Tue.May 21, 2024

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Our New Converstational AI Wave: GenAI And LLMs Drive A Vendor Revolution

Forrester IT

Let me start by stating the obvious: Automation has its best home in the contact center. At many brands, agents make up 10% of the workforce. They are the face of your brand to your customers, providing critical empathy and solving important problems.

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EU AI Act Clears Final Hurdle to Become Global Landmark

Information Week

The law becomes the first major global regulation on artificial intelligence that will have far-reaching implications for businesses and organizations.

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Go Alone To Go Quickly And Fail Or Go Together To Go Far And Succeed

Forrester IT

I recently published new research – Establish An Enterprise And Security Architecture Partnership To Improve Collaboration – which covers the importance of fostering partnership between Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Security Architecture (SA). Initially, I set out to uncover what friction existed between the two functions.

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Proof-of-concept quantum repeaters bring quantum networks a big step closer

Network World

Three teams – in Boston, in China, and the Netherlands – have simultaneously announced that they’ve figured out ways to store entangled photons without breaking the entanglement, a critical step in building quantum repeaters, and, thus, scalable quantum networks. The Boston team used silicon atoms embedded in diamond chips. A team in the Netherlands also used diamond crystals, but with nitrogen atoms instead of silicon.

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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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“Interconnectedness Of Global Business Systems” Debuts On The List Of The Top Systemic Risks of 2024

Forrester IT

How does a file transfer software go from relatively unknown to the largest breach of 2023, affecting over 2,600 organizations and government entities (and counting), exposes the data of 77.2 million individuals, and triggers class action lawsuits against companies that didn’t use the product?

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Digital Inclusion: Inside Tips From ADA-Compliant Companies

Information Week

Many companies are still out of compliance with digital ADA guidelines. Here’s what’s at stake in getting it right -- and how to get started.

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Juliet Okafor Highlights Ways to Maintain Cyber Resiliency

Information Week

The path towards business resiliency is clearer if you can see what lies ahead.

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Federated Delivery – How Roche Massively Scales Integration

Forrester IT

As integrations and APIs scale, the traditional central integration delivery team quickly becomes the central bottleneck team. Overwhelmed by demand, it becomes overworked while the pace and scale of delivery slows for IT organizations dependent on it.

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Adopt AI — and quick! Dell Technologies CEO tells customers

Network World

“We want to inspire you to reimagine your organization for artificial intelligence, and we want to encourage you to act fast,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell told attendees at the company’s customer event in Las Vegas on Monday. Dell unveiled a number of new AI-related products at the event, including Dell AI Factory, with which the company aims to give its customers access to what it considers “the broadest AI portfolio in the industry.

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Global Retail E-Commerce Sales Will Reach $6.8 Trillion By 2028

Forrester IT

Forrester's Global Retail E-Commerce Forecast, 2024 To 2028 report provides a five-year forecast of online and offline retail sales for 40 countries.

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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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RSA Conference Last Look: From VC Investing to Cybersecurity CEOs

Information Week

A snapshot look at the need to combat deepfake-fueled social engineering, the rise of a more grounded investment mindset, and the fight to find threats in wireless networks.

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Real Talk With Ecosystem Partners: GTM Evolution

Forrester IT

Early in my career, I received wise but tough coaching from a manager regarding struggles with a new colleague on a strategic project – pull them aside and have a real, candid conversation with the pursuit of clarity and understanding for the sake of the shared vision and mutual success.

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How to Install a VPN on Your Router

Tech Republic Security

Trying to figure out how to install a VPN on your router? Read our step-by-step guide to help you get started.

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Microsoft Build 2024: Cloud infra updates include Cobalt 100-based VMs, access to Copilot in Azure

Network World

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure. In the VM space, Microsoft shared plans to release Azure VMs that can run on Cobalt 100 processors currently in preview.

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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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The misleading, wasteful way we measure gas mileage, explained

Vox

Time for a pop quiz. Which of these trades saves more gas: A) Swapping a car that gets 25 miles per gallon (MPG) for one that gets 50 MPG, or B) Replacing a car that gets 10 MPG with one that gets 15 MPG. If you said that A conserves more gas, you’re mistaken. And it’s not even close. Here’s why: In the first scenario, the old vehicle getting 25 MPG uses four gallons of gas to travel 100 miles, while the new one at 50 MPG uses two.

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Broadcom launches 400G Ethernet adapters

Network World

Broadcom has introduced a new series of 400G Ethernet adapters specifically tuned for resolving network bottlenecks when moving massive amounts of data around for AI processing. The new processors are equipped with a third-generation RoCE pipeline, low-latency congestion control technology, and telemetry functions. They are meant for a high-bandwidth, high-stress network environment associated with AI infrastructure.

