Artificial intelligence was the focus this week at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Summit New York, which makes sense given the massive interest in the topic since ChatGPT was launched.

For example, AWS announced several updates to its managed foundational model service, Amazon Bedrock. This was just one of many announcements that make it easier for customers to deploy generative AI to solve complex problems.

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Final thoughts from AWS Summit NYC: It was all about generative AI

FinOps is gaining steam, but companies shouldn’t just forge ahead. They should carefully consider their approach to FinOps. The tech—which garners most of the headlines—is only one ingredient. The amount of data cloud services generate is so complex that people and processes are just as important.

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The Machines Behind the FinOps Curtain: Operationalizing Your Strategy with AI

Everywhere we look these days, data-intensive applications are increasing at breakneck speed. One of the companies at the center of this development is Nvidia Corp., which has been riding high of late because of the chips it makes to power artificial intelligence.

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How Nvidia enables accelerated computing

Earlier this month I attended the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle, home of the Mariners. As part of my activities there, I moderated a sports CIO summit hosted by Extreme Networks Inc., MLB’s official Wi-Fi solution provider, at Lumen Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks.

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Top sports CIOs provide lessons for IT operations in all industries

I read an interesting eBook on emerging WAN trends from ThousandEyes, a San Francisco-based network intelligence company acquired by Cisco in 2020. In this article I’ll summarize the takeaways I found most interesting – the book offers insight on the future of networking.

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eBook Review: 5 WAN Trends Shaping NetOps Strategy