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12 ways to accelerate digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

CEOs prize transformation and reinvention, seeing both as essential to current and future competitiveness. But successful transformation and reinvention are no longer enough, top executives say. They must happen fast, and their delivery must get faster over time. Speed and agility bring in the top transformation prize. CIOs are feeling the pressure to expedite transformational work, as the ever-faster churn of customer demands and the possibility of economic headwinds further ratchet up the ne

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Silicon Motion rolls SSD kit to bolster AI workload performance

Network World

Three years after announcing its plans, merchant supplier Silicon Motion has begun shipping its 128TB Solid State Disks (SSD) Reference Design Kit (RDK) aimed at maximizing the performance and efficiency in AI tool workloads. Silicon Motion is best known as a designer of NAND flash drive controllers and the RDK is built on the MonTitan PCIe Gen 5 platform that utilizes the latest 2TB QLC NAND die.

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AI brings complexity to cybersecurity and fraud

CIO Business Intelligence

The 2024 Security Priorities study shows that for 72% of IT and security decision makers, their roles have expanded to accommodate new challenges, with Risk management, Securing AI-enabled technology and emerging technologies being added to their plate. Artificial Intelligence has sharpened both edges of the sword, as organizations are better equipped to defend against cybersecurity conundrums that are finessed to be deadly, wide-ranging and impacting operations and market reputation.

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Help Your People in the US Federal Government Navigate Unprecedented Changes

Forrester IT

Lets face it: as a US Government leader, you are currently facing unprecedented change. The speed, depth, and widespread nature of the current change in the U.S. Government is dramatic. As a U.S. Government leader, you are uniquely challenged at this moment to help your people stay engaged in delivering great outcomes while under significant mental stress.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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12 formas de acelerar la transformación digital

CIO Business Intelligence

Los directores ejecutivos valoran la transformacin y la reinvencin, ya que las consideran esenciales para la competitividad actual y futura. Pero una transformacin y una reinvencin exitosas ya no son suficientes, dicen los altos ejecutivos. Deben ocurrir rpidamente, y su entrega debe ser cada vez ms rpida con el tiempo. La velocidad y la agilidad traen consigo el mximo premio a la transformacin.

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Financial Firms Offer Laid-Off Government Employees A Chance To … Spend More Money?!

Forrester IT

As a former US federal employee, Im a customer of two financial services companies that focus on current and former feds. Within the past couple of months as millions of federal employees have been subject to on-again, off-again layoffs these companies have emailed their customers with essentially the same message.

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What You Should Know About Agentic AI

Information Week

By taking artificial intelligence to a new level, agentic AI promises to elevate enterprise operations and productivity to new heights. Now is the time to prepare for this powerful technology.

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A Market On The Cusp Of Change: Decoding The CRM Wave

Forrester IT

The value of AI in CRM is real. Customer interactions produce huge volumes of high-quality, well-governed data; unleashing AI on this data lets organizations summarize and surface key insights, predict best actions to take and start pursuing goals autonomously. The result?

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What Cybersecurity Guardrails Do CIOs and CISOs Want for AI?

Information Week

With more AI models emerging, how do CIOs and CISOs at enterprises go about establishing security guardrails to reduce risks as the technology gets deployed?

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TDX25: MuleSoft and the Salesforce Platform Pivot

Forrester IT

About seven years ago, I was on an initiative to explore low code. I saw Salesforces low-code product in demos. My impression was that the product was only suitable for buyers with a strong Salesforce CRM focus a feeder to drive more revenue into Salesforces flagship product.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Using Privileged Access Management to protect Active Directory

CIO Business Intelligence

Active Directory (AD) holds the enterprises crown jewels, granting privileges to users that determine what data they can access and what level of control they have over the IT environment. Its such a vital system that when AD goes down, business operations often go with it. Even worse, if attackers are able to compromise AD, they possess the keys to the corporate kingdom.

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3 Key Insights on Driving Intelligent Operations in the GenAI Era

Social, Agile and Transformation

Intelligent operations is crucial for executives in construction and manufacturing today. They enhance safety, competitiveness, and growth, especially with the advent of genAI. Emphasizing the human element in operations, leveraging technology, and building trust in AI systems can improve overall performance and attract younger talent, while addressing workforce challenges.

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Beyond human identities: Cybersecurity’s blind spot in the age of AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

As AI continues to evolve and mature, organizations are beginning to deploy AI agents, which behave very differently from other forms of AI. Unlike generative or traditional AI, which act in response to a human prompt or request, AI agents independently perform complex tasks that require multi-step strategies. To accomplish their goals, agents must collect data from myriad sources and interact with internal and external systems.

