Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
*Article has ben updated to include a joint response from HP and Juniper to the U.S. DOJ complaint* After months of speculation, the U.S. Justice Department today sued to block the $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The Justice Department said reduced competition in the wireless market is the biggest problem with the proposed buy.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
While most provisions of the EU AI Act come into effect at the end of a two-year transition period ending in August 2026, some of them enter force as early as February 2, 2025. The European law on artificial intelligence is extensive and complex and understanding it and integrating it into daily practice requires a great deal of effort, knowledge, and resources, say CIOs, experts and executives from the legal and public policy areas of enterprises, who agree that those two years to reach full co
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Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
When AI agents begin to proliferate, a new, open structure will be needed so they can securely communicate and collaborate together to solve complex problems, suggests Cisco. To head off potential problems such as agent sprawl and fragmented infrastructure, Ciscos advanced research outfit Outshift is proposing the Internet of Agents, an open-sourced, three-layer architecture that would enable quantum-safe, agent-to-agent communication to allow AI agents to collaborate autonomously and share comp
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. A lot has gone down since 2019, and Gartners latest guidance on the topic comes from John-David Lovelock, vice president analyst,who says, Its not as though the data center is going away.
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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
Forrester IT
JANUARY 30, 2025
Its a fast and furious week in the world of generative AI and AI security.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made a big splash last week when it unveiled an open-source version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, claiming performance superior to OpenAIs o1 generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). The news caused NVIDIA, leading maker of GPUs used to power AI in data centers, to shed nearly $600 billion of its market cap on Monday because DeepSeeks innovations, according to Gartner, appear to use significantly less advanced hardware and computing power resources, while stil
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
La fiebre del oro de la inteligencia artificial (IA) est creando un problema inesperado: un desperdicio masivo en el aprovisionamiento de recursos. El exceso de costes de la nube conduce inevitablemente a una falta de verdadero retorno de la inversin para estos sistemas. Muchas empresas gastan 2 dlares para obtener 1 dlar de beneficios. Eso no es rentable.
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. It reported that, for Q2 of its 2025 fiscal year, the revenue increased $1.3 billion, a 14% boost. But that is the lowest percentage increase in quite some time; in the same quarter of 2024, intelligent cloud operating income grew by $3.6 billion, a whopping 40%.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
We all know technology moves fast and is only moving faster. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are moving faster than previous technologies and it is transforming companies and industries at an extraordinary rate. There is such excitement about these technologies and their use cases that we are starting to see implementations everywhere. Employees are experimenting, developing, and moving these AI technologies into production, whether their organization has AI policies or not.
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
Despite initiating a probe into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Microsoft has added the startups latest reasoning model R1, to its model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. Azure AI Foundry , which is a rebranded version of Azure AI Studio , comprises the Azure AI Foundry portal, which was earlier the Azure AI Studio, the Azure AI Foundry software development kit (SDK), Azure AI Agents, and pre-built app templates along with some tools for AI-based application development.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically transform how the world works. AI has the ability to ingest and decipher the complexities of data at unprecedented speeds that humans just cannot match. Already, leading organizations are seeing significant benefits from the use of AI. But for many, simply providing the necessary infrastructure for these projects is the first challenge but it does not have to be.
Forrester IT
JANUARY 30, 2025
As a keen amateur chef, I have been known to occasionally seek inspiration from a tv cooking competition. Those bite-sized episodes of culinary drama sometimes provide just enough to satisfy my hunger for light evening entertainment.
Information Week
JANUARY 30, 2025
The number of CISOs who report directly to the CEO is up sharply in recent years, but many still say it's not enough to secure adequate resources.
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
Network engineers report that they see the current and future value in using artificial intelligence for network management and cybersecurity purposes, according to new survey results, but they also anticipate more barriers to successful adoption than their C-suite counterparts. Network technology provider Opengear surveyed some 513 CIOs and CSOs and 508 network engineers across the U.K., U.S., France, Germany, and Australia to learn more about how organizations are applying AI in network manage
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Information Week
JANUARY 30, 2025
Data thefts by ransomware gangs are causing devastating losses. What can you do when it happens to your company?
