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Is Keeping Your Commerce Tech Vendor The Right Fit For You?

Forrester IT

To retain or replatform your commerce technology solution? Forrester's latest research guides leaders on how to answer this burning question.

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Best Practices for Budgeting for Tech, According to IT Pros

IT Toolbox

When you plan your budget wisely, you'll often get better results. We asked IT pros in the Spiceworks Community for their budgeting best practices that help them secure the most money during annual budget planning. The post Best Practices for Budgeting for Tech, According to IT Pros appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Google bets on nuclear power to drive AI expansion

Network World

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. In a blog post, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to source nuclear energy, aiming to bring the first SMR online by 2030, with more reactors planned by 2035.

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Quantum Report Card: Achieving Real Scale That Cannot Be Simulated

Information Week

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

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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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How to choose a flexible unified SASE solution

Network World

SASE is at the top of all CIOs’ minds, and for good reason. When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. Flexibility is an oft-overlooked but critical component of any SASE solution. Because SASE connects and protects the entire hybrid network, most organizations don’t deploy the entire solution at once; instead, they start with a use case, lik

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How CIOs and CTOs Are Bridging Cross-Functional Collaboration

Information Week

IT necessarily works across departments, but now, CIOs and CTOs are driving greater collaboration across the business.

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NYT Sends Perplexity Cease-and-Desist Letter Over AI

Information Week

The newspaper says the company uses its writing without permission, according to a Wall Street Journal report -- as other media companies forge lucrative deals with AI companies to license copyrighted material.

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99% of UK Businesses Faced Cyber Attacks in the Last Year

Tech Republic Security

Almost all businesses in the U.K. were breached by cyber attackers in the last 12 months, a report has found.

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Cato Networks extends SASE platform with digital experience monitoring

Network World

Cato Networks today introduced digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities that will augment the company’s cloud SASE platform with application traffic and network performance data that IT operations teams need to optimize end-user experiences. Cato DEM extends Cato’s capabilities beyond the traditional secure access service edge ( SASE ) platform by monitoring and analyzing data across application and network traffic.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. The IDC IT Strategy Framework provides a structured approach for CIOs to align IT initiatives with business goals, ensuring that technology investments drive organizational success.

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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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What Is DORA and What Does It Mean for Businesses?

Information Week

Ahead of the EU’s incoming Digital Operational Resilience Act, we explore the act and discuss what organizations need to do to achieve compliance.

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Netskope extends data security with Dasera acquisition

Network World

Netskope today announced it has broadened its data protection capabilities by integrating data security posture management (DSPM) technology into its Netskope One Platform via its acquisition of Dasera. The integration will help the company deliver advanced security across web, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, email, endpoint, and on-premises use cases—now including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data stores and data lakes, Netskope says.

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The AIC Framework: Action, Innovation, Collaboration

Eric D. Brown

Lately, I’ve seen many people and businesses talk excitedly about new ideas (LLMs, AI, etc) but often without plans to turn those ideas into reality. That’s why I want to share The AIC Framework, a practical approach I use with my clients. The AIC Framework addresses the gap between ideation and execution, which can lead to missed opportunities and stagnation.

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How to translate your executive IT resume for a new industry

CIO Business Intelligence

For IT leaders working in the public sector, tailoring your resume for private-sector opportunities can be challenging. That was the problem Christina Sewell, CIO at a government agency, encountered in considering next steps for her career. With over two decades in technology and leadership roles, Sewell, whose identity has been anonymized for this article, was confident her skills and experiences would transfer but felt that her resume might not stand out for industries outside the public secto

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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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8 easy ways to reuse commands on Linux

Network World

Rerunning commands on the Linux command line isn’t hard, but there are a number of ways to do it. This post provides eight examples of how to repeat commands on Linux, with and without changes. 1. Repeat a previous command Rerunning a previously entered command by typing !! is clearly the easiest way to repeat that command. You don’t have to type anything additional if you want to run the same command again.

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Corporate Finance for Beginners: Forecast vs. Budget

IT Toolbox

Financial planning techniques help your team make decisions that align with the company's overall goals. At the same time, you'll ensure that you're also making fiscally responsible choices. The post Corporate Finance for Beginners: Forecast vs. Budget appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Nvidia: Latest news and insights

Network World

When it comes to innovation and the technology to drive it, few companies today rival Nvidia. The company has leveraged its GPU expertise to become a dominant player in the AI market. Nvidia’s GPU pedigree dates back decades to high-powered processors originally built for gaming systems. Those GPUs have evolved to drive scientific simulations, data analysis, machine learning and other high-performance computing tasks.

