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Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the company’s new cloud data products. Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global market for data analytics and business intelligence.

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Generative AI & data: Potential in cybersecurity if the risks can be curtailed

CIO Business Intelligence

Back in 2001, as I was just entering the venture industry, I remember the typical VC reaction to a start-up pitch was, “Can’t Microsoft replicate your product with 20 people and a few months of effort, given the resources they have?” Twenty-two years later, Microsoft is at the table once again.

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The AI continuum

CIO Business Intelligence

Classical machine learning: Patterns, predictions, and decisions Classical machine learning is the proven backbone of pattern recognition, business intelligence, and rules-based decision-making; it produces explainable results. Downsides: Not generative; model behavior can be a black box; results can be challenging to explain.

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Microsoft WPC 2013 -- Big Data Themes

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

The second of the four official themes around which Microsoft organized content at this year''s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) was Big Data. Microsoft''s strategy for Big Data is oriented around two key themes, as related in the keynotes: 1. Provide the best, most familiar tools for business insight (Excel and SQL Server).

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How to ensure security in a cloud migration

CIO Business Intelligence

The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). @benrothke Sacolick noted in the early days of cloud, he’d see cloud-certified architects’ drawings with no mention of security and wondered if things were better today. you own it.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO Business Intelligence

“Our offerings are heavily bundled and integrated with security to ensure that no client is ever left in the dark, subjected to unexpected costs, or experiences a break in business continuity,” adds Corriero. “We Notably, IT Vortex envisions most enterprises ultimately taking a hybrid approach and offers a flexible platform with that in mind.

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. So, we partner with Snowflake, Microsoft, EY, and Guidewire.”

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