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Seattle’s economic strength helps propel it to No. 6 in new ranking of top 1,000 global cities

GeekWire

The Global Cities Index gives Seattle high marks for economic strength, but it also scores well in the quality of life category. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A new ranking of the top 1,000 largest cities in the world puts Seattle among elite company, thanks largely to the economic strength of the city, driven by its tech sector. Seattle ranks No. 6 in the inaugural “Global Cities Index” from Oxford Economics, which scores cities based on five categories: Economics, Human Capital

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SolarWinds debuts AI framework in its service desk product

Network World

IT observability and management software maker SolarWinds today introduced a new AI platform that when embedded into the company’s other solutions will provide generative AI capabilities to speed problem resolution, minimize downtime, and empower IT staff to improve service delivery. SolarWinds AI, developed using SolarWinds’ AI by Design framework , is embedded in SolarWinds AI in Service Desk , an IT service management (ITSM) solution.

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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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Reducing CIO-CISO tension requires recognizing the signs

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs and CISOs operate in high-stress environments that can at times place additional strain on their relationship, further distracting them from achieving beneficial outcomes. In my own career, I’ve been a CIO and a CISO, so I have firsthand experience with this issue from both perspectives. Defusing the situation so that the relationship is workable, healthy, and respectful for both parties can be challenging, especially for CISOs, who often reportto the CIO.

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Fake News, Deepfakes: What Every CIO Should Know

Information Week

AI advances are making fake news and deepfakes easier than ever. Most organizations aren’t prepared enough, yet.

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IT leaders look beyond LLMs for gen AI needs

CIO Business Intelligence

With the generative AI gold rush in full swing, some IT leaders are finding generative AI’s first-wave darlings — large language models (LLMs) — may not be up to snuff for their more promising use cases. LLMs, with their advanced ability to comprehend and generate text, have become a near stand-in for generative AI in the collective mindshare. Along with code-generating copilots and text-to-image generators, which leverage a combination of LLMs and diffusion processing, LLMs are at the core of m

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How the Dreamcast almost bankrupted Nvidia before a Sega executive saved the company

TechSpot

Nvidia's first graphics accelerator product, the NV1, hadn't found much success following its release in 1995. But that didn't stop Sega from asking Nvidia to develop the GPU for the Dreamcast ahead of the console's 1998 launch.

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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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Microsoft’s new ‘Team Copilot’ AI assistant runs meetings, manages projects, assigns tasks

GeekWire

Microsoft’s new “Team Copilot” acts as a virtual project manager and meeting assistant. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft will test the limits of artificial intelligence in group collaboration with a new AI assistant that keeps meetings on track, takes collaborative notes, manages large projects, and assigns tasks. The company says the new “Team Copilot” expands its Copilot AI technology beyond its existing function as a one-on-one personal assistant, to play a larger rol

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TSMC's EUV machines can be remotely disabled should China attempt a hostile takeover

TechSpot

Should matters escalate to that level, it is believed that TSMC would be safeguarded one way or another.

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Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

GeekWire

Melissa Higgason, a chemistry teacher in Hobart, Indiana, uses marshmallows and water bottles to help students understand an abstract chemistry concept, an idea suggested by Khanmigo for Teachers. (Microsoft Photo / Scott Eklund) Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning.

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Epicor announces Grow portfolio to weave AI into ERP

CIO Business Intelligence

ERP vendor Epicor is introducing integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) capabilities it calls the Grow portfolio. Grow will reimagine how AI-powered ERP software can and should serve the supply chain industries and their workers, delivering more than 200 adaptive industry use cases, it said at its Insights 2024 user conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

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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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Microsoft Recall AI will log everything you do on Windows

TechSpot

Launching for the upcoming Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, Recall is essentially an all-seeing eye that keeps tabs on everything you do on your computer. It then presents a scrollable timeline you can search through, using AI. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft.

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Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil gets real-time data boost

CIO Business Intelligence

In the annual Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil, data is essential to keep drivers safe and sustain optimal performance of race cars. Until recently, getting at and analyzing that essential data was a laborious affair that could take hours, and only once the race was over. Today, with the help of Microsoft Fabric, Enzo Morrone, director of operations for Porsche Cup Brasil (pictured), says he and his team of engineers can access that data in real-time during races, transforming everything.

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The OLED Burn-In Test: Three Month Update

TechSpot

It's been 3 months since we started our OLED burn-in test using an MSI 32" 4K QD-OLED as a productivity monitor. In today's update we're going to talk burn in, firmware updates, and general usage.

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Microsoft MFA is Mandatory for Accessing Azure from July 2024

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 Microsoft MFA is Mandatory for Accessing Azure from July 2024 appeared first on HTMD Community Blog #1 Modern Device Management Guides by Gopika S Nair.

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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.