Tue.Nov 12, 2024

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If You’re Not Using Data Pipeline Management (DPM) For Security And IT, You Need To 

Forrester IT

Data ingestion into the SIEM is too expensive. In fact, it’s so expensive that, “How do we reduce our SIEM ingest costs?” is one of the top inquiry questions I get from Forrester clients. And the problem is not new – security leaders have struggled with managing their SIEM budget for over a decade.

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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Network World

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. The new access points, the CW 9176 and 9178, incorporate a blend of Cisco and Meraki management and security features that previously required significant integration work from the customer or a third party.

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AI Readiness Is Already High In Advanced Frontline Marketing Teams

Forrester IT

Are you bullish on AI’s potential to transform the way frontline B2B marketers work? My research found that frontline marketing leaders in B2B organizations are very bullish.

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Hurry-up offense: NFL builds terabit network in one week for Munich game

Network World

Touchdown! More than 70,000 fans celebrate the Carolina Panthers’ first points in Munich’s Allianz Arena on Nov. 10, and they can rewatch the action via instant replay on large video screens. The USA’s National Football League is visiting Munich. While the fans cheer, the faces of Anish Patel, director of stadium & wireless engineering at the NFL, and Aaron Amendolia, deputy CIO of the NFL, slowly relax.

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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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Everything is getting more expensive – BI is no exception

Forrester IT

When clients inquire about enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform pricing, I always advise them to simply divide the annual contract price by the number of expected users. If the resulting number is around $10 per user per month, I tell the client they are in a good spot. Why?

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Practical Advice for Fixing Informed Consent

Information Week

Organizations that meet the ethical and legal responsibilities that come with managing personal data will ultimately build more transparent, trustworthy, and profitable digital relationships with their stakeholders.

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5 Linux commands for measuring disk activity

Network World

Ever wonder how hard your disks are working? If so, you’re in luck. Linux provides quite a few useful commands for gauging disk activity. This post examines five options that are all very useful and easy to use. This handy suite of commands will help you to see how busy your disks are, not just how full. Two of the commands (iostat and ioping) may have to be added to your system.

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Three Critical Steps Frontline Marketers Must Take To Support Pipeline Progression

Forrester IT

What’s keeping you from hitting your revenue goals? We’ve heard from many B2B clients that they’ve been qualifying opportunities for sales but that these deals aren’t progressing through to closed-won. This isn’t a sales problem — it’s a business problem, one that all revenue-responsible teams must help tackle.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

What was once VMware is now Broadcom. With the acquisition closed, the American multinational brought its VMware Explore 2024 event to Barcelona from Nov. 4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). On the stage, Joe Baguley, Broadcom’s chief technology officer for EMEA, directed the focus towards the launch of new advanced VCF services, ecosystem partnerships and the definition of modernization programs whose pu

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What Every Innovative CIO Must Focus On in 2025 Budgets—Beyond Just AI

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIOs should prioritize AI, security, and investing in talent for their 2025 budgets Emphasizing diverse hiring, leadership development, and hybrid work policies will enhance organizational performance and employee satisfaction. Transformational leadership is critical in navigating future challenges.

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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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F5 gateway works to protect and manage AI applications

Network World

A new gateway from F5 is aimed at helping enterprises to better manage AI security and delivery. The F5 AI Gateway offers an automated way for customers to secure and manage interactions among AI applications, APIs, and large language models (LLMs). It’s a containerized Kubernetes service that can be deployed on its own or integrated with existing F5 software, hardware or services, the company stated.

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Unicorn AI Firm Writer Raises $200M, Plans to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

Information Week

The company -- taking direct aim at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other incumbents in the GenAI arms race -- plans to use the funding to fuel its agentic AI efforts.

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Critical Thinking and AI

Eric D. Brown

I’ve been thinking about how critical thinking and AI must work together. Not because I’m particularly philosophical but because I keep seeing people completely give up their thinking capabilities to AI systems. You know what I’m talking about. Someone asks ChatGPT a question, gets an answer, and takes it as gospel without even considering whether it makes sense.

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From Declarative to Iterative: How Software Development is Evolving

Information Week

AI is changing the way code is generated so developers can gain more speed advantages. Embedded capabilities in IDEs and low-code platforms help.

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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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Energy shortages threaten to restrict 40% of AI data centers by 2027

Network World

The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. Driven by the need for immense computing power, AI data centers will likely require 160% more electricity over the next three years, surpassing the capabilities of utility providers to meet the demand in time.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging.

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Uncommon Thinkers: Zap’s Uri Shumlak wrestles with fusion energy in pursuit of carbon-free power

GeekWire

Uri Shumlak, co-founder of Zap Energy and professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. (Zap Photo) Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers” : inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world.

