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Concerned about AI gathering business data? Check your phone.

Forrester IT

We’ve been talking a lot about the security challenges with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Forrester, specifically Generative AI. We’ve researched the buzz on AI PC’s and think 2025 is when they’ll start to gain adoption. But what about mobile?

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Best Practices for New IT Managers: IT Strategy

IT Toolbox

Your first management position is both exciting and challenging. New IT managers can set themself up for long-term success by assessing the environment and then building a strong IT strategy to ensure everything they do helps the business. The post Best Practices for New IT Managers: IT Strategy appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Lessons From MAICON 2024 To Accelerate Your AI Success

Forrester IT

MAICON 2024 insights and inspiration are still resonating. Learn three key lessons that set marketers up for success in an uncertain future.

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The Complete Guide to Incident Response

IT Toolbox

Incident response is your first line of defense against cybercrime. Gilad David Maayan outlines the four components you'll need to build an incident response process that works: a robust plan, a succinct playbook, a knowledgable team, and the right tools. The post The Complete Guide to Incident Response appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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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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Using Agile For Change — Join Our Workshop At Forrester’s T&I Summit EMEA

Forrester IT

So you’ve tried agile, but it didn’t deliver what you hoped for. Maybe you faced resistance from employees, or you weren’t able to increase the speed of innovation efforts, or the cost savings that you hoped for did not materialize. Whatever the underlying issues, you are not alone. “Going agile” is not easy.

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How Can CIOs Prepare for AI Data Regulation Changes?

Information Week

Constantly changing artificial intelligence ethical regulations and frameworks have created havoc for CIOs charged with balancing compliance and driving innovation. Here are some strategies and best practices.

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10-year forecast shows growth in network architect jobs while sysadmin roles shrink

Network World

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is forecasting a decade of growth for many – but not all – IT positions. The U.S. economy is expected to add 6.7 million jobs from 2023 to 2033, which equates to 4% job growth overall. The picture is rosier for IT occupations. The market segment that BLS calls “computer and mathematical occupations” is projected to grow 12.9% between now and 2033, increasing by 699,000 jobs.

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The Future Of Meta Is… Glasses

Forrester IT

It was a tale of two “Metas” during Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Connect keynote today. The company’s CEO seemed to rush through updates about the “metaverse” (Quest 3 and Horizon) in favor of AI and glasses.

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Infoblox tackles integrated DDI across multi-cloud environments

Network World

Infoblox is rolling out a unified management platform to allow customers to see, control and secure IT resources spread across their hybrid multi-cloud enterprises. The Infoblox Universal DDI Product Suite integrates core network security tools to enable efficient management, increase security, and reduce the administrative burden those systems require, according to Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox.

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Data Security: The Time Is Now To Pioneer A New Strategy

Forrester IT

Data security is both a high priority and struggle for many organizations. Find out why and get some next steps in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit December 9-11 in Baltimore.

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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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How CIOs Are Advancing ESG

Information Week

CIOs play an important role in a company’s environmental, social, and governance strategy. Their involvement in ESG has also changed their approach to tech procurement.

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Unlock Sustainable Growth: Join Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA 2024 For Cutting-Edge Strategies And Insights!

Forrester IT

We are in the final two weeks before Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA. If you haven’t registered yet, make this your action for the day. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this! Today’s blog highlights a couple of track sessions that illustrate the inspiring and practical nature of the research we will share.

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FTC’s AI Washing Crackdown Hits Several Businesses

Information Week

The government watchdog says the companies engaged in deceptive or misleading activities involving artificial intelligence services.

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Systemic Gaps And Geopolitical Tensions Define Europe’s Cybersecurity Threats in 2024

Forrester IT

European businesses, much like their global counterparts, are caught in a delicate dance with sector-specific vulnerabilities, a regulatory maze and geopolitical complexity for European CISOs to cope with. Forrester’s report: European Cybersecurity Threats, 2024 offers European security leaders some much-needed clarity.

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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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F5, NetApp team to streamline AI app deployments

Network World

F5 and NetApp announced plans to combine their technologies to help enterprise customers securely deploy AI applications across multicloud environments. The deal will bring together F5’s secure multicloud networking technology and NetApp’s BlueXP suite of data management products to streamline the use of large language models (LLM) across hybrid environments.

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23 key gen AI terms and what they really mean

CIO Business Intelligence

As abruptly as generative AI burst on the scene, so too is the new language that’s come with it. A complete list of AI-related vocabulary would be thousands of entries long, but for the sake of urgent relevance, these are the terms heard most among CIOs, analysts, consultants, and other business executives. Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions.

