Information Week
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Whether youre just beginning to explore data governance or are looking to refine your existing framework for future scalability, heres what you can expect to face throughout your journey.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
In todays unstable market driven by shifting buyer expectations and AI disruption, strong processes are an organizations lifeline, ensuring predictability, consistency, and scalability. Yet, many organizations overlook their importance. Investing in process improvement isnt a nice-to-have its essential. It boosts innovation, creates competitive differentiation, improves efficiency, cuts waste, and makes an organization agile.
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TechSpot
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In the healthcare industry alone, ransomware has caused nearly $22 billion in downtime losses over the last six years. Globally, ransomware costs are expected to reach $265 billion by 2031.
Network World
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The days of relying solely on traditional VPNs for remote access could be over. Its no secret that more modern approaches to remote access have been usurping VPNs as organizations adapt to the realities of a more distributed workforce, increