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Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o) Chases Other Cloud AI Services with Federal Security Approval

Effectively, Azure OpenAI is catching up to AI offerings from the other cloud giants, AWS and Google Cloud.

DEX in the Workplace

Tom Fenton explains why Digital Employee Experience is important, the components that make up DEX, some of the key players in this field, and where it is headed.

Hands On with SearchGPT Prototype: Not My Default Engine Yet

I was hoping for an all-around new super-tool, but the temporary prototype for this impressive search tool is for functionality to be added to ChatGPT. When that happens, Goodbye Google.

Previewing First-Ever EUC World Conference

World of EUC (WEUC) is a new organization for End User Computing (EUC) professionals dedicated to "creating an inclusive and vendor-agnostic platform that advances collective expertise and enhances the power of knowledge in the world of end-user computing."

Accepted for Limited Beta: Hands On with Azure AI-Assisted GitHub Models

"We believe every developer can be an AI engineer with the right tools and training."

Getting Started with the IAM Access Analyzer

A new tool called the IAM Access Analyzer can help you to find IAM resources with unused permissions, IAM settings that allow for external access, and more.

Veeam, Rubrik Lead in Enterprise Backup/Recovery Market Report

In quickly changing market, Veeam leads the execution axis and Rubrik leads the vision axis.

Using AI for 'Offensive Security' by Simulating Attacks

Adversarial testing with red/black teams is nothing new in cybersecurity, but a new paper examines how advanced AI can help and provides recommendations for organizations to do just that.

KubeCon 2024: Visiting Utah

Former resident Tom Fenton shares some of the fun and exciting things he found there to try to convince you to spend a few days after or before the conference exploring attractions outside Salt Lake City.

CSA Top Cloud Threats Report Shows New No. 1

The top cybersecurity threat in the cloudscape has changed from a couple years ago says a new report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which provided handy mitigation strategies and suggested AI can help (or hurt).

KubeCon 2024: Visiting Salt Lake City

Attractions abound, and here is a list of top ones from former Utah resident Tom Fenton, who says he will be staying an extra night to see blues guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa.

AvePoint Ships Cloud Backup Express

Data management/governance specialist AvePoint announced the general availability of Cloud Backup Express, designed to use the new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service recently made available for third-party integrations.

Veeam Ties 'Data Cloud for Microsoft 365' to Microsoft's New Backup Storage Service

On the same day that Microsoft shipped a new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service for third-party integrations, launch partner Veeam announced just such integration with its Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365.

Nadella's Copilot Stats Reveal Changing Microsoft in Earnings Call

Copilot AI assistants are changing Microsoft from the inside out, company CEO Satya Nadella revealed in an earnings call yesterday.

Conditional Access Policies - Your New Firewall

Longtime IT trainer Paul Schnackenburg explains why it's time we started managing CA policies seriously, checking them against best practices regularly with Maester, backing them up and documenting them.

Research Firm Doubles Down on AI Disillusionment

After recently placing AI in the "trough of disillusionment" on its Hype Cycle report, research firm Gartner has doubled down on its negativity, predicting massive abandonment of AI projects.

Dev Survey on Cloud Usage: AWS Rules, Except for One Group

Stack Overflow is out with its massive annual survey that investigates all things developer-related, and this year's edition shows Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the most popular cloud platform among developers -- except for those learning to code.

Get Ready for KubeCon 2024 Salt Lake City

Tom Fenton says he loves walking the floor of IT shows, especially this one, and chatting with the smaller companies that are charting the course of K8S, only to get gobbled up later by tech giants.

Why Does Meta Insist on Open-Source AI? Look at Unix/Linux

Nearly alone among the tech giants, Meta is still championing open-source foundational AI models as the way forward for AI development, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointing to the history of Unix and Linux as an example to follow.

Huge Minute-by-Minute Impact of Never-Sleeping AI: 'Nothing Is Free'

Domo, known for its 'Data Never Sleeps' infographics, turns its attention to the relentless onslaught of AI.

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