Thu.Sep 19, 2024

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Overcome The Five Poisons (Kleshas) Of Human Risk Management

Forrester IT

I am thrilled to announce Forrester’s Human Risk Management (HRM) Solutions Wave™ which evaluates the nine most significant vendors in the HRM space. Forrester clients can view here.

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The AI Power Paradox

Information Week

The energy needed to train AI models is draining the power grid. But AI may also be key to sustainable energy management.

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Generative AI: Transformative Technology Or Big Disappointment?

Forrester IT

Let me tell you about my recent podiatrist appointment. No, not the medical bit (which is boring), but the podiatrist’s use of generative AI. Like me, he’s not the youngest, but his enthusiasm for the solution he’s using was palpable.

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3 Ways for Boardrooms To Increase Their Security IQ and Address Cyber Risk

Information Week

Here’s how boards can uplevel their security intelligence and establish appropriate enterprise risk management strategies to close potential gaps.

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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.

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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution

Forrester IT

On Tuesday, IBM announced its acquisition of Kubernetes cost management solution, Kubecost. This acquisition follows a series of FinOps-focused companies in recent years with Apptio (TBM/FinOps), Turbonomic (FinOps/resource automation), NordCloud (FinOps services), and Instana (observability). Answers To Your Top Questions About The Kubecost Acquistion What should I know?

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Juniper jumps into Wi-Fi 7 with enterprise switches, access points

Network World

Juniper is joining the Wi-Fi 7 march with new switches and access points that promise higher throughput, lower latency and extended range for enterprise wireless applications. The vendor rolled out new EX Series Ethernet access switches – the EX4400-48MXP and EX4400-48XP – with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 access points and managed by the Juniper Mist cloud, which offers a suite of tools for enterprise wired and wireless network management.

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California’s New Deepfake Laws Await Test of Enforcement

Information Week

An effort to quell misinformation that could cloud the US presidential election may come down to compliance among companies that publish and share content.

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Customer Data Platforms Show That Playing The Long Game Pays Off

Forrester IT

Forrester has published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms for B2C, Q3 2024. It’s an exciting moment because this is the very first Forrester Wave evaluation for this category. Given the heavy buyer and vendor interest in customer data platforms it evokes the obvious question “What took you so long?!

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23andMe $30M Data Breach Settlement: How Valuable Is Genetic Data?

Information Week

23andMe agreed to settle a class action lawsuit, but the related breach likely won’t be the last to impact genetic data.

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SVM Players Dominate, But Fail To Match The Innovation Of Best-Of-Breed Players

Forrester IT

Supplier Value Management platforms is a critical enterprise software category enabling enterprises to implement their source-to-pay processes. Enterprises seeking a system of record for all supplier spend and supplier information are busy unbundling ERP and other “procurement” tools such as Excel, and embracing SVM platforms.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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List of Intune Feature Gaps and Targeting Gaps Vs SCCM via Community | Intune is Still Lacking | What you think?

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and Facebook Page to get the latest updates [link] The post List of Intune Feature Gaps and Targeting Gaps Vs SCCM via Community | Intune is Still Lacking | What you think? appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Your Buyer Changed, You Didn’t. It’s Time For A Revenue Process Transformation.

Forrester IT

What I’m going to tell you is something that you already know. It’s not a surprise, it’s not a secret, and it’s something that we in B2B marketing have known for many years – the buyer has changed.

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Cisco bolsters optical network software

Network World

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks. Routed Optical Networking offers an architecture that unifies the wave division multiplexing (WDM), optical transport network (OTN), and packet transport layers into a single layer

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Amazon’s latest return-to-office call will further slow Seattle’s already tough commute

GeekWire

Traffic heading south toward downtown Seattle on SR-99. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Love it or hate it, remote work was good for Seattle’s traffic problem. With Amazon’s announcement this week that it wants thousands of corporate and tech workers in the office five days a week, expect congestion into and of the city to get worse. All you have to do is look at the data from when the company mandated at least three days in the office last year.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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Intel strikes foundry deal with AWS

Network World

In a very big win for its foundry business, Intel announced it has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with AWS to co-develop an “AI fabric chip” using Intel’s 18A chip fabrication process. Intel also agreed to produce a custom Xeon 6 processor for AWS as part of an existing deal between the two firms. The custom Xeon 6 CPUs for AWS will use the Intel 3 manufacturing process, which is what Intel uses now to produce Xeon Scalable processors for AWS.

