant growth in the solution segment. Growing competition and the need to understand consumer behavior across numerous channels are increasing the use of big data and big data analytics solutions among businesses. This is one of the key factors driving the growth of the segment. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - How to use zero trust and IAM to defend against cyberattacks in an economic downturn | “A key finding from the report was that upwards of 60% of interactive intrusions observed by OverWatch involved the use of valid credentials, which continue to be abused by adversaries to facilitate initial access and lateral movement,” | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - How 5G will help blaze the trail to the long-awaited metaverse | Although 5G hasn’t yet delivered on its promised bandwidth and hasn’t fully rolled out everywhere, wireless telecom companies are still investing billions of dollars to make it universally available. During 2020 and 2021, the big four collectively spent nearly $100 billion in back-to-back auctions for the so-called mid-spectrum radio band considered essential for 5G communications. | Metaverse |
| Infinidat - The Hot Trend − Security and Enterprise Storage Together | Enterprises need to make sure they are fully securing their data, both at rest and in motion. With datastores moving between on-premises enterprise data centers and the public cloud in hybrid environments, security experts agree that it’s vital to invest in creating secure datastores for both primary data sets and for backup datasets that use immutable snapshots and air-gapping. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Big tech isn’t evil — it’s just wrong | These companies with their innovative approaches unlocked a universe of sharing and tracking in the name of progress. They found a way to harness data to grow their businesses, while creating a no-questions-asked society of data sharers. They helped us consumers get comfortable with sharing, without helping us protect ourselves. | Tech for Good |
| TechRepublic - Dice’s salary report indicates it’s still a good time to work in tech | “Combined with the 52% who are likely to change employers within the next year, you have a double-edged sword for organizations: More skilled tech talent is available, but retention will be even more difficult,” the report said. “Expressing appreciation and value to tech professionals remains a key to retention, across all industries and roles.” | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Experts predict how AI will energize cybersecurity in 2023 and beyond | Cybercriminal gangs and sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) groups actively recruit AI and ML specialists who design malware that can evade current-generation threat detection systems. What attackers lack in size and scale, they more than make up for in ingenuity, speed and stealth. | Security |
| Computerworld - As Microsoft embraces AI, it says sayonara to the metaverse | Microsoft officially denies it, but the company has practically shut down work on the metaverse. The speed with which it happened is stunning — and it’s a cautionary tale for businesses tempted to invest in the technologies currently on their hype lists. | Emerging Tech |
| TechRepublic - Digital forensics and incident response: The most common DFIR incidents | As a result, digital forensics found new ways to integrate that complexity with incident response teams. It allowed more deep-dive analysis on systems while not shutting them down, and now digital forensics and incident response are usually together in the SecOps team within the Security Operations Center. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Forrester: Question generative AI uses before experimentation | “The important thing for leaders — whether it’s at the C-level or a couple clicks down — is to take a very investigative, skeptical and questioning approach in adopting generative AI,” he said. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - Pepperdata Survey Uncovers the State of Kubernetes 2023 and Emergence of Cloud Cost Remediation as Top Priority | The survey aimed to gain insights into the types and sizes of containerized applications and other workloads on Kubernetes clusters, as well as the FinOps tools and practices used to optimize Kubernetes deployments and control costs. | Cloud |
| Computerworld - 5 reasons videoconferencing is on the decline (again) | The benefits of videoconferencing are clear: reduced travel costs, safer employees, higher productivity, happier employees, and a better work/life balance. While the ongoing need to connect remote workers to their companies will likely head off a catastrophic collapse of the industry, it won’t rise to its full potential until the issues Ive listed are addressed. | Automation & Productivity |
| Matt Turck - The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape | First, we’ve made the decision this year again to keep both data infrastructure and ML/AI on the same landscape. One could argue that those two worlds are increasingly distinct. However, we continue to believe that there is an essential symbiotic relationship between those areas. | Machine Learning |
| Datanami - Latest Risk Report from Concentric AI Shows 60% Increase in Oversharing of Sensitive Data over the Past Year | The report revealed the number of overshared files rose 60 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, highlighting the significant impact of hybrid remote work, cloud migration and information sprawl across on-premises and cloud data, as well as email and messaging environments, on data security. | Data Privacy |
| TechRepublic - Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door | In a new report, the firm predicts that nearly half of cybersecurity leaders will change jobs, and that by 2025, lack of talent or human failure will be responsible for over half of significant cyber incidents. | Security |
| VentureBeat - What will security and threat prevention look like in Web3? | But, while touted for its decentralization and user- (and data-) centricity, when it comes to security and threat detection, “Web3 is outgunned, plain and simple,” asserts Christian Seifert of Forta Network. “We need new, faster and more surgical threat prevention measures, and we need them now.” | Web3 |
| Datanami - Comet Releases MLOps Industry Report | 2023 Machine Learning Practitioner Survey | Bias has been one of the leading topics related to AI in recent years. Some view bias as overhyped, with ML practitioners capable of implementing best practices to mitigate it, while others think it is a problem that will continue to plague AI systems. The latest survey reveals how ML practitioners are approaching bias. | Machine Learning |
| TechRepublic - 5G Open RAN gains momentum: Next steps and challenges | TIP explained that breaking away from the business models that have dominated the connectivity industry for decades implies a significant shift. Historically, wireless systems have been closed and controlled by a single vendor, but the industry must pivot from competition to collaboration and open multi-vendor markets. | 5G |
| SiliconANGLE - Veeam: Orchestrated and tested backup and recovery strategy is critical to data protection | The survey reflects a high level of concern, despite the increased level of spending. For example, 30% of companies still expect to recover resources during a data crisis manually, and only 18% currently have an orchestrated workflow capability. | Data Management |
| ZDNet - These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out | AI is becoming a key part of our lives. Hacking it could cause chaos, so the race is on to build defenses. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - New research suggests that privacy in the metaverse might be impossible | And by “simple motion data,” I mean the three most basic data points tracked by virtual reality systems – one point on the user’s head and one on each hand. Researchers often refer to this as “telemetry data” and it represents the minimal dataset required to allow a user to interact naturally in a virtual environment. | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - Panasas Survey Shows Specialty Knowledge as Biggest Challenge for Managing High-Performance Storage | Survey results show an overwhelming 96% of respondents across the US, UK, and Germany face challenges in building and managing high-performance storage. In addition to over half of respondents (52%) citing specialty knowledge as the top challenge, | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Salesforce survey sees data trove untapped — data skills spend to rise | A new global survey conducted by Salesforce has revealed that as many as 41% of business leaders see lack of understanding as a major barrier to unlocking the full potential of their data assets. However, the survey suggests these same business leaders will continue to spend to boost data skills in the organization | Data Management |
