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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

Network World

After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining theLinux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project. Over the next two years, as OpenStacks technology and user base grew, there were many discussions among participants about moving the technology to an open-source foundation.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO Business Intelligence

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. Its a quickly-evolving field, he says, and the demand for professionals with experience in this space is exceedingly high. Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security.

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ServiceNow to pay $2.85B for Moveworks’ AI tools

Network World

ServiceNow announced plans to purchase Movework s, its front-end AI assistant and enterprise search technology for $2.85 billion in cash and stock. ServiceNow expects the deal to close in the second half of this year, and initial technology integrations between the two companies will provide customers with a universal AI assistant and agentic AI capabilities, according to ServiceNow.

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Cybersecurity’s Latest Buzzword Has Arrived: What Agentic AI Is And Isn’t

Forrester IT

Cybersecurity vendors have come out of the woodwork in the past few months to announce their agentic AI innovations. These include vendors like Swimlane, ReliaQuest, Dropzone AI, Intezer, and others. Some are announcing legitimate agentic AI features, while others are renaming existing ML or generative AI features to catch the hype: the blob strikes again!

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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 Will Be Quantum Computing’s Role in the Cloud?

Information Week

As stakeholders in the cloud try their hands at developing quantum compute chips and related resources, is there a symbiotic evolution of tech in the making?

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Long Arm of the Law Comes for Russian Crypto: Why Secret Service Seized Garantex

Tech Republic Security

Authorities say Garantex has processed more than $96 billion in transactions since it launched in 2019.

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The Question Is No Longer “If” But “How” AI Is Transforming Software Development

Forrester IT

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, one month can be enough to create a trend that makes big waves. In fact, only a month ago, Andrej Karpathy, a former head of AI at Tesla and an ex-researcher at OpenAI, defined vibe coding in a social media post.

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How to Build a Reliable AI Governance Platform

Information Week

AI governance platforms play an important role in ensuring that AI systems are ethical and transparent. Here's what you need to know to create a platform for your organization's needs.

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How to Use NordPass: A Step-by-Step Guide

Tech Republic Security

NordPass is a secure password manager for storing and auto-filling passwords. Learn how to set it up, save logins, and explore its features.

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10 ways to use the sed command on Linux

Network World

The sed command on Linux can be used in quite a few different ways. This stream editor (as the name implies) provides options to help you manipulate text very efficiently. Once you become familiar with the sed command syntax, youll likely come to appreciate its functionality and use it quite often. 1. Easy find/replace option The most common use of sed is to replace a word or phrase in a line of text.

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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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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs.

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The Power Of Open Source: Cloud-Native Is Transforming As AI Takes The Limelight

Forrester IT

Three years ago, Lee Sustar and I published the report, Navigate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem In 2022.

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Agentic AI Is Coming -- Are CIOs Ready?

Information Week

Early adopters are discovering the value of agentic AI, and also that implementing it is no slam dunk.

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7 Rewarding Career Paths for the Fearless Agile Program Manager

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile program managers are facing significant risks amid tech layoffs, with 8.3% impacted in recent cuts. As agile methodologies rise, some roles are declining. Career paths for agile program managers include transitioning to technical leadership, product management, data governance, and more. Continuous skill development and networking are essential for future opportunities.

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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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D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem

Network World

Magnetic materials are used to make MRI machines, hard drives, wireless chargers, and phone speakers. It takes a lot of expensive research and development to create new materials. And theres no shortage of applications for new discovery of magnetic materials, says Alan Baratz, CEO at D-Wave Quantum, a company that makes annealing-style quantum computers.

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LLM benchmarking: How to find the right AI model

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, there is hardly any way around AI. But how do companies decide which large language model (LLM) is right for them? The choice is currently wider than ever, the possibilities seemingly endless. But beneath the glossy surface of advertising promises lurks the crucial question: Which of these technologies really delivers what it promises and which ones are more likely to cause AI projects to falter?