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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades. Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. Unprecedented growth in AWS during this period also compelled CIOs to learn more about how startups were innovating and operating efficiently on the cloud.

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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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Nvidia contributes Blackwell rack design to Open Compute Project

Network World

In the competitive world of enterprise IT vendors, it may be a surprise that some companies are freely sharing their designs, but that’s exactly what the 50-plus voting members and more than 300 community members and startups, including the major hyperscalers and chipmakers, of the Open Compute Project (OCP) foundation are doing. Today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit , Nvidia announced it has contributed its Blackwell GB200 NVL72 electro-mechanical designs – including the rack architecture, comput

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Tech Republic

Microsoft’s Siva Sundaramoorthy provides a blueprint for how common cyber precautions apply to generative AI deployed in and around security systems.

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Elon Musk's xAI built a 100,000-GPU supercluster in just 19 days - normally takes years

TechSpot

Elon Musk and his xAI team have seemingly done the impossible. The company built a supercluster of 100,000 Nvidia H200 Blackwell GPUs in only 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the feat "superhuman." Huang shared the incredible story in an interview with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley group on X.

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SentinelOne CISO Identifies ‘Most Pressing Concern’ for Cyber Professionals

Tech Republic

SentinelOne’s Alex Stamos sees a future where defenders have the advantage when it comes to generative AI. At least until it can write exploit code.

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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 Case for Reshaping Traditional Industries with Tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Digitalization is everywhere. Be it in the energy industry, e-government services, manufacturing, or logistics, the fourth industrial revolution is having a profound impact. Thanks to AI, 5G-A, cloud, and other technologies, the physical world is merging with the digital world. The rapid adoption of these technologies is contributing to driving efficiency, reducing operational costs and improving end-user experiences across vertical industries, all contributing to measurable economic improvement

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EV battery prices set to plummet, dramatic 50% drop predicted by 2026

TechSpot

Goldman Sachs is highly optimistic about the future of electric vehicle batteries. The financial giant recently released new research focused on EV batteries, predicting that battery prices will drop by nearly 50 percent within the next few years. The technology is advancing much faster than initially anticipated.

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Seattle startup raises $1.25M for electric bike used on golf courses

GeekWire

Fairway Bikes CEO Alex Wunderlich (left) and founder Jim Billmaier. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle-area startup Fairway Bikes raised a $1.25 million seed round to fuel development of its unique electric bike built for golfers. The company last year began rolling out its 3-wheeled golf e-bike that’s aimed at helping speed up the pace of play while giving golfers a way to get some exercise on the course.

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Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum

TechSpot

The reveal comes from X user @ChrisMack32, who posted a video showing them unplugging a Super Nintendo controller – connected via USB – at one of the Nintendo Museum's booths. Removing the cable from the controller results in what sounds like the familiar noise that plays when a Windows device.

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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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Blue Origin donates historic New Shepard booster and space capsule to Smithsonian

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows how Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster, emblazoned with a faded feather, would be displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. (Smithsonian Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has donated a New Shepard rocket booster, plus a New Shepard capsule, to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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UL’s leap into the genAI evaluation business raises key questions

CIO Business Intelligence

UL Solutions , part of the UL enterprise that grew out of Underwriters Laboratories, on Monday jumped into the crowded genAI third-party evaluation service market, joining Stanford University and Microsoft , among many others, but with a more customized approach. The UL team will be asking questions as well as analyzing code. Some analysts and others in the AI space have questioned how reliable and precise such an effort would be.

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Less Annoying CRM Review (2024): Is It Really Less Annoying?

Tech Republic

Discover pros and cons in our 2024 Less Annoying CRM review. Explore features and use cases, plus find out if it lives up to its name.

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CIOs are (still) closer than ever to their dream data lakehouse

CIO Business Intelligence

The data lakehouse battle is over. And open-source Apache Iceberg has won. Not even Databricks’ 10-figure acquisition of Tabular, the startup founded by Iceberg’s creators, will change that. Even so, the bold move has confused and distracted some CIOs. They’re at a loss to explain why Databricks – a lakehouse pioneer and the architect of Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg’s primary competitor – would spend so much to buy three-year-old Tabular, a startup with great promise but barely $1 million in annua

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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.