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
Artificial intelligence is changing how work gets done, creating new technology roles, and transforming the entire employment landscape. To help professionals better prepare and compete in the job market, CompTIA recently launched its AI Essentials program that promises to help learners develop skills in AI fundamentals. CompTIAs AI Essentials will focus on AI fundamentals to help professionals learn how to apply the technology in various scenarios in the workplace as well as give them an unders
Forrester IT
JANUARY 30, 2025
The proactive security market is consolidating further as exposure management vendor Tenable announced its intent to acquire Vulcan Cyber, a unified vulnerability management (UVM) vendor that specializes in third-party vulnerability collection, vulnerability response, and application security posture management.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
ServiceNow has added more support for agentic AI to its cloud-based Now platform for digital workflow operations to help enterprises manage enterprises more easily while increasing productivity. The additions include AI Agent Orchestrator for managing agents, AI Agent Studio for building them, and new pre-built agents for various workflows. The company took its first steps towards agentic AI in September 2024 with the Xanadu update to its Now Platform.
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GeekWire
JANUARY 30, 2025
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a supersized version of its Tlu 3 AI model, aiming to further advance the field of open-source artificial intelligence and demonstrate its own techniques for enhancing the capabilities of AI models. The Seattle-based institute said the new Tlu 3 405B model, announced Thursday morning , rivals or exceeds the performance of OpenAI’s GPT 4o and DeepSeek v3 the open-source model from China that has grabbed the attention of the tech world and challenge
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
Since its founding in 1939, family-owned business group Guzmn Global has been dedicated to covering sectors such as minerals and food ingredients, both nationally and internationally. Today, underthe brand name Guzmn Minerals, the company, with headquarters in Valencia, is focused on managing its more than 4,000 clients in 53 countries by adhering to its sustainable and human vision for continued growth and international expansion.
TechSpot
JANUARY 30, 2025
Chinese startup DeepSeek released its open-source R1 AI model this month, trained using 671 billion parameters using just 2,048 Nvidia H800s and $5.6 million a fraction of the resources required by tech giants who spend billions on their AI systems. The prospect of companies no longer having to buy.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
Kathy Kay is a senior IT executive who enables business success by driving simplicity in a complex world. As executive vice president and CIO,Kay oversees the global technology and digital strategies for Principal Financial Group, where she is helping build the financial investment management and insurance companys future. On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we explored Kays various roles as a builder, from building businesses, teams, and innovative ecosystems to building clarit
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Tech Republic
JANUARY 30, 2025
Research Firm Wiz Research began investigating DeepSeek soon after its generative AI took the tech world by storm.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 30, 2025
Browser extensions have been under the spotlight in enterprise security news recently due to the wave of OAuth attacks on Chrome extension developers and data exfiltration attacks. However, until now, due to the limitations browser vendors place on the extension subsystem and extensions, it was thought to be impossible for extensions to gain full control of the browser, much less the device.
TechSpot
JANUARY 30, 2025
The RTX 5090's 30% increase in performance for a 25% price jump compared to the RTX 4090 has disappointed many gamers, and the RTX 5080 is even worse.
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 30, 2025
Working in cybersecurity is demanding. Analysts must investigate and remedy thousands of alerts every day while remaining adaptable to an ever-changing technological landscape. Cybersecurity is fast-paced and can be demanding. You can't always turn off your laptop at the end of the day and forget about it. Most professionals in this field work unsociable hours just to stay on top of their workload.
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Tariffs will have a major impact on your supply chain, margins, and operations. Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.
TechSpot
JANUARY 30, 2025
Nvidia revealed the RTX 5070 / 5070 Ti at CES alongside the 5090 and 5080. The main specs were already known, but now the company has released an official document that dives further into the hardware.
GeekWire
JANUARY 30, 2025
Alvina Antar, F5’s chief digital officer. (LinkedIn Photo) — Alvina Antar is the first chief digital officer for Seattle-based networking and security giant F5. Antar comes to the role from Okta, an identity security company, where she was chief information officer for nearly four years. Previously she was the first CIO at Zuora, where she helped with the subscription tech company’s IPO.
TechSpot
JANUARY 30, 2025
According to an X post by David McAfee, the VP and GM of Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics at AMD, the company tested the 7900 XTX against the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Super using DeepSeek R1, and the RDNA 3 GPU was between 13 percent and 34 percent faster.
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 30, 2025
In a coordinated international effort, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and Australia have dismantled Cracked and Nulled, two of the world's largest cybercrime marketplaces. These underground forumshome to more than 10 million usersfacilitated the trade of stolen data, hacking tools, and cybercrime-as-a-service, making these illicit activities more accessible than ever.
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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.
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