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3 Steps to Create a Strong Security Culture

IT Toolbox

Culture is at the heart of why so many security breaches occur. Cybercriminals opt for the easy way in – via phishing and social engineering. Perry Carpenter, noted book author and security officer for KnowBe4, explains the entwinement between organizational culture and cybersecurity and ways to improve both. The post 3 Steps to Create a Strong Security Culture appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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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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Slack Report: Is AI Adoption Heading for a Plateau?

Tech Republic

The Fall 2024 Workforce Study from Slack found that employees might not want to discuss AI with their managers for fear of being perceived as “lazy.

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November 2024 Patch Tuesday – 89 Microsoft CVEs Addressed

IT Toolbox

Microsoft rolled out fixes for 89 new vulnerabilities, 4 of which have been categorized as zero-day. 4 are rated critical, 83 are important, and one is moderate. The post November 2024 Patch Tuesday – 89 Microsoft CVEs Addressed appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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New thermal material provides 72% better cooling than conventional paste

TechSpot

Thanks to a mechanochemically engineered combination of the liquid metal alloy Galinstan and ceramic aluminum nitride, this thermal interface material, or TIM, outperformed the best commercial liquid metal cooling products by a staggering 56-72% in lab tests. It allowed dissipation of up to 2,760 watts of heat from just a.

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La herencia y patrimonio de la Basílica de San Pedro se democratiza gracias a la tecnología

CIO Business Intelligence

Los tesoros arquitectónicos de la Basílica de San Pedro, corazón espiritual del cristianismo, accesibles gracias a la innovación tecnológica. Emplazada en la Ciudad del Vaticano, de estilo arquitectónico barroco y renacentista, alberga más de 400 años de historia en su interior. Hoy, gracias a la alianza suscrita entre el Vaticano, Iconem y Microsoft, la herencia y patrimonio de la Basílica de San Pedro trasciende sus muros mediante exhibiciones inmersivas habilitadas con inteligencia artificial

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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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Japan introduces $65 billion initiative to boost domestic chip production

TechSpot

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba revealed the $65 billion plan this week. Reuters saw an early draft of the proposal, which is scheduled to be submitted during the country's next parliament session, and notes its support of domestic chipmaker Rapidus among others.

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How to mitigate software licensing surprises

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. Some do it with a measure of grace. But lately, some licensees of virtual desktops and applications have been confronted with abrupt changes and even forced to accept and pay for unwanted features. However, there are ways for alienated customers to protect their best interests.

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Nvidia kills GeForce Experience, Nvidia App 1.0 goes live

TechSpot

If you're a GeForce GPU owner and haven't yet transitioned to the Nvidia App, this is the perfect time to do so. The new app is far superior to Nvidia's older GeForce Experience and Control Panel apps – even if every Control Panel feature isn't included yet. The new app.

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Scaling AI talent: An AI apprenticeship model that works

CIO Business Intelligence

AI Singapore is a national AI R&D program, launched in May 2017. We are fully funded by the Singapore government with the mission to accelerate AI adoption in industry, groom local AI talent, conduct top-notch AI research and put Singapore on the world map as an AI powerhouse. We have five different pillars focusing on various aspects of this mission, and my focus is on innovation — how we can get industry to accelerate the adoption of AI.

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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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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Ryzen 7 7800X3D: 45 Game Benchmark

TechSpot

With AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D recent release, we're diving into its gaming performance, comparing it head-to-head with the 7800X3D across 45 games. Let's see how this new CPU stacks up.

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Diez formas de enterrar tu cultura TI

CIO Business Intelligence

Los CIO transformacionales reconocen la importancia de la cultura de TI para generar innovación, acelerar los impactos comerciales y reducir los riesgos operativos y de seguridad. Sin una cultura de TI sólida, es difícil inspirar a los equipos de TI para que vayan más allá de sus responsabilidades de “gestionar el negocio” y se extiendan a áreas que requieren colaboración entre colegas de negocios, científicos de datos y socios.

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation Makes AI Smarter

Information Week

Real-time augmented-data retrieval can significantly boost the accuracy and performance of generative AI. But getting it right can be difficult.

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Survey: AI to usher in new middle management era

CIO Business Intelligence

As generative AI begins takes hold in business, who does what work and how organizations will be structured will inevitably change, particularly at the leadership and management levels, according to a new survey from Capgemini in which 1,500 managers from 500 organizations and 15 countries participated. The majority (51%) of respondents believe that decision-making positions will become more niche as a result of the use of generative AI.

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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.