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AI Pact: Simplifying EU AI Act compliance for enterprises

CIO Business Intelligence

While most provisions of the EU AI Act come into effect at the end of a two-year transition period ending in August 2026, some of them enter force as early as February 2, 2025. It will have to be done by mid-2026, which is a tight timeframe, but Cisco only sees benefits to being part of the AI Pact, Quattrocchi points out.

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Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Network World

As years passed new technologies like secure access service edge (SASE) and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) burst onto the scene, and SD-WAN has fallen out of the industry limelight. Gartner predicts that 70% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WANs by 2026, up from around 45% in 2021.

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Dubai Police will have its first floating smart police station in 2026

CIO Business Intelligence

As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the force is launching a series of initiatives that integrate smart technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics into its operations.

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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

Network World

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. However, he said, the result is a nominal increase in our annual energy usage compared to our evaporative data center designs across the global fleet.

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Gartner: 13 AI insights for enterprise IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. Analysts at this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo spent tons of time talking about the impact of AI on IT systems and teams.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

By 2026, hyperscalers will have spent more on AI-optimized servers than they will have spent on any other server until then, Lovelock predicts. “We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says. Next year, that spending is not going away. CEO and president there.

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AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, as well as the research firm’s annual predictions list. “It It is clear that no matter where we go, we cannot avoid the impact of AI,” Daryl Plummer, distinguished vice president analyst, chief of research and Gartner Fellow told attendees. “AI

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