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AI dominates Gartner’s 2025 predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner’s top predictions for 2025 are as follows: Through 2026, 20% of organizations will use AI to flatten their organizational structure, eliminating more than half of current middle management positions. By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says.

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Nvidia’s silicon photonics switches bring better power efficiency to AI data centers

Network World

The Ethernet switches are coming to market in 2026. Nvidia will licensing the innovations created to its partners and customers with the goal of scaling this model. For larger-scale deployments, Spectrum-X can expand to 512 ports of 800 Gbps or 2,048 ports of 200 Gbps, reaching a whopping 400 Tbps.

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Cato Networks launches managed SASE partner platform

Network World

Channel partners now have vendor-level powers over licensing, account management, visibility, and more,” said Frank Rauch, global channel chief at Cato Networks, in a statement. It enables multi-tenancy, immediate access to new features, and centralized management capabilities geared for MSPs. Check out Network World’s SASE buyer’s guide.)

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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Salesforce mulls consumption pricing for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

28, Morgan Stanley Analyst Keith Weiss noted that with Salesforce promising big productivity gains from AI agents — deflecting up to 90% of calls from human agents — investors are worried that Salesforce customers will need to license fewer seats. During the CRM giant’s 2QFY25 earnings call on Aug.

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Amazon ships Project Kuiper satellites to Florida in preparation for milestone launch

GeekWire

Under the terms of Amazon’s license from the Federal Communications Commission, half of those satellites are to be launched by mid-2026. Eventually, 3,232 satellites are slated to go into orbit to provide high-speed internet service.

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