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Ethernet roadmap: AI drives high-speed, efficient Ethernet networks

Network World

At next months Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), many of the technologies that are driving current and future Ethernet development will be on full display by the Ethernet Alliance, which is set to unveil its tenth anniversary Ethernet roadmap. Among the hot trends is, unsurprisingly, outfitting Ethernet for all things AI. Right now we are trying to get all of the people and groups who want to build Ethernet for AI to collaborate and work together.

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Be THE Human-In-The-Loop: Data & AI Literacy is Your Edge

Forrester IT

AI is transforming the way we live, work, and play. It’s altering how we make decisions and interact with technology. But for all its power, it still needs humans (for now).

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A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

CIO Business Intelligence

Legacy platforms meaning IT applications and platforms that businesses implemented decades ago, and which still power production workloads are what you might call the third rail of IT estates. IT leaders often worry that if they touch legacy systems, they could break them in ways that lead to catastrophic problems just as touching the high-voltage third rail on a subway line could kill you.

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Five Years of Cloud Innovation: 2020 to 2025

Information Week

The cloud has advanced and evolved over the past five years. Here's a look at the top five innovations of the past half-decade.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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After Detecting 30B Phishing Attempts, Microsoft Adds Even More AI to Its Security Copilot

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft is partnering with top firms to launch new AI security tools, boosting breach analysis, threat detection, and AI model protection across cloud platforms.

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World Backup Day is heading our way

Network World

Are you ready? World Backup Day is March 31 a day that has been recognized every year since it was first set up in 2011. Initially, it was meant to be a simple reminder of the importance of backups and a time to reflect on how well were all doing with this important task whether were protecting our family photos or safe-guarding critical business data.

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SAP customers struggle with S/4HANA migration

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP user companies are up against the clock. Migration toS/4HANA must be completed by 2030, and thats only if they buy into SAPs special three-year reprieve beyond standard maintenance end-of-life at the end of 2027. While that may appear to be a distant concern, companies currently working toward an S/4HANA transition, even those with a high level of IT maturity, are finding the journey challenging.

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What’s New in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality?

Information Week

AI is dominating corporate tech, but enhanced reality technologies like AR and VR are still evolving. Chief information officers shouldnt lose track of their business potential.

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Update VMware Tools for Windows Now: High-Severity Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Authentication

Tech Republic Security

CVE-2025-22230 is described as an "authentication bypass vulnerability" by Broadcom, allowing hackers to perform high-privilege operations without the necessary credentials.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Women are severely underrepresented in top leadership roles across the business world. Only 10.4% of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. That disparity extends into the technology sector. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers 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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Salesforce Launches Agentforce: What Technology Leaders Need To Know

Forrester IT

Its safe to run your AI agents (they’re mostly chatbots, case summaries, or simple text generators today) on the Agentforce chassis as long as you run them inside your Salesforce application domain. We spent two days in San Francisco at Salesforces TDX developer conference.

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From data to impact: How the right technology drives generative AI excellence

CIO Business Intelligence

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Change management across people, processes, and technologies is a critical part of succeeding with generative AI (genAI). In earlier articles, weve covered the human element and how to adapt your processes ; here, well take a look at the third: technology. A recap: A growth mindset and the cognitive value chain Because deploying technology is a means to an end rather than an end in itself, heres a recap of the keys to achieving great outco

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Who is the Pioneering AI Leader Every Innovative CIO Should Watch for CX?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Who is the crucial AI leader unnoticed by many CIOs, particularly regarding customer experience (CX)? Sacolick reviews advanced tools for enhancing CX, warns about GenAI's productivity trap, and encourages businesses to focus on creativity. Successful transformation requires strong leadership and collaboration between CIOs and CMOs. Adobe is an AI leader in CX, The post Who is the Pioneering AI Leader Every Innovative CIO Should Watch for CX?

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How WFH and RTO Burnout Differ

Information Week

Employee burnout is a common thing as the pace of business continues to accelerate. However, the symptoms in WFH and RTO environments differ. Heres what CIOs should know.

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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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Attackers probing backdoor flaw in popular Cisco Smart Licensing Utility, warns SANS

Network World

Organizations running Ciscos Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) should update their software as soon as possible to fix two serious vulnerabilities, the SANS Technology Institute has urged. The CSLU is a tool used primarily in smaller, on-premises and air-gapped networks as a way to manage Cisco licenses without having to resort to the more complex cloud-based Cisco Smart Licensing.

