Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan, Ltd. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, General Manager and President: YAMAGUCHI Akio) started verifying to assess agility and accuracy in discovering new applications of Mitsui Chemicals products by combining Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)(*1), a generative AI, with IBM Watson(*2) Discovery. This initiative aims to expand top line (sales) and revenue share of Mitsui Chemicals products by advancing digital transformation in the business domain.

In response to the growing threat of ransomware attacks against schools around the world, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will provide in-kind grants valued at $5 million to help address cybersecurity resiliency in schools. Since its creation in 2021, the IBM Education Security Preparedness Grants program has expanded globally, and this year will also include enhanced offerings from IBM SkillsBuild on topics including AI and cybersecurity.

Ransomware is unfolding faster than ever, with attackers managing to cut down the time required to deploy ransomware attacks from over two months to just under four days between 2019 and 2021, according to IBM's X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023. In fact, the share of cybersecurity incidents observed in the education sector more than doubled in 2022 compared to the year prior, experiencing the largest increase year over year than any other industry.

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As a result, a paradigm shift is taking place in the industrial sector as manufacturers turn to open source technologies to support more agile operational technology (OT) platform architecture and capture real-time data insights at the edge. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2024, 30% of industrial organizations will have become leaner and more agile than their competitors as a result of making real-time operational insights available anytime, anywhere, to anyone1.

In response, last year Red Hat and ABB announced a global partnership to enable industries with process automation solutions backed by enterprise-grade open source technologies. Today, we are pleased to announce the latest milestone in our partnership with the availability of ABB Ability Edgenius on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Device Edge (early access) to extend operational consistency for industrial use cases across edge and hybrid cloud environments.

Service assurance aims to provide customers with the level of service they expect from their communication service provider per their customer service level agreement (SLA).

By monitoring, identifying, predicting and resolving any technical issues that may impact the quality of service, communication service providers are able to provide reliable and high quality network services by minimizing downtime and service disruptions. This includes proactively detecting and resolving network problems to ensure network availability and performance, in addition to monitoring and resolving any customer issues through automated actions.

Podman Desktop offers a user-friendly interface for handling containers and integrating with Kubernetes from a local workstation. To put it another way, it gives developers a simplified path to bring their development and production environments closer together. For Red Hat customers, we see this release as an important step forward in delivering a frictionless development experience on Red Hat OpenShift.

Successful CIOs, like all highly placed executives, must be adept at running an organization that's good at getting work out the door.

Unfortunately, many of the most popular management techniques for fixing poor organizational performance don't work. Or worse.

If you want better guidance, start with Peter Drucker's observation that, 'Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.'

As organizations place greater emphasis on supply chain management, Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) intend to grasp their collective opportunity to invest in growth through new technology investments, according to Gartner, Inc.

In a survey of 499 supply chain leaders from October through December 2022 in North America, Latin America, Western Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, 65% of respondents said they anticipate it will be easier to fund new technology investments with 73% of supply chain IT budgets this year to be allocated to growth and performance enhancements, on average.

The business world, like society at large, is experiencing a moment of turbulence. At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, leaders called it a 'polycrisis' -- a collision of stressors from inflation to recession to global conflict to supply chain crises to the possibility that globalization as we know it will fragment into conflicting regional interests.

How can businesses cope? They have no choice but to adapt, turn on a dime, move at speed and rapidly scale.

The Need for Sustainable Storage

Everybody has lost valuable data, due to various reasons. Most of this can never be recreated in whole or in part. In NASA's case, valuable technical design data stored on 7-track magnetic tape has been lost, due to the unavailability of still-functioning tape drives.'i' This will soon be the case for data stored on floppy disks. (When was the last time you saw an 8-inch floppy disk reader?)

Another major storage problem is power demand. Within the data center, storage typically accounts for a significant portion of that electricity. Overall, Data storage consumes an estimated 4% of the global electrical energy supply, and the demand for data storage will accelerate for the foreseeable future with the coming Data Tsunami. Thus, sustainability matters when it comes to enterprise storage.

Provide a platform with all of your assets, from website to logos, product images to colors, and they can make new creatives, test them and dramatically improve results.

For a small business with few design resources, this is a fantastic advancement. Imagine being able to develop brand-appropriate creatives almost instantly that follow social media platforms' design guidelines and formats perfectly. It will make a huge difference for millions of small advertisers.

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Legal and compliance leaders should address their organization's exposure to six specific ChatGPT risks, and what guardrails to establish to ensure responsible enterprise use of generative AI tools, according to Gartner, Inc.

'The output generated by ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM) tools are prone to several risks,' said Ron Friedmann, senior director analyst in in the Gartner Legal & Compliance Practice. 'Legal and compliance leaders should assess if these issues present a material risk to their enterprise and what controls are needed, both within the enterprise and its extended enterprise of third and nth parties. Failure to do so could expose enterprises to legal, reputational and financial consequences.'

The six ChatGPT risks that legal and compliance leaders should evaluate include:...