| Network World - Multicloud: Keep providers separate and distinct or integrate them? | One model for cloud adoption treats each external cloud as another data center, connected only as additional WAN destinations, and leaves them otherwise distinct. That would mean routing-level connections only, with separate network management and controls for each. The other model is allowing deeper integration, including tunneling Layer 2 protocols and centralizing control not only between on-prem data centers and cloud but among and across clouds. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - 2023 data, ML and AI landscape: ChatGPT, generative AI and more | We’ve made the decision to keep both data infrastructure and ML/AI on the same landscape. One could argue that those two worlds are increasingly distinct. However, we continue to believe that there is an essential symbiotic relationship between those areas. Data feeds ML/AI models. The distinction between a data engineer and a machine learning engineer is often pretty fluid. Enterprises need to have a solid data infrastructure in place in order before properly leveraging ML/AI. | Tech Trends |
| sdxCentral - How Platform Engineers Help Narrow Cloud Skills Gap | Although platform engineers need to be skilled in technologies like Kubernetes, SQL systems, and data storage, Thiruvengadam noted soft skills are just as important to build a solid team. “It’s the soft skills that make for good platform engineers [who] are likely to remain more consistent as time passes,” he explained | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's everything you need to know | According to analysis by Swiss bank UBS, ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. In January, only two months after its launch, UBS analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users. For comparison, it took nine months for TikTok to reach 100 million | ChatGPT |
| Network World - Wi-Fi HaLow: Wireless for the internet of things | Wi-Fi HaLow, the marketing term the Wi-Fi Alliance has chosen for the IEEE 802.11ah standard, is a long- range, low-power, low-speed version of traditional Wi-Fi. It shows promise with deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as sensors, wearables, machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, smart buildings, and smart cities. | IoT |
| sdxCentral- Endpoint Security Is SASE Vendor Stretch Goal | “Can we also protect the endpoint when the user is on a customer site such that somebody can’t transfer data off of that endpoint,” Tolbert said, adding that he sees the need for “bigger emphasis on data protection, especially at the endpoint and then just broader endpoint security integration.” | Security |
| VentureBeat - 5 key cybersecurity trends for 2023 | Cybercriminals continue efforts to steal credentials from users to gain access to networks. Historically, they’ve used email, but they are increasingly using social engineering. In the first half of 2022, around 70% of email attacks contained a credential phishing link. | Security |
| Datanami - Should Companies Disclose if Their Content Was Written by AI? | It’s easy to see why GPT-3 has been such a hit since its introduction in May 2020. The technology has helped countless companies generate landing pages, draft press releases, write bios and blogs, and as a result helped to free up copywriters to take on tasks of higher priority. This technology, like all good technologies, is cheaper and faster than anything before it. | Artificial Intelligence |
| GTSC - Homeland Security - GAO Provides an Update on Federal Protection of Privacy and Data | In GAO’s September 2022 review of 24 agencies, the watchdog found that most had generally established policies and procedures for key privacy program activities. These activities included, among other things, developing system-of-records notices that identify types of personal data collected, conducting privacy impact assessments, and documenting privacy program plans. | Data Privacy |
| VentureBeat - Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables: Zero trust ‘essential’ to protect the cloud | With IAM tools, you’re able to grant access to cloud resources at a granular level, creating more access control policies for attributes such as device security status, IP address, resource type and date and time, to better ensure appropriate access controls are in place. | Security |
| Datanami - Americans Don’t Trust AI and Want It Regulated: Poll | Only 48% of Americans told Harris Poll that they believe AI is safe and secure, while 78% say they are very or somewhat concerned that AI can be used for malicious intent. A similar percentage (77%) said they were concerned AI could be used to generate deepfakes. Less than half (49%) said they would be okay with AI being used for a chat about “routine medical questions” and for allowing the federal government to use it to assist benefits processing. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - 3 ways businesses can strike the ideal marketing and IT balance | For organizations looking to be more efficient and work smarter to maximize their data, being overly IT-focused or overly media/marketing-focused could hold them back. Standing on both legs instead of one will make businesses more fortified at a time when most are striving for resiliency. | MarketingTech |
| CSO - New Mirai botnet variant V3G4 targets Linux servers, IoT devices | A new variant of Mirai — the botnet malware used to launch massive DDoS attacks —has been targeting 13 vulnerabilities in IoT devices connected to Linux servers, according to researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 cybersecurity team. | Security |
| sdxCentral - Cloudflare Fights Off Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks, What’s Coming Next? | “This attack was approximately 100 gigabits per second (gbps),” Omer Yoachimik, product manager at Cloudflare, told SDxCentral. “It is important to note that there is a difference between request-intensive attacks, bit-intensive attacks, and packet-intensive attacks – they are not apples-to-apples comparisons.” | Security |
| Network World - Oracle outages serve as warning for companies relying on cloud technology | “Cloud based solutions, like their on-premise equivalents, need to be architected for true high availability and continuity," said Sam Higgins, an analyst at market research firm Forrester. "Having a cloud foundation and a global footprint does not immediately give you 100% uptime for an application. Especially for applications with a long on-premise history and heritage.” | Cloud |
| sdxCentral - Network Security Revenue Rebounds, Moderation Coming | “With 400Gb Ethernet pipes coming online and Ethernet expected to continue to increase in speed, each speed step is the driver for a new wave of high-end hardware firewalls,” Sanchez told SDxCentral in an email. “Hardware is really the only way still to process the enormous amount of data. On the other hand, I see standalone low-end firewalls shifting to become secure SD-WAN boxes.” | Network Management |
| Computerworld - Enterprise mobility 2023: UEM meets DEX | Another force is integration with endpoint analytics and endpoint security tools, to build proactive and resilient defenses against better-skilled adversaries, Wilson says. In addition, there is a greater focus on intelligence and automation to drive operational efficiency and improve digital employee experience (DEX). | Automation & Productivity |
| Blocks & Files - Storage security toughen-up for compliance and cyberwar in 2023 | Importantly, EO 14028 implies that suppliers lacking comprehensive security will not be doing business with the US government. In effect, cybersecurity responsibility is being deferred to solutions providers, and away from their customers, having a game-changing impact on procurement procedures – and cybersecurity provisioning. | Security |
| Computerworld - Q&A: What happened when a customer support company upgraded some features to ChatGPT? | "These open APIs that OpenAI has are very expensive compared to any normal API you might use. It just costs a lot of money whenever you get it to summarize something you do. It might cost you like five cents or 10 cents. That gets very expensive. It’s a lot cheaper than paying for a human to do it themselves, but this is something businesses are going to have to figure out. How do we price this? | Automation & Productivity |
| Datanami - To Improve Data Availability, Think ‘Right-Time’ Not ‘Real-Time’ | When done successfully, this framework gives the business stakeholders the power to “dial the knob” of data freshness, cost, and quality. As we saw in the BOPIS example, dialing the knob is a massive competitive advantage for both the business and the data engineers because the data freshness can adjust to the needs of the business without relying on infrastructure changes | Data Management |
| VentureBeat - How edge devices and infrastructure will shape the metaverse experience | Edge computing, networking and related advancements are required for the metaverse to prove out estimates like Accenture’s. That consultancy expects the metaverse to fuel a $1 trillion revenue opportunity by the end of 2025. | Metaverse |
