With the end of the year in sight, you know it’s time for two things: trends and AWS re:Invent. This month’s “must-reads” recap the best recaps of the month to save you from the news-scraping doldrums. And of course, we’ve peppered in some new news you can use (all the way to the bank!).
CIO
CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom
Guess what continues to top IT leaders’ lists of concerns? You bet – cloud costs. While enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase and leaders are getting “savvier about cloud economics”, Paula Rooney reports that emerging technologies such as generative AI and the drive to innovate are throwing wrenches into event the best-laid plans.
The Register
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle
As Aviatrix CEO Doug Merritt recently laid out at TheCUBE’s Supercloud 5 event, compute power will be one of the major factors in GenAI’s sustainability. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Microsoft itself seems to be going multicloud because of how AI changes the application landscape. The Register’s Tobias Mann reports this month that the software giant signed a multi-year agreement with Oracle to “offload some of the machine-learning models used by Bing Search to Oracle's GPU supercluster”.
Let the trends begin. With the year coming to a close, experts have begun to reflect on the latest developments in cloud with an eye toward what those may signal for the months and years ahead. Evghenia Grozman did the work of collecting some of the most prominent thought leaders’ predictions in this wonderful roundup on LinkedIn.
Enterprise Networking Planet
Top 7 Network Security Trends Heading into 2024
For those specifically interested in network security, Devin Partida has your trends roundup covered. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the list includes ongoing challenges such as the skills shortage and remote or IoT vulnerabilities, along with more newfangled threats around GenAI.
Futuriom
AWS re:Invent Roundup: Cost Optimization, Vector Search, and More
Capping off the month of November, AWS held its annual re:Invent, arguably the biggest cloud event of the year. Though AI was undoubtedly one of the core themes (hello Amazon Q!), AWS had several other noteworthy announcements and enhancements revealed throughout the show. Futuriom’s Mary Jander shared an excellent recap of the other news highlights you don’t want to miss.
What do you think of these stories? Are you seeing these trends play out in your organization?