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What Happens When AI Is Used as an Autonomous Weapon

Information Week

Bad actors are using AI as an autonomous weapon to speed and scale attacks. Enterprise CIOs and CISOs need to be ready with a renewed focus on cyber hygiene.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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The 10 features of a successful PAM solution

CIO Business Intelligence

Many sophisticated cyberattacks target elevated privileges so that the attackers can access to even more sensitive datacreating a compounding effect that organizations must protect against at all costs. Its no wonder that securing privileged access is a foundational element of cybersecurity. For business users, privileged access typically gives them the ability to read and, if allowed, write to documents and data that are vital to the organizations operations, strategy, and trade secrets.

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Tiger Global leads $146M round for Seattle-based developer tools startup Temporal

GeekWire

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal , a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, raised $146 million. The company is now valued at $1.72 billion up slightly from 2022, when it raised $103 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, making it one of a handful of Seattle-area unicorns.

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World Backup Day: A Clarion Call for Cyber Resilience

SecureWorld News

Each year on March 31st, just before April Fool's Day, cybersecurity professionals, IT teams, and business leaders alike are reminded of a simple truth: data loss isn't a matter of if, but when. World Backup Day is more than a calendar curiosityit's a call to action. In a digital world defined by ransomware, cloud sprawl, and hybrid infrastructures, the ability to recover data quickly and securely is one of the most important indicators of an organization's cyber resilience.

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Carbon Robotics unveils ‘AutoTractor,’ a self-driving platform to boost productivity on farms

GeekWire

Carbon Robotics vice president of product John Mey, left, and founder and CEO Paul Mikesell, with a tractor outfitted with the company’s new Carbon AutoTractor and its LaserWeeder. (GeekWire Photo) Long gone are the days on the farm where getting up at the crack of dawn to run a tractor through fields might have been just the start of a long day’s work.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Enhanced Device Protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enhanced Device Protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Seattle startup Gable lands $20M to coordinate data changes between teams

GeekWire

From left: Gable chief product officer James Frost; CEO and co-founder Chad Sanderson; CTO and co-founderAdrian Kreuziger, and founding engineer Daniel Dicker. (Gable Photo) Gable , a Seattle startup that bridges gaps between software developers and data teams, raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Crane Venture Partners. What Gable does: Gable helps companies ensure the accuracy and quality of their code as it is used and changed by various teams.

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Faster and Advanced Windows Search Performance is Now Available with Copilot + PCs

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Faster and Advanced Windows Search Performance is Now Available withCopilot+PCs appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution

GeekWire

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at the University of Washington in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Next time you right-click on a mouse, thank Paul Allen. In the early 1980s, before the Microsoft co-founder left the company, he made the call to go with two green buttons on the beige Microsoft Mouse. When Allen mentioned this to Steve Jobs during a visit to Palo Alto, the Apple co-founder dismissed the idea.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Accessibility Is Getting Its GDPR Moment

Forrester IT

Software that is not written with the needs of people with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities in mind blocks potential and current customers from using your products and services. Imagine what you would do to get 1.3 billion more customers?

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‘Nova Act’ moves Amazon further into the AI agent race

GeekWire

Amazon on Monday announced Nova Act, a new AI model and developer toolkit for creating agents that can perform tasks autonomously in web browsers a move that positions the tech giant more squarely in the emerging competition to commercialize AI agents. The company is also releasing a new website to give developers and everyday users the ability to experiment with its Nova foundation models, introduced in December.

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Enable or Disable Find My Device using Intune Security Policy

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enable or Disable Find My Device using Intune Security Policy appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Scientists use AI to identify animal populations most likely to spread diseases to humans

GeekWire

Chickens are able to pass bird flu to humans. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the jump to humans. Now scientists at Washington State University have built a machine learning model to examine multiple indicators that increase the odds of a disease making that leap, including the ecological characteristics of the host animals, virus genetics and the animals’ overlap with humans

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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Enable or Disable Mouse Gesture Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Enable or Disable Mouse Gesture Policy in MS Edge Browser using M365 Admin Center appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Tech Vets: Former Amazon leader taps her military chops in new role as maternal-care entrepreneur

GeekWire

Stephiney Foley, CEO and founder of Yuzi. (Anna Nodolf Photo) When Seattle entrepreneur Stephiney Foley was an undergraduate at West Point, she had a literal lesson in “to sink or swim” that helped shape her as a leader. Though only a sophomore at the elite military academy, Foley was required to support 18 freshmen in their academics and other areas.

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Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production

TechSpot

Energy storage technology has reached a transformative milestone as the BV100, a miniature atomic energy battery, enters mass production. Popular Mechanic notes that the coin-sized cell from Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology can provide juice lasting up to 50 years without charging or maintenance.

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Analysis: Google-Wiz deal sparks questions about cloud security strategy at AWS and Microsoft

GeekWire

Google Clouds ad on the Las Vegas Sphere, overlooking Amazon’s re:Invent conference in November 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s note: This analysis is written by Christopher Budd, a tech industry veteran who previously worked at the Microsoft Security Response Center. Earlier this month, Google announced plans to acquire Israel-based Wiz for the nearly jaw-dropping price of $32 billion (yes, with a b).

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.