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Software & Systems

Is Shadow SaaS a Security Risk?

March 20, 2023

Via: DATAVERSITY

After years spent purchasing and expanding SaaS usage to meet the challenges created by the pandemic, IT teams are now tightening SaaS spend and see growing security risks from shadow SaaS. SaaS is particularly painful for IT to manage. Ownership […]


Software & Systems

SD-WAN & SASE call for smarter IT service management

March 15, 2023

Via: CIO

Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are making it faster, easier, and more affordable for businesses to securely connect offices and remote users to the applications and information they need to get work done. Today’s […]


Software & Systems

Google joins the generative AI parade with new previews

March 14, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Computing giant Google announced today that it will release previews of three new AI features, including AI composition for Google Workspace, developer prototyping and coding via PaLM and MakerSuite, and validated models for its Vertex AI service. The Workspace features, […]


Software & Systems

How Intelligent Enterprise Software Is Transforming Business Processes

March 14, 2023

Via: DATAVERSITY

Between OpenAI’s research release of its language model ChatGPT and Microsoft’s inclusion of an embedded (and still improving) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in its Bing search engine, it’s impossible to escape news about the rise of AI. Of course, these […]


Software & Systems

How the cloud helps banking and finance companies tackle core modernization challenges

March 13, 2023

Via: CIO

IT organizations can’t afford to put off critical fintech transformation efforts any longer. Two decades of technology-driven transformation has left many financial services firms with significant complexity and technical debt. While banking and finance organizations have aggressively moved workloads and […]


Software & Systems

A critical next phase of cloud transformation: Reducing WAN complexity

March 13, 2023

Via: CIO

Multi-cloud and multi-region environments demand an easier environment for making changes. New approaches are emerging to reduce complexity and improve visibility. Over the past two decades, cloud computing has evolved from a method that utilized extra data center capacity to […]


BI Categories, Data Mining, Software & Systems

How to overcome the data silo challenge

March 13, 2023

Via: CIO

Regardless of where you are on your data modernization journey, the cloud plays a critical role in breaking down data silos and managing data at scale to extract more value for the business. Organizations that are investing in analytics, artificial […]


Software & Systems

Why is your multicloud so slow?

March 10, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

It’s a Wednesday, and the accounting team is closing out this month’s sales and running end-of-month processing on a multicloud platform deployed four months ago. They run sales order entries on one cloud provider and the accounting application on another. […]


Software & Systems

What is generative AI? The evolution of artificial intelligence

March 10, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Generative AI is an umbrella term for any kind of automated process that uses algorithms to produce, manipulate, or synthesize data, often in the form of images or human-readable text. It’s called generative because the AI creates something that didn’t […]


Software & Systems

Cloud trends 2023: Cost management surpasses security as top priority

March 8, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

As cloud usage grew over the past decade, one trend among cloud users remained constant: Security held steady as the top challenge for users. That focus is shifting.For the first time, since Flexera began its annual survey of cloud decision-makers, […]


Software & Systems

Ballerina: A programming language for the cloud

March 8, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Ballerina, which is developed and supported by WSO2, is billed as “a statically typed, open-source, cloud-native programming language.” What is a cloud-native programming language? In the case of Ballerina, it is one that supports networking and common internet data structures […]


Software & Systems

3 ways to screw up a multicloud deployment

March 7, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

I guess I could place some stat here that shows multicloud is the large majority of public cloud deployments out there, but there are lots of other places to see that. We know it’s a common approach for enterprises to […]


Software & Systems

Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

March 7, 2023

Via: CIO

CIOs see opportunities to use breakthrough AI models to increase productivity in areas ranging from writing marketing copy to software coding — but only if enterprises have the right guardrails in place. Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, […]


Software & Systems

Companies can’t stop using open source

March 6, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Convenience, not cost, drives open source adoption. That’s the primary finding of a new report from The Linux Foundation on the economic value of open source, and it’s a bit counterintuitive. In an interview with Professor Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor […]


Software & Systems

12 programming mistakes to avoid

March 6, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Just as the art world is filled with wildly divergent opinions about what makes a great work of art, programmers often disagree upon what makes for great code, at least beyond the basic requirement that it shouldn’t crash. Every developer […]


Software & Systems

What is Multicloud?

March 6, 2023

Via: Network World

An organization takes a multicloud approach when it uses cloud services from more than one provider. That might seem obvious from the name—it’s multiple clouds, after all—but the reasons for choosing a multicloud approach can be as varied as the […]


BI Users, IT Team, Software & Systems

Transforming IT for cloud success

March 6, 2023

Via: CIO

Taking full advantage of a cloud transformation requires a new approach to IT. CIOs are restructuring IT orgs and strategies to unleash talent and leave legacy processes behind. As CIO Neil Holden moved his company, Halfords Group, further into the […]


Software & Systems

Forgotten cloud scaling tricks

March 3, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

I’m noticing a pattern in my work with young and old cloud architects. Well-known cloud scaling techniques used years ago are rarely used today. Yes, I understand why, being it’s 2023 and not 1993, but cloud architect silverbacks still know […]


Software & Systems

AI value begins with managing the C-suite conversation

March 3, 2023

Via: CIO

CIOs should know that AI has captured the imagination of the public, including their business colleagues. Dialogue is key to remediating misconceptions and steering the enterprise toward value creation. Every futurist and forecaster I have talked to is convinced the […]


Software & Systems

Top 10 open source software risks for 2023

March 1, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Known vulnerabilities, compromise of legitimate package, and name confusion attacks are expected to be among the top ten open source software risks in 2023, according to a report by Endor Labs. The other major open source software risks, according to […]