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Adding, managing and deleting groups on Linux

Network World

User groups on Linux systems are often set up to provide access permissions to specific groups of users who share some responsibility. For example, a particular group of users may be allowed to run commands with superuser privilege or access a group of shared files. Another group may be given permission to add, update or remove user accounts. User groups provide a way to give specific people common access privileges for system functions and resources, such as files, directories, and peripheral d

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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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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just mont

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HPE, Nvidia broaden AI infrastructure lineup

Network World

HPE and Nvidia added to their joint, prepackaged service offerings that are aimed at helping enterprises support AI workloads. At Nvidias GTC AI Conference going on this week in San Jose, Calif., HPE said it would add features to its Nvidia co-developed Private Cloud AI package, which integrates Nvidia GPUs, networks, and software with HPEs AI memory, computing and GreenLake cloud support.

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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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Top AI Use Cases For Accounts Receivable Automation In 2025

Forrester IT

The AI Transformation In AR In the dynamic world of finance, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming accounts receivable (AR) processes, driving efficiency and accuracy like never before. Our latest report, “Top AI Use Cases for Accounts Receivable Automation in 2025,” explores the groundbreaking ways AI is reshaping AR, from collection management to electronic invoice presentment.

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3 Myths Creating an Inflated Sense of Cybersecurity

Information Week

Organizations arent as prepared for a cyber-attack as they think. Acknowledging these limitations is key to effectively addressing challenges when they arise.

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Google To Acquire CNAPP Specialist Unicorn Wiz For $32 Billion

Forrester IT

Google has announced definite plans to acquire cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) vendor Wiz for $32 billion, which is the largest ever acquisition in cybersecurity, surpassing the $28 billion that Cisco paid for Splunk in 2024.

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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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Google Acquires Startup Wiz for $32B to Make ‘Cybersecurity More Accessible And Simpler’

Tech Republic Security

Googles agreement to buy cloud security startup Wiz will face antitrust scrutiny amid Alphabets ongoing legal battles.

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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The modern network security landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the increasing complexity of business operations and the rise of new technologies. The distributed nature of todays work environments, fueled by cloud computing, remote work, and the Internet of Things (IoT), presents unprecedented security challenges. Traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient, and organizations are seeking comprehensive solutions that can protect their data and resou

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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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Keysight network packet brokers gain AI-powered features

Network World

Network packet broker ( NPB )technology has been deployed inside of networks for over a decade. Like just about everything else in the IT and networking stack in 2025, AI is now increasingly becoming a key feature. This week, network hardware and testing vendor Keysight Technologies announced an expansion of its Vision series network packet brokers with the debut of new AI Insight Broker features.

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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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What’s New in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality?

Information Week

AI is dominating corporate tech, but enhanced reality technologies like AR and VR are still evolving. Chief information officers shouldnt lose track of their business potential.

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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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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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SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027

CIO Business Intelligence

At a press conference held in Seoul on March 20, SAP CEO Christian Klein personally introduced the Korean market to SAPs AI-specific services, describing how SAPs AI vision can help Korean companies realize theirs. Samsung, LG, and other top 10 conglomerates in Korea are SAP customers, and many excellent customers in Korea are using SAP to enhance their global competitiveness, said Klein.

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Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra, its next-generation GPU

Network World

Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its next-generation GPU called Blackwell Ultra, and also announced new systems based on the chipset. The Blackwell Ultra GPU is in production and will succeed the current generation GPU called Blackwell, said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing, in a press briefing call. The new GPU was announced at Nvidias GTC conference, which is being held this week in San Jose, California.

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ServiceNow And Salesforce Cross Battle Lines In An Escalating CRM War

Forrester IT

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems initially focused on supporting core front-office functions such as sales and marketing, but the value proposition of CRM has significantly expanded through strategic tech convergence, driving substantial revenue growth for vendors. CRM moved into the middle office to enable order management and subscription billing.

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Key Attributes That Lead to an Ethical IT Department

Information Week

Is your team on the right side of today's sensitive technology issues? Learn how to build a department that's moral as well as capable and efficient.

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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 Google’s $32B deal to buy Wiz redefines the cloud security industry

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler) Editor’s note: A version of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Sunil Gottumukkala is co-founder and CEO at Averlon, a Seattle-area cybersecurity startup founded in 2022. Here’s my take on Googles $32 billion bet on cloud security with their offer to acquire Wiz. I think they just redefined the game.

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Palladium apuesta por la IA y la gestión del dato para la toma de decisiones estratégicas y la optimización de procesos

CIO Business Intelligence

An con la resaca de Fitur 2025, que cerr sus puertas hace poco ms de un mes con cerca de 255.000 asistentes, la compaa hotelera de origen balear Palladium Hotel Group afronta un ao marcado por una ambiciosa estrategia de expansin y crecimiento que contempla la apertura de nuevos hoteles en zonas como el Caribe, el Mediterrneo, Oriente Medio o el sudeste asitico.

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Nvidia details its GPU, CPU, and system roadmap for the next three years

Network World

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared previously unreleased specifications for its Rubin graphics processing unit (GPU), due in 2026, the Rubin Ultra coming in 2027, and announced the addition of a new GPU called Feynman to the mix for 2028. He provided the details during his keynote at the companys GTC AI developer conference, being held this week in San Jose, California.

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It’s Not Your Automation, It’s Your Change Management

Forrester IT

Change isn’t just hard it’s a continuous battle, and one that automation will make more intense and frequent. And if you think you’re prepared for automations pace of change that is coming, you’re already behind.

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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

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Toxic Cybersecurity Workplaces: How to Identify Them and Fix Them

Information Week

Toxicity in cybersecurity environments is not just a problem for workers. It can lead to breaches. Are CISOs, CIOs and other leaders a part of the problem? Heres what they need to know.

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Human-level AI is just a few ‘miracles’ away, Microsoft pioneer Nathan Myhrvold says

GeekWire

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold makes a point during a fireside chat with GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event at Town Hall Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Will artificial intelligence ever catch up with human intelligence? And if it does, is humanity doomed? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold, who had the job of predicting the future of tech during Microsoft’s early years, was ready with some answers at GeekWire’s Microsoft

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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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Critical vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC BMC allows server takeover

Network World

Researchers found a critical vulnerability in the AMI MegaRAC baseband management controller (BMC) used by multiple server manufacturers. The vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable servers over the Redfish management interface. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely control the compromised server, remotely deploy malware, ransomware, firmware tampering, bricking motherboard components (BMC or potentially BIOS/UEFI),

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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AI Agents and Human Adoption: Insights from Domopalooza 2025

Forrester IT

AI agents are hitting the mainstream in 2025 as major AI vendors launch offerings aimed at enterprise clients (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce). These AI agents enable enterprises to build end-to-end autonomous workflows that can both analyze data and provide answers as well as completing actions without human intervention.

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From AI Fling to the Real Thing

Information Week

Heres how CIOs and IT leaders can help organizations have a thriving relationship with artificial intelligence.

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‘Game changer’ partnership with Seattle Center could help struggling Pacific Science Center thrive

GeekWire

A new partnership with the city will help remove gates that create a barrier between the Pacific Science Center and the Seattle Center and restore the facility’s iconic arches. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The city-owned Seattle Center and the Pacific Science Center have formed a first-of-its-kind partnership that will help support the nonprofit while creating a more vibrant connection between the venues.

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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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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.