Tue.Apr 01, 2025

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Talent gap complicates cost-conscious cloud planning

Network World

Enterprises know everything is not moving to the cloud that was the lesson of 2024, and it triggered some extreme reactions that fueled the cloud repatriation stories we all heard. The lesson for 2025? Its that some things are, and should be, moving to the cloud. The challenge is navigating that complicated between-the-extremes space. The first step in addressing that challenge, according to enterprises, is addressing why cloud application planning is a challenge in the first place.

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Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

At Hannover Messe 2025,Accenture and Siemens announced an extension of their strategic partnership in the form of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, an Accenture-based joint business unit that will employ 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT expertise worldwide. The group will develop software-defined products and factories, combining industrial technology with AI-supported engineering and manufacturing expertise.

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Cisco takes inspiration from Iron Man for its AI-driven platform engineer

Network World

When it comes to developing highly intelligent AI agents, one might not think of combining open systems technology and the theoretical super-logic behind a movie character, but Ciscos Outshift development team is doing just that. The Outshift by Cisco team is developing JARVIS, an AI platform engineer and the persona behind a multi-agentic system that includes more than 15 specialized sub-agents, 40 tool integrations, and 10 automated workflows that work together to handle complex engineering ta

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The Sudden Silobreaker: GenAI Converges Search Experiences And Disciplines

Forrester IT

GenAI Mirrors Search Experiences Because of genAI, all search experiences are increasingly conversational, assistive, and agentic. Consequently, distinctions between search experiences disappear. Perplexity and Rufus, Amazons shopping assistant, both leverage genAI-integrated search, blurring the line between search engine and site search experiences.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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Lightmatter launches photonic chips to eliminate GPU idle time in AI data centers

Network World

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. The companys newly unveiled Passage L200 and M1000 platforms use light instead of electricity to move data, potentially unlocking major performance gains for companies running large AI models, the company said in a statement.

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Vecttor automatiza su flota con una solución de llave digital

CIO Business Intelligence

Vecttor, filial del grupo Cabify, da un paso ms en su apuesta por la innovacin y digitalizacin junto aTelefnica Techy la empresa de soluciones de transporte conectado Geotab. La compaa de vehculos VTC implementar, de la mano de ambos partner tecnolgicos, la solucin Keyless para optimizar su eficiencia operativa y seguir avanzando hacia una movilidad ms sostenible y segura.

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El gasto mundial en IA para 2025 rondará los 644.000 millones de dólares

CIO Business Intelligence

La inteligencia artificial (IA) mantiene su popularidad en la lista de prioridades de inversin de las organizaciones. As lo confirma la firma de anlisis e investigacin Gartner al situar el gasto mundial en IA para 2025 en, aproximadamente, 644.000 millones de dlares. Una cifra que constata una tendencia al alza del 76,4% respecto al ya caduco 2024. Las expectativas sobre las capacidades de IA generativa estn disminuyendo debido a las altas tasas de fracaso en los trabajos iniciales de prueba de

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What Do Buying Networks Mean For Revenue Enablement?

Forrester IT

Today at Forresters largest annual customer event in Phoenix, my colleague Barry Vasudevan opened B2B Summit North America with his keynote address, Introducing Buying Networks: Your Buyers New Reality, which introduced the new concept of buying networks.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO Business Intelligence

It seems like only yesterday when software developers were on top of the world, and anyone with basic coding experience could get multiple job offers. This yesterday, however, was five to six years ago, and developers are no longer the kings and queens of the IT employment hill. Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals rema

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VMWare/AG Siemens: A Cautionary Tale About The Risks of Software and Services Licensing

Forrester IT

Litigation has become the default method for companies to resolve disagreements, force accountability, and establish recourse for everything from breach-related failures to contractual disagreements.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Roundup: AMD closes ZT Systems and teams with Rapt for AI development; bands with Oracle

Network World

There s been a fair amount of activity on the AMD front that was drowned out by the hoopla from the recent Nvidia GTC news barrage. With that as a backdrop, heres a look at some recent AMD news: AMD announced plans to acquire ZT for $4.9 billion in August of last year. ZT designs, manufactures, integrates, and deploys servers for hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, although the manufacturing business is expected to be sold off this year, with AMD saying that it is in talks w

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Address The Whole Person To Impact Insider Risk 

Forrester IT

I recently attended my first-ever Insider Summit (formerly the Insider Threat Summit) in Monterey, CA. The event, in its ninth year, was attended by insider risk leaders, counterintelligence professionals, and current/former members of law enforcement and the US military. The heavy focus on people not data or systems was surprising to me.

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El 75% de los bancos aumentará la inversión en tecnología de riesgos

CIO Business Intelligence

La incertidumbre econmica global, marcada por la subida de los tipos de inters, las tensiones geopolticas y la inflacin, est obligando al sector bancario a replantear sus estrategias de gestin de riesgos. En este contexto, un nuevo estudio realizado de manera conjunta por FT Longitude y SAS revela que el 75% de los bancos a nivel internacional tiene la intencin de aumentar la inversin en infraestructura de tecnologa de riesgos, lo que supone una subida del 24% con respecto a 2021.

