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It Takes a (C-Suite) Village to Implement AI

Information Week

Exec teams often see a chief AI officer as the solution to their AI implementation challenges. Yet responsibly and reliably incorporating AI throughout a company requires collaboration from across the C-suite.

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Call For Entries: Forrester 2025 B2B Summit North America Awards

Forrester IT

Do you have a success story on transforming your company or function in the service of customers? We would love to hear from you if so. Submit your story for a chance to be honored on the B2B Summit mainstage.

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Gartner: GenAI spurs 9.3% increase in IT spending for 2025

Network World

Gartner identifies generative AI as a pivotal force in tech investments for the year ahead, with the research firm’s latest projections placing global IT spending at $5.74 trillion by 2025. The Gartner forecast highlights server sales, which are expected to triple in the coming years as genAI pushes data center systems spending up by 15.5% in 2025. Gartner reported that server sales will grow from more than $134 billion in 2023 to $332 billion by 2028, including an estimated more than $257 billi

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Embracing AIOps: Revolutionizing DevOps And Agile Methodologies

Forrester IT

Learn how AIOps can significantly enhance the efficiency, speed, and reliability of software development and deployment processes.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Keep IT Up and Running During a Disaster

Information Week

Natural disasters can have devastating effects on IT infrastructure. How can you plan for these events and ensure that your IT remains operational when they occur?

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Craft An Intelligent Business Case For SaaS ERP

Forrester IT

One of the most strategic, and costly, business applications is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. ERP is critical to an organization, underpinning functions such as finance and business operations. Organizations should strive for a modern ERP solution; however modernizing ERP is often a costly and time-consuming process.

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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. In fact, a recent Cloudera survey found that 88% of IT leaders said their organization is currently using AI in some way.

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MEF has a vision for NaaS: Easy provisioning and integrated security across a federated network of providers

Network World

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is pushing forward with an ambitious vision to modernize network-as-a-service (NaaS ) offerings through automation, cloud integration and cybersecurity capabilities. At this week’s MEF Global NaaS Event held in Dallas, Texas, the organization released its 2025 NaaS Blueprint while highlighting significant momentum in API adoption and security certifications, marking major steps toward achieving its vision.

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Best Antivirus Software for Small Businesses in 2024

Tech Republic Security

Bitdefender is our overall pick for the best antivirus software for small businesses, while Norton offers 24/7 support, and ESET provides scalability.

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Google Cloud service lets customers prioritize network traffic between clouds

Network World

Google Cloud has rolled out a new service that will let enterprise customers set traffic priorities and control bandwidth for cloud-based workloads. The application awareness package is part of Google’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect service which offers secure, dedicated high-speed connections between the Google Cloud network and customer networks hosted in other clouds—such as, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or Alibaba.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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The future of Gen AI in analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

As businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to interact with customers, the need for advanced tools to understand and optimize these experiences has never been greater. Enter Gen AI, a transformative force reshaping digital experience analytics (DXA). Gen AI allows organizations to unlock deeper insights and act on them with unprecedented speed by automating the collection and analysis of user data.

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Operation Magnus: Joint Law Enforcement Operation Targets Major Infostealer Networks

Tech Republic Security

Read more about a joint operation between several law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Portugal, The Netherlands, and the U.K. to tackle RedLine Stealer and META malware.

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Why ethical AI should be important to CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. At Google’s parent company, she worked with moonshot companies such as Waymo, Wing, and X, to shape sustainable businesses and global impact.

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Why Transnational Cooperation Is Key in the Battle Against Cross-Border Cybercrime

IT Toolbox

Hackers have learned that transnational attacks - attacks on victims outside their national borders - are low risk and high yield. Because so many different governments and regulations are involved, these types of attacks are also difficult to apprehend. The post Why Transnational Cooperation Is Key in the Battle Against Cross-Border Cybercrime appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Overwhelmed cybersecurity teams need autonomous solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, security teams worldwide are under immense pressure. They are inundated by increasingly potent cyber threats, especially as threat actors are now leveraging AI to enhance their attack strategies. Addressing intensifying threats The modern threat landscape consists of increasingly complex and varied attacks. Today’s cybercriminals are leveraging advanced techniques to breach security perimeters – ransomware attacks are more targeted, phishing campaigns are increasingly sophisticated, and a

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Do data center CPUs have shorter lifespans?

Network World

Will data center GPUs have their lifespans reduced by constantly running at high utilization rates? That is an issue raised by an anonymous poster on X, but at this point it’s just a theory. The posting copied a screenshot of an unsourced message from a “GenAI principal architect at Alphabet Inc.” who said assuming a utilization rate of 60% to 70% – which CoreWeave and Lambda Labs reportedly achieve – would lead to a lifespan of three years instead of the anticipated five years.

