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IBM Surrenders SIEM While PANW Tries To Gain Ground On Tech Titans

Forrester IT

In a busy week for SIEMs to be merged or divested, Palo Alto Networks (PANW) announced that it’s acquiring IBM’s QRadar SaaS business and migrating those customers to its Cortex® XSIAM® platform. In addition, PANW gets QRadar intellectual property rights as part of the deal.

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Positive Approaches to Cybersecurity Training

Information Week

Cybersecurity can be an intimidating subject for employees, but companies can use a positive approach to keep employees accountable.

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Purge Network Myopathy With NAV

Forrester IT

I can see clearly now the noise is gone! As Zero Trust mandates begin to creep into the private sector, organizations are tasked with the seemingly impossible: observe and inspect all network traffic regardless of direction (N/S/E/W), encryption, or location within the enterprise.

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Frontier retains top spot among world’s fastest supercomputers

Network World

Frontier held onto its No. 1 ranking in the 63rd edition of the TOP500 , but with the second place Aurora system breaking the exascale machine barrier, the end of Frontier’s reign could be in sight. The Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tenn., maintained its leading position with an HPL score of 1.206 EFlop/s. With a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, the Frontier system has an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC an

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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Questions for the Bureau for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

Information Week

The RSA Conference saw the announcement of an international cyberspace strategy from the State Department, but there are details yet to be answered.

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Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package

Network World

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations. Last year, Cisco killed its Hyperflex platform and essentially turned over that business to Nutanix with the idea that the vendors would work together to engineer collaborative technologies, services, support and sales.

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Google unveils next-generation AI chip Trillium

Network World

Google unveiled a new chip, Trillium, for training and running foundation large language models such as Gemma and Gemini at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday. Trillium is the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and is 67% more energy efficient and nearly five times as fast as its predecessor, TPU v5, according to the company.

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Manage Microsoft Edge Browser on Android Devices using Intune

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 Manage Microsoft Edge Browser on Android Devices using Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Malepati Naren.

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Cisco adds AI features to AppDynamics On-Premises

Network World

Cisco has added AI features to its AppDynamics observability platform that promise to help customers more quickly detect anomalies, identify performance problems, and resolve issues across the enterprise. The new features will be implemented in a virtual appliance, available this month, for Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises, which gives customers the ability to see and manage their entire application stack, including application code, runtime, infrastructure (servers, databases, networks, VMs, conta

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RSAC 2024: Lighting Dark Places, Ted Lasso Lessons, and Alicia Keys Closer

Information Week

From star-studded appearances to dozens of keynotes, panel discussions and workshops, the tech industry’s biggest security conference offered no shortage of content.

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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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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. The enhancements are intended to reinforce the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year , which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering.

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Does a VPN Slow Down Your Internet Speed?

Tech Republic Security

Can a VPN slow down your internet? Find out how VPNs can impact your internet speed with our article.

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Nvidia to build supercomputer for federal AI research

Network World

Nvidia is building a $20 million supercomputer with MITRE, a federally funded, not-for-profit research organization that has been a technological clearinghouse for the government since the 1950s. The move comes in support of President Biden’s 2023 executive order on encouraging advances in AI. The U.S. government will use an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to provide researchers and developers access to much more computing power than they have had in the past to produce generative AI advances in areas such

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Cyber resilience: A business imperative CIOs must get right

CIO Business Intelligence

With ransomware at an all-time high, companies need to understand that being cyber resilient means going beyond compliance to considering all aspects of a business, from operational continuity to software supply chain security.

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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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High-bandwidth memory nearly sold out until 2026

Network World

South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix has announced that its supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has been sold out for 2024 and for most of 2025. Basically, this means that demand for HBM exceeds supply for at least a year, and any orders placed now won’t be filled until 2026. The news comes after similar comments were made in March by the CEO of Micron, who said that the company’s HBM production had been sold out through late 2025.

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Bump in the boom: Seattle growth slows as city falls out of top 10 fastest-growing big cities in U.S.

GeekWire

Seattle is the 13th fastest-growing big city in the U.S. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s population growth suffered a bit of a bump in the boom as the city fell out the top 10 fastest-growing big cities in the country, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday. Seattle added about 5,900 residents between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, to reach a population of 755,078.

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Palo Alto to acquire IBM’s QRadar security tech as vendors expand partnership

Network World

IBM and Palo Alto Networks announced a wide-reaching partnership to mix and match security technology between the vendors. The deal includes the sale of Big Blue’s QRadar security intelligence platform to Palo Alto. IBM and Palo Alto aim to help streamline and transform security operations, stop threats at scale, and accelerate incident remediation for their customers with the complete AI-powered approach the vendors say is needed to address current threat levels across the enterprise.