| AiThority - Explainable AI: 5 Popular Frameworks To Explain Your Models | To explain it in layman’s language, Explainable AI can be defined as a compilation of different methods and processes that enable human users to understand the predictions made by their machine learning models. It is primarily used to describe an AI model, forecast its expected impact and point out its potential biases. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - How enterprises can use ChatGPT and GPT-3 | Enterprises can use the out-of-the-box approach to augment or create content, manipulate text in emails to soften language or take a particular tone, and to summarize or simplify content. “This can be done with limited investments,” Gartner explained in its report. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - Prompt Engineer: The Next Hot Job in AI | Technology professionals who want to catch the hottest wave in AI at the moment may consider becoming prompt engineers, which appears to be one of the most in-demand professions for 2023. And developers who want to get the most out of large language models such as ChatGPT may want to check out prompt engineering tools, an emerging category of tools designed to direct the LLM toward a desired outcome. | Tech Jobs |
| sdxCentral - SASE 'Undermines' SD-WAN, GigaOm Says | A new emphasis on the three – SSA, SSE, SASE – has led to the SD-WAN landscape becoming “increasingly blurred, with incumbent vendors repackaging and repositioning legacy products as integrated platforms, acquiring new technologies, or making strategic alliances to fill the gaps in their portfolios.” | Network Management |
| Datanami - Everything You Need to Know About Human Annotated Data | It will be an understatement to say that the amount of data generated every day is colossal and to some extent, unstructured. In reality, we produce around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day and most of it is not classified clearly or accurately. | Data Management |
| sdxCentral - Okta Finds Increasing ‘All-In’ Zero-Trust Attitude | The survey also found the use of risk-based policies for networks has increased 147% over the past two years; a 60% increase in the use of passwordless Web Authentication (WebAuthn) and a 21% increase in the use of device-trust configurations over the past two years; and that 24% of those surveyed used security keys and biometrics last year. | Security |
| Datanami - Bright Data Survey: Majority of Data Professionals Consider Public Web Data Crucial to Their Mission | 100% said their organization uses publicly available web data in their operations to some extent, with 94 percent saying that it is used in their day-to-day operations. | Data & Analytics |
| Blocks & Files - Pure: The disk/flash crossover event is closer than you think | Emerson says flash $/TB will continue to decline because, firstly, more layers can be added to 3D NAND and, secondly, PLC (5 bits/cell penta level cell) flash will increase density faster than cost of manufacture. He writes: “Moving from four to five bits per cell would improve density by 25 percent, which presents an obvious cost-efficiency advantage.” | Data Storage |
| SiliconANGLE - Digging into Google’s point of view on confidential computing | There’s not a ton in the ETR dataset on the topic of confidential computing. It’s a technology that’s deeply embedded into silicon and computing architectures, so it’s not as visible to chief information officers and the information technology decision makers in ETR’s quarterly surveys. But at the highest level, security remains the No. 1 priority being addressed by organizations in the coming year, as shown above. | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - Nucleus Research Releases 2023 Data Warehouse Technology Value Matrix | Looking ahead through 2023, Nucleus expects customers to prioritize a solution’s managed services, ease of use and integration, and capabilities to support advanced use cases such as machine learning and real-time streaming. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - How ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business | ChatGPT has been hailed as everything from the future of search to the end of term papers, but it’s far from a sentient being. While OpenAI LLC’s chatbot is a wonder at explaining the infield fly rule in Shakespearean English, detractors have noted that its answers can be overly simplistic, confusing or just plain wrong. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - Infrastructure and Compute Are Top Barriers to AI, Run:ai Report Reveals | The survey also pointed to another shift over the past year as the number of organizations deploying less than half of their AI models in production increased from 77%, according to last year’s survey, to 88% this year. Weighted for average, just 37% of AI models make it into production. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Network World - Why network pros need a seat at the application-planning table | Almost 90% of that same group say that their companies’ application cost overruns and benefit shortfalls were either predictable based on network behavior, or a direct result of mistakes that network professionals could have caught. | Network Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Cloud and DevOps outlook for 2023: Getting more out of data | “A lot of times, they’re trying to really understand how their business utilizes these clouds and where their spend is going in those clouds,” Strechay explained. “Can they use lower tiers of storage? Do they really need the best processors? Do they need to be using Intel, or can they get away with AMD or Graviton2 or 3?” | Cloud |
| AiThority - Could ChatGPT Herald the Next Stage for CX AI Adoption? | However, unlike existing chatbots that interact with people in a ‘seemingly intelligent’ conversational manner, the GPT-3 neural network ML model enables ChatGPT to deliver responses that Gartner suggests: ‘appear to have understood the question, the content and the context’ of the user’s question. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - Cisco Reinforces Frictionless Zero Trust, ‘Intelligent MFA’ | The index is based on data from a survey of 6,700 security leaders across 27 global markets. It found respondents selected identity and device management as two of the three top cybersecurity threats, and only 20% of them considered their organizations “mature” in readiness to protect identity. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Generative AI drives an explosion in compute: The looming need for sustainable AI | You’ve heard about “moving beyond Moore’s Law” and the physical limitations of packing more transistors onto larger die sizes. Chiplets are helping to address these challenges, but current solutions have a key weakness when it comes to AI inference: Shuttling data in and out of random-access memory leads to significant slowdowns. | Sustainability |
| VentureBeat - The profound danger of conversational AI | I’m referring to the increasing possibility that currently available AI technologies can be used to target and manipulate individual users with extreme precision and efficiency. Even worse, this new form of personalized manipulation could be deployed at scale by corporate interests, state actors or even rogue despots to influence broad populations. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - How many jobs are available in technology in the US? | While the overall US unemployment rate dropped to a figure not seen since 1969 (to 3.4%, from 3.5% a month earlier), the number of technology workers hired in January fell into negative territory for the first time in more than two years. Technology occupations throughout the economy declined by 32,000 for the month, representing a reduction of -0.5%, according to CompTIA. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Getting results from your zero-trust initiatives in 2023 | “Don’t start with the technology; start with a protect surface,” Kindervag advised during our interview. CISOs and CIOs tell VentureBeat that their zero-trust initiatives and strategies can be affordable as well as effective. As Kindervag advises, starting with the protect surface and identifying what’s most important to protect simplifies, streamlines and reduces the cost of zero-trust initiatives. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Cloud players sound a cautious tone for 2023 | n this Breaking Analysis, we share our view of what’s happening in cloud markets – not just for the hyperscalers but other firms that have hitched a ride on the cloud. And we’ll share new Enterprise Technology Research data that shows why these trends are playing out, tactics customers are employing to deal with their cost challenges, and how long the pain is likely to last. | Cloud |
| Blocks & Files - Cloudian sees cloud software going on-prem | "On-prem computing is here to stay. A quarterly survey of enterprise VARs indicates that 40 percent of workloads will remain on-prem, a figure that has remained steady for about two years now. Migration to the cloud did accelerate during the early part of the COVID era, but what we are seeing now is customers bringing some of those workloads back on-prem." | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Could blockchain be your next big career choice? | The healthcare sector has cottoned on, using blockchain’s ledger technology for secure sharing of medical records and data management, and global governments are using it for voting systems, land registry and identity management. | Blockchain |