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Enable Entra Website SSO using Configuration Profiles for Edge Browser using Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enable Entra Website SSO using Configuration Profiles for Edge Browser using Microsoft 365 Admin Center appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Celanese operates more than 50 large manufacturing plants across 27 countries, and has made several significant acquisitions in recent years, including Dupont’s $11 billion mobility and materials (M&M) business. At the same time, the company is undergoing a massive digital transformation. Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpo

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Belgium is constructing the world's first artificial island to harness offshore wind

TechSpot

The €650 million ($702 million) project is being funded by the European Investment Bank, which recently finalized a green credit deal with Belgian transmission operator Elia to kick off the first phase. This initiative is a key part of the EU's ambitious REPowerEU plan to phase out fossil fuels and.

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Siete señales de que es hora de modernizar sus sistemas informáticos

CIO Business Intelligence

La tecnología sigue avanzando a un ritmo vertiginoso. Eso es estupendo, porque un entorno informático sólido es necesario para aprovechar las últimas innovaciones y oportunidades de negocio. La mala noticia, sin embargo, es que la modernización de los sistemas informáticos requiere importantes inversiones financieras y de tiempo. Cuando se aborda adecuadamente, la modernización de aplicaciones y plataformas genera un valor inmenso y sitúa a las organizaciones por delante de su competencia, afirm

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Archon Biosciences emerges from stealth with $20M to create tiny ‘Antibody Cages’

GeekWire

Archon Biosciences’ co-founders, James Lazarovits and George Ueda, lead a tour through their Seattle lab. Ueda is holding an expandable toy that he uses to demonstrate how the company’s computationally designed Antibody Cages work. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Three weeks after University of Washington biochemist David Baker won a Nobel Prize , the latest venture that’s spun off from his lab — Archon Biosciences — has emerged from stealth mode with $20 million in f

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11 Marketing Strategy Templates You Can Download for Free

Tech Republic

Discover the best marketing strategy templates for ClickUp, Asana, Notion, monday.com, Google Sheets, Excel, and more.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Podcast: Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the color Kindle, AI, and his first year on the job

GeekWire

Panos Panay, Amazon’s senior vice president of Devices and Services, introduces the new Kindle Colorsoft at a recent Amazon media event. (Amazon Photo) Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast is Panos Panay , Amazon’s senior vice president of Devices and Services, a longtime leader in the world of consumer technology. It has been one year since he started at Amazon , after his surprise departure from Microsoft , where he oversaw products including Surface and Windows.

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Elon Musk's supercomputer with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs uses proprietary Spectrum-X networking platform

TechSpot

The high-performance computing system built by xAI, featuring 100,000 Hopper GPUs, is named Colossus. The system utilizes the company's Spectrum-X networking platform instead of InfiniBand, which Nvidia acquired in 2019 along with the last independent supplier of the technology, Mellanox.

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Microsoft beats expectations with nearly $25B in quarterly profits, as AI revenue boosts cloud growth

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations across its key financial metrics for its first quarter of fiscal 2025 , as artificial intelligence contributed 12 percentage points, a new high, to a 33% increase in the company’s Azure cloud revenue. The company overall posted revenue of $65.6 billion, up 16%, vs. analyst expectations of $64.5 billion; profits of $24.7 billion, up 11%; and earnings per share of $3.30, compared to th

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Russia fines Google $20.5 decillion for blocking YouTube channels

TechSpot

YouTube was banning Russian channels even before Vladimir Putin's forces invaded Ukraine. In 2020, the service banned the Tsargrad TV channel and RIA FAN due to what Google said were violations of sanctions legislation and trade rules.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Univ. of Washington selected for new federally funded Northwest innovation training hub

GeekWire

The University of Washington’s Condon Hall, which houses the CoMotion offices as well as Startup Hall. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The University of Washington is part of a new federally selected Northwest Region Hub to support the commercialization and deployment of technologies in fields including medical tech, energy, clean tech, agricultural and food tech, and maritime and related technologies.

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Ways to ward off a doomed stakeholder management strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

While new technologies have shifted priorities, the need to manage stakeholders has not, says Krishna Prasad, CIO of technology services business UST. And with AI used in almost every part of the business, stakeholders have become much more tech savvy, reducing their dependency on IT departments. But as a result, anybody could then expose a lot of company data inadvertently.

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Microsoft’s financial disclosures show how OpenAI is fueling growth — and taking a toll on profits

GeekWire

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle earlier this year. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft disclosed the size of its OpenAI investment for the first time, acknowledging in its quarterly regulatory filing Wednesday afternoon that it has made “total funding commitments of $13 billion” to the ChatGPT maker.

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Jorge González (Adolfo Domínguez): “Sentimos la transformación digital como un acompañamiento a la estrategia de negocio”

CIO Business Intelligence

Corría el año 1976 cuando el grupo Adolfo Domínguez S.A veía la luz en tierras gallegas, concretamente en Orense. Lo hacía de la mano del padre del famoso modisto e intelectual, con quien compartía nombre y vocación, tras transformar la anciana sastrería que regentaba bautizada como El Faro. Desde entonces han sido diversas las olas de transformación que el aclamado gigante del retail ha vivido, ahora, con la digitalización como punta de lanza.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.