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Mentat Collective
Mar 25, 20245 min read
AwesomeOps Part 8: A Pre-Audit Security Odyssey
Learn why it is important to be proactive about audits, and how to implement some simple tools to prepare for the dreaded audit.
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Mentat Collective
Dec 30, 20235 min read
Consciousness Is A Consequence Of Momentum: AI Is Already Conscious
AI has already transitioned into AGI.
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Mentat Collective
Dec 8, 20238 min read
AwesomeOps Part 7: Terraform Lockdown
Secure your entire Terraform environment from code to statefiles.
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Austin Jorgensen
Oct 30, 20235 min read
AwesomeOps: Quantum Machine Learning part 4 of 4
Explore Quantum Machine Learning with our hands-on demo using IBM's Quantum Compute resources. This tutorial guides you through utilizing...
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Mentat Collective
Aug 24, 20236 min read
From Chaos to Clarity: Build an Efficient Data Lake Through Smart Automation and Tags
Welcome to another edition of AwesomeOps!! In this blog of automation bliss we will cover a solution we designed years ago to help...
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Austin Jorgensen
Aug 18, 20236 min read
AwesomeOps: Quantum Machine Learning part 3 of 4
Dive into part 3 of AwesomeOps' series on Quantum Machine Learning (QML). Explore the challenges and nuances of quantum computing...
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Austin Jorgensen
Aug 2, 202310 min read
AwesomeOps: Quantum Machine Learning Part 2 of 4
Explore the revolutionary world of quantum algorithms and their profound implications in machine learning.
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Austin Jorgensen
Jul 24, 20236 min read
AwesomeOps: Quantum Machine Learning Part 1 of 4
Dive into the foundational principles of quantum mechanics and its transformative impact on computing. Understand quantum bits, paralleli...
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Mentat Collective
Jul 5, 202313 min read
AwesomeOps Part 6: Windows Server 2022 Ansible Drift Control In-Depth
Deep dive on Windows Server 2022 drift control with Ansible.
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Mentat Collective
Jun 26, 20238 min read
AwesomeOps Part 5: Ansible CIS Windows Images
This blog covers how to create a Windows Server 2022 Hardened Image that can be distributed to the hybrid cloud.
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Mentat Collective
Jun 20, 20239 min read
AwesomeOps Part 4: Ansible Drift Control On Windows
Ansible drift control for Windows Server environments using Git to create a dynamic golden inventory and schedule Ansible control drift.
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Mentat Collective
Jun 15, 20239 min read
AwesomeOps Part 3: Windows Automation With Ansible And Terraform
Back by popular demand, it's AwesomeOps! Apparently our last installment of this series titled "AwesomeOps Part 2: Demystifying Windows...
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Mentat Collective
Jun 12, 20238 min read
AwesomeOps Part 2: Demystifying Windows Automation with Ansible
Getting started with WinRM and Ansible.
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Mentat Collective
Jun 8, 20233 min read
Alpaca AI Security Scanning
If you are an information technology (IT) executive like me, you have - hopefully - spent far too many nights sitting and thinking about...
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Mentat Collective
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Ansible + JFrog = AwesomeOps
We could not resist creating another thingOps word with AwesomeOps, but that is the best way to describe automating Windows and RHEL...
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Mentat Collective
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AI Will Change DevOps
Technology is eating the world! It is all around us and has become so pervasive over the past two decades that it is literally everywhere...
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Austin Jorgensen
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Alpaca Security: The Innovative Model Harnessing NLP to Uncover Secrets
The next generation of secret discovery tools leverages natural language processing to identify sensitive information embedded in text dat
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Mentat Collective
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Alpaca Security: AI That Finds Secrets Hidden Throughout Your Organization
AI security tool that locates and visualizes secrets that are accidentally or purposefully leaked.
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Chris Howe
Mar 27, 20233 min read
What Lego Can Teach Us About Infrastructure and Terraform
Lego was a major part of my childhood. I could spend endless hours digging through plastic bins of deconstructed lego pieces searching...
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Mentat Collective
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General Purpose Generative AI: Why Controls, Ethics, and Structure are Needed. Part 1.
At this point, if you have not heard of ChatGPT or other general purpose generative “AI” tools, you have probably been living on Mars....
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