CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

5 key findings: AI usage and threat trends The ThreatLabz research team analyzed activity from over 800 known AI/ML applications between February and December 2024. Zscalers zero trust architecture delivers Zero Trust Everywheresecuring user, workload, and IoT/OT communicationsinfused with comprehensive AI capabilities.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The report highlights the more recent trends, top threat categories, most common targets of encrypted attacks, and other insights into how attackers are weaponizing encrypted traffic. The following subset of findings highlights some of the most prominent trends and targets. Encrypted threats accounted for 87.2% of blocked attacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

These include everything from technical design to ecosystem management and navigating emerging technology trends like AI. These concerns include: Enterprise/portfolio architecture: Planning and managing the holistic view of the complex landscape of solutions across an enterprise and within domains/portfolios.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

Looking ahead to 2025, what do you see as the key technology trends that will shape the Middle Easts digital landscape? By 2025, several key technology trends will shape the Middle Easts digital landscape. Cybersecurity will be critical, with AI-driven threat detection and public-private collaboration safeguarding digital assets.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Hybrid by design The mainframe’s ability to be integrated with and modernized by cloud computing architectures is an integral part of its future role. Most enterprises have built tech estates on hybrid cloud architecture, the researchers stated. “In

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

Alongside the technical components, LF Networking released its global survey on the state of open networking that reveals a series of key trends. We expect that trend to continue and AI to proliferate into all of the hosted projects, making it easier to consume the technology and making the network operate more efficiently, he said.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

405B workload compared to the companys H200 NVL8, which is based on the Hopper architecture. In the latest round of benchmarks, the three year old architecture still managed to achieve a 60% performance boost over last year on the Llama 2 70B workload. That isnt to say that Hopper is lagging.

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Data Center Architecture Open Source Trends 312

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

With growing concerns over advanced threats, VPN security issues, network complexity, and adversarial AI, enterprises are showing increased interest in a zero trust approach to security and moving away from firewall-and-VPN based architecture. Zero trust is anticipated to be a defining trend in the cybersecurity landscape by 2025.

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Information Week

JUNE 2, 2023

Here’s how organizations adopting cloud-native architectures can bypass missteps on their migration journey.

Cloud 471

Cloud Trends Architecture 471

Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2024

To shed light on this burgeoning threat landscape, the Zscaler ThreatLabz research team conducted a detailed analysis of mobile and IoT/OT attack trends from June 2023 to May 2024. Top Mobile and IoT/OT trends Rise in financially-motivated mobile threats, including a 111% rise in spyware and 29% growth in banking malware.

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Mobile Trends Malware Spyware 418

Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. The demand for AI skills is projected to persistently grow as these technologies become more central to network engineering and architectural roles.

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Network Cloud Architecture Security 307

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 321

Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

His role requires anticipating future trends, understanding customer needs, knowing what Ciscos competitors are doing, and sharing that insight with key decision makers at Cisco. Ultimately, the idea is to build a trustworthy AI ecosystem to ensure agents perform reliably across diverse environments.

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Security Data Center Network Open Source 413

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The growing need for leadership that understands both realms has sparked an emerging trend where architects, with their unique ability to combine technical expertise and strategic thinking, are transitioning into leadership roles. The future of leadership is agile, adaptable and architecturally driven.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Focus: General information about data centers, design, management, and industry trends. Key topics: Data center types, standards, key constraints, regulations, energy management, security, market drivers and trends. Focus: General information about data centers, design, management, and industry trends.

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Data Center Data Energy Programming 434

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando.

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Trends Energy Government System 435

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead. Data fabric is an architecture that enables the end-to-end integration of various data pipelines and cloud environments through the use of intelligent and automated systems.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center teams. Check back for regular updates.

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Network Trends Survey Cloud 418

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

One of my most pleasant and inspiring responsibilities is coordinating the annual Enterprise Architecture awards. Last year we had a record 29 entries across the globe, and noted a number of key trends […] These awards have been an institution since 2010, and as of last year now are conducted in partnership with The Open Group.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Support capacity planning, resource allocation and help maintain optimal network performance and flow through analysis usage trends to predict future demands. AI can assess network health through performance trends and compare those with industry peers.

Network 431

Network Resources Artificial Intelligence Enterprise 431

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

Cloud 245

Cloud Strategy Architecture Enterprise 245

Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

Network 488

Network Research Security Data Center 488

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

In the realm of systems, this translates to leveraging architectural patterns that prioritize modularity, scalability, and adaptability. Headless, composable architectures are helping businesses select best-of-breed products and compose them into a system that aligns with business goals. What is a composable architecture?

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For example, the open-source AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek seems to have shown that an LLM can produce very high-quality results at a very low cost with some clever architectural changes to how the models work. These improvements are likely to be quickly replicated by other AI companies. Networking will be heavily impacted by AI.

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Data Center Data Network Budget 427

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. In 2010, SAP introduced the HANA database.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Understanding this complexity, the FinOps Foundation is developing best practices and frameworks to integrate SaaS into the FinOps architecture. Obtaining and evaluating billing information from Cloud providers and SaaS vendors helps enterprises to keep an eye on consumption trends, cut down on waste, and manage license distribution.

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Our merry band of Forrester analysts covering enterprise architecture, infrastructure, application development, application security, and technology strategy meets periodically to share research, debate trends, and dive into breaking news. What are a few of the trends and themes that have caught our attention this year?

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Forrester IT

MARCH 13, 2025

In that report, we analyzed how the cloud-native ecosystem, driven by open-source software (OSS), has been powering architecture modernization across infrastructure and application development, enabling platform-driven innovation in the meantime across a spectrum of technology domains such as data […]

Open Source 259

Open Source Cloud Architecture Applications 259

Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatters approach could flatten this architecture. Industry experts see this as part of a larger trend. Traditional data centers connect GPUs through a hierarchy of networked switches, creating latency as data travels through multiple points to reach its destination.

Data Center 338

Data Center Data Energy Resources 338

Network World

AUGUST 23, 2024

Recent trends show that ransomware attacks continue to grow more advanced and persistent. The Zscaler ThreatLabz team has just released its latest research on this critical ransomware threat landscape in the ThreatLabz 2024 Ransomware Report , shedding light on new data and trends. Top ransomware trends 1. ThreatLabz analyzed 4.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

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CTO Hire Software Development Software Software 354

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Which are not longer an architectural fit? In this environment it is critical that technology leaders reduce the footprint of and remove the legacy systems that are difficult to change, do not fit with future architectures, and that trend toward obsolescence. Which are obsolete? Which are a nightmare to support?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trust Architectures and Digital Identity – Trust architectures and digital identity have grown by nearly 50 percent, reflecting the increasing importance of security, privacy, and resilience. – Generative AI is expected to contribute up to $4.4

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Trends Architecture .Net Software Development 298

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2025

Others have deprioritized addressing technical debt as well as modernizing legacy systems and architecture , says Sumeet Gupta, senior managing director and leader of the digital transformation and AI transformation teams at FTI Consulting. Many companies are trying to leapfrog, and theres no way they can leapfrog.

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Budget Examples Research Architecture 313

Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As a part of its own network modernization transformation, Kyndryl noted that it has shifted from an on-premises network architecture with 54 data centers to cloud-first, SASE-based, zero-trustsecurity principles using select services from its technology partners.

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WAN Firewall Network Security 243

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While an LLM comes to mind when we consider survey analysis, we demonstrated that simpler tools like Snowflake and dbt were perfectly capable of efficiently analyzing trends and generating valuable insights without the resource burden of an LLM. Their data primarily consisted of a huge volume of member surveys.

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