Wed.Dec 04, 2024

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The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations

Forrester IT

Our latest survey of more than 16,000 global B2B buyers shows that they’re increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied. Learn where they experience friction and how companies can help overcome it.

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Fortinet offers integrated cloud app security service

Network World

Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. The new service, FortiAppSec Cloud, brings web and API security, server load balancing, and threat analytics under a single console that enterprise customers can use to more efficiently manage their distributed application environments, according to Vincent Hwang, vice president of cloud security at Fortinet.

Cloud 183
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Black Friday And Cyber Monday 2024: Offers Galore Spur Spending

Forrester IT

Retailers and brands in the US presented many offers to customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024.

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Report: AI expands the IT workforce as tech jobs return to offices

Network World

Artificial intelligence is driving growth for the IT workforce, and jobs in the technology sector are stabilizing as the market continues to show moderate growth amidst economic volatility, rapid hiring cycles, and public layoffs , according to a new study by IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment. IT unemployment rates have been below the national U.S. average for the past five years, and there are 56% more tech job postings in 2024 than in 2019, according to the firm’s 2025 Tech Salary Guide.

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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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Introducing The Forrester Waveâ„¢: Digital Banking Processing Platforms, Q4 2024

Forrester IT

The Forrester Waveâ„¢: Digital Banking Processing Platforms, Q4 2024 evaluates the top DBPPs driving digital transformation in banking. Successful digital transformation involves more than just impressive front-end applications. It requires overhauling a complex web of technology infrastructure and tightly coupled systems.

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How to Keep IT Team Boredom From Killing Productivity

Information Week

A bored IT team is also an unproductive IT team. Here's how to keep your staff motivated and energetic.

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Is Your Bank Ready For What’s Next In Mobile?

Forrester IT

Bank executives and their teams face rising customer expectations, evolving needs and behaviors, and new competitive threats — and mobile experiences are at the center of it all. The share of consumers using mobile apps for banking has spiked (overtaking online banking).

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Will AWS’ next-gen Trainium2 chips accelerate AI development and put Amazon ahead in the chips race?

Network World

AWS appears to have upped the stakes in the AI infrastructure market this week with the rollout of its next-gen Trainium2 chips. What’s more, the company is already teasing its Trainium3 chip, expected in late 2025. Trainium2 powers AWS’ most powerful instances for generative AI, and the tech giant says it continues to see great gains generationally, chip to chip.

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Are Long-Lived Credentials the New Achilles’ Heel for Cloud Security?

Tech Republic Security

Datadog's report highlights long-lived credentials as a cloud security Achilles' heel. Discover risks and ways to secure your environment.

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CompTIA courts IT newcomers with ‘on-ramp’ network, security courses

Network World

New learning resources from CompTIA are aimed at helping entry-level IT professionals to accelerate their career path to networking and cybersecurity roles. CompTIA a+ Network and CompTIA a+ Cyber courses will provide individuals with the foundational knowledge to start a tech career in networking and security, according to IT certification and training body CompTIA.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Google Introduces Veo and Imagen 3 to AI Platform

Tech Republic Cloud

Veo is in private preview, while Imagen 3 will be in general availability next week.

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4 ways to build a team equipped with emerging skills

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. Changing demographics, fast-evolving technologies, and the globalization of job opportunities make recruiting and holding onto skilled professionals much more difficult.

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Kyndryl, Nokia expand AI, quantum-safe connectivity options

Network World

Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. Nokia’s portfolio includes data center switching for traditional enterprise and AI workloads, a data center gateway to link to cloud services, and optical data center interconnect products. As part of the expanded partnership, Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) technology will be integrated into Kyndryl’s AI-powered Bridge infrastructure

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CISA, FBI Issue Guidance for Securing Communications Infrastructure

Tech Republic Security

The caution comes after Chinese-state-affiliated breaches of American telecommunication networks. Organizations with Cisco infrastructure should take particular note.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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Measure Creator Marketing Partnerships With A Composite Set Of Metrics

Forrester IT

Best-in-class creator marketing programs are multi-dimensional, with many different types of creators, content, and activations. As such, marketers should avoid looking for one “silver bullet” metric to determine the success of their creator partnerships.

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2025 IT headcount expectations lowest in over a decade

CIO Business Intelligence

Predictions are all about timing, but sentiment can take a long time to sway. That may be a key tension unfolding for the 2025 IT hiring market, as evidenced by IT recruitment firm Harvey Nash stepping back from the ramifications of its own recent survey of CIOs, who were decidedly pessimistic about IT hiring in the new year. Harvey Nash’s survey found that only 36% of CIOs believed IT headcounts would increase in 2025 — the lowest such sentiment reported since 2011.

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A list of logistics startups in Seattle, a ‘world-class’ hub for supply chain software talent

GeekWire

The Seattle waterfront and Port of Seattle properties, with a container ship and West Seattle in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Buoyed by longtime logistics giants such as Amazon and the rapid rise of trucking startup Convoy, the Seattle region has emerged as a major epicenter for supply chain software innovation. There are at least 15 startups in the Seattle area (listed below) that develop logistics software to help companies move and manage physical goods.