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

CIO Business Intelligence

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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FCC: AT&T Didn't Adequately Protect Customers' Cloud Data

Information Week

Regulators fine AT&T $13 million for failing to protect customer information held by a third-party vendor, and extend consumer data protections to the cloud.

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AI could be taken over by a few multinationals, warns UN

CIO Business Intelligence

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Researchers create 'everlasting' 5D genome memory crystal that can one day help revive humans

TechSpot

Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct.

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Google to Label AI-Generated Images in Search Results

Tech Republic

Google’s new AI disclosure feature can impact customer trust and help to maintain credibility in search and advertising.

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Microsoft, BlackRock form group to raise $100 billion for AI data centers

Network World

Microsoft and BlackRock are leading a group of investment companies with plans to plow up to $100 billion into the development of data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them. The AI partnership – which the group is calling the Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership (GAIIP) – also includes Global Infrastructure Partners (which BlackRock is in the process of acquiring) and Abu Dhabi-backed investment company MGX.

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Digital Maturity Key to AI Success in Australian Cyber Security

Tech Republic Security

ManageEngine reveals that digital maturity is essential for AI success in Australian cybersecurity. Discover how streamlined processes and automation boost AI ROI and effectiveness.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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7 steps to a more adaptive enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

AdaptiveION co-founders Steve Davis and Ken Spangler are two former technology executives who know what it takes to build and lead a highly adaptive organization capable of thriving through change or disruption. As a managing director at Accenture, Davis led some of the largest agile transformations at global scale. Spangler’s leadership and vision as a global technology EVP at FedEx enabled teams to deliver on leading-edge technology in the worldwide transportation and logistics industry.

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Port of Seattle’s refusal to pay bitcoin ransom highlights cybersecurity dilemma

GeekWire

Sen. Maria Cantwell (left) shakes hands with Lance Lyttle, aviation managing director at the Port of Seattle, at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing this week to examine aviation cybersecurity threats. (Official U.S. Senate Photo / Renee Bouchard) The Port of Seattle is dealing with a common conundrum facing victims of a ransomware attack: to pay, or not to pay.

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Alation and Salesforce partner on data governance for Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Data intelligence platform vendor Alation has partnered with Salesforce to deliver trusted, governed data across the enterprise. It will do this, it said, with bidirectional integration between its platform and Salesforce’s to seamlessly delivers data governance and end-to-end lineage within Salesforce Data Cloud. This enables companies to directly access key metadata (tags, governance policies, and data quality indicators) from over 100 data sources in Data Cloud, it said.

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International law enforcement shuts down major cybercrime communication platform Ghost

TechSpot

A broad coalition of law enforcement agencies has dismantled Ghost, a platform offering advanced, encrypted communication services for criminals. The platform was run by a single administrator, a 32-year-old man arrested in Australia, and allowed users worldwide to exchange messages and even assassination requests.

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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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Sólo 1 de cada 4 empresas pone las herramientas de IA generativa a disposición de toda la plantilla

CIO Business Intelligence

Tanto pequeñas y medianas empresas como grandes organizaciones ya se han puesto a merced de nuevas herramientas de inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa. Según el primer Barómetro de IA y Talento elaborado por NTT Data e ISDI , el 68,1% de los encuestados afirma encontrarse en alguna fase de desarrollo de soluciones relacionadas con esta tecnología.

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Astra Vulnerability Scanner Review (2024): How Good Is Astra?

Tech Republic Security

Astra Security is among the best vulnerability scanners for security-conscious companies. Learn more about its features, performance, and pricing with this detailed review.

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Una futura constelación de satélites ayudará a identificar incendios con antelación

CIO Business Intelligence

Dado el profundo impacto del cambio climático, los incendios forestales son cada vez más habituales. Hasta la fecha, los equipos de extinción solo podían utilizar imágenes de satélite de baja resolución y actualizarlas unas pocas veces al día. Como consecuencia, les resultaba complicado detectar incendios hasta que éstos adquirían, por lo menos, el tamaño de un campo de fútbol.

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I asked Bill Gates why there are still so many hungry children

Vox

Bill Gates says there have not been enough new donor countries to keep making progress in global health and child hunger campaigns. | Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bill Gates helped launch a global health revolution at the turn of the 21st century, one in which multilateral humanitarian efforts arrested the AIDS crisis in Africa and began to make strides against longtime killers like tuberculosis and malaria.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.