| sdxCentral - Juniper CEO Remains ‘Optimistic’ Despite Slower Spend Forecast | The company saw “a normalization of buying patterns amongst our cloud and service provider customers,” Rahim noted. “As we expected, overall demand moderated in the December quarter, with total orders declining more than 20% year-over-year.” | Cloud |
| SiliconANGLE - AI threats and open-source vulnerabilities top host of security issues facing cloud-native community | Implementation of zero-trust security in the enterprise, supply chain vulnerability, threats to cryptography from quantum computing, and the rise of powerful artificial intelligence engines such as OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT are high on the list of worries among cloud-native security personnel. | Security |
| Blocks & Files - HCI is more than a blip on GigaOm’s radar | Comparing this year’s enterprise HCI Radar (above) to last year’s (below), we can see that Nutanix is now ahead of Microsoft, VMware and Dell in the leader’s ring, and that Cisco has gone backwards from being a leader in 2022 to a challenger this year. SmartX has moved from the new entrant’s ring into the challenger’s ring where newcomer ArcherOS is placed as well. | Network Management |
| Blocks & Files - Mr Backup spills the beans on 30 years in the storage industry | "Now anything mission-critical is RAID-protected, and most things are solid state. Today’s admins (and people with their own personal data) just don’t have the same respect for backups they once did, and assume far too much as a result." | Data Management |
| sdxCentral - Forrester Finds Enterprises Will Focus on Resiliency in Face of Recession | That said, the firm said virtual machine (VM)-centered workloads should now be regarded as legacy,” and anticipates 40% of organizations will take a cloud-native-first strategy this year. Many are expected to also increase investment in K8s as a distributed compute backbone for current applications and new workloads that can be run more efficiently in K8s’ environments. | IT Management |
| Computerworld - Big banks' proposed digital wallet payment system likely to fail | The system will be managed by Zelle’s parent company, Early Warning Services LLC (EWS). It will have about 150 million Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards connected at launch, with plans to add other card networks later, according to an EWS blog. | FinTech |
| VentureBeat - Making security invisible with adaptive access management | With every organization obsessed with speed as a competitive differentiator, it is no wonder that CIOs are tasked with streamlining login and system access user experiences. When security measures are fast and seamless, users are much more likely to embrace them, contributing to, rather than detracting from, speed and accelerated response. | Securty |
| Computerworld - Tech jobs dominate the top 25 'best' jobs in the US, Indeed says | Online job site Indeed this week released its list of the 25 best jobs in the US, and the top slot went to full stack developer, which offers a median annual salary of $130,000 and allows for a mostly remote or hybrid workplace. | Tech Jobs |
| sdxCentral - ISG Launches SDN Study to Shape Enterprise Network Strategy | “A change is evident in how enterprises purchase networks,” Basu told SDxCentral in an email. “ISG is witnessing a tendency to shift toward the concept of network-as-a-service (or network as a subscription) among enterprises, which can sidestep heavy [capital expense].” | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - What the FBI’s Hive takedown means for the ransomware economy | “The real challenge lies in the protection racket that exists between the cybercrime cartels and the Russian regime, which endows them with untouchable status from western law enforcement." | Security |
| Datanami - IDC Survey Finds Data Sovereignty and Compliance Issues Shaping IT Decisions | Almost half the respondents (48%) to IDC’s Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey (n=1350) say that data sovereignty and industry compliance have factored highly in discussions about their future IT architectures. And just 4% of respondents believe their IT organizations will not be impacted by data sovereignty and compliance considerations. | Data Management |
| AiThority - Understanding AIOps and Its Impact on Cybersecurity Management | In the current scenario, AIOps are the need of the hour, especially as the pandemic ushered in a lot of changes in the working style. Today, some companies are completely remote and some are following the hybrid working model, in either case, businesses are under tremendous pressure to detect data anomalies, critical issues, and multiple service interruptions. | IT Management |
| Blocks & Files - A block data migration specialist talks about … block data migration | Typically, you use block migration tools for block data and file migration tools for file data. That said, there are exceptions to this rule depending on the desired outcome. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - GigaOm Report Reveals Advantages of Modern Approach to Data Access Control | Immuta required just eight policy changes to accomplish the same security objectives compared to 745 policy changes with legacy role-based access control (RBAC) used by other data security platforms, representing a 92x improvement. | Data Management |
| sdxCentral - SecurityGen Talks Top 5G Network Security Priorities | Last week, SecurityGen released its top five priorities for telecom operators in 2023. Its council boiled down to a memorandum for telcos: Because operators are such high-target entities for ransomware, they must take a more hands-on and collaborative approach in addressing the security threats of openly integrated – and moreover nonstandalone – 5G technology. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Why leveraging privacy-enhancing tech advances consumer data privacy and protection | However, despite the many benefits that insights from location data provide, to the average person, consumer data privacy remains a top concern. This often leaves businesses struggling to achieve the fine balance between using data to uncover meaningful insights while ensuring consumer privacy. | Data Privacy |
| ZDNet - Technology spending will rise next year. And this old favourite is still a top priority | In short, digital leaders believe an investment in technology – whether that's on-demand IT, data analytics or automation – will help their organisations deal with what's already a hugely challenging business environment. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - IBM: Quantum computing poses an ‘existential threat’ to data encryption | The report argues that quantum computing poses an “existential risk” to classical computer encryption protocols, and notes that cybercriminals are potentially already exfiltrating encrypted data with the intention of decrypting it once quantum computers advance as part of “harvest now, decrypt layer attacks.” | Data Protection |
| VentureBeat - T-Mobile data breach shows API security can’t be ignored | With cloud adoption increasing dramatically over the past few years, analysts have long warned enterprises that a tidal wave of API exploitation has been brewing. Back in 2021, Gartner predicted that in 2023, API abuse would move from infrequent to the most frequent attack vector. | Security |
| Networld World - Pros and cons of managed SASE | Managed SASE can be appealing for enterprises that want a single provider for deployment and management of WAN and security infrastructure, but there can be tradeoffs depending on provider flexibility, platform interoperability, and cost. | Network Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Uber, Walmart and others set out to redefine the modern cloud data stack | Most applications today codify forms or business processes. But there is growing momentum behind application tools in the cloud that can orchestrate people, places or things. An example of this can be seen in the work of dbt Labs, a Philadelphia-based data analytics startup that is creating a development framework built on the modern data stack. By adding a semantic layer to describe data, dbt Labs is seeking to build new bridges between data science and data analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxCentral - GlobalData: Zero Trust Will Gain Traction in 2023 | Bicknell also expects a zero-trust officer role to emerge at organizations to “coax, cajole, and bully companies on their zero-trust journey. | Security |
| Network World - IT to shoulder more responsibility for data center sustainability | Cutting-edge server chips are turning heads for their potential to boost performance, but next-generation processors also run hotter than older designs, and data-center operators will struggle to figure out what to do with limited guidance from chip makers. | Sustainability |
