TechTarget News - Week of Nov 05, 2023

Gartner Symposium: More about AI

The keynote presentation on the second day of the Barcelona conference examined whether artificial intelligence should be more intelligent than humans

Behind the scenes, Spotify Backstage a work in progress

Spotify's Backstage project has become popular as enterprises create developer portals for internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting developer buy-in can be even harder.

CloudCoCo on track for FY growth

A focus on security and mutlicloud has paid off at the channel player as it continues to look for future revenue improvements

VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

Exclusive Networks shares positive Q3 numbers

Distributor’s results add to a picture of channel resilience in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions

Unesco unveils seven-point anti-disinformation plan

United Nations body outlines seven proposals for civil society, governments, regulators and tech platforms to adopt to combat the source of disinformation

AI Safety Summit review

Computer Weekly takes stock of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit and the differing perspectives around its success

Gartner Symposium: It’s all about AI

CEOs want CIOs to take the lead when it comes to AI business initiatives. IT leaders need a clear plan of what they want to do with AI

NatWest taps IBM skills for generative AI

NatWest and IBM are developing generative AI capabilities to expand the capabilities of the bank’s virtual customer assistant

Netherlands starts building its own AI language model

Dutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.

Shadow IT use at Okta behind series of damaging breaches

Okta now believes the initial access vector in a series of damaging breaches was one of its own employees who used a corporate device to sign into their personal Google account

How Trellix’s CISO keeps threat actors at bay

Trellix’s chief information security officer, Harold Rivas, outlines how the company mitigates security threats through containment and by helping security analysts to respond faster to cyber incidents

AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024

Amazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country

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