Thu.May 16, 2024

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IBM Surrenders SIEM While PANW Tries To Gain Ground On Tech Titans

Forrester IT

In a busy week for SIEMs to be merged or divested, Palo Alto Networks (PANW) announced that it’s acquiring IBM’s QRadar SaaS business and migrating those customers to its Cortex® XSIAM® platform. In addition, PANW gets QRadar intellectual property rights as part of the deal.

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Frontier retains top spot among world’s fastest supercomputers

Network World

Frontier held onto its No. 1 ranking in the 63rd edition of the TOP500 , but with the second place Aurora system breaking the exascale machine barrier, the end of Frontier’s reign could be in sight. The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tenn., maintained its leading position with an HPL score of 1.206 EFlop/s. With a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, the Frontier system has an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC an

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Purge Network Myopathy With NAV

Forrester IT

I can see clearly now the noise is gone! As Zero Trust mandates begin to creep into the private sector, organizations are tasked with the seemingly impossible: observe and inspect all network traffic regardless of direction (N/S/E/W), encryption, or location within the enterprise.

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Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package

Network World

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations. Last year, Cisco killed its Hyperflex platform and essentially turned over that business to Nutanix with the idea that the vendors would work together to engineer collaborative technologies, services, support and sales.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization

Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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Manage Microsoft Edge Browser on Android Devices using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post Manage Microsoft Edge Browser on Android Devices using Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Malepati Naren.

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NSA, FBI warn of email spoofing threat

Network World

Spoofed email – email that appears to come from a legitimate source but is not – is becoming an increasingly worrisome threat. It’s so serious that the NSA and FBI have joined forces in releasing the following warning about spoofed email from senders in North Korea: “The National Security Agency (NSA) joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S.

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Microsoft’s AI ambitions fuel $3.3 billion bet on Wisconsin data center

Network World

Microsoft is betting big on AI, investing $3.3 billion in a new AI data center in Wisconsin as part of a growing wave of investment in the technology. US President Joe Biden visited the site in Mount Pleasant, Racine County, on Wednesday to announce the news. The data center is set to come online by 2026. As part of the project, Microsoft said it is co-funding a new solar energy project that will generate 250MW of power.

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Reflection Canyon: A Grueling Yet Rewarding Journey

Eric D. Brown

This post is a bit different than most of my blog posts. I wanted to highlight a fantastic trip I took in September 2023 to Reflection Canyon near Escalante, Utah. This hike is roughly 16 miles round-trip. I did it over two days, hiking in on day 1, camping on day 2, and hiking out on day 2. Few people make this hiking trip due to its grueling nature (and yes, it was grueling).

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Nvidia teases quantum accelerated supercomputers

Network World

At ISC High Performance 2024 in Hamburg, Germany, Nvidia today announced that nine new supercomputers worldwide are using its Grace Hopper Superchips to deliver a combined 200 exaflops (200 quintillion calculations per second) of computing power with, it said, twice the energy efficiency of an x86 system plus GPU. Grace Hopper accounts for 80% of Hopper sales, said Dion Harris, Nvidia’s director, accelerated data center GTM, during a media briefing.

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Positive Approaches to Cybersecurity Training

Information Week

Cybersecurity can be an intimidating subject for employees, but companies can use a positive approach to keep employees accountable.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Cassandra

It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.

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Cisco adds AI features to AppDynamics On-Premises

Network World

Cisco has added AI features to its AppDynamics observability platform that promise to help customers more quickly detect anomalies, identify performance problems, and resolve issues across the enterprise. The new features will be implemented in a virtual appliance, available this month, for Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises, which gives customers the ability to see and manage their entire application stack, including application code, runtime, infrastructure (servers, databases, networks, VMs, conta

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Questions for the Bureau for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

Information Week

The RSA Conference saw the announcement of an international cyberspace strategy from the State Department, but there are details yet to be answered.

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High-bandwidth memory nearly sold out until 2026

Network World

South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix has announced that its supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has been sold out for 2024 and for most of 2025. Basically, this means that demand for HBM exceeds supply for at least a year, and any orders placed now won’t be filled until 2026. The news comes after similar comments were made in March by the CEO of Micron, who said that the company’s HBM production had been sold out through late 2025.

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Cyber resilience: A business imperative CIOs must get right

CIO Business Intelligence

With ransomware at an all-time high, companies need to understand that being cyber resilient means going beyond compliance to considering all aspects of a business, from operational continuity to software supply chain security.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Google unveils next-generation AI chip Trillium

Network World

Google unveiled a new chip, Trillium, for training and running foundation large language models such as Gemma and Gemini at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday. Trillium is the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and is 67% more energy efficient and nearly five times as fast as its predecessor, TPU v5, according to the company.