| VentureBeat - How to get started with intelligent automation | Process mining, which is technology for discovering, optimizing, and monitoring processes, is proving to be an ideal starting place for businesses ready to embrace automation and begin their digital transformation journeys. | Automation & Productivity |
| Blocks & Files - Iron Mountain on getting rid of storage junk | “Secure disposal practices start with strong data protection and asset management practices – drives should be encrypted, tracked, and maintained via tags tied to an inventory system." | Data Storage |
| AiThority - Key Trends Driven by Data and Computing in 2023 | “Observable” data include key digitized artifacts, such as logs, traces, API calls, dwell time, downloads and file transfers, that appear when any stakeholder takes any kind of action." | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - Analysts anticipate next wave of innovation from new breed of data applications | “Keep your eye on this North Star, where instead of building apps that are based on code, you’re building apps that are defined by data coming off things that are linked to the real world, like people, places, things and activities,” Gilbert said. “Amazon.com is defined by stuff coming off data in the Amazon ecosystem or Marketplace.” | Emerging Tech |
| Networld World - T-Mobile, Xfinity are tops in latest Ookla speed test report | The median download speed for T-Mobile customers, Ookla said, reached over 151Mbps, marking a sharp increase from the company’s 116Mbps mark in the previous quarter, which was already good enough to make T-Mobile the fastest mobile carrier by a distance. | 5G |
| AiThority - The A-Z on Transforming Content: What is Generative AI? | Generative AI also known as GI, brings together the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to create and personalize short as well as long-form content. With the constant technological evolution, GI’s approach has also explored a variety of machine learning techniques including deep learning, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), and transformers. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Blocks & Files - Toshiba exec says SSDs can never replace HDDs | “259 million HDDs were shipped last year – a case in point. Their total capacity reached 1.338 zettabytes, an increase of almost one-third compared to 2020. Never before have HDDs been shipped with more combined storage capacity.” | Data Storage |
| SiliconANGLE - ChatGPT won’t give OpenAI sustainable first-mover advantage | You’ve got the big cloud and internet giants all poised to go after this opportunity. Microsoft investing up to $10 billion, and Google has evidently sounded the code red. There’s Apple, of course, and several alternatives on the market today such as Chinchilla, Bloom or Jasper. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - 7 Layers: FortiGuard Labs Sees Nation-State Actors, Cybercriminals Colluding | Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs recently released its predictions for 2023, highlighting the trend of advanced persistent cybercrime enabling a new wave of destructive attacks at scale and fueled by cybercrime-as-a-service. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Supercloud debate offers insight into key choices confronting enterprise IT | “It all works great as long as you are in one platform,” Mohan said. “But if your primary goal is to choose the most cost-effective service irrespective of which cloud it sits in, then things start falling sideways. How do I move my workload from one platform to another platform? That tooling does not exist.” | IT Management |
| AiThority - How AI Is Becoming the Next Frontier in Cybersecurity | Novel viruses often known as zero-day threats infiltrate data centers before the security team can widely circulate updated signatures. The problem security teams face today is traditional cyber applications are not able to update malware signatures quickly enough. | Security |
| sdxCentral - How Economic Downturn Adds Complications to CISO Role | “The role of the CISO has been growing in importance for a while now as companies increasingly recognize the importance of securing their data,” Kapoor told SDxCentral in an email. “It is one of the hardest jobs in IT, where the number of job responsibilities and the importance of said responsibilities keep increasing.” | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Gartner sees robust IT spending growth in 2023 | Spending on data center systems, which leaped 12% in 2022, will see the biggest slowdown this year, with growth expected to fall to just 0.7%. Spending on software is expected to jump 9.3%, with IT services growing a healthy 5.5%. Overall IT spending will be dragged down the most by a decline in spending on devices, which more buyers than expected have opted to keep in their pockets rather than replace this year. | IT Management |
| Blocks & Files - Data management is still human labor for most Register readers | The report, Data Management is Still Manual Labor for Most Register Readers, looked at three general topics: storage tiers and data placement; on-premises and public cloud data movement; and use of data warehouses and lakes. | Data Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Supercloud2 explores cloud practitioner realities and the future of data apps | But creating a consistent experience across clouds and on-prem estates has been an elusive capability for most organizations, forcing tradeoffs and injecting friction into the system. The need to create seamless experiences is clear and the technology industry is starting to respond with platforms, architectures and visions of what we’ve called supercloud. | Cloud |
| Datanami - Growing Developer Skills Expand US Market for AWS: ISG | Google and Microsoft are challenging AWS by introducing highly advanced tools for analytics, AI and machine learning in the cloud, ISG says. These offerings, including tools from Google’s DeepMind and Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, often enter the mix first in the U.S., traditionally an early adopter of cloud technologies. | Training |
| SiliconANGLE - Supercloud forecast: the new data architecture requirements | “From there, thought about rethinking database architectures and file formats so that we can take each one of these services and bring them together, whether distributed or centrally, such that customers can access and get answers — whether it’s operational data, whether it’s business data, AKA search or SQL.” | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Email Customer Service | In addition to chatbots and predictive analytics, AI is also being used to automate more complex customer service tasks, such as email categorization and prioritization, and even the generation of personalized signatures through an email signature creator. | Automation & Productivity |
| Computerworld - Gen Zers and Millennials split over the appeal of remote work | The study found that about half (49%) of millennials surveyed want to work fully remote, whereas only 27% of Generation Z (Gen Zers) feel the same way; they're much more likely than average “to be seeking in-person” work opportunities. Oddly, Gen X and baby boomers felt less impassioned about remote options. Only 40% of either group indicated “their ideal workplace setting” should be remote. | Automation & Productivity |
| eWeek - Tech Predictions for 2023: AI, Cloud, Edge, Cybersecurity, and More | Artificial intelligence: The stunning debut of ChatGPT in November put us on notice: AI is growing exponentially, offering a toolset (for free!) that would’ve been sci-fi not that long ago. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Google’s Muse model could be the next big thing for generative AI | Muse leverages conditioning on pretrained language models used in prior work, as well as the idea of cascading models, which it borrows from Imagen. One of the interesting differences between Muse and other similar models is generating discrete tokens instead of pixel-level representations, which makes the model’s output much more stable. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechRepublic - Securing the edge begins with securing IoT devices | IoT is vulnerable to security attacks because many IoT device manufacturers fail to install adequate security on their devices. Many of these devices have been developed by startup companies that are focused on getting their offerings quickly to market, even if security and governance are skipped. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Analysts forecast key enterprise data trends for 2023 | “It’s really a three-to-five-year time period that graph databases will become significant,” Olofson said. “They still need accepted methodologies that can be applied in a business context, as well as proper tools for people to use them seriously. But I stand by the idea that it is taking off because Neo4j, which is the leading independent graph database provider, had a very good year.” | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - OpenAI, Georgetown, Stanford study finds LLMs can boost public opinion manipulation | For example, adversaries can use LLMs to create dynamic personalized content at scale or create conversational interfaces like chatbots that can directly interact with many people simultaneously. The ability of LLMs to produce original content will also make it easier for actors to conceal their influence campaigns. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - Microsoft aims to improve OKR adoption with Viva Goals integrations | In order to improve the level of understanding and foster a greater sense of cohesion around goal setting, Microsoft has announced it is enhancing Viva Goals integration with the company's Teams collaboration software. This will allow leaders and employees to receive notifications around OKR activity, bring goal-setting into conversations, and create, edit, and make check-ins to OKRs directly in a Teams chat. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datanami - IDC: Spending on Cloud Infrastructure Continues Strong Growth in Q3 2022 | Spending on shared cloud infrastructure reached $16.8 billion in the quarter, increasing 24.4% compared to a year ago. IDC expects to see continuous strong demand for shared cloud infrastructure with spending expected to surpass non-cloud infrastructure spending in 2023. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Metaverse minus the headset: A deeper look at Lenovo's Project Chronos | There was also an intriguing announcement from Lenovo -- Project Chronos, a camera-based full body motion-capture system that allows you to animate an avatar in the metaverse without the need for a headset or other wearable sensors. | Metaverse |
| VentureBeat - 3 factors that can ensure zero trust success | The first factor is overall complexity. It is often noted that complexity is the enemy of security. Overly complex and difficult solutions and policies make security unusable and promote workarounds that circumvent the solution or practice. The old Post-It notes with passwords on the side of an employee’s monitor as a way to deal with stringent password policies used to be a good example of this. | Security |
| Computerworld - The productivity promise (and perils) of generative AI | But much like searching on the web, you need to develop skills for these tools so you can word a command or query that quickly delivers the result you want. Without that skill, you’ll struggle — either because you haven’t taken the time to fully detail your query or you don’t know how to properly word it. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - AWS security heads offer top cybersecurity predictions for 2023 | “MFA [multifactor authentication] adoption will continue to grow for both business and personal use, including increased use of biometric forms of authentication that improve security and convenience (that is, unlocking devices with a fingerprint or face identification). | Security |
| Network World - 7 ways to secure backup data | Encrypted backup data cannot be used to extort your company. Attackers might be able to exfiltrate it, but it will be useless without the keys. Encryption technology has evolved to a point that this can be handled with relative ease, allowing you to encrypt all backups wherever they are stored. | Security |
| sdxCentral - Dell CTO: We Can Demonstrate ‘Zero Trust Is Actually Real’ | The center is designed to provide a secure data center for organizations to test configurations and validate zero-trust use cases, which allows organizations to test configurations based on the Department of Defense (DoD) Zero Trust Reference Architecture before deployment into their own environments. | Security |
| Network World - What to expect from SASE certifications | Compared to other networking certifications, like the CCNA, which is more about how to operate the technology, Cato’s SASE and SSE certifications are high-level overviews. “Our certification is more about what SASE and SSE mean, what are the implications, and what it means to different IT teams,” | Tech Certs |
| ZDNet - Hackers are using this old trick to dodge security protections | Scattered Spider is a financially motivated cybercrime operation, which researchers say takes particular interest in telecoms and the business outsourcing sectors, with the objective of gaining access to mobile carrier networks. | Security |
| sdxCentral - Low-Code Security Requires Shared Responsibility Model | The LCNC market is so successful because of its its naturally faster speed of application development and deployment. “There is one stakeholder that can do everything from thinking about the need to solving the need [on] their own,” he said. That doesn’t mean, however, that those citizen developers or business technologists should be solely responsible for the security risks posed by low-code application development. | Security |
| AiThority - How Much is Tech Actually Costing You? Understanding the True Cost of Ownership | Many companies use the latest technology to be as efficient and competitive as possible, but research indicates a good number of them may be wasting money on tech. One study by Gartner, a global research and advisory firm, found that companies spend $13,000 per employee annually on software as a service (SaaS), but $4,000 is unnecessary due to overlapping solutions. | IT Management |
| Network World - 8 hot networking technologies for 2023 | Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) tightly integrates security and networking into a single platform. The technology uses a single-pass scanning architecture combined with a unified policy that's configured via a unified console that draws from a unified data lake. | Network Management |
| Computerworld - Your next job recruiter might be an AI bot | As many as 49% of candidates turn down a job offer because of poor recruiting, according to PwC's Future of Recruiting survey. Along with improving the candidate interview experience, organizations need higher quality candidates who are also more likely to remain, and they're turning to AI to find, cull, and woo job candidates. | Tech Jobs |
| sdxCentral - VMware: Customers Want ‘Open Architecture’ SASE | “Or said differently, to minimize the inefficiencies of two vendors, enterprises are asking SD-WAN and SSE partners to collaborate to achieve a tight integration across both management and data planes. This gives the enterprise more options on how they start their journey to a single vendor SASE architecture.” | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - How upskilling and training providers help close the cybersecurity skills gap | One of Hack the Box’s main competitors in the market is Immersive Labs, which raised $66 million in funding in October 2022, and offers security teams a platform for continually testing and measuring cyber resilience, with defensive and offensive upskilling training content and exercises tailored toward executive, cybersecurity, and risk and compliance teams. | Security |
| Datanami - Neutronian Releases Expanded Q1 2023 Data Privacy Scores Rankings List | For the first time, Neutronian has included the top 800 publisher domains in the rankings (including NYTimes.com, Pinterest, Yahoo, NBC, CBS, and Conde Nast) to highlight the level of data privacy on sites where digital campaigns are running. | Data Privacy |
| VentureBeat - AI may be red-hot, but Scale AI layoffs send shivers | But last night, an Insider’s report that the unicorn company had laid off 20% of its 700-person staff sent shivers down the spines of those who thought AI was generally immune to the current wave of tech layoffs — especially at this red-hot AI moment when news that Microsoft is reportedly in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI and buzzy generative AI startups like Jasper and Stability AI are boasting over $100 million raises. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - Axis Promotes Public Cloud as SSE Priority | While Hines said the term “hybrid” has been overused in the market, the new reality of dispersed users and more branch locations can’t be ignored. “All those branches, they all have different levels of needs — some have users, some have printers and IoT devices,” he added. “The whole reality here is you’re not going to have to require a full SD-WAN or network stack at every single location.” | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - How ChatGPT in Microsoft Office could change the workplace | The AI Beat | The stream of Microsoft news made me wonder: How would these apps-on-steroids, used by billions of companies globally, change how we work? Especially once Google gets fully in the game, integrating its own generative AI capabilities into Google Workspace? Will AI become as mundane in our day-to-day work lives as the humble spreadsheet? | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - People are already trying to get ChatGPT to write malware | "Threat actors with very low technical knowledge - up to zero tech knowledge - could be able to create malicious tools. It could also make the day-to-day operations of sophisticated cybercriminals much more efficient and easier - like creating different parts of the infection chain," | Security |
