Tag: governance
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Platform engineering is what makes AI enterprise-ready
As we’ve found, writing AI-powered software is the easy part. Testing it, securing it, operating it at enterprise scale – that’s where things get interesting. “Guardrails,” all that. Purnima lays this out: a shift from deterministic systems (input goes in, predictable output comes out) to probabilistic ones where agents wander around exploring multiple paths to…
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Adding security and governance to Model Context Protocol – How Broadcom uses MCP
Here’s the benefits Broadcom is getting from using MCP (running on Tanzu Platform): This capability allows for seamless task completion, such as linking internal ticketing systems directly through to code commitment, significantly reducing the time required for ticket resolution. Specifically, developers can utilize natural language processing to direct an AI agent to find their next…
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New tech requires new governance
IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight positions dedicated to governance, risk, and accountability. Predictions are mostly (only) valuable to see what someone is thinking and hoping to be true – their in-head-vibes. Here, you can see what one of the IT thought-leaders will be thought-leadering in…
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IDC Publishes New, Actionable AI Research at Annual ‘Directions’ Event – “Currently, 51% of businesses are taking an opportunistic approach to AI, but there’s a significant trend toward more structured and strategic adoption. The research highlights how organizations are increasingly viewing AI as a fundamental transformation of business, operating, and organizational models. Governance, knowledge, and…
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America Voted For Chaos. The Markets Are Feeling the Punch. – Dumb disruption: “Disruption can be a positive force. But over the last decade, it has become a hand-wave that forgives and excuses irresponsible governance, poor decision-making, and financial incompetence. The reason you can’t run the government like a startup is simple: 90% or more…
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Accountability Sinks – ’“accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account.’ That’s a good phrase to point out something people seem blind to. Humans set policies, humans can decide to un-set policies. It’s…
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What is an Authority to Operate (ATO)? – Governance in the military.
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Summarizing Articles with ChatGPT Works Again
Our final talk in our software stuff for financial organizations is coming up tomorrow. Above is a little anecdote that Darran made to me as we were working on it. If you’re into security, compliance, that kind of thing, check out the third part of our series: “How Cloud Native Improves & Ensures Security, Governance,…
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Catching up on the HOT links
Do you like words like: security – governance – PCI – regulation – SBOMs?! Then you should attend our talk series on cloud native app development in banks, insurance companies, and financial services. It’s online and, of course, free. Relevant to your interests The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are…
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AI at KubeCon EU, Security and Governance Kubernetes Koncerns
Kubernetes Security and Governance Tools on the Rise This is an excerpt from a series analyzing the VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey. It’s a three part blog series that’ll be published over the next three weeks or so. I hope! Anyhow, in the meantime: From the VMware State of Kubernetes Survey 2023. People are…
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Link: Revenge of the PMO
‘But it’s just a marketing strategy. Mostly they just redefine the meaning of these terms to obscure their purposes. An Epic becomes a “mini business case;” the concept of governance sounds less onerous when called “lean governance;” and program management might cause less angst when positioned as “agile program management.” The constant talk of iterations…
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Link: Why is Everything a “Platform”?
Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of product and platforms very useful for establishing governance. As companies move to agile development, they quickly realize the power of treating their applications or web/device apps as products with a well understood customer to keep happy…
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Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he’s done investing in them
“The unicorn thing, I’ve been saying for a while now, is not great,” Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg GO earlier this week. “The reason why it’s not great is not necessarily that these companies are not worth this much money or whatever — we don’t actually know because they’ve manipulated the private markets to…