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Overconfidence in Cybersecurity: A Hidden Risk

Information Week

Overconfidence in cybersecurity leaves companies exposed. Staying ahead of evolving threats means streamlining your tools and regularly reassessing your strategy.

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Predictions 2025: Younger Business Buyers And GenAI Will Upend The Status Quo

Forrester IT

B2B organizations won’t succeed without adapting to the preferences of younger business buyers. Find out how they will shape the landscape in the year ahead.

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Internet Archive Cyberattack Saga Continues

Information Week

The nonprofit suffered a series of successive cyberattacks, and it has yet to fully recover.

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Predictions 2025: Retail — Tech Investments Will Support Retailer Profitability

Forrester IT

As retailers brace for a challenging 2025, technology will play a crucial role in offsetting the impact of waning consumer demand on their business.

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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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Supermicro unveils AI-optimized storage powered by Nvidia

Network World

Supermicro announced the launch of a new storage system optimized for AI workloads using multiple Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing units (DPU) combined with an all-flash array. The new Just a Bunch of Flash (JBOF) system features a 2U rack that can house up to four BlueField-3 DPUs. These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads.

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Prognosen 2025: Der digitale Handel steht vor grundlegenden Umwälzungen

Forrester IT

Verbraucher und Geschäftseinkäufer fühlen sich mit digitalen Angeboten wohler denn je. Es gibt Anzeichen dafür, dass die Bereitschaft für noch mehr digitale Interaktion da ist, aber das muss möglicherweise warten.

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Predictions 2025: CMOs Clear Out The Clutter

Forrester IT

For B2C CMOs, 2025 will be less sensationalized and more operationalized. The result? They will step up in the broader business to lead amid a heightened confluence of operation and opportunity.

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How to Detect Deepfakes

Information Week

Deepfakes are on the rise. They’ve added another dimension to social engineering and risk management.

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Reshape 2024: Amazon Business Is Ready For Its Closeup

Forrester IT

Curious about Amazon Business and the future of B2B ecommerce? Read this blog for key insights from Forrester analyst Sucharita Kodali.

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IT pros: One-third of AI projects just for show

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations rush to spin up AI projects, many IT professionals aren’t sold on the value of these early efforts. A substantial 36% of IT professionals surveyed by Dice.com believe that the primary purpose of many AI projects they’ve worked on is to show investors, board members, or outside stakeholders that the company is doing something with AI.

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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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Prognosen 2025: Die Medienbranche lässt die großen Unbekannten von 2024 hinter sich

Forrester IT

Marketers werden an Vertrauen gewinnen, da einige offene Fragen in Bezug auf Medien und Werbung gelöst werden. Sie sollten es sich jedoch nicht allzu bequem machen. Erfahren Sie, was Sie im nächsten Jahr erwarten wird.

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What Is PCI Compliance? A Simple Guide for Businesses

Tech Republic Security

Learn what PCI compliance is and why it’s crucial for businesses handling credit card data. Explore key requirements to ensure security and protect customer information.

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Predictions 2025: Agencies Jettison Legacy Structures To Form New Agency Types

Forrester IT

The coming year will see the rise of something new as existing agency capabilities are recombined and new ones are created. Read a few of our top predictions.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are placing faith in AI. Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword. While poised to fortify the security posture of organizations, it has also changed the nature of cyberattacks.

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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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Predictions 2025: Fundamental Disconnects Will Challenge Digital Commerce

Forrester IT

Consumer and business buyers are more comfortable with digital than ever. Indications are that they’re ready to go even further — but they may have to wait.

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How to examine files on Linux

Network World

There are many types of files on Linux systems and numerous ways to look at them, from listing permissions to viewing content. You just need to pick the right command to get the information you need. The command to use to get information about a file – especially file content – depends on the type of file that you’re working with. This post describes the most basic commands, as well as some more complicated commands, that will give you information on files and file content.

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Predictions 2025: Environmental Sustainability Drivers Shift From Regulation To Efficiency And Savings

Forrester IT

While regulatory compliance will remain a driver for sustainability efforts, in 2025, sustainability teams will need to change their focus to show savings. Find out more in our 2025 environmental sustainability predictions.