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Repeat Offenders: Black Basta’s Latest Healthcare Cyberattack

Information Week

Ascension is the latest healthcare system hit with a crippling cyberattack. Why is healthcare so vulnerable, and what’s to be done about it?

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Palo Alto to acquire IBM’s QRadar security tech as vendors expand partnership

Network World

IBM and Palo Alto Networks announced a wide-reaching partnership to mix and match security technology between the vendors. The deal includes the sale of Big Blue’s QRadar security intelligence platform to Palo Alto. IBM and Palo Alto aim to help streamline and transform security operations, stop threats at scale, and accelerate incident remediation for their customers with the complete AI-powered approach the vendors say is needed to address current threat levels across the enterprise.

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RSAC 2024: Lighting Dark Places, Ted Lasso Lessons, and Alicia Keys Closer

Information Week

From star-studded appearances to dozens of keynotes, panel discussions and workshops, the tech industry’s biggest security conference offered no shortage of content.

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Without proper guidance, it’s easy to miss out on Kafka’s full capabilities. While not the easiest technology to optimize, Kafka rewards those willing to explore its depths. Under the hood, it is an elegant system for stream processing, event sourcing, and data integration. Download this white paper to learn the 10 critical rules that will help you optimize your Kafka system and unlock its full potential.

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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. The enhancements are intended to reinforce the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year , which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering.

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Bump in the boom: Seattle growth slows as city falls out of top 10 fastest-growing big cities in U.S.

GeekWire

Seattle is the 13th fastest-growing big city in the U.S. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s population growth suffered a bit of a bump in the boom as the city fell out the top 10 fastest-growing big cities in the country, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. Seattle added about 5,900 residents between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, to reach a population of 755,078.

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Raspberry Pi to become a public company

Network World

The makers of the Raspberry Pi have filed documents with the London Stock Exchange saying that the tiny hobbyist computers will soon be sold by a publicly traded company, Raspberry Pi Limited. The filing, published May 15 , said that the Pi has developed a “strong track record of revenue growth and profitability,” having pulled in $266 million in revenue over the course of 2023.

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Seattle startup Nexme to be acquired by new real estate services company Finaya

GeekWire

Nexme , a Seattle-based startup that helps streamline tours for prospective homebuyers, announced Thursday it will be acquired by Finaya , a new real estate services company out of Silicon Valley. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Co-founders Arian Abdulkader and Vanessa Alvarez launched Nexme five years ago. It raised a $500,000 seed round in 2020 and participated in WTIA’s Founder Cohort Program.

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Reimagining Cybersecurity Training: Driving Real Impact on Security Culture

Speaker: Speakers:

They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.

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Nvidia to build supercomputer for federal AI research

Network World

Nvidia is building a $20 million supercomputer with MITRE, a federally funded, not-for-profit research organization that has been a technological clearinghouse for the government since the 1950s. The move comes in support of President Biden’s 2023 executive order on encouraging advances in AI. The U.S. government will use an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to provide researchers and developers access to much more computing power than they have had in the past to produce generative AI advances in areas such

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GoodShip, a freight network logistics startup led by Convoy vets, raises $8M

GeekWire

GoodShip raised a $8 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners that will boost its software platform that helps companies get a better handle on their shipping logistics data. Customers including KBX Logistics, Kellanova, Mark Anthony Services, and Simmons Foods use GoodShip to manage their finance and analytics needs related to shipping goods across the country.

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Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network World

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN. Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center teams.

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What’s holding CTOs back?

CIO Business Intelligence

Anurag Dhingra is no stranger to the challenges CTOs face today. With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. Among the toughest hurdles Dhingra faced in a prior CTO position were not having execution responsibilities and having to “work extra hard selling ideas and getting buy-in from people who have budgets and exe

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Download our SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide

Network World

These two related technologies — Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE) — address a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faces as employees shifted to remote work and applications migrated to the cloud.

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Too many newsletters in your inbox? Former Alexa engineer uses AI to turn content into daily podcasts

GeekWire

Jellypod uses AI to create podcasts from emailed newsletters. (Jellypod Image) After about three years at Amazon working on Alexa voice services, Pierson Marks listened to his own internal dialogue and left to launch a startup. A Southern California native who studied computer science at UCLA, Marks stayed in Seattle to create Jellypod , an AI-powered service that turns daily newsletters into personalized podcasts. “Voice has always been something that was I was pretty passionate about,

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Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

Kyndryl is targeting new AI, mainframe modernization, and security services in the coming months as it looks to build out its Bridge infrastructure integration platform. Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. Bridge integrates management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and machine learning to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to

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Google's Trillium TPU achieves unprecedented performance increase for AI workloads

TechSpot

At this year's I/O developer conference, Google announced its "most advanced" TPU yet. Trillium, the machine learning algorithm accelerator, represents the culmination of over a decade of research on specialized AI hardware and is a fundamental component needed to construct the next wave of AI foundation models.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.