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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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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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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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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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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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How to Get a Delayed IT Project Back on Track

Information Week

On, off, and on-again IT projects can be frustrating. Here's how to get a renewed initiative back up to speed, efficiently and quickly.

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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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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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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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88% of AI pilots fail to reach production — but that’s not all on IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The proof of concept (POC) has become a key facet of CIOs AI strategies, providing a low-stakes way to test AI use cases without full commitment. But as enterprises increasingly experience pilot fatigue and pivot toward seeking practical results from their efforts , learnings from these experiments wont be enough the process itself may need to produce more targeted success rates.

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Why Cybersecurity Needs More Business-Minded Leaders

Information Week

The question is no longer "Are we compliant?" but "Are we truly resilient?

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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 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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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise targets IoT, industrial networks with private 5G package

Network World

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks. The ALE Private 5G service includes technology from across ALEs platforms, including ruggedized OmniSwitch hardware, OmniSwitch LAN, and OmniAccess Stellar WLAN software for local and wide area connectivity. Management of the package can be done through ALEs OmniVista management package.

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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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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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How Data Silos Impact AI and Agents

Information Week

AI, including agentic AI, continues to rise in popularity, but without the right foundation, enterprises are taking unnecessary risks. Heres what CIOs need to know.

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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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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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Kyndryl extends Google Cloud partnership for AI-based mainframe modernization

Network World

Kyndryl and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to help customers use generative AI to move data off the mainframe and into the cloud. Kyndryl will offer a new Mainframe Modernization with Gen AI Accelerator Program, which includes Google Clouds AI and Gemini large language models, Mainframe Connector package, and BigQuery analytics platform.

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Translytical Databases Are Fueling Modern AI Apps

Forrester IT

The growing demand for real-time data to power AI applications is compelling businesses to reevaluate their traditional data architectures. Legacy systems typically rely on separate platforms for transactional and analytical processing, leading to inefficiencies and delayed insights.

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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu namespace vulnerability should be addressed quickly: Expert

Network World

Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass the supposed protection. This warning comes after researchers at Qualys found three different ways this hardening feature can, under certain circumstances, be bypassed.

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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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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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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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Gravitics wins support from Space Force to create an orbital carrier for space vehicles

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows Gravitics’ Orbital Carrier with payloads ready for deployment. (Gravitics Illustration) The U.S. Space Force has chosen Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics to build and fly an orbital carrier that could deliver maneuverable space vehicles to the final frontier — and have them ready to respond to future threats.

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Are CIO Plans for AI and the Cloud Permanently Joined Together?

Information Week

Will the development of these resources proceed in tandem at enterprises, or must CIOs evolve these technologies with separate strategies?

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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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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