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The international travel group is overhauling its data stack and aims to provide self-service analytics to key employees across the organisation. During his two-decade stint with holiday firm TUI, Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI, has seen the company undergo rapid transformation.
Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the German-headquartered firm has grown into one of the world's largest travel and tourism businesses...?more
Struggling to form a digital transformation strategy for your organization? You've likely heard the conventional wisdom - now consider this contrarian advice
Many organizations struggle to determine the best ways to modernize their internal and external business processes and applications. In this process, it can be challenging to determine the best path forward, especially when the options sometimes seem to conflict. ...?more
What horror movie title describes your worst leadership mistake? Consider these familiar scary stories
If you've seen the movie Scream, you may be familiar with something called 'The Rules.' ... But in leadership situations, it's less fun, and the consequences are greater than a little spilled popcorn. So, in the spirit of Halloween, let's take a look at a few classics: ...?more
Who'd fake an executive's LinkedIn profile page? Bad actors, of course.
LinkedIn scams that target the public accounts of executives are on the rise and contributed to more than 40% of all phishing and social media cyber incidents in the second quarter of 2022...?more
CxO Events
Join Nadar Zaveri, Travis Fry, and Will Silverstone from Mandiant Security Transformation Services for step-by-step guidance on how to to successfully perform an enterprise password reset.
Data breaches often involve an attacker using stolen credentials to access applications or data within the enterprise. The appropriate response nearly always includes resetting passwords for all accounts in the environment. A well-prepared, coordinated, and executed enterprise password reset can often be the difference between an attacker maintaining a foothold in the environment versus being successfully eradicated...?more
Register now to join the world's foremost experts and get insider perspectives on how they design digital architectures that are ready for the future and built to scale.
This November, leaders from every sector are sharing their strategies to build distributed systems designed for growth, and make cloud-native tech ready for any future...?more
Distributed composite applications, cloud, and work from anywhere are the norm today. Unfortunately, the adoption of these technologies and strategies means the well-defined network edge of old, no longer exists. Today, attack surfaces extend across the enterprise.
That requires a new security strategy, one that integrates network infrastructure with modern security across all edges, be it a firewall, LAN edge, WAN edge, or something else. Our experts will explore the trends forcing enterprises to rethink their traditional approaches to edge security and how new technologies such as Zero Trust can be applied to the new edge...?more
For the last eight years, Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has produced the Accelerate State of DevOps report, hearing from 33,000 professionals along the way. The team's research has focused on examining how capabilities and practices predict the outcomes that are central to DevOps.
Broadcom Software, a proud sponsor of this year's report, invites you to review report findings, hear practitioners' personal experiences and industry perspectives is this informative webinar...?more
Cloud, AI, DevOps, Security, Blockchain, Kubernetes for FINANCIAL SERVICES, including Banking, Payments, Insurance, Asset Management, Private Equity, Credit Unions and More, is the focus of this Thursday, November 10 Webinar, featuring technical keynotes from AWS, Microsoft and Google.
Hosted by Angelbeat ...?more
CxO Security Events
From the CISO to the security analyst, security practitioners do not want to be the last to know when their environment is compromised. Leveraging breach analytics allows you to find compromises in real time and make decisions about them faster.
Hosted by Mandiant ...?more
If your organization wants to learn more about how to thwart cybercriminals from penetrating your online defenses with the right threat intelligence, security tools, and strategies to help protect your enterprise data, then this virtual event is for you.
Every day, your enterprise is at risk of being hacked. But just who are the cyber attackers, and what are their motivations? What methods might they use to crack enterprise data, and how do they stage their attacks? Do you know which attacks are most likely to be used against an organization like yours, and which attackers are most likely to target you?...?more
Do your attackers have a better view of your risks in your environment than you? With the aggressive move to the cloud comes an expanding and complex attack surface that adversaries are waiting to exploit. As a result, organizations are more frequently assessing security posture management processes, examining vendor risk management requirements, and testing security to keep up with accelerated digital transformation initiatives.
Hosted by DARKReading ...?more
In this editorial webinar, we'll examine the current state of application security, the challenges associated with ensuring code is free of vulnerabilities and explore some of the best practices organizations can take to shift security further left in the software development life cycle.
Hosted by Security Boulevard ...?more
AI
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Data preparation is the transformation and standardization of data before it is analyzed by a machine learning model. Here are the top tools of 2022 to help you get the job done.
More and more companies are leveraging data for competitive advantage, especially as big data and artificial intelligence drive digital transformation across industries. Without data preparation solutions in place, these companies cannot effectively put data to use for AI/ML and other emerging technologies ...?more
To bring information to more people across the globe, Google will build an AI model that can support 1,000 languages.
Google has announced its intention of expanding its already expansive language portfolio by ten-fold utilizing artificial intelligence ...?more
For enterprise AI projects, the proof is in the pilot. Here's how four enterprise IT leaders set themselves up for success.
At the US Patent & Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, artificial intelligence (AI) projects are expediting the patent classification process, helping detect fraud, and expanding examiners' searches for similar patents, enabling them to search through more documents in the same amount of time. And every project started with a pilot project ...?more
FOSS
The Document Foundation announced today the release and general availability of LibreOffice 7.3.7 as the last maintenance update to the LibreOffice 7.3 office suite series, which will reach end of life later this month ...?more
Discord started as a platform where gamers and friends could hang out. Discord has over 150 million users in 2022, even after turning down a $12 billion offer from Microsoft.
If it is your first time hearing about it, consider it something like Slack, but with countless fun functionalities to create communities (i.e., servers) ...?more
Sysadmins, web designers, engineers, and programmers share their scariest experiences on the command line.
