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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. VMware products, especially the ESXi enterprise hypervisor, are high-value targets and have been repeatedly attacked by cybercriminal and cyberespionage group

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Get Control Over Unstructured Data

Information Week

The No. 1 data management problem today is coping with the 80% of data that is unstructured. Its time for IT to define a methodology.

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Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier

Network World

Most enterprises deploying AI technology have been turning to hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to provide all the necessary infrastructure. According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. Thats because enterprises have been lagging behind on adopting on-premises infrastructure, the research firm says.

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Will Enterprises Adopt DeepSeek?

Information Week

DeepSeek seemingly came out of nowhere. Its disrupting LLM economics in a positive way, but there are risks enterprises need to consider.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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What gives IT leaders pause as they look to integrate agentic AI with legacy infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Agentic AI was the big breakthrough technology for gen AI last year, and this year, enterprises will deploy these systems at scale. According to a January KPMG survey of 100 senior executives at large enterprises, 12% of companies are already deploying AI agents, 37% are in pilot stages, and 51% are exploring their use. And in an October Gartner report, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2033, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions

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SonicWall Report: “Threat Actors are Moving at Unprecedented Speeds”

Tech Republic Security

SonicWalls 2025 Annual Threat Report noted the U.S. healthcare sector and Latin America were targeted by cybercriminals.

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Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn talks culture: ‘They can steal your technology, but not your philosophy’

Network World

Cisco celebrated forty years of history in Amsterdam with the EMEA version of its flagship customer conference, Cisco Live! During the event, Cisco positioned itself as a unique partner for customers facing challenges from the changing nature of the workplace to the revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in data centers and network infrastructure or the need for digital resilience, said Oliver Tuszik, Ciscos vice president for EMEA.

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The 8 new rules of IT leadership — and what they replace

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT positions transformation seems to be accelerating likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. As a result, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones they

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Different Use Cases for Microsoft Entra New Face Check with Verified ID

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Different Use Cases for Microsoft Entra New Face Check with Verified ID appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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How I Apply Third-Party Lab Results In My Security Operations Research

Forrester IT

Last week, I attended the AV Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few non-profits, academic institutions, and analyst firms.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The Top Habits of High-Performing IT Development Teams

Information Week

Top-tier development teams are highly productive and efficient. They also share several common attributes.

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IT leaders’ AI priorities emphasize productivity over innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are still aiming for the low-hanging fruit when using AI, zeroing in on improving employee productivity rather than more advanced uses such as enabling innovation or expanding revenue, according to a new survey. Over two-thirds of IT leaders have focused their AI investments on employee productivity, with just over half using AI to improve customer support or to enable innovation, according to the AI Priorities Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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How Agile Teams Can Stay Focused While Resolving IT Service Management Tickets

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile and ITSM responsibilities can coexist with effective time management, optimizations, and SLA adjustments. Leaders should analyze ticket performance, identify optimization opportunities, and guide teams on productivity. Clear communication of new strategies and measuring impact will enhance agile capacities while minimizing disruptions to service-level agreements and team burnout.

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It’s Time to Define Your Professional Existence and Articulate Your Story

Forrester IT

The urgency of telling your story as a data or technology leader within the current corporate landscape cannot be overstated. As we navigate these turbulent times, the ability to articulate your professional identity clearly and compellingly has emerged as a critical lifeline. Let this be the moment you choose to define your existence within your organization and beyond.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today.

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What To Expect From the Intersection of AI and Biometrics

Information Week

AI and biometrics are ubiquitous parts of modern life. How are these technologies interacting and reshaping one another?

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and tools

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Step by Step Guide to Creating Access Packages in Microsoft Entra Face Check

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Step by Step Guide to Creating Access Packages in Microsoft Entra Face Check appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025

Forrester IT

Applications modernization remains a critical priority for enterprises as they continue their journey to the cloud and beyond. While the lift and shift era of cloud migration has ended, the modernization journey, continues.

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

Network World

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. OpenShift is Red Hats commercially supported Kubernetes distribution. The open-source Kubernetes technology in recent years has become the de facto standard for cloud-native deployments, running on all major cloud hyperscalers and supported by a long list of vendors, including Red Hat.

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How to Overcome the Quantum Threat

Information Week

Quantum computing is capable of breaking classical encryption. The race is on to build quantum-proof cryptography.

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Deep tech disruption: How advanced technologies are transforming businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

CEOs, CIOs and CFOs are finding that deep tech is actively driving business innovation and profitability. From AI models that boost sales to robots that slash production costs, advanced technologies are transforming both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Business leaders dont need to be technology experts to grasp this shift; they need vision and urgency.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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A private company has successfully landed landed on the Moon for the first time

TechSpot

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander successfully touched down on the lunar surface at 3:34 a.m. ET (02:34 CST) on Sunday, becoming the first non-governmental object to land on the Moon without issue. The feat marks an early step in NASA's efforts to establish a lunar economy.

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Software Giants’ Q4 2024 Earnings: Tech Executives Are Still Responding

Forrester IT

We analyzed theQ4 2024 earnings announcementsof 11 enterprise software companies, revealing an accelerated drive toward AI, a sharper focus on cloud costs, and a surge in platform consolidation.

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StarlingX bridges IPv4-IPv6 gap with dual-stack networking support

Network World

The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0, a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. This latest version introduces substantial improvements to networking capabilities, security features and management tools. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform.

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How to Create a Winning AI Strategy

Information Week

After making hefty investments in artificial intelligence, many organizations are not seeing the value they expected, but a few simple changes can make a world of difference.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Caja Rural de Navarra asienta las bases de su digitalización con un equilibrio perfecto entre lo digital y lo humano

CIO Business Intelligence

El sector financiero lleva aos inmerso en un proceso de transformacin digital con el objetivo de adaptarse a las necesidades de clientes cada vez ms exigentes. La digitalizacin del sector ha permitido a las entidades financieras expandir su alcance y diversificar sus servicios, revolucionando la forma en la que los clientes se comunican con su banco.Segn un informe del Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), desarrollos tecnolgicos como la inteligencia artificial (IA) o las aplic

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Lumen Orbit changes its name to Starcloud and raises $10M for space data centers

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows data-center spacecraft being added to an orbital array. (Starcloud via YouTube) Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud got its start just last year under a different name — Lumen Orbit — but the newly renamed company is already filling out its seed funding round with $10 million in fresh investment for space-based data centers.

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Build Effective Personas To Drive Empathy

Forrester IT

At their best, personas elicit empathy, help teams prioritize, and drive human-centric decision-making. Many fall short of this. Learn about the qualities of effective personas and attend CX Summit North America to get a deeper dive and practice improving your own.

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AI, automation spur efforts to upskill network pros

Network World

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. At the same time, they need to expand their cloud and security skill sets to accommodate more complex tools and technologies. Networking roles are undergoing significant evolution, with a key emphasis on the integration of emerging technologies such as AI and automation, says Joost Heins, head of intelligenc

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.