Microsoft
Why the Microsoft and CISPE deal is bad news for European cloud providers
"Both parties are happy with the deal, proclaiming that it will bring more competition to the cloud computing market. It’s hard to see how."
Outages
CrowdStrike’s unholy cluster is terrible news for CISOs
AWS EC2 Windows instances also borked with Crowdstrike's manual mitigation not working. Guidance available but...
AI
The AI elephant in the room: CIOs are not as keen on production deployments as they seem
"One multinational bank we spoke to received nearly 1,000 ideas from employees about how to leverage AI in their business over a year ago; zero are in production today..."
vulnerabilities
How the NVD backlog highlights the need for context in vulnerability management
"A Vulnerability Operations Centre (VOC) approach can work wonders here..."
Veeam
Amid ransomware epidemic, backup and security pros need to get closer
"You have to get contained or they’ll discover and wipe your backups"
Cybersecurity
EU shows "a complete lack of security thinking" says former Estonian president
Estonian ex-prez Ilves and Columbia Law prof deliver stark warning to cyberpros
openuk
The UK election manifestos and the importance of a tech mission
"The parties could do worse than take a look at The Open Manifesto..."
Sponsored
Nomad, Tanzu and Cycle: Three Alternatives to Kubernetes for Container Orchestration
"I’ve come to see Kubernetes as the J2EE of orchestrators..."
time series
Why time series data could drive an automotive evolution
"Because the data streams required to do this never stop, the supporting AI systems must be built on a platform that supplies high-volume, high-cardinality time series data..."
Formula 1
The surprising link between Formula One and enterprise PostgreSQL optimisation
There’s a key reason only a few FI drivers become great, says Yugabyte EMEA Field CTO David Walker; it’s because they keep learning from their peers. And there’s nothing to stop you following their example for your data engines!
Opinion
The key to making Large Language Models work is becoming clearer.
"GenAI with too low a temperature lacks creative spark... Too high a temperature and it will strongly hallucinate" -- Neo4j’s Jim Webber discusses new ways of delivering GenAI value.
infrastructure
"(Almost) all of the decisions I endorse or regret after four years running startup infrastructure"
"Unless you’re penny-pinching (and your time is free), there’s no reason to run your own control plane..."