Tue.Oct 29, 2024

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GenAI is a land of confusion for revenue leaders

Forrester IT

One of the benefits of an analyst role at Forrester is engaging with B2B leaders to understand their business challenges and priorities. This month, I was fortunate to spend time in person with a broad range of sales and operations leaders at Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA and other events in London.

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Safeguarding Elections from Cyberthreats

IT Toolbox

Governments and the public must be aware of the potential for cyber threats to surge preceding national elections. Craig Watt, threat intelligence consultant at Quorum Cyber, shares actionable strategies to secure democracy from malicious influences. The post Safeguarding Elections from Cyberthreats appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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AI And GenAI Are Game-Changers For Enterprise Architecture Leaders

Forrester IT

AI and, most recently, generative AI (genAI) have uncovered the true power of automating tasks that previously were tedious to complete or difficult to improve the efficiency of the work within a singular domain of the business.

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How To Turn an IT Disruption to Your Advantage

Information Week

Service outages can be a good thing, if they’re the catalyst for building resilient systems.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Transforming Enterprise Networks With AIOps: A New Era Of Intelligent Connectivity

Forrester IT

Learn how AIOps provides real-time contextualization and insights across the IT estate, ensuring that network infrastructure operates at peak efficiency in serving business needs.

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7 Things That Need to Happen to Make GenAI Useful to Business

Information Week

Generative artificial intelligence is falling victim to hype -- and so are the companies that invested in it. Here’s what needs to change to turn the situation around.

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Multimodal AI: The Future of Enterprise Intelligence?

Information Week

Multimodal artificial intelligence can serve as the eyes, ears, and brains behind generative AI. It will fundamentally change business and IT.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisor

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Troll Disrupts Conference on Russian Disinformation With ‘Zoom-bombing’

Information Week

The event, “Russian Disinformation: Tactics, Influence, and Threats to National Security,” showcased various methods the nation-state allegedly uses to disrupt western societies.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. I wrote, “ It may be even more important for the security team to protect and maintain the integrity of proprietary data to generate true, long-term enterprise value.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Cisco unveils AI server, ‘Pods’ to simplify AI infrastructure deployments

Network World

Cisco is unveiling a new server and preconfigured designs aimed at helping enterprise customers implement infrastructure that can handle the massive data sets and complex algorithms of AI training and workloads. On the server side, Cisco announced a more powerful member of its Unified Computing System (UCS) family, the UCS C885A M8. The 8U rack server is built on Nvidia’s HGX platform and designed to deliver the accelerated compute capabilities needed for AI workloads such as large language mode

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How AI is reshaping the University of Washington computer science school

GeekWire

The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, right, and the Gates Center at the University of Washington on Tuesday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Artificial intelligence is taking center stage at the University of Washington’s computer science school. The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering held its annual Research Showcase on Tuesday in Seattle, highlighting the latest projects, technologies, and research from UW students and profes

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Diez razones por las que los responsables de TI no superan sus expectativas

CIO Business Intelligence

Formar un gran equipo es una de las tareas más acuciantes para cualquier CIO. También es una de las más difíciles. De hecho, la empresa de investigación Gartner señaló la estrategia de talento informático como uno de los cinco puntos débiles comunes de los CIO que persistirán hasta 2025. Pero para reunir un equipo de alto rendimiento hoy en día , los CIO deben prestar especial atención a sus filas directivas.

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New ‘open’ cloud coalition not so open: Analyst

Network World

Regulators in the UK and EU could add real value by pushing for a single coalition with all the major cloud players, rather than ending up with competing ‘open’ coalition camps, as we had in the VHS/Beta video tape standard war, but on a larger scale, according to Phil Brunkard, executive counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, UK. Brunkard was responding to a new alliance called the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), launched Tuesday in the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), which is made up

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.

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INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs

CIO Business Intelligence

As the year-end approaches, it’s common for enterprises to discover they still have funds that must be utilized. Often, these L&D dollars are “use or lose,” meaning they will be returned to the general fund if not invested. Recognizing this, INE Security is launching an initiative to guide organizations in investing in technical training before the year end.