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JPMorgan Chase builds ambitious AI foundation on AWS

CIO Business Intelligence

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has deployed an internal AI assistant dubbed LLM Suite to more than 200,000 employees and is generating genuine value from its early AI investments. At AWS re:Invent Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase Global CIO Lori Beer detailed the evolving partnership between the financial services giant and AWS, which finds JPMorgan pushing the AWS SageMaker machine learning platform and AWS Bedrock generative AI platform beyond experimentation into production applications.

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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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Secure shadow data in the cloud with new innovations on Zscaler DSPM

Network World

A dark journey for data in the cloud As we approach the end of 2024, the cloud and security landscape continues to evolve dramatically. Taking a walk down memory lane, I keenly remember the start of the cloud era back in the early 2000s. Fast forward to the present day, the public cloud market is now projected to reach $1 trillion by 2026 with direct spend targeted at the big four: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba. 1 This cloud journey comes with massive benefits with continual ad

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Amazon chipping in $10M in tips for customers who thank their delivery drivers during the holidays

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) The season of giving should also be a season of thanking — especially for the delivery drivers making sure packages get to their destinations on time. Amazon is once again encouraging customers to thank its drivers with a U.S. holiday promotion that includes a $5 tip from the company. If you have an Alexa-enabled device, just say, “Alexa, thank my driver,” and the driver who completed your most recent delivery will be notified of the appreciation.

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UN forms international organization to protect undersea internet cables

TechSpot

The ITU recently announced the formation of a new UN-affiliated agency, the International Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience. The organization is tasked with enhancing the resilience of submarine communication cables, a critical component of global telecommunications infrastructure.

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Veeam Software, which recently relocated its HQ to the Seattle area, reaches $15B valuation

GeekWire

Veeam COO Matthew Bishop, left, and CEO Anand Eswaran. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Veeam Software , a leading data protection and ransomware recovery company, announced that it is now valued at $15 billion following a $2 billion secondary share sale. The secondary sale was led by TPG, with participation from Temasek, Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions, and other investors.

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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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China retaliates against US export controls with bans on critical materials

TechSpot

China imposed export controls on gallium and germanium in 2023, two metals that are vital parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications, and electric vehicle industries. Exporters need to apply for licenses from the commerce ministry if they want to ship them out of the country. In August 2024, China introduced the.

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7 Real Estate Marketing Calendar Templates [Free & Paid]

Tech Republic

See the best real estate marketing calendar templates for monday.com, ClickUp, Google Sheets, Excel, Wrike, and more.

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Amazon expands Bedrock with new AI model marketplace, a day after unveiling its own ‘Nova’

GeekWire

LAS VEGAS — Unveiling Amazon’s homegrown Nova artificial intelligence models yesterday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made a point of saying the company was …

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AMD captures nearly 90% of motherboard sales during Black Friday at German retailer, dominates US charts

TechSpot

Mindfactory sold 4,350 motherboards during Black Friday week, according to data posted by TechEpiphany. Of that amount, 3,800, or 87.3%, were AMD boards, with just 550, or 12.6%, from Intel.

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Bringing the Cybersecurity Imperative Into Focus

Tech leaders today are facing shrinking budgets and investment concerns. This whitepaper provides insights from over 1,000 tech leaders on how to stay secure and attract top cybersecurity talent, all while doing more with less. Download today to learn more!

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Black Friday Triggers Near 700% Rise in Retail Cyber Scams

SecureWorld News

Darktrace today revealed a surge in retail cyberattacks at the opening of the 2024 holiday shopping season. Analysis from Darktrace's threat intelligence team using data from across the Darktrace customer fleet shows that during Black Friday week (November 25-29), attempted Christmas-themed phishing attacks leapt 327% [1] around the world, while Black Friday themed phishing attacks jumped 692% compared to the beginning of November (4-9) [2] , as bad actors seek to take advantage of consumers and

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Tesla Cybertruck production suspended amid concerns over slowing sales

TechSpot

According to an internal memo (seen by Business Insider) sent to workers on Monday, Tesla instructed employees on its Cybertruck production line not to report to work from December 3 to December 5.

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How Amazon’s new AI-powered Kindle Scribe summarized my handwritten review of the device

GeekWire

AI on Amazon’s second-generation Kindle Scribe summarizes my handwritten review of the device. See full text below. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is releasing its second-generation Kindle Scribe this morning, and I’ve been putting a review unit to the test for the past few days, comparing it to the original Scribe and the competing reMarkable 2, both of which I use regularly.

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Failover vs. Failback: Two Disaster Recovery Methods

TechSpot

A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both terms describe two sides of the same coin, complementary processes that are often brought together.

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How Hellenic Bank Transformed Its Indirect Procurement Operations With GEP Software

Financial institutions must navigate a complex web of policies, procedures and regulations to ensure compliance and manage risk. When Hellenic Bank, a leading retail lender in Cyprus, set out to transform its procurement operations, it needed more than just software deployment. It required a partner that would help embed its intricate buying processes — with all its validations, risk assessments and tiered approvals — into a unified system.