| eWeek - The AI Market: An Overview | IDC predicts the worldwide AI market, including software, hardware, and services, will grow from $327.5 billion in 2021 to $554.3 billion in 2024 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5%. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - Where Is Edge Headed in 2023? | The hybrid workplace has been adopted globally, allowing millions of employees to work from any location and making edge technology implementation a top priority. As such, Gartner estimates that three-quarters of enterprise-related data will be created and processed at the edge by 2025. | Edge Computing |
| VentureBeat - Ransomware attacks dropped 61% last year, but orgs can’t be complacent | One such sign of complacency is the decrease in the number of organizations with incident response plans, dropping from 94% to 71%, which could make these companies less effective at responding to data beaches, and give threat actors more opportunities to exfiltrate critical data assets. | Security |
| Computerworld - This lawsuit against Microsoft could change the future of AI | But there's a dirty little secret at the core of AI — intellectual property theft. To do its work, AI needs to constantly ingest data, lots of it. Think of it as the monster plant Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, constantly crying out “Feed me!” Detractors say AI is violating intellectual property laws by hoovering up information without getting the rights to it, and that things will only get worse from here. | AI Ethics |
| VentureBeat - Report: 85% of demand-generation campaigns involve chatbots | The State of Chatbots in B2B Demand Generation report reveals that marketers have also found great success using chatbots to generate new leads, help educate prospects about their company’s products and services, segment their audience base, build stronger customer relationships, qualify leads for their sales team, and more. | Marketing Tech |
| sdxCentral - Too Soon to Invest in Wi-Fi 6E, Gartner Says | Despite growing enterprise investment in Wi-Fi 6E infrastructure, most end-user devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones are still limited to 802.11ac and 802.11ax, and cannot use the 6 GHz spectrum quite yet. | Network Management |
| Blocks & Files - VMware and Nutanix still dominating HCI market | As before, VMware leads in revenue and market share ($982.3 million, 41.5 percent) followed by Nutanix ($581.2 million, 24.6 percent) with Huawei, Cisco and HPE distantly behind. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Director of data analytics: Role and key skill requirements | A data analytics director must first be a data analyst conversant in creating, maintaining, improving and correctly integrating analytical tools and processes across an organization’s internal departments. | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE - CIOs are in a holding pattern – but ready to strike at data monetization | The bottom line is, for the moment at least, the mindset is not to cut everything, rather it’s to put a pause on cleaning up legacy hairballs and continue to fund initiatives to drive monetization. Cloud has become fundamental and getting data “right” is a consistent theme that appears to be an underpinning of initiatives getting funded today. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxCentral - How to Build Successful Data Stacks | Companies using a multi-tool systems environment are struggling to keep pace because they’re managing a tangle of single-function systems that weren’t designed to work together. Businesses are reaching their breaking point as they tire of assembling and managing upstack tools and not seeing enough returns on those investments. | Data Management |
| Network World - Work from home is here to stay, so how should IT adjust? | Migrating from hardware-centric, on-premises systems to cloud-based services helps organizations scale in order to handle a remote workforce, but IT execs should beware that this type of shift often moves problems around, rather than eliminating them altogether, or creates new ones. | IT Management |
| TechRepublic - Data ingestion vs. ETL: How are they different? | Data ingestion is an umbrella term for the processes and tools that move data from one place to another for further processing and analysis. It typically involves transporting some or all data from external sources to internal target locations. | Data Management |
| AiThority - Applications of Data Science & Machine Learning (DS/ML) | This list is far from comprehensive – in general, DS/ML is almost omnipresent in our daily lives, with countless iterations impacting almost everything we do. The popularity of DS/ML models shows no sign of slowing, and inevitably will become increasingly integrated into our daily lives until we barely remember life before it. | Machine Learning |
| VentureBeat - ChatGPT and the unbundling of online search | There are several reasons to believe that a ChatGPT-powered Bing (or any other search engine) will not seriously threaten Google’s search near-monopoly. LLMs have several critical problems to solve before they can make a dent in the online search industry. | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - Enterprise support for the metaverse flourishes at this year’s CES | Earlier this week, Accenture PLC released research findings during CES that showed more than half of consumers surveyed view the metaverse as a business opportunity and 88% of C-suite executives believe the metaverse will have an important role in their organizations’ future growth. | Metaverse |
| VentureBeat - Why cloud observability will be critical in 2023 | Over the past decade, there has been a solid push to increase agility in enterprise IT to support the digitization of business processes and services. This trend has led to various technological innovations, such as infrastructure virtualization and containerization. However, traditional IT monitoring tools need to be equipped to handle the complexity and vast amount of telemetry data that come with deploying new containerized microservices. | Cloud |
| Storage.com - Opinion of Storage Vendors on 2022 Market | Flexible storage consumption models have been top of the agendas for most CIOs and IT leaders for a few years now. But 2022 was the year when the discerning CIO was quick to spot the difference between a product on subscription and a true service. Customers recognized and firmly rejected legacy financial leasing models dressed as STaaS). | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Why IAM’s identity-first security is core to zero trust | Two core areas of the zero trust framework — enforcing least privileged access and implementing segmentation — are challenging, as enterprises are seeing huge growth in machine identities. These machine identities (such as bots, robots, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices) on organizational networks are increasing at twice the rate of human identities. | Security |
| Computerworld - How many jobs are available in technology in the US? | CompTIA’s analysis also showed that 30% of all tech jobs postings are for positions in emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, or in roles requiring emerging tech skills. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Top AI conference bans ChatGPT in paper submissions (and why it matters) | It didn’t take long for a brisk social media debate to brew, in what may be a perfect example of what businesses, organizations and institutions of all shapes and sizes, across verticals, will have to grapple with going forward: How will humans deal with the rise of large language models that can help communicate — or borrow, or expand on, or plagiarize, depending on your point of view — ideas? | Artificial Intelligence |
| Blocks & Files - Pure Storage on its predictions for 2023 | "The benefits of flash for data storage are undeniable – it has until now been largely a question of cost, and what workloads a customer has justify the additional cost for flash. To bridge that gap, customers have had to make tradeoffs, or manage tiering between flash and disk to save costs." | Data Storage |
| sdxCentral - Cisco, Aruba, Juniper Among Gartner LAN Leaders | Gartner again gave a nod to Cisco, Extreme Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)/Aruba, and Juniper Networks as leaders in its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, with Huawei joining that list for the first time | Network Management |
| Network World - Cloud providers should unify virtual networking and SD-WAN | Traditional VPNs based on MPLS require usage of border gateway protocol (BGP), routers, and often some form of carrier Ethernet access, all of which can drive small-site connection costs so high that CFOs cringe at any suggestion that the sites should be on the company network. But, as worker empowerment through application and data access became more important to businesses, they were trapped. So along came SD-WAN. | Network Management |
| AiThority - “Evolve or Die”: AWS Re:Invent Delivers Inspiration in a Cost-Conscious Environment | In the past, AWS has been reluctant to tell its customers how they should use the ever-growing functionalities of the cloud. They leave it to internal teams to discern the best way to leverage the vast library of AWS services. But it may be time for AWS to be more opinionated. For instance, customers now can select from about 600 instance types | Cloud |