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How To Boost Your Third-Party Risk Program With A Spring Cleaning

Forrester IT

Prioritize Foundational Elements Over Decorative Accessories Our springtime urge to clean, redecorate, and renovate has a biological explanation. Turns out that springs increased hours of daylight lower our bodies production of melatonin (the hormone that makes you sleepy), which leads to regained energy and inspiration to clean our living environments.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Building resilient and innovative security teams in the age of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The promised land of AI transformation poses a dilemma for security teams as the new technology brings both opportunities and yet more threat. Threat actors are already using AI to write malware, to find vulnerabilities, and to breach defences faster than ever. At the same time, machine learning is playing an ever-more important role in helping enterprises combat hackers and similar.

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Dave Meyer, Chief AI Officer at Reveleer: Compliance Isn’t Enough for Healthcare AI

Information Week

Electronic healthcare records command top dollar on the dark web, so healthcare organizations need to bake protections into their handling by virtual employees.

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How DPDP Act will define data privacy in the digital-first world

CIO Business Intelligence

In CIOs 2024 Security Priorities study, 40% of tech leaders said one of their key priorities is strengthening the protection of confidential data. Cohesive, structured data is the fodder for sophisticated mathematical models that generates insights and recommendations for organizations to take decisions across the board, from operations to market trends.

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Happy 21st Birthday, Gmail! Google’s Present to Enterprise Gmail Users: End-to-End Encryption

Tech Republic Security

The new feature is more accessible than S/MIME because it eliminates the need for certificate management.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Taming the cost of AI: Is FinOps the answer?

CIO Business Intelligence

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, particularly generative AI (genAI), become increasingly integral to modern enterprises, establishing a robust financial operations (FinOps) strategy is essential. AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI.

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Fujitsu Steps Onto The Global Quantum Computing Stage

Forrester IT

The latest on Fujitsu and its Quantum Computing capabilities.

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In turbulent political times, IT can be a difference maker

CIO Business Intelligence

The always-evolving global economy has become hyper-politicized. Despite the old line that the US government is, in all actuality, little more than a military attached to an insurance company, the seldom-of-the-same-mind three anchors on CNBCs Squawk Box recently stated that they cant talk about the economy without talking about American politics specifically tariffs and White House/agency interventions.

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Agility Robotics reportedly raising $400M for humanoid warehouse robots

GeekWire

A pair of Digit robots from Agility Robotics work inside an Amazon fulfillment center south of Seattle in 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Agility Robotics , the Salem, Ore.-based company known for its Digit bipedal humanoid warehouse robot, is reportedly raising $400 million in new funding according to a report Tuesday by The Information. The report cited a person who has seen the term sheet, which put Agility’s pre-investment valuation at $1.75 billion.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

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

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Modern app delivery requires a continuous approach to security

CIO Business Intelligence

At the Tanzu Division of Broadcom , we focus on how our customers can get the most out of cloud native environments while protecting against the slew of new vulnerabilities and attacks targeting their critical business apps. As important as prevention is, reducing the time it takes to recover from a breach or other issues is just as critical, if not more.

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Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history

GeekWire

Patti Thibodeau, Microsoft Archivist, left, shows Microsoft’s Albuquerque team photo and a related memo. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) [Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.] REDMOND, Wash. Youve probably seen Microsofts iconic 1978 team photo.

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Buying Networks Are Changing The Game For B2B Companies

Forrester IT

AI and the growing role of buying influencers are rewriting the rules of engagement for marketers and sellers. Learn about todays buying networks and how to begin adapting your strategies.

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What Can IT Executives Do to Improve Mental Health for Themselves and Their Teams?

Information Week

IT execs -- CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs -- are experiencing unprecedented mental health strain. So are their teams. What can they do to address the problem?

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Download the Strategizing Data Analytics for AI Enterprise Spotlight

Network World

In this issue, we explore the intersection of AI and analytics. Data analytics only gets more complex. And its growing use for artificial intelligence applications brings a new set of considerations and strategies for IT and business leaders.

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Maritime logistics startup OpenTug raises $2.2M

GeekWire

OpenTug , a Seattle-based startup that develops marine transportation logistics software, raised $2.2 million in a new round led by New York-based firm TMV. Founded in 2019, OpenTug sells a marine logistics platform that helps companies optimize freight efficiency on inland and coastal waterways by streamlining booking, quoting and tracking. Customers include barge shippers and tug operators.

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How to Fix Calendar Time Selection Issue in Outlook When Selecting Multiple Calendars and Timeslots

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 How to Fix Calendar Time Selection Issue in Outlook When Selecting Multiple Calendars and Timeslots appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Shopify arrives in Amazon’s backyard with new Bellevue office

GeekWire

(Shopify Image) There’s another tech giant in town. Canadian e-commerce behemoth Shopify has inked a deal for office space in Bellevue, Wash., becoming the latest tech company to tap into the Seattle region’s deep talent pool. Shopify is subleasing approximately 31,000 square feet from Google at the 112 @ 12th building in downtown Bellevue, just east of Seattle.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.