Photonic technology offers enormous potential advantages to data processing speeds for large-scale computing infrastructure while also promising to reduce networking and communications energy consumption. This technology has huge ramifications for advanced computing infrastructure such as supercomputers (HPC and AI), cloud computing, data centre networking and even quantum computing.

Performance bottlenecks and energy efficiency are a growing concern for scientists and researchers using HPC and AI systems as they can potentially limit application performance or make large scale computing unsustainable.

There was a lot going on in Austin, Texas, last week, as data center specialists, technology vendors, and industry experts flocked to the Austin Convention Center to take part in the annual Data Center World show. Along with a wide range of IT-centric topics, programming this year also included the Data Center BUILD conference, which focused on the unique challenges of data center design and construction, and the Omdia Analyst Summit, where leading technology analysts spoke on key topics of IT industry significance.

As CISOs work to future proof their cybersecurity strategy and infrastructure for tomorrow's emerging threats, artificial intelligence (AI) attacks are looming large in their thoughts. Even without the hype that's billowed around ChatGPT and generative AI's skyrocketing popularity, AI risk has started to unfold as a growing concern among security researchers and pundits in 2023.

To effectively safeguard OT systems, organizations must employ robust security measures, including threat intelligence. This article explores the role of threat intelligence in OT security, highlighting best practices and providing insightful use cases to demonstrate its effectiveness in mitigating risks and protecting vital industrial operations.

RHEL 9.2 is the latest biannual update to IBM's enterprise Linux distribution. It's a minor point upgrade, bringing various subcomponents to slightly more recent versions.

The company has a "technical blog post" about the improvements in this version, but for us, it's a bit light on detail. There was more info in the announcement of the beta, back in March. The big new feature seems to be an optional special kernel for Arm64 servers that uses a 64kB page size, up from the 4kB default. Although this means less efficient memory allocation, it may improve performance for servers working on very large, contiguous data sets.

DevOps security incorporates security strategies directly into your DevOps pipeline, creating a culture of pre-secured software deployments that work seamlessly for the end user. However, this requires a complete shift in your operational policies and security mindset. You need to start viewing security as an integral part of your DevOps lifecycle instead of a separate department.

Here's a checklist of DevOps security strategies for your development teams to deliver secure and reliable applications faster:

Speaking at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney today, Paul Delory, VP Analyst at Gartner said, 'In the current economic climate, the biggest problem companies face in 2023 may not be IT infrastructure. I&O teams, however, will be impacted by economic and geopolitical forces and will have a vital role to play in ameliorating their effects.

'This won't be a year to realize grand ambitions, but it marks a moment to refocus, retool and rethink your infrastructure. In every crisis lies opportunity, and in this case, the chance to make positive changes that may be long overdue.'

According to Gartner, the top four cloud, data center and edge infrastructure trends include:

In some instances, organizations undertook a thoughtful and planned approach to their multicloud strategies. But in many cases, organizations found themselves in this multicloud world by happenstance-new solutions and services were rapidly onboarded, each with its own ecosystem of proprietary tools, lacking interoperability and operational consistency. Many found these environments difficult to manage, govern and modernize, all while controlling costs. All these challenges limited the benefits the multicloud model was supposed to unlock.

But those same regulatory challenges are just part of the myriad of issues. Standards bodies, marketing teams, and even users themselves are asking why it's taking so long to implement Wi-Fi 6E even after it has been brought to market faster than any Wi-Fi standard in the past. Is that because we gave up too many things to get it here? In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth talks to Sam Clements, Avril Salter, and Mario Gingras to find out whether Wi-Fi 6E got here so fast because we left so much of it behind.

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What is IoT Cybersecurity?

IoT cybersecurity refers to the practices, tools, and technologies used to protect Internet of Things devices from cyber threats. With the increasing number of connected devices, it has become more important than ever to ensure that these devices are secure and protected from data breaches, privacy violations, and other cyber attacks.

Gartner estimates that 50% of financial planning and analytics leaders will take charge of developing and refining their Data Strategy. Moreover, corporate annual reports refer to data nearly 80% more often than they did in 2017.

Consequently, the mandate for a well-articulated and executed enterprise Data Strategy developed from best practices will continue with the intent of increasing revenue. To achieve this goal, leaders must mold a Data Strategy into a pattern that enables timely decision-making among all employees, business partners, and customers.

Below are five essential Data Strategy best practices to get you started.

JEP 448, Vector API (Sixth Incubator), has been promoted from Proposed to Target to Targeted for JDK 21. This JEP, under the auspices of Project Panama, incorporates enhancements in response to feedback from the previous five rounds of incubation: JEP 438, Vector API (Fifth Incubator), delivered in JDK 20; JEP 426, Vector API (Fourth Incubator), delivered in JDK 19; JEP 417, Vector API (Third Incubator), delivered in JDK 18; JEP 414, Vector API (Second Incubator), delivered in JDK 17; and JEP 338, Vector API (Incubator), delivered as an incubator module in JDK 16. This feature proposes to enhance the Vector API to load and store vectors to and from a MemorySegment as defined by JEP 424, Foreign Function & Memory API (Preview).