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NVIDIA GTC 2025: Reasoning And Robotics Converge

Forrester IT

San Jose was abuzz with excitement as AI enthusiasts gathered for the 2025 NVIDIA GTC AI conference. NVIDIA showcased its expanding data center offerings, along with a commitment to joint developments with server and network vendors. Everyone had high expectations, as this is a world-renowned AI infrastructure event, and this year, it did not disappoint.

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Will AI erode IT talent pipelines?

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is transforming functions throughout the enterprise, including in IT where its use has showcased the power of the technology. Take, for example, how gen AI is speeding service delivery and improving the accuracy of services provided by the IT help desk by looking at the history of the call logs and then providing a perfectly contextualized response based on what has worked in the past, says Nate Suda, senior director analyst for AI strategy at research firm Gartner and its CIO AI A

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Human-level AI is just a few ‘miracles’ away, Microsoft pioneer Nathan Myhrvold says

GeekWire

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold makes a point during a fireside chat with GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event at Town Hall Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Will artificial intelligence ever catch up with human intelligence? And if it does, is humanity doomed? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold, who had the job of predicting the future of tech during Microsoft’s early years, was ready with some answers at GeekWire’s Microsoft

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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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Why Your Business Needs an AI Innovation Unit

Information Week

AI is now an integral enterprise asset. That's why it needs its own business team.

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Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges

Network World

Red Hat announced updates to Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), with a goal of addressing the high costs and technical complexity of scaling AI beyond pilot projects into full deployment. New capabilities include the ability to split AI inference across multiple GPUs and nodes, integration of InstructLab into OpenShift AI pipelines, and a new AI guardrails orchestration framework.

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SUSECON 25: Expanding Open Source In Cloud, Edge, and AI

Forrester IT

Last week, SUSE hosted SUSECon 25 in Orlando, FL. Although SUSE has been in the open source game for decades, theyve been getting increased attention with some seasoned leadership coming from competitor Red Hat, its acquisition of much-loved Rancher, and changing expectations/norms in the open source ecosystem.

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AI in the Enterprise: 5 key findings of AI usage and threat trends

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from buzz to business necessity over the past yearsomething Zscaler has seen firsthand while pioneering AI-powered solutions and tracking enterprise AI/ML activity in the worlds largest security cloud. Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI tools to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and accelerate decision-making.

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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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The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works

GeekWire

The ATmosphere Conference took place at the University of Washington this past weekend in Seattle. (Marcelo Calbucci Photo) There is something meaningful happening under the tech surface and few people are noticing it. This past weekend, I attended the ATmosphere Conference in Seattle, the first conference about the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol.

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Building Trust with Conversational AI: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls

Information Week

Conversational AI adoption requires trust. To earn it, businesses must set clear goals, ensure transparency, reduce bias, and continuously monitor.

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ControlMonkey aims to bring order to cloud disaster recovery chaos

Network World

There are a lot of different components that make up a cloud deployment. How many of those components, across multiple cloud environments, is the typical enterprise actually backing up for proper disaster recovery ? Thats a question that cloud infrastructure automation startup ControlMonkey is helping enterprises to help answer. ControlMonkey is in the business of helping to improve cloud automation.

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Breaches And Lawsuits And Fines, Oh My! What We Learned The Hard Way From 2024

Forrester IT

When the average cost of a data breach is $2.7 million and 33% of enterprises report being breached three or more times in the past twelve months, understanding and learning from past incidents is not just beneficialit’s essential.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks. Forrester reports that 30% of IT leaders struggle with high or critical debt, while 49% more face moderate levels.

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Outbound Aerospace achieves its first test flight and attracts more funding for airplane ambitions

GeekWire

Outbound’s demonstrator plane, code-named STeVE, takes off from a runway at Pendleton UAS Range in Oregon. (Outbound Aerospace Photo) Things are looking up for Outbound Aerospace’s quest to build a new kind of passenger airplane. The Seattle startup has raised $1.15 million in pre-seed funding so far, and last weekend it sent a small-scale prototype into the skies over Oregon for its first-ever flight test. “Over the last month, everything came together, and we went out there a

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Which Top Cybersecurity Role of 2024 Was Featured in 64,000+ Job Postings?

Tech Republic Security

IT and security workforce management firm CyberSN surveyed job listings from 2022 to 2024. Yes, decreases in demand for some job titles may be related to AI.

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Former Arista COO launches NextHop AI for customized networking infrastructure

Network World

A new player in the networking industry is tackling the unique challenges of AI infrastructure at hyperscale. NextHop AI, founded by former Arista Networks Chief Operating Officer Anshul Sadana, announced this week that it has secured $110 million in funding to develop highly customized networking solutions specifically for the worlds largest cloud providers.

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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