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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2025, insurers face a data deluge driven by expanding third-party integrations and partnerships. Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. These environments often consist of multiple disconnected systems, each managing distinct functions policy administration, claims processing, billing and customer relationship management all generating exponentially growing data as businesses scale.

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Linkerd 2.18 advances cloud-native service mesh

Network World

The term service mesh has been widely used over the last several years to refer to technology that helps to manage communications across microservices and applications. In the cloud-native world, arguably the first implementation of a service mesh came from Buoyant with the open-source Linkerd technology in 2015. Over the last 10 years, Linkerd has grown as a core project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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What are GPUs? Inside the processing power behind AI

Network World

5 key advantages of GPUs GPUs have several key advantages that make them essential for modern computing: Parallel Processing: GPUs can perform numerous calculations simultaneously, making them significantly faster than CPUs for specific tasks. Acceleration of AI and Machine Learning: GPUs are designed to handle the complex computations involved in training and running AI and machine learning models.

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The Future Of Digital Experiences: A Human-Centered, Empowering Journey

Forrester IT

Emerging technologies are transforming digital experiences, which are evolving to become more human-centered, assistive, anticipatory, and agentic.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Building Secure Cloud Infrastructure for Agentic AI

Information Week

Enterprises are gearing up to unleash agentic AI, but is their cloud infrastructure ready?

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5 Most Common Security Attack Methods in 2024: Mandiant’s M-Trends Report

Tech Republic Security

Mandiant, which was acquired by Google Cloud in 2022, paints a picture of global cyber threats from last year in order to help readers be better prepared this year.

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Ingenuity And Core Values Will Steady The Ship: Top Healthcare Provider Trends In 2025

Forrester IT

Steering through a maelstrom of uncertainty and risk in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape requires resilient leaders who will adapt strategies centered on the human experience. Advancements in AI and the widespread availability of medical information are compelling healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) to reassess how they engage with customers and employees.

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Lunar Data Centers Loom on the Near Horizon

Information Week

Lonestar Data Holdings will launch six data storage spacecrafts between 2027 and 2030.

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Column: Bezos lost in PR space as Blue Origin’s all-female launch backfires

GeekWire

Billionaire Jeff Bezos takes questions in front of Blue Origin’s mock-up for the New Shepard spaceship’s crew capsule in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Aaron Cohen , a longtime PR and brand executive. Cohen originally wrote about this topic on LinkedIn. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin may have made history on Monday for sending an all-woman crew into sub-orbit on its New Shepard rocket ship for all the wrong reasons.

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IBM claims $3.5 billion productivity boost through AI agent use

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies are intrigued by AIs promise to introduce new efficiencies into business processes, but questions about costs, return on investment, employee experience and expectations, and change management remain important concerns. To address its customers concerns, IBM is taking a Client Zero approach, having introduced AI directly into more than 70 of its business areas to solve real-world problems, and through this effort, suggesting use cases that customer companies can utilize based on IBMs o

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The AI Race Isn’t Just About Tech Superiority – Its the Supply Chain, Stupid!

The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall. Our latest white paper reveals the six critical supply chain elements that are increasingly separating AI leaders from the rest.

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Slowdown in AWS data center leasing plans poses little threat to CIOs

Network World

A slowdown in data center lease talks by two of the larger public cloud service providers AWS and Microsoft is unlikely to have an immediate effect on enterprises running advanced workloads in the cloud. The pause in data center lease talks is unlikely to significantly disrupt enterprise ability to scale generative AI , agentic AI , or optimize AI workloads in the short term, said Ron Westfall, research director at Futurum Group.

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Technology Service Provider Acquisitions: A Strategic Shift To AI And Industry Services Is Underway

Forrester IT

Thanks to my colleagues Hannah Murphy and Hayden Weatherall for this research foundation.

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How to Drive a Smarter, Innovative, and Predictable Agile Delivery Model

Social, Agile and Transformation

Many organizations struggle with evolving their agile delivery model, leading to missed deadlines and customer dissatisfaction. The key issue is teams rush into solving problems without proper planning. To improve, simplify the approach by developing a clear vision, fostering collaboration, and enhancing change management while avoiding jargon and rigid frameworks.

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Low-Cost AI Projects -- A Great Way to Get Started

Information Week

It's AI on a shoestring. These five inexpensive projects offer a painless way to understand the technology's business potential and value.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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From Copilot to agent – AI is growing up, and CISOs need to be ready

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past year, CISOs have wrestled with integrating AI into security processes, balancing the promised efficiencies with the need for stringent testing and adherence to security protocols. Hot on the heels of this integration effort comes another innovation: agentic AI. An evolution that marks the next leap in AI maturity, agentic AI offers both opportunities and challenges that could redefine how CISOs, CIOs, and their teams defend against cyber threats.

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Cloudbrink pushes SASE boundaries with 300 Gbps data center throughput

Network World

Throughput is always a consideration for any type of networking technology. With security technologies in particular, networking throughput has long been somewhat constrained as the overhead of inspection and encryption slows things down. Today, networking access vendor Cloudbrink is claiming it has achieved a new milestone of 300 Gbps data center throughput for its SASE technology.

