You already know that every day at InformationWeek brings expert insights and advice to help today’s IT leaders identify the best strategies and tools to drive their organizations forward.
That means original reporting from our team of journalists and unique commentary you won’t see anywhere else! But in case you missed them, here are some of our favorites from this week:
1. Insuring Cyber Attacks
Key Points:
- The malware, linked to Russia and its conflict with Ukraine, caused billions of dollars in damage across the world. The pharmaceutical company claimed $1.4 billion in damages.
- The NotPetya malware damaged more than 40,000 of the pharmaceutical company’s computers, leading to major operational disruption, according to
Cybersecurity Dive
- The Merck and Mondelez cases are likely not going to be the last of their kind. More legal disputes between insurers and insureds, whether regarding war exclusions or other issues, could arise in the future..
2. Cost Effective Cloud Spending
Key Points:
- Let's face it, for all the chatter about greater employee efficiency and better company products and services, it's the bottom-line savings that put the gleam in an executive's eyes.
- Savings on elimination of in-house IT infrastructure are at least tempered by the fact that you are paying for a service provider's own infrastructure.
- Service providers want to make money, too, and customer lock-in is money in the bank.
- This Quick Study is a compilation of recent
InformationWeek
articles providing advice on cloud spending optimization provided by experts in the IT field.
Key Points:
-
Valens Semiconductor
CEO
Gideon Ben-Zvi
tells
InformationWeek
in an interview that the partnership will help both companies advance the industry’s chiplet capabilities.
- Neither company would say where the chips will be produced, but the fabs are integral to
英特尔
’s plan to retake its lead as a chip manufacturer.
- “So, Intel decided that using advanced packaging is part of the future of the chip industry. [The partnership] combines a company that needs this technology and the company that supply it … what this collaboration will do is give them access to the market and give us the technology to serve the market,” Ben-Zvi says.
4. Duality with Digital Twins
Key Points:
- A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical object, process, or even person presented in a digital version.
- The technology helps organizations understand not only the subject as designed, but also the system that built it and how the product will used in the field, says
Tim Gaus
, smart manufacturing leader and principal at
Deloitte Consulting
in an email interview.
- Digital twins can help adopters solve physical issues faster by detecting them sooner, predict outcomes with a high degree of accuracy, design and build better products, and, ultimately, help better serve customers, Gaus says.
5.
CES
: AI's Impact on Transportation
Key Points:
- The session, held Monday in person in Las Vegas as well as streamed online, focused on how AI-driven strategies might fuel new changes in the automotive and transportation industry.
- The patchwork of data privacy regulations companies face in different countries may affect data sources AI needs to evolve.
- More than one year since generative AI took off, the industry should recognize that it is not a perfect, magic elixir for their needs.
- Real-world examples of change powered AI: 3D, interactive sales experiences where consumers can try out and explore cars without being physically present.
Latest Major Tech Layoff Announcements
Original Story by Jessica C. Davis, Updated by Brandon Taylor
Key Points:
- As COVID drove everyone online, tech companies hired like crazy. Now we are hitting the COVID tech bust as tech giants shed jobs by the thousands.
- We're off to a blazing hot start to 2024 in the tech industry! Updated January 13, 2024?with layoff announcements from
Veeam Software
,
Playtika
,
Discord
, and
谷歌
.
- Check back regularly for updates to our IT job layoffs tracker.
Treasures from the Archives...
Key Points:
- From November 2022 through today, there have been thousands of layoffs by smaller startup companies, paired with massive cuts at the biggest tech companies such as Amazon, Disney, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
- When departments and teams were created to combat new demands in a restricted COVID world, software supply chains and resilience gained even more importance due to online traffic, e-commerce, and the booming need for remote access.
- At the time, supplying new demands was the genius move; today, reprioritization and long-term business health is the next move.
- We decided to look at the 10 largest workforce reductions this year to pinpoint common denominators in those announcements.
This is just a taste of what’s going on. If you want the whole scoop, then register for one of our email newsletters,?but only if you’re going to read it.?We want to improve the sustainability of editorial operations, so we don’t want to send you newsletters that are just going to sit there unopened. If you're a subscriber already, please make sure Mimecast and other inbox bouncers know that we’re cool and they should let us through.
And if you’re thinking about subscribing, then maybe start with the InformationWeek in Review; it only arrives on our new look Saturdays.
