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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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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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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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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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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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What You Should Know About Agentic AI

Information Week

By taking artificial intelligence to a new level, agentic AI promises to elevate enterprise operations and productivity to new heights. Now is the time to prepare for this powerful technology.

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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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Interoperability Is Key to Unlocking Agentic AI’s Future

Forrester IT

Agentic AI is rising. The evolution towards pervasive AI agents paves a way towards an “Internet of Agents,” where AI entities seamlessly interact and coordinate tasks across diverse ecosystems. Just as standardized protocols fueled the internet’s exponential growth, a shared framework is crucial to actualizing a globally interconnected agentic workforce.

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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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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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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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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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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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3 Key Insights on Driving Intelligent Operations in the GenAI Era

Social, Agile and Transformation

Intelligent operations is crucial for executives in construction and manufacturing today. They enhance safety, competitiveness, and growth, especially with the advent of genAI. Emphasizing the human element in operations, leveraging technology, and building trust in AI systems can improve overall performance and attract younger talent, while addressing workforce challenges.

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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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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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What Cybersecurity Guardrails Do CIOs and CISOs Want for AI?

Information Week

With more AI models emerging, how do CIOs and CISOs at enterprises go about establishing security guardrails to reduce risks as the technology gets deployed?

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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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Europol Warns Criminal Networks Are Embracing AI, Making Fraud Smarter and Harder to Detect

Tech Republic Security

The same qualities that make AI revolutionary accessibility, adaptability and sophistication also make it a powerful tool for criminal networks, Europol says.

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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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Help Your People in the US Federal Government Navigate Unprecedented Changes

Forrester IT

Lets face it: as a US Government leader, you are currently facing unprecedented change. The speed, depth, and widespread nature of the current change in the U.S. Government is dramatic. As a U.S. Government leader, you are uniquely challenged at this moment to help your people stay engaged in delivering great outcomes while under significant mental stress.

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3 steps to get your data AI ready

CIO Business Intelligence

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. Gartners recent prediction that 60% of AI projects that run without AI-ready data will be abandoned by next year sheds light on the time bomb IT leaders need to immediately diffuse.

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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 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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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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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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Financial Firms Offer Laid-Off Government Employees A Chance To … Spend More Money?!

Forrester IT

As a former US federal employee, Im a customer of two financial services companies that focus on current and former feds. Within the past couple of months as millions of federal employees have been subject to on-again, off-again layoffs these companies have emailed their customers with essentially the same message.

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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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How CIOs are stepping up as business strategists

CIO Business Intelligence

Once a strictly tech role managing an organizations internal needs, the CIO role has seen a massive tectonic shift. With technology rapidly shaping business outcomes, and the tech infrastructure supporting every aspect of business, CIOs much deservedly now occupy a seat at the table. We speak to CIOs about their multifaceted role, and how theyve embraced the change in their scope.

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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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Seattle is poised for massive AI innovation impact — but could use more entrepreneurial vibes

GeekWire

Stastig CEO Vijaye Raji (left) and Acquired podcast co-host Ben Gilbert speak on stage at the Seattle Startup Summit on Friday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) It was a typical drizzly and grey morning in Seattle as hundreds of software developers gathered for a startup conference to share best practices and learn about new AI tools. “You’re not out there on the beach in the sun playing volleyball,” said Vijaye Raji , a longtime Seattle tech leader and CEO of Statsig. “It

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Airtel connects India with 100Tbps submarine cable

Network World

In a significant development for digital infrastructure in India, Bharti Airtel has landed the 2Africa Pearls submarine cable, delivering 100 Terabits per second of international network capacity for the country. The submarine cable will connect to Airtels cable landing station (CLS) in Mumbai. This infrastructure addresses bandwidth constraints and communication challenges for enterprises seeking improved global connectivity.

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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