Halloween will be here before you know it! This fun, over-the-top holiday is a great time to ponder the mortal fears of the developer in each of us. What haunts you the most, in the quiet moments just before your code starts to run? ...?more
This article presents an overview of the six best GUI code editors for Linux that are feature-rich and suitable for every programmer's needs.
A code editor is a must-have tool for each developer. Fortunately, Linux has many of these that are entirely free to use...?more
Cloud
You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it
Much of the IT community has been willing to tolerate - even encourage - magical thinking about cloud, and plenty of us believed ...?more
Companies rely on the cloud for modern app development. Learn the key features that differentiate cloud computing from traditional, on-premises IT architectures. Cloud entails an ever-expanding list of tools and techniques, but the key characteristics of cloud computing remain the same.
AWS was the first to popularize cloud computing as an alternative to on-premises infrastructure when it began selling computing resources and storage instances in 2006. Google and Microsoft followed soon after. Today, cloud computing extends from infrastructure to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and everything in between, including AI, containers, serverless computing, databases, IoT, dedicated networking, analytics, business apps and much more....?more
Worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 20.7% in 2023, to $591.8 billion, according to a new Gartner Inc. forecast released today.
The research firm also released its spending projection for 2022. Gartner expects organizations to spend $490.3 billion on cloud services this year, a 18.8% increase from the $412.6 billion invested during 2021. The fact that the market's growth rate is projected to accelerate from 18.8% this year to 20.7% in 2023 reflects increasing enterprise demand across several cloud service categories...?more
AMG (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, the leading cloud providers) reported their quarterly results last week, with many decrying the results and predicting that cloud computing has downshifted permanently to a lower growth rate.
AWS revenues, for example, came in at $20.5B, lower than analyst estimates of $21.1B. As can be seen from the below chart, AWS's steady up-and-to-the-right trajectory definitely leveled off...?more
Backup
According to Backup Review, the growth of the cloud backup industry, over the last decade has been dramatic.
The market has witnessed the rise and fall of many start-ups and stabilization of others. Interestingly, the companies that have gained a strong foothold in the industry are not all similar. There is a subtle distinction in the nature and types of services they offer. Some of these companies are pure enablers, while others combine enablement functions with direct-to-market services...?more
Gartner recently emphasized the need for much stricter security in a recent report, 'Hype Cycle for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, 2022.' Gartner analyst Julia Palmer focused on emerging innovative storage and data protection technologies.
She evaluated their business impact, reviewed their adoption rates and maturity levels, and recommended ways to build adaptable and future-ready storage, and data protection platforms to meet changing business needs ...?more
SuperMicro News
Supermicro a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended September 30, 2022.
Non-GAAP gross margin for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 was 18.8%. Non-GAAP diluted net income per common share for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $3.42, which adds back stock-based compensation expenses of $7.8 million, net of the related tax effects. ...?more
AWS News
In 2019, cinch launched as a consumer-facing online platform that helped customers in the UK find, buy, and sell used cars. In late 2020, cinch spotted a trend in the used car sales market with new players going direct-to-consumer in the US and Europe.
The pandemic accelerated the trend, and customer demand for used cars. Because of this, cinch announced a shift of their business model towards a direct-to-consumer car retail marketplace. The opportunity was huge, but required a domain (and organizational) transformation ...?more
This is by far my favorite post I write every year, it's the re:Invent preview for AWS Storage! On behalf of the entire AWS Storage team, I am excited to welcome you to our 11th annual event, whether you'll attend in person or virtually.
AWS re:Invent 2022 is only a few weeks away, featuring an exciting slate of sessions on AWS Storage use cases, best practices, and technical deep dives. This post highlights many of the AWS Storage sessions we are delivering, but is not exhaustive. It groups sessions by theme to help you quickly find the sessions most interesting to you...?more
As organizations scale by moving more of their workloads to the cloud, they are looking to manage their cloud operations securely and to be prepared for compliance and auditing.
AWS Cloud Operations aims to improve the compliance and auditing process in the cloud through best-in-class services by the scale and security of AWS infrastructure, per the Shared Responsibility Model. Compliance and auditing are crucial to organizations, so we have put together a curated subtrack within AWS Cloud Operations to address your most pressing questions from continuous compliance to remediation and evidence collection...?more
Lenovo News
Lenovo Group announced second quarter results for the Group, with profitability improving year-on-year for the 10th consecutive quarter. Second quarter net income grew 6% year-on-year to US$541 million and Group revenue grew to US$17.1 billion, up 3% year-on-year in constant currency.
All main businesses contributed positive operating profit, demonstrating further progress towards the Group's goal of doubling profitability in the medium-term. Additionally, the diversified growth engines continued to drive strong performance with both the solutions and services business, as well as the infrastructure business, seeing high double-digit year-on-year growth...?more
Peter Nasielski, an MA Design; Furniture student from Central Saint Martins, crowned winner of sustainability design competition for regenerative seaweed eyewear concept
World-leading technology brand Lenovo, together with fashion designer and conscious luxury pioneer, Stella McCartney, crowned Central Saint Martins' MA Design Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery student, Peter Nasielski, the overall winner of their sustainable design competition for his innovative eyewear design, made from regenerative algae seaweed...?more
Lenovo laptops based on the Intel Evo platform inspires creatives to utilize technology to pursue and ignite their passions
Lenovo announced their upcoming Broadway debut via a partnership with GRAMMY-nominated singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. Lenovo, Intel, and Carly are partnering to produce a first-of-its-kind, Broadway-inspired music video for her single 'Surrender My Heart' from her critically acclaimed fifth studio album The Loneliest Time, which dropped on October 21 (via 604/Schoolboy/Interscope). Collaborators on the new LP include Rufus Wainwright, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, Alex Hope, Tavish Crowe, Rostam Batmanglij and Bullion. ...?more