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Companies to shift AI goals in 2025 — with setbacks inevitable, Forrester predicts

CIO Business Intelligence

Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025. Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. “2025 will be about the pursuit of near-term, bottom-line gains while competing for declining consumer loyalty and digital-first business buyers,” Sharyn Leaver, Forrester chief research officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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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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Predictions 2025: The Media Industry Resolves 2024’s Unruly Unknowns

Forrester IT

Marketers will gain confidence as some lingering media and advertising questions are resolved. But they shouldn’t get too confident or comfortable. Learn what the coming year will hold.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner is projecting worldwide IT spending to jump by 9.3% in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. Gartner’s new 2025 IT spending projection , of $5.75 trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2% growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs.

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Review: Arrow Lake is a Mess

TechSpot

Intel is ready to unveil its latest Core Ultra desktop CPU series. With a tile-based design, Arrow Lake marks a major architectural shift, aiming for improved performance and efficiency.

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Why your IT team needs to upgrade its digital employee experience (DEX)

CIO Business Intelligence

Business and IT leaders agree that improving the “digital employee experience” (DEX) results in better productivity and workplace morale. But recent research by Ivanti reveals an important reason why many organizations fail to achieve those benefits: rank-and-file IT workers lack the funding and the operational know-how to get it done. They don’t prioritize DEX for others because the organization hasn’t prioritized improving DEX for the IT team.

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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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Best CRM Solutions for Accounting Firms in 2024

Tech Republic

Explore the best CRM for accounting firms in 2024, featuring top tools and features tailored to streamline client management and boost efficiency.

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Avoiding ‘The Overlap Trap’: Poor org structure can sabotage results

CIO Business Intelligence

Janet Sherlock is a digital and retail executive with a long track record of modernizing organizations, processes, and solutions. She has held various P&L and technology leadership roles at companies such as British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Guess, and Carters. Most recently she was the chief digital and technology officer at Ralph Lauren, where she was responsible for the global e-commerce strategy and revenue as well as driving digital transformation.

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Fax Not Going Through? Here Are 7 Tips to Make it Send

Tech Republic

Discover the best troubleshooting tips for fax transmission issues, whether you're using an analog machine or an online service.

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Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

CIO Business Intelligence

Just a day after announcing his departure from Google to his LinkedIn followers, Amit Zavery said that he is joining ServiceNow as COO. ServiceNow said that Zavery will serve as “president, chief product officer (CPO), and chief operating officer (COO) to lead product and engineering, effective October 28, 2024.” “In his role as president, CPO, and COO, Zavery’s responsibilities include ServiceNow’s platform, products, engineering, cloud infrastructure, and user experience.

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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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Big Cable and others file multiple lawsuits to block the FTC's Click-to-Cancel regulation

TechSpot

Telecom, advertising, and newspaper lobbying groups have filed multiple lawsuits to block the Federal Trade Commission's adoption of its newly approved "Click-to-Cancel" regulation. It's not surprising considering that these same groups were contending that the rule is a disservice to consumers because they are more likely to cancel their services.

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How AI can alleviate help desk workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

The rising flood of trouble tickets is straining help desk operations. Yet many still rely on phone calls, outdated knowledge bases, and manual processes. Unsurprisingly, this is leading to staff frustration and burnout, dissatisfied end users and persistent security vulnerabilities. As many as 56% of IT workers 1 say the help desk ticket volume is up, according to a recent survey by software vendor Ivanti.

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Microsoft speeds up Windows 11 updates with version 24H2 release

TechSpot

Windows 11 version 24H2 dramatically reduces the operating system's installation time, restart time, and CPU usage. Microsoft's internal tests show that the new update process is up to 45 percent faster installation, with restart times reduced by nearly 40 percent on some systems. These improvements come with up to 25.

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How IT leaders can assess “secure-by-design” software claims

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no secret cyberthreats are increasing. The cost of reported cybercrime in the US jumped 22% last year to more than $12.5 billion, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. 1 One issue is weaknesses that have been preserved in software by traditional approaches to coding and security. To combat these risks, there is now a concerted effort to create software that is secure by design.

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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.