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CIOs Go Bold

Information Week

If “being bold” is a CIO career goal, what does it really mean? And how do you go about becoming bold?

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Big bang theory: Anomalies in the hull of Oceangate’s Titan sub identified by NTSB

GeekWire

An image captured by a remotely operated vehicle shows debris from OceanGate’s Titan sub, including a section of the hull (labeled as Hull Piece A) that split into three layers. (Pelagic Research Services via NTSB) A pair of reports by the National Transportation Safety Board found evidence of imperfections in the carbon-fiber hull that was made for OceanGate’s Titan submersible — plus indications that the hull behaved differently after a loud bang was heard at the end of a div

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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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‘Titanic Mindset’: Just 54% of UK IT Pros Confident in Data Recovery

Tech Republic Security

U.K. IT pros are adopting a “Titanic mindset,” a study has found, as they are blind to the upcoming iceberg of their data recovery solution.

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5 New Use Cases Like Secure Azure Managed Services Access for Entra Private Access

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 5 New Use Cases Like Secure Azure Managed Services Access for Entra Private Access appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study finds

TechSpot

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took an innovative approach by examining two groups of individuals with focal brain lesions resulting from injuries or disorders. One cohort consisted of 106 Vietnam veterans who suffered traumatic brain injuries in combat decades ago. The other included.

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Chip giant Nvidia acquires OctoAI, a Seattle startup that helps companies run AI models

GeekWire

OctoAI CEO Luis Ceze speaks at a Seattle Tech Week event hosted by Madrona at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OctoAI , a Seattle software startup that sells tools to help build and run generative AI models more efficiently, has been acquired by chip giant Nvidia. OctoAI’s homepage has a banner with the line: “OctoAI is now NVIDIA.” A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to comment when contacted by GeekWire.

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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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SAP faces probe in the US over alleged price fixing in government contracts

CIO Business Intelligence

German software giant SAP is under investigation by US officials for allegedly conspiring to overcharge the US government for its technology products over the course of a decade. The probe, led by the Department of Justice (DOJ), is focused on whether SAP and its reseller, Carahsoft Technology, colluded to fix prices on sales to the US military and other government entities, a Bloomberg report said.

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FIX Teams Icon is Missing from the Start Menu FSLogix Issue

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 FIX Teams Icon is Missing from the Start Menu FSLogix Issue appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Bain warns: Prepare for AI chip shortage

CIO Business Intelligence

Surging demand for AI computing power will strain the supply chains for data center chips, personal computers, and smart phones, and, combined with “continued geopolitical tensions and other supply risks, could trigger the next semiconductor shortage,” a report released Tuesday by Bain & Company stated. Authors of the report suggested that while semiconductor suppliers could not have predicted the pandemic, they could guard against the next big threat to semiconductor supply chains.

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Intel has lost all of its dedicated GPU market share

TechSpot

According to a report from Jon Peddie Research, dedicated desktop GPU sales rose significantly in the second quarter of 2024 for everyone except Intel. Although the market is up overall, share didn't change from last quarter.

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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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German firms shed light on CrowdStrike disaster’s fallout

CIO Business Intelligence

A recent survey of 331 German companies provides a look at the business and IT consequences of the CrowdStrike outage on July 19, 2024. Industry association Bitkom and Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) jointly surveyed 331 German companies on the technological and business disruptions caused by CrowdStrike’s faulty content update.

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Survey by Blind finds 91% of Amazon employees not happy about return-to-office policy

GeekWire

Amazon workers and others near The Spheres on the company’s Seattle headquarters campus. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) An overwhelming majority of Amazon employees are not happy about the company’s mandate to return to the office five days per week, and many say the directive has them considering a search for new work. Those are the findings in a new survey by Blind, the forum for anonymous/verified workers.

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AENOR trabaja en una certificación para garantizar una IA ética y responsable

CIO Business Intelligence

AENOR y Microsft han suscrito un acuerdo de colaboración en torno a la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa. En virtud del mismo, ambas partes se comprometen a promover la innovación en diversos sectores mediante la implementación de la IA generativa en las soluciones ofrecidas por la empresa de servicios profesionales, además de trabajar conjuntamente en el desarrollo de una certificación para la gestión ética y responsable de la IA.

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Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs

TechSpot

Huawei is nearly ready to ditch Windows and adopt HarmonyOS as its primary PC operating system. According to Yu Chengdong, who heads the company's consumer business group, the PCs currently being sold by Huawei will be the last to feature Microsoft's "Western" OS. The next batch of Huawei computers will.

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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.