| sdxCentral - Top SASE Execs Make 2023 Predictions | Gartner also announced its single-vendor SASE leaders. The firm’s definition specifies that a complete SASE offering combines network edge capabilities like SD-WAN, and a set of cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) capabilities, including secure web access gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA). | Security |
| AiThority - Edge Adoption is Growing Across Industries—Here’s Why | The Edge OT are the advanced computing devices that will power the smart factory by managing machines and equipment focused on advanced analytics, maintenance and augmented reality, and is projected to grow by as much as 13%. | Edge Computing |
| Blocks & Files - Opinion: Online disk archives are just wrong | In other words, an active archive covers non-primary data, meaning secondary (nearline) and tertiary (offline) data with no mention of online media being restricted to caching. The AAA is saying you can have an online archive. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - CelerData Cofounder and CEO Identifies Cloud and Real-Time Analytics Predictions for 2023 | “Cloud costs, consumption models, and ROI will come under the microscope as organizations look for ways to tighten spending in light of economic uncertainty. In response, many cloud vendors will become more creative in product development, service offering, and pricing structure in an effort to retain existing customers and become more competitive for new business.” | Cloud |
| Computerworld - Raises for some IT pros could jump 8% in 2023, exceeding inflation | In 2022, however, merit increases for IT pros lept to 5.61%, with the median salary for all IT professionals rising from $95,845 to $101,323. The median salary for an IT executive rose to $180,000. | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - These grim figures show that the ransomware problem isn't going away | Researchers suggest that much of the rise in reported ransomware attacks against local governments can be linked to a single incident in Miller County, Arkansas, where one compromised mainframe resulted in malware being spread to endpoints in 55 different counties. | Security |
| The Hacker News - The FBI's Perspective on Ransomware | To help ransomware victims and to prevent ransomware, the FBI has set up 56 Cyber Task Forces across its field offices. These Task Forces work closely with the IRS, the Department of Education, the Office of Inspector General, the Federal Protective Service and the State Police. They're also in close contact with the Secret Service and have access to regional forensics labs. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Consumer and business interest in the metaverse is growing | Accenture | According to the research, more than half (55%) of the roughly 9,000 consumers surveyed see the metaverse as a business opportunity for creating and monetizing content. Most (89%) C-suite executives also believe the metaverse will have an important role in their organization’s future growth, according to a parallel survey of 3,200 C-suite executives. | Metaverse |
| sdxCentral - Are Enterprises Prepared for Data Pipeline Failure? | Data pipelines enable the movement of data and support customer experience, which should render observability at this layer an enterprise priority. A majority (63%) of execs dealing with data networking pipeline failures noted those issues negatively impact their organization’s customer experience. | Data Management |
| The Hacker News - Enforcement vs. Enrollment-based Security: How to Balance Security and Employee Trust | The applications these tools don't support are often the riskiest because they don't meet common industry and security standards, including SAML for authentication and SCIM for user management. At Cerby, these are called "unmanageable applications," and according to their research, 61% of SaaS applications are unmanageable. | Security |
| sdxCentral - Analysys Mason: Telcos, Cloud Platforms Will Make the Metaverse Real | “What we need is really scalable compute and really low latencies. If all of that processing does happen in the cloud, rather than happening locally on your Meta Quest Pro headset, then it does become possible to create those kinds of experiences, but the platform needs to exist.” | Metaverse |
| AiThority - Click Fraud Prevention Service Polygraph Advises Advertisers To Invest In Search Engine Optimization | Click fraud is an online scam where website publishers generate income by programming bots to repeatedly click on advertisements. Since the advertisements are displayed on the scammers’ websites, for every fake click, the advertisers pay fees to the advertising networks, and the advertising networks share the money with the criminals. | Marketing Tech |
| Network World - AI is coming to the network | AI tools that feel different to work with, that change the way network admins work with their tools, are beginning to enter the market. A solid example is the introduction of virtual assistants that can have meaningful conversations about what is happening in the network, and that can (if allowed) take actions that alter network function. | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - 5 reasons why data privacy compliance must take center stage in 2023 | And U.S.-based companies limited to domestic business are paying attention, too. While there is no national data privacy referendum in the U.S., four states — Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia — will begin enforcing state data privacy legislation in 2023. | Data Privacy |
| sdxCentral - Will 2023 Be the Year of NaaS? | IDC reported that 69% of global respondents to a recent survey are planning to invest in network transformation over the next 12 months, highlighting network-as-a-service (NaaS) as a challenger to legacy network models that necessitate substantial upfront capital. | Network Management |
| Blocks & Files - Object storage: Coldago moves Quantum up and Cloudian down in the rankings | The Coldago Research Map 2022 for Object Storage lists and ranks 15 vendors playing in the object storage market segment. They are, in alphabetic order: Cloudian, Cohesity, Commvault, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, MinIO, NetApp, Pure Storage, Quantum, Scality, Spectra Logic, VAST Data and WEKA | Data Storage |
| Computerworld - 4 up-and-coming employee mobile apps | The app, which supports both Android and iOS devices, gives operational managers a complete view of their deskless enterprise. It allows workers and managers to use a single system for scheduling, resource travel, time management, and analytics and data reporting. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - 14 data predictions for enterprise growth in 2023 | “Part of the problem is that CIOs today have to manage too many systems. Too many disjointed data pools lead to duplicated, siloed and locked-up data, which is not only timely and costly to manage and analyze, but also leads to security issues." | Data Management |
| Network World - 9 steps to protecting backup servers from ransomware | Backup servers get attacked in two ways—by exploiting a vulnerability or logging in using compromised credentials. Disabling all but the necessary inbound ports can stop both. Only ports the backup software needs to perform backups and restores should be left open, and they should be accessible only via a VPN dedicated to the backup serve | Security |
| ZDNet - ChatGPT's next big challenge: Helping Microsoft to challenge Google search | Bing could be getting ChatGPT-enhanced search capabilities as early as March in a move that capitalizes on Microsoft's $1 billion investment in Open AI in 2019, which included an exclusive multi-year cloud-computing partnership to build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Defensive vs. offensive AI: Why security teams are losing the AI war | Eighty-eight percent of CISOs and security leaders say that weaponized AI attacks are inevitable, and with good reason. Just 24% of cybersecurity teams are fully prepared to manage an AI-related attack, according to a recent Gartner survey | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Report: Apple’s mixed reality headset will get auto-adjusting lenses and more | A particularly alluring feature mentioned in the report suggests that small motors will automatically adjust the internal lenses to match the user’s vision in order to provide the clearest view possible. It will do so using the wearer’s interpupillary distance – the range between the pupils – in order to provide the largest field of view possible for each individual. | Emerging Tech |
| Network World - Looking ahead to the network technologies of 2023 | During COVID, one of the less-reported changes enterprises made was to start using the Internet to support work-from-home requirements. They then figured out that if they supported workers via the Internet, they could take their traffic directly into the data center and bypass VPNs. Thus, the Internet started to erode VPN traffic growth, and that’s going to continue and accelerate in 2023. | Network Management |