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Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space

Network World

Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space. The company — which just last week closed an oversubscribed seed round of more than $10 million — says this could greatly ease terrestrial energy constraints, allow

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HLTH 2024: Bold Commitments and Key Takeaways

Forrester IT

This year’s HLTH conference embraced the theme of ‘Be Bold.’ Speakers committed strongly to tackling some of the toughest challenges in healthcare, such as lack of access, clinician shortages, and frustrating prior authorization (PA) processes.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO Business Intelligence

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. By embracing sustainable architecture practices and aligning technological advancements with sustainability objectives, organizations can harness AI’s transformative potential while safeguarding the planet while meeting regulatory requirements.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Which iPad Model Should You Get? Late 2024 Update

TechSpot

Thanks to class-leading hardware and optimized software, the Apple iPad line has long been the go-to tablet recommendation for most people. Now, choosing the right model for you, that's worth a closer look.

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5 reasons why Agile transformation fails

CIO Business Intelligence

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Now, however, organizations are laying off Agile teams en masse, disillusioned by the lack of tangible results.

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Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos

TechSpot

In a recent exchange on Threads, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri confirmed that the platform downgrades the video quality of older content in certain scenarios. "If something isn't watched for a long time, because the vast majority of views are in the beginning, we will move to a lower quality video,".

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

During my career I have developed a few mottos. For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” Thus, to help humans embrace the better, I need to make the better both familiar and comfortable. To recognize technical debt, my smart aleck motto is, “Technical debt is something I did more than five years ago or something that someone else did more than six months ago.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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New technology can unlock previously inaccessible lithium reserves

TechSpot

Technology developed by Australian researchers could unlock previously inaccessible lithium reserves, potentially averting a looming supply crisis in the clean energy sector. The method, known as EDTA-aided loose nanofiltration (EALNF), offers a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting lithium from challenging locations such as high-altitude salt flats and.

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El Sistema de Seguridad Nacional robustece su operativa digitalización mediante

CIO Business Intelligence

La multinacional tecnológica GMV ha ganado el concurso convocado por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DSN) para desarrollar y desplegar la primera fase de la Plataforma de Inteligencia de Datos del Sistema de Seguridad Nacional (SSN). El proyecto, cuyo pistoletazo de salida tuvo lugar el pasado 13 de septiembre, supone un hito en la modernización de las infraestructuras críticas de España.

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Radio station drops "Gen Z" AI presenters after a week following public outrage

TechSpot

On October 21, Radio Krakow announced that it was revamping its OFF station, introducing three AI-created voice hosts representing Generation Z. These avatars were 20-year-old journalism student and pop culture expert Emilia Nowa, 22-year-old Acoustic Engineering student Jakub Zielinski, and 23-year-old former psychology student Alex, who is "socially engaged, passionately.

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How innovation workshops help to get smart about gen AI use cases

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for business value across the enterprise, gen AI use cases, specifically, are arguably no different than any other technology-related ones. It all comes down to cost benefit, and having a set of priorities. Advantages of gen AI workshops In conducting hundreds of innovation workshops around the world for the public and private sectors, many of which have been focused on AI/ML, data, and analytics, I’ve found these design-based brainstor

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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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Gmail rolls out "Help me write," an AI-driven tool for e-mails

TechSpot

In 2023, Google introduced the Gemini-based "Help me write" feature, giving users an easy way to compose or enhance emails. With Gemini AI's capabilities, Help me write can quickly draft repetitive messages and replies to routine conversations, freeing up time for more complex tasks and detailed emails.

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6 Contact Center Trends That Don’t Involve AI (+2 That Do)

Tech Republic

Tired of the AI buzz? Discover the latest contact center trends that have nothing to do with artificial intelligence or machine learning.

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Notion is coming for Gmail with new email client powered by AI

TechSpot

The new service, dubbed Notion Email, isn't available quite yet – the company is operating a waitlist for initial access, which is expected in early 2025. But the team has detailed what to expect when it does arrive.

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F5 confirms new round of job cuts, continuing annual pattern of workforce reductions

GeekWire

The F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) F5 continued its practice of trimming its workforce after the completion of its fiscal year, confirming Tuesday that it has made job cuts impacting roles across several teams inside the company. The workforce reduction amounts to less than 2% of the company’s global workforce, a spokesperson for the Seattle-based application security and delivery company told GeekWire via email.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.