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Seattle startup Nexme to be acquired by new real estate services company Finaya

GeekWire

Nexme , a Seattle-based startup that helps streamline tours for prospective homebuyers, announced Thursday it will be acquired by Finaya , a new real estate services company out of Silicon Valley. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Co-founders Arian Abdulkader and Vanessa Alvarez launched Nexme five years ago. It raised a $500,000 seed round in 2020 and participated in WTIA’s Founder Cohort Program.

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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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Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network World

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN. Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center teams.

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What’s holding CTOs back?

CIO Business Intelligence

Anurag Dhingra is no stranger to the challenges CTOs face today. With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. Among the toughest hurdles Dhingra faced in a prior CTO position were not having execution responsibilities and having to “work extra hard selling ideas and getting buy-in from people who have budgets and exe

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Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

Kyndryl is targeting new AI, mainframe modernization, and security services in the coming months as it looks to build out its Bridge infrastructure integration platform. Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. Bridge integrates management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and machine learning to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to

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Reflection Canyon: A Grueling Yet Rewarding Journey

Eric D. Brown

This post is a bit different than most of my blog posts. I wanted to highlight a fantastic trip I took in September 2023 to Reflection Canyon near Escalante, Utah. This hike is roughly 16 miles round-trip. I did it over two days, hiking in on day 1, camping on day 2, and hiking out on day 2. Few people make this hiking trip due to its grueling nature (and yes, it was grueling).

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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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Download our SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide

Network World

These two related technologies — Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE) — address a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faces as employees shifted to remote work and applications migrated to the cloud.

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Reflection Canyon: A Grueling Yet Rewarding Journey

Eric D. Brown

This post is a bit different than most of my blog posts. I wanted to highlight a fantastic trip I took in September 2023 to Reflection Canyon near Escalante, Utah. This hike is roughly 16 miles round-trip. I did it over two days, hiking in on day 1, camping on day 2, and hiking out on day 2. Few people make this hiking trip due to its grueling nature (and yes, it was grueling).

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Compressing files using the zip command on Linux

Network World

Zipping files allows you to save a compressed version of a file that might serve as a backup of the original. It also allows you to group a collection of related files into a similarly reduced size file for safekeeping. Zipping a single file If we want to zip a single file, you could use a command like the second of the two commands shown below. The file to be zipped (tips.html) is shown in the first command. $ ls -l tips.html -rw-r--r--. 1 shs shs 79873 Sep 19 2023 tips.html $ zip tips tips.htm

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GoodShip, a freight network logistics startup led by Convoy vets, raises $8M

GeekWire

GoodShip raised a $8 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners that will boost its software platform that helps companies get a better handle on their shipping logistics data. Customers including KBX Logistics, Kellanova, Mark Anthony Services, and Simmons Foods use GoodShip to manage their finance and analytics needs related to shipping goods across the country.

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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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ZutaCore launches liquid cooling for advanced Nvidia chips

Network World

ZutaCore has launched a liquid cooling system called HyperCool that can handle the forthcoming Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip without modifications to the data center or the rack – a common requirement of liquid cooling. Grace Blackwell is a gigantic chip with 400 billion transistors and five components: two Blackwell GPUs, a Grace CPU, and two I/O chips.

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Lime brings new e-bikes with throttle to Seattle as company calls city a global micromobility leader

GeekWire

The throttle on new Lime e-bikes. (Lime Image) Lime is bringing the latest generation of its electric bikes to Seattle, adding the option to use a throttle rather than just pedal-assist to power the machines. Seattle is one of the first cities in the world to get the new model, the company said Thursday. The throttle near the right handlebar grip functions similarly to the throttle on Lime’s e-scooters.

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Apollo.io Review (2024): Features, Pricing and Alternatives

Tech Republic

Apollo is a leading B2B database that’s designed to help businesses target and engage prospects. Learn more about its key features, pricing and alternative solutions here.

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Too many newsletters in your inbox? Former Alexa engineer uses AI to turn content into daily podcasts

GeekWire

Jellypod uses AI to create podcasts from emailed newsletters. (Jellypod Image) After about three years at Amazon working on Alexa voice services, Pierson Marks listened to his own internal dialogue and left to launch a startup. A Southern California native who studied computer science at UCLA, Marks stayed in Seattle to create Jellypod , an AI-powered service that turns daily newsletters into personalized podcasts. “Voice has always been something that was I was pretty passionate about,

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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