Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) formally launched an AI Center of Excellence on Tuesday, January 17, as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week's World Future Energy Summit. The Center aims to advance collaboration to improve the adoption of AI technology and help drive sustainability. The Center will develop carbon neutral solutions to existing energy supplies, combat climate change, and further natural language processing (NLP) for Arabic dialects.

While we at Red Hat talk about how this product is Azure-native and jointly managed between Microsoft and Red Hat, why does this actually matter to you as a customer?

Four benefits of the collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat

While there are numerous benefits to Azure Red Hat OpenShift being jointly built and managed by Red Hat and Microsoft, let's dive into four that will benefit you the most.

Spending on cloud infrastructure continues to outgrow the non-cloud segment although the latter had strong growth in 3Q22 as well, increasing at 16.5% year over year to $16.8 billion. The market continues to benefit from high demand and large backlogs, coupled with an improving infrastructure supply chain.

Spending on shared cloud infrastructure reached $16.8 billion in the quarter, increasing 24.4% compared to a year ago. IDC expects to see continuous strong demand for shared cloud infrastructure with spending expected to surpass non-cloud infrastructure spending in 2023. The dedicated cloud infrastructure segment grew 25.3% year over year in 3Q22 to $7.1 billion. Of the total dedicated cloud infrastructure, 45.2% was deployed on customer premises.

As the new year arrives, CIOs are facing a challenging to-do list as they strive to maximize IT productivity and efficiency in increasingly unpredictable times.

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. 'As the economic pendulum shifts to cost control, CIOs will have to find ways to continue achieving the same results but with less margin for error,' he notes. 'How well teams execute will be key.'

As remote work grows, many organizations are managing a complex web of in-person, online, and hybrid work scenarios while also juggling cloud migrations to support their diversified workforces. For CISOs, this has created a variety of new challenges.

Based on our conversations with security leaders, Microsoft has identified the top three focus areas that CISOs are prioritizing today so you can understand what steps your organization should take to guard against ongoing cybersecurity threats.

The series will pull from my experiences as a CISO and those of my peers. To be clear, I don't purport to have the all the answers but did learn a thing to two during my tenure leading teams over the past 28 years. Under my 10-year watch as CISO/CSO, I had an extraordinarily dedicated and tenured team and very low turnover - something almost unheard of in security.

Any delay in the availability of data can have a negative impact on businesses. Ever-expanding data volumes, new governance requirements, data silos across clouds and on-premises, etc., can cause enterprises to slow down on their data strategy and create business challenges. Therefore, storage and protection systems remain critical to managing IT infrastructure.

Moreover, the Fibre Channel protocol is entirely different from IP, and the deep understanding of the protocol, its implementations are exclusive to a selected cohort of practitioners and professionals in the storage technology industry.

The data landscape has changed significantly compared to the days where FC SANs were dominating the enterprise. The era was the mid 90s and early 2000s. EMC was king; IBM Shark was a top-tier predator; NetApp was just getting over its WAFL NAS overdose to jump into Fibre Channel. There were other fishes in the Fibre Channel sea.

User safety is the top priority for cybersecurity firms. Numerous servers host photographs, videos, links, and online pages; therefore, keeping them out of hackers' access is essential. Only cybersecurity experts can prevent our data from being compromised since black hat hackers are capable of breaching cybersecurity for a variety of reasons.

To identify new cyberattacks, AI in cybersecurity involves analysing a large amount of risk data and the relationships between risks in organisation information systems. To stop corporate intrusions, many cybersecurity firms are becoming more well-known. A number of AI-powered cybersecurity firms can protect Internet-connected systems or other IoT devices. Here are the top 6 cybersecurity firms to look out for in 2023.

Hiring tech talent in 2023 means navigating an uncertain economy, the effects of widespread tech industry layoffs, and candidates who want to work for a company with a mission and workplace culture that align with their values, including diversity, equity, and inclusion.

IT leaders say the best approach is to focus on adaptability. Firms that want to innovate and grow while headcounts are in flux are looking to upskill talent from within, promote their firm's strengths to prospective candidates, and broaden their pool of potential hires from nontraditional backgrounds.

