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CxO
Humor
Field Support Chap Got Married - Which Took Down A Mainframe
User Demanded A 'Wireless' Computer And Was Outraged When Its Battery Died
Edge
DevOps
ESET News
SuperMicro News
Dell News
Zscaler News
Out Of Sight, Out Of Control: Bridging The Cellular Visibility Gap
Operationalizing Zero Trust Cloud Platform In Cloud Environments Using Terraform Cloud And Github
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Blocks 108.9 Billion Cyberattacks Targeting Civil Groups
Cloudflare Sees Massive Rise In Attacks Targeting Media, Nonprofits And Human Rights Groups
Akamai Technologies News
Beyond Implementation: Building A Zero Trust Strategy That Works
Secure Your Enterprise With Robust DNS: A Guide To NIST SP 800-81r3
CxO
IT Leaders' Top 5 Barriers To AI Success
CIOs with an eye for AI's promise of improved productivity often find their efforts hindered by data quality, skills gaps, and sabotage, among other factors....more
CISOs, Are You Ready For Cyber Threats In Biotech?
The threat landscape in the bioeconomy is different from what most CISOs are used to. It includes traditional risks like data breaches, but the consequences are more complex....more
How To Rebuild Partner Trust After A Data Breach
A data breach is every CISO's worst nightmare. Once the leak has been fixed, restoring partner trust should be near the top of the recovery agenda....more
How Continuous Learning Paid Off For CTO Pravin Uttawar
CIOs understand the value of continuous learning just to stay current. Mindbowser CTO and Co-Founder Pravin Uttarwar has used it to catapult from developer directly to chief technology officer....more
Digital Transformation Needs Enterprise Architects
Over the past decade at Real Story Group we've been privy to (and participated in) dozens of digital and marketing technology transformation initiatives....more
Humor
Field Support Chap Got Married - Which Took Down A Mainframe
If you like it to keep working, don't put a ring on it...more
User Demanded A 'Wireless' Computer And Was Outraged When Its Battery Died
Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop...more
Edge
How An Edge Networking Strategy Optimizes AI Workloads
Edge networking prioritizes managing data at the network edge. This network architecture reduces latency, enhances operational efficiency and enables real-time AI processing....more
Stream Processing At The Edge: Why Embracing Failure Is The Winning Strategy
As a former network and storage systems administrator, it's been amazing to watch the cloud abstract away the complexity of infrastructure. Managed services today allow enterprises to scale systems without needing to get nearly as deep into the low-level plumbing of networking, storage, and data systems as they once had to....more
DevOps
5 FinOps Strategies Every DevOps Team Should Adopt
Cloud costs keep creeping up, and suddenly your AWS bill is 50% higher than last quarter. Sound familiar?...more
Code Signing In The DevOps Era: Silver Bullet Or Security Theater?
In my work with global enterprises modernizing their DevSecOps practices, I've repeatedly seen a troubling pattern: Organizations implement code signing with good intentions, but without the controls to support it....more
FinOps and DevOps: Changing Soft Language to Hard Risks
Analysts project the global cloud FinOps market to grow from $13.5 billion in 2024 to $23.3 billion by 2029, demonstrating an 11.4% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)....more
ESET News
What Is Security As A Service, And Why Is It Useful?
Feeling lost on the vast sea of cybersecurity? Worried about those malicious entities swimming about? Don't worry; security services are here to rescue you and put a stop to those hungry sharks....more
Is Your Phone Being Tracked? How To Tackle Mobile Device Privacy And Security Risks
For most of us, the primary gateway to our digital world is our smartphone. That makes it an attractive target for cybercriminals, government snoopers, advertisers and even jealous partners. This represents a potentially serious security and privacy risk....more
SuperMicro News
Supermicro Adds AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs To Liquid- And Air-Cooled AI Systems
Supermicro, Inc. has announced that both liquid-cooled and air-cooled GPU solutions will be available with the new AMD Instinct MI350 series GPUs, optimized for unparalleled performance, maximum scalability, and efficiency....more
Dell News
Your AI PC Software Strategy: Build, Buy Or Both?
Learn how to maximize the value of your Dell AI PCs by understanding a straightforward AI PC software strategy....more
Zscaler News
Out Of Sight, Out Of Control: Bridging The Cellular Visibility Gap
Do You Know What Your Organization's Cellular Devices Are Doing Right Now?...more
Operationalizing Zero Trust Cloud Platform In Cloud Environments Using Terraform Cloud And Github
One of the most interesting aspects of my role at Zscaler is collaborating with customers to design and architect solutions based on Zscaler's Zero Trust Cloud (ZT Cloud) platform tailored to their large and complex cloud environments....more
Cloudflare News
Cloudflare Blocks 108.9 Billion Cyberattacks Targeting Civil Groups
Cloudflare has released a report revealing a significant rise in cyberattacks against journalists, human rights advocates, and nonprofit organisations around the world....more
Cloudflare Sees Massive Rise In Attacks Targeting Media, Nonprofits And Human Rights Groups
A new repor from Cloudflare Inc., marking the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, reveals a sharp increase in cyberattacks targeting civil society organizations, with application-layer distributed denial-of-service attacks overtaking traditional web exploit attempts by a wide margin....more
Akamai Technologies News
Beyond Implementation: Building A Zero Trust Strategy That Works
Secure Your Enterprise With Robust DNS: A Guide To NIST SP 800-81r3
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