Winston Thomas

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Modern Infra Just Got Real With Pure-Nutanix Alliance

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The storage wars just shifted into hyperdrive. While the industry keeps obsessing over GPUs and model parameters, Pure Storage and Nutanix created a partnership that could reshape how enterprises actually deploy modern workloads, including AI, at scale. Dig further into this vendor handshake, and you will see a solution to the VMware migration anxiety currently being experienced by many customers, wrapped in a purpose-built modern virtualised infrastructure.
Explaining LLM Insecurity: Why We Can Jailbreak Every Major Model

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The issue of LLM security isn’t just about being jailbroken. The reality was that they were never properly built. That’s why CyberArk Labs researchers developing Fuzzy AI, a framework that claims to jailbreak virtually every large language model on the market, is a major wake-up call. From ChatGPT to Claude, from Gemini to the latest programming assistants, none have proven immune to exploitation.
Meet COMPUTEX Taipei's Secret Star: Model Context Protocol

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Your AI stack is dying. Right now, as you read this, it’s bleeding out in server rooms from Shenzhen to Seattle. The symptoms are everywhere: half-finished proof-of-concepts abandoned like digital ghost towns, CTOs sweating through quarterly reviews, and engineering teams paralyzed by the terrifying possibility that whatever they build today will be irrelevant tomorrow. At COMPUTEX Taipei, I watched the future murder the present in real time.
Meet COMPUTEX Taiwan’s Secret Star: Model Context Protocol

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Your AI stack is dying. Right now, as you read this, it’s bleeding out in server rooms from Shenzhen to Seattle. The symptoms are everywhere: half-finished proof-of-concepts abandoned like digital ghost towns, CTOs sweating through quarterly reviews, and engineering teams paralyzed by the terrifying possibility that whatever they build today will be irrelevant tomorrow. At COMPUTEX Taipei, I watched the future murder the present in real time.
Your Customer Rant Will Fuel Tomorrow’s AI

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Every time you’ve been placed on hold, you’ve unknowingly contributed to one of the most valuable — and trapped — datasets in the digital economy. Buried in the digital vaults of call recording companies like Nice, Verint, and Genesis lie billions of hours of raw human conversation, locked away in proprietary formats like medieval texts awaiting translation. The voice is primal.
Decoding AI ROI Paradox: Why 85% of Projects Die in Production

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Here’s a familiar scenario: The chief executive officer talks up a cutting-edge AI pilot and makes it an imperative, gets the boardroom excited about why AI is the future and why the organization needs to get on the bandwagon, and then gets the budget approval. That was how it looked during the last Chief Digital and Data Officer Asia Summit 2024. In the latest edition — Chief Digital and Data Officer Asia Summit 2025 — the mood had turned somber.
AI vs. AI: How APAC Banks Are Fighting New Fraud Types

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The financial services industry is evolving fast. And so is fraud. Take “friendly fraud.” A staggering 42% of Gen Z consumers now engage in it – deliberately disputing legitimate transactions they actually made. It’s not a glitch in the system; it’s now part of a new financial landscape where AI-powered attacks and digitally-native dishonesty are becoming the norm across Asia Pacific’s banking sector.
Identity Gets Intelligent: How 1datapipe Is Redefining SEA FSI Security

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

When it comes to financial services security, Southeast Asia is at the epicenter. Rapid digital adoption has opened up security holes, a fragmented regulatory landscape allows threat actors to hide, and is where sophisticated identity fraud syndicates call home. Financial services players in Southeast Asia also face another challenge.
Blinded by Prevention: It’s Time To Close the Security-Forensics Gap

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Is the modern enterprise cybersecurity apparatus an expensive illusion? Companies spend billions annually on perimeter defenses, threat detection systems, and security operations centers — yet breaches persist with alarming regularity. The truth is that most security strategies suffer from a fatal flaw: they are designed to stop attacks but are unprepared to investigate them when attacks succeed.
Tariff Toss-Up: Did the West Just Accidentally Supercharge Asia’s AI?

1 month ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The digital revolution has a new geo-economic battleground: Asia’s AI ecosystem. As U.S. tariffs upend regional supply chains and inflate hardware costs by up to 34%, the USD722 billion APAC tech market is facing fragmentation that could either forge a new era of innovation or create dangerous "islands of intelligence" cut off from global developments. Welcome to tech’s new Cold War.