With remote working being the norm rather than the exception, many businesses have realized the value of keeping data centers close to the user. This has resulted in a landscape that consists of traditional data centers which co-exist with edge data centers. This unique situation has also necessitated the need for remote data center monitoring, which helps data center owners operate with less number of staff.

With increased demand for delivering quality access and stable connectivity to an increasing number of remote workers, data center owners today have to continuously make efforts for ensuring uptime and good performance of their remote data centers.

For security leaders to successfully defend their funding, they must effectively communicate what security vulnerabilities are costing the business, know how their program supports each department, and learn how to counter common objections.

In our recent webinar, a panel of security experts shared valuable insights on how to get key stakeholders to understand why proper funding is critical to protect their organization's assets, employees and bottom line while ensuring business continuity.

Your organization likely adheres to at least some National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards. Unfortunately, that approach alone isn't enough to protect you against ransomware.

To that end, NIST has released a framework, NISTIR 8374, that specifically covers the process of preparing for and managing a ransomware attack. I recently co-hosted a presentation on the framework with my colleague Asad Ali, Director of Technology at Thales. Here are our top takeaways.

Looking back at our 2022 and 2021 security predictions, many of these indeed came true! This year, we have several thoughts to share about new or evolving threat tactics, along with predictions for what challenges organizations will encounter and how they may respond.

Eight 2023 cybersecurity predictions

In this blog, we will dive into cybersecurity predictions for you to be aware of in 2023. You can also tune into our webinar featuring LogRhythm security experts as they deep dive into the predictions and provide tips for how you can prepare for what may come.

Cloud computing -- the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet -- is powering an increasing number of experiences today, big and small. For organizations, the cloud is redefining how they can conduct business with unprecedented speed and agility.

But there's just one problem: a massive shortage of cloud-skilled workers to make it all happen. While Gartner predicts global public cloud spending will grow 22% this year to $482 billion, the ongoing surge finds organizations lacking the IT talent to meet their cloud goals. In fact, 85% of organizations report deficits in cloud expertise.

If you look at the "Big Three" public clouds today - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform - you'll notice that they look pretty alike. They all offer the same core sets of services. Their prices and billing models are about the same. They target the same groups of customers. And so on.

But that doesn't mean the public clouds are entirely identical. There remain certain areas where there are still important functional differences between AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Migrating to the cloud has the potential to reduce the energy consumption of your workloads dramatically. In fact, cloud migration can lower energy consumption by 65% and carbon emission by 84%, according to Accenture.

But whether you actually achieve energy savings rates like those depends on how you execute your cloud migration strategy. Simply moving workloads into the cloud doesn't automatically guarantee dramatically lower total energy expenditure or a smaller carbon footprint.

This is made easier by migrating to a cloud-based solution, allowing you to establish an effective cloud disaster recovery strategy. In this article, we will discuss the seven benefits of having a cloud disaster recovery strategy and the consequences of a lack of planning.

What is a Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy?

Cloud disaster recovery (CDR) is a cloud-based strategy that allows organizations to quickly recover their digital assets and restore systems following a disaster, whether man-made or natural. This managed solution provides remote access to all systems within the organization in a secured, virtual environment that minimizes or avoids any downtime.

Since the rise of the information technology function within the enterprise, security has been a priority for the companies and governing bodies in the industries and locations where they operate effectively. For many entities, compliance is critical to ensure ongoing business operations and support new business growth.

To understand the role of compliance standards in an integrated risk and compliance program, consider compliance standards as the physiological requirements in Maslow's hierarchy of needs: the foundational requirements like food, water, and shelter.

Contrary to what you might think, the percentage of businesses investing in digital transformation today is not much higher than it was before the pandemic. What is higher today, however, is the percentage of businesses at more advanced stages of transformation.

They are using more data-producing tools, sharing data with more end users, and making more concerted efforts to govern data.

Python will continue to dominate, PHP will keep slipping in popularity, and we might see at least slightly less interest in Java.

That, in a nutshell, summarizes some of the key programming language trends that are likely to play out in 2023.

For a more detailed look at what to expect in the world of programming languages over the next year, here are IT Pro Today's predictions for major programming language trends heading into 2023.