O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable? How do we make sense of this?

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O'Reilly on Data

AUGUST 9, 2022

In a previous article , I wrote about how models like DALL-E and Imagen disassociate ideas from technique. Maybe not as good as the one that hangs in an art museum , but you don’t need to know anything about canvas, paints, and brushes, nor do you need to get your clothes covered with paint. With DALL-E, that’s no longer true.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 11, 2023

There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. How much time and effort does that save?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. But based on our work with companies from a range of industries, we think we may have figured out a way to do it that could work. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4 But we believe it can be done.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

We need to continue to be mindful of business outcomes and apply use cases that make sense.” Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And they let us pose problems that we really can’t think about if we limit ourselves to predictions like “While individual users are getting bored with ChatGPT, enterprise use of Generative AI will continue to grow.” Will we see more countries and states develop privacy regulations? We haven’t seen it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. Companies may not be talking about it out loud,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Previously head of cybersecurity at Ingersoll-Rand, Melby started developing neural networks and machine learning models more than a decade ago. We were positioned correctly. We were trying to take advantage of the technology and make the right moves. We did not realize we were that far ahead.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The balance between software and hardware in cars is also changing dramatically since software is increasingly developed internally and built into the cars. Previously, we didn’t have access to all the data about our customers because we didn’t have the direct customer contact,” says Altehed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time, developers are scarce, and the demand for new software is high. This has spurred interest around understanding and measuring developer productivity, says Keith Mann, senior director, analyst, at Gartner. Organizations need to get the most out of the limited number of developers they’ve got,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

We did side-by-side testing,” he says. EY also conducts research on how other companies use gen AI, and in its October survey of 1,200 global CEOs, nearly all of them said they’re either making or planning significant investments in gen AI. But it’s not just big software development projects where gen AI can help.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

Each new iteration of technology development creates renewed hope to be a vehicle for good and empower those in need. But it’s not the technology type that enables such work but its application. We learned we had to digitize the records,” he adds. We don’t just dump off an application,” he says.

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Data Science 101

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. “we are stronger if we all share some of our works together than if we all kept everything to ourself.” ” — ben.codes (@bendotcodes) on Threads Today we have @bendotcodes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

We recently passed the 100-day mark since VMware joined Broadcom. While much work remains, we’ve made substantial progress as we build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. We’ve acted decisively to increase customer value since we closed the acquisition in late November.

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Data Science 101

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. dev) on Threads Today we have @alais29.dev. dev, how has being a gamer impacted or influenced your software development career? dev, how has being a gamer impacted or influenced your software development career?

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Data Science 101

AUGUST 31, 2023

Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. ” — Tom Johnson (@tomjohnson3) on Threads What is the back story around the creation of @trymultiplayer and how is it going? .” Contrary to what the name suggests @trymultiplayer is not a gaming software company!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO. Dan Roberts: How did you become a P&L leader? How do you do more training and certification? What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 17, 2024

With this new instance family, OpenSearch Service uses OpenSearch innovation and AWS technologies to reimagine how data is indexed and stored in the cloud. To sustainably support high indexing volume and provide durability, we built the OR1 instance family. The new design doesn’t modify the way searches work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“Previous relationships can help a boomerang leader get quickly up to speed, but unchecked assumptions about the culture can be a derailer.” It was a company that was also developing enterprise software but was much smaller,” and took a different approach to leadership.

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Data Science 101

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. ” — Vijay (@vpalepu) on Threads Today we have @vpalepu. We are entering an era in which AI can write code, what are the concerns of software written by AI? I am not sure that we are there with AI yet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Dvorak worked with one CIO who managed the IT environment like an investment portfolio , ranking components as either buy, hold, or sell. New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2023

Data about who owes how much to whom is at the core of any bank’s business. I’m a peer to the divisional CIOs of the firm, and we work hand-in-glove because you can’t separate it out: I can make a policy, but that alone doesn’t get the job done.” Ten years ago, we were worried about systemic importance, and contagion.

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Cloudera

APRIL 11, 2024

Cloudera is building a robust partner ecosystem to meet the unique needs of its customers, working to provide exceptional and fulfilling experiences that help make Cloudera a leader in the multi-cloud data platform space. How do they impact the work happening at Cloudera?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 22, 2024

IBM is dedicated to the responsible development and deployment of this technology, which can enable our clients to meet their sustainability goals. That means making more sustainable choices about how models are built, trained, and used, where processing occurs, what infrastructure is used, and how open and collaborative we are along the way.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume. Fast-forward to 2023 and IT leaders have distilled many more lessons about effective API development and use over the past twenty years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One must have technical acumen and business savvy, be a great communicator and problem-solver, and know how to secure funding and capitalize on it. And for that you must develop an uncanny knack for relationship management and an understanding of how differing personalities can enforce and work with one another to great effect.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

We thought this would broaden our talent pool, increase diversity, and reduce biases in hiring,” Snyder says. Figures on whether and how many CIOs are prioritizing or implementing this approach are seemingly nonexistent, but sources indicate that IT executives have mixed responses to the idea. Others IT execs express reservations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We face complex and dire challenges in today’s world. In order to predict future developments for the good of all, we will need to absorb and analyze information on an unprecedented scale. But in order for AI to expand, we need new networking technology that boosts transmission speeds and improves responsiveness.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data collection on tribal languages has been undertaken for decades, but in 2012, those working at the Myaamia Center and the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages realized that technology had advanced in a way that could better move the process along. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As AI pilots move toward production, discussions about the need for ethical AI are growing, along with terms like “fairness,” “privacy,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and the big one —”bias.” The real ethical concern lies in how companies safeguard against misinformation. As McIntosh sees it, bias is fundamentally a data problem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. We asked a representative group of CIOs to share what they’ve resolved to do. To adapt to these changes, we are modifying our organizational structure. How might AI change that department’s processes? We have many irons in the fire.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

To them, most of the technology stack can be regarded as a commodity, a layer of hardware and software no different from one organization to another. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. They care about value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Andy Nallappan has had a long career in IT, including CIO roles, but his current job at Broadcom is managing the company’s external cloud platform, DevOps, and SaaS operations across multiple software divisions. Along the way he’s developed deep expertise in what it takes to succeed in the cloud. That’s how you can scale.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

Even before the transaction was finalized, we had been listening to VMware’s customers. As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. Second, we’re making changes to deliver consistent customer experiences.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Companies are now recognizing the work ahead of them to get their data, people, and processes ready to capitalize on gen AI’s potential. So leaders will need to radically re-think how work gets done. How should I make these models accessible for us? How will we adapt models to our own data for consumption?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

Andy Nallappan has had a long career in IT, including CIO roles, but his current job at Broadcom is managing the company’s external cloud platform, DevOps, and SaaS operations across multiple software divisions. Along the way he has developed deep expertise in what it takes to succeed in the cloud. As computers evolved, so did I.

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