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Let The Service Management Agentic AI Race Begin

Forrester IT

Late last year, my colleagues and I authored a report on the future of AI computing titled Change The Interface; Change The World. We predicted how AI-powered interfaces and agents will change everyday life and work. This transformation has begun, and we can see its impact on IT operations.

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How Big of a Threat Is AI Voice Cloning to the Enterprise?

Information Week

Executives are the public voice of their companies, and deepfaking their audio is easy with readily available apps that have few guardrails.

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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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College students get a taste of startup life inside dynamic UW entrepreneurship class

GeekWire

Team “Stimma” pitches at Pioneer Square Labs on Wednesday in front of Seattle venture capitalists. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Best class ever? That was my thought after watching eight teams pitch their startup ideas on Wednesday in Seattle, the culmination of an entrepreneurship class at the University of Washington teaching students the ins and outs of building a tech company.

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SUSE expands AI tools to control workloads, LLM usage

Network World

SUSE expanded its AI platform today with new tools and a new partnership but SUSE AI, which first launched in November of 2024, lags far behind other AI platforms. The product delivers valuable insights into AI workloads, LLM token usage, and GPU performance, and increased functionality to support the development of agentic workflows, says Abhinav Puri, VP and GM of portfolio solutions and services at SUSE.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO Business Intelligence

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Business consulting firm Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, growing to 50% in 2027.The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflow

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Agentic AI Is The Next Competitive Frontier

Forrester IT

In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, businesses are moving beyond traditional AI agents toward something far more transformative: agentic AI.

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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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Why Using Multiple AIs Is Trending Now

Information Week

Somehow, one AI is never enough. Heres why.

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Microsoft and Amazon’s quantum advancements spark questions about the future of encryption

GeekWire

Microsofts new Majorana 1 processor is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) With recent announcements of new quantum computing advancements, Microsoft , Amazon and Google have set a new countdown clock ticking on todays encryption now an even shorter race than expected.

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Realizing the Internet of Everything

Network World

Suppose technology could help you find what you want to buy at the lowest possible price. Suppose technology could keep you from being hit by a car while walking. Suppose technology could make autonomous vehicles totally effective and safe, could make it impossible to get lost or to fail to recognize a person or landmark. Suppose all of this could be done by one set of initiatives that harnessed what we already know and use.

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CIOs and CISOs forge vital partnerships for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Last July, a routine update from cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike sparked a global IT outage that brought companies to their knees, disrupting operations and amounting to an estimated $5 billion-plus in direct losses. As companies across every major sector scrambled to recover, Webster Bank was back in business in short order an achievement CIO Vikram Nafde credits to the usual cybersecurity tools and policies, but also to a formidable peer partnership forged with his CISO.

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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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Meet The Analyst: Covering ERP, FP&A, SaaS, And The Enterprise Software Market

Forrester IT

I am thrilled to begin my journey as principal analyst on the enterprise software, IT services, and digital transformation-focused team at Forrester. For nearly two decades, I have led major business-technology initiatives. During the last eight years for Forrester Consulting, I helped clients drive transformative results.

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How to Turn Developer Team Friction Into a Positive Force

Information Week

Friction is a force that surrounds everyone all of the time. For developer teams, it can be a source of both inspiration and irritation for IT leaders.

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Women in Cyber Security on the Rise, But Facing More Layoffs and Budget Cuts Than Men

Tech Republic Security

In 2024, women accounted for 22% of global security teams on average, compared to 17% in 2023, according to ISC2.

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Fortinet reinforces OT network security platform

Network World

Fortinet has bolstered its OT Security Platform to help customers more effectively protect industrial control systems and other operational technology networks from cyberattacks. Fortinets OT Security Platform includes firewalls, switches, network access control, security information and event management, analytics and AI management capabilities. New to the upgraded platform are ruggedized switches and next generation firewalls (NGFW), services to increase threat detection, and improved AI capab

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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.