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To DOGE Or Not To DOGE – Tesla Hits A Road Block

Forrester IT

“Souffle under a sledgehammer.” Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, said in 2020 that if the company didn’t deliver on profits, Tesla stock would be “crushed like a souffle under a sledgehammer.” Messy dessert, anyone? The fairytale growth story of Tesla had already hit a speed bump in 2024 as revenue and profit declined.

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Put down the phone: Don’t let tech prevent your present moment

GeekWire

A fan uses a smartphone to capture video of Seattle band Deep Sea Diver during a recent show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Earlier this year I saw an amazing flamenco show in southern Spain. The memory is still vivid. I can hear the sharp staccato of tap shoes rattling against the plywood and visualize the dancer drifting across the stage, flowing with guitar riffs, hand claps, and vocals from her fellow artists.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Will Cuts at NOAA and FEMA Impact Disaster Recovery for CIOs?

Information Week

With less support from federal agencies such as NOAA and FEMA, recovery and resilience planning for CIOs may need to look different.

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How to plan for a new business technology operating model

CIO Business Intelligence

You dont need an LLM to tell you what the biggest change to IT departments is this year. The evidence is everywhere. Take for example our latest Pulse C-suite survey , published in January where 86% of surveyed executives plan to up their investment in generative AI in 2025, and 60% expecting their gen AI solutions to be scaled across the business a major jump from 36% in 2024.

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AI plus digital twins could be the pairing enterprises need

Network World

A recent report by Hexagon looked at data from 660 enterprise executives worldwide to identify the ROI that could be achieved by digital twin technology. It found that only half of companies reported an ROI above 20%, which is roughly where CFOs tell me a project can get quick approval. Interestingly, this is almost exactly the ROI enterprises tell me they can expect from the AI projects that are approved.

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MITREGEDDON Averted But Fragility In CVE Processes Remain

Forrester IT

This week, we saw the CVE process, as we know it, come hours from the brink of collapse when a memo started circulating on LinkedIn that DHS would cut funding to MITRE's CVE cataloging on April 16. MITREs role in the CVE process is the crucial first step in assigning IDs to vulnerabilities so practitioners, vendors, researchers and governments across the globe can consistently reference the same vulnerability.

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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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Companies can leverage the true value of meetings with AI by building an ‘LLM for Leadership’

GeekWire

Many companies invest heavily in leadership meetings but lack an effective system to capture, organize, and leverage the resulting insights and decisions. (BigStock Illustration) Are you getting more out of your meetings than ever before? You should be. Meetings remain an inevitable practice for organizations large and small. The practice dates back to the days of Socrates and Plato in ancient Greece but we have new tools and technology today that should mean more effectiveness and a much higher

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How Will the Role of Chief AI Officer Evolve in 2025?

Information Week

The AI boom gave rise to a new executive role: the chief AI officer. That role and its demands could change over time.

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Thanks to AI, the data reckoning has arrived

CIO Business Intelligence

In the race to build the smartest LLM, the rallying cry has been more data! That same mantra has made its way to company boardrooms, too. As businesses hurry to harness AI to gain a competitive edge, finding and using as much company data as possible may feel like the most reasonable approach. After all, if more data leads to better LLMs , shouldnt the same be true for AI business solutions?

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As clock ticks, vendors slowly patch critical flaw in AMI MegaRAC BMC firmware

Network World

Weeks after BIOS developer AMI released an update fixing a critical vulnerability in its MegaRAC baseband management controller (BMC) firmware used in many enterprise servers and storage systems, OEM patches addressing the issue are slowly trickling out. A BMC is an embedded chip that allows IT teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and control servers remotely via the industry standard Redfish interface, even when they are turned off or the OS is unresponsive.

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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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Overregulation Forges A CISO Coalition With The G7 Letter

Forrester IT

A coalition of over 40 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from leading companies, including Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS, Mastercard, and Siemens, sent a letter to the G7 and OECD, urging them to take action on aligning international cybersecurity regulations.

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Cybersecurity startup Chainguard lands $356M at $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B a year ago

GeekWire

Chainguard founders, from top left, clockwise: CEO Dan Lorenc, CPO Kim Lewandowski, CTO Matt Moore, and distinguished engineer Ville Aikas. (Chainguard Photos) Chainguard announced another big investment on Wednesday as the cybersecurity startup looks to continue fueling growth. The company raised $356 million in a Series D round that pushes its valuation to $3.5 billion.

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Edge AI: Is it Right for Your Business?

Information Week

By bringing AI directly to IT devices and systems, edge AI promises to slash latency and speed response times.

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Essential steps to maximize ERP project success

CIO Business Intelligence

ERP failures can cost millions, tarnish reputations, and even trigger leadership changes. So why do so many projects still lack meaningful executive oversight? With the majority of ERP programs running significantly over budget, its time for C-suite leaders to rethink their role. Executive oversight for ERP programs is mandatory and a standard industry practice, particularly in enterprises where senior leadership is accountable for the programs success or failure.

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Conquering Tail Spend in 2025: New AI-Powered Tools and Strategies for Success

Tail spend — often unmanaged, fragmented and costly — can account for as much as 80% of total transaction volume. Without the right strategy, enterprises face hidden risks and unnecessary spend. It’s time to shift from fragmented, ad hoc purchasing to a strategic, technology-driven approach. Download this GEP-sponsored Everest Group research for insights on how your competitors are upping their tail spend management game.