Monthly Archives: December 2024

Mastering Azure management: A comparative analysis of leading cloud platforms

Azure’s growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. With a wide range of services, including virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless computing, Azure requires advanced management strategies to ensure optimal performance, enhanced security, and cost efficiency. Enterprises must focus on resource provisioning, automation, and monitoring to…

Sweat the small stuff: Data protection in the age of AI

As concerns about AI security, risk, and compliance continue to escalate, practical solutions remain elusive. While NIST released NIST-AI-600-1, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile on July 26, 2024, most organizations are just beginning to digest and implement its guidance, with the formation of internal AI Councils as a first step in…

GAO report says DHS, other agencies need to up their game in AI risk assessment

A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) appears to indicate that no US federal agency reporting into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) knows the full extent or probability of harm that AI can do the nation’s critical infrastructure. In the report, released earlier this week, it concluded the DHS needs to…

WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Friday announced a shutdown of almost all services on WordPress.org, the open source project site that’s the home of the software, plugins, and the WordPress community, but was unclear on when the shutdown would end.  This move sharply increases the uncertainty surrounding WordPress, which is the software that runs roughly…

Tomás Carbonell (Wiz): “2025 va a ser el año en el que el SOC conecte con la nube” 

La compañía de seguridad Wiz, que este 2024 era noticia por el intento de compra por parte de Alphabet (matriz de Google), operación que finalmente la exitosa startup rechazó, ha sido uno de los patrocinadores de la última edición de los CIO 100 Awards Spain; unos galardones que, en palabras de Tomás Carbonell, vicepresidente regional…

Automating the entire DevOps toolchain end-to-end

As enterprise IT environments continue to grow in complexity, organizations are modernizing legacy applications and workloads, amongst other strategic IT initiatives, to address various IT and business challenges—including cost optimization, simplification, time to market, technical debt, scale and more. Along the way, they are adopting new technologies and infrastructure that have to be incorporated into…

Mainframe modernization that meets you where you are

Every business is unique in its approach to technology modernization. Likewise, the reasons behind initiating a modernization strategy will vary from business to business. However, a few key drivers have emerged as a common thread between businesses. In a recent Rocket Software survey, commissioned by Forrester Consulting, the top three drivers for IT modernization were…

Does SAP reward systematic bullying?

A senior SAP Signavio manager is alleged to have systematically bullied, sexually harassed and manipulated female employees. Despite various complaints, company management is said to have taken no action to stop him, and even promoted him. At least, that is what the allegations made by five female former employees of the Berlin-based BPM division of…

Los CIO 100 Awards reconocen a Gasib con el Premio a la Innovación 2024

Una actitud innovadora es clave para las empresas que quieran estar a la vanguardia tecnológica en sus respectivos sectores. Gasib, de Cepsa, es una de ellas, y sus esfuerzos por impulsar la transformación digital y la automatización en sus procesos de atención al cliente han sido destacados en los CIO 100 Awards Spain 2024, organizados…

United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

CIO Jason Birnbaum has ambitious plans for generative AI at United Airlines. With the core architectural backbone of the airline’s gen AI roadmap in place, including United Data Hub and an AI and ML platform dubbed “Mars,” Birnbaum has released a handful of models into production use for employees and customers alike. Chief among these…