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Early Morning Byte: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
š§ The truth about RAG
š Happy Wednesday!
Orlando may be home to theme parks, but the real roller coaster is happening at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit. š¢ Our team is on the ground as AI shifts from an exciting possibility to an urgent business necessity. One hot topic? Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems, AI that pulls in relevant data before generating responses. The real challenge isnāt just the AI model, itās managing messy data and optimizing retrieval. The takeaway? AI success isnāt just about the tech, itās about building the right system to make it work.
š° Key Headlines
The Multi-Cloud Trap: Are CIOs truly saving money, or is multi-cloud adoption creating hidden inefficiencies?
DeepSeekās AI Profitability Claims: Industry experts react as the AI firm makes bold statements on financial viability.
AI and Business Outcomes: The road to trust, value, and storytelling in enterprise AI, live from Gartnerās Data & Analytics Summit.
š Strategic Insights
DAPS vs. AI Assistants: Understand the key differences to select the right digital tools for enterprise efficiency.
Security Liability in Focus: The SolarWinds CISO weighs in on evolving accountability in cybersecurity.
P.S. Check out this weekās Resource Hub (below) as Guidde is offering our readers 25 free credits for generating AI-powered how-to-videos. š„
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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems promise to make AI smarter by pulling in relevant data before generating responses. But as Joe Antelmi, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, points out, itās not that simple.
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The Multi-Cloud Trap: Are CIOs Actually Saving Money?
For years, CIOs have viewed multi-cloud strategies as a way to improve flexibility, resilience, and cost optimization. By distributing workloads across multiple providers, organizations expected to avoid vendor lock-in, negotiate better pricing, and increase redundancy.
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EXTRA BYTES
āAre you okay?ā, was the unexpected opening question from Gareth Herschel and Carlie Idoine, Vice President Analysts at Gartner, as they took the stage at this morningās opening keynote at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released financial data suggesting that its AI models could achieve an impressive 545% theoretical cost-profit margin.
As CIOs responsible for digital workplace applications strive to optimize their application strategies, understanding the differences in functionality, reliability, and timing between these two approaches becomes critical.
Drawing from his own experiences during the infamous SolarWinds breach, CISO Tim Brown shed light on the heightened anxiety among security executives regarding potential legal repercussions.ā
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QUIZZICLE
Rewriting the Rules of Computing
What is the name of the quantum computing processor developed by Google that achieved āquantum supremacyā in 2019?
A. NeuralQ
B. QuantaCore
C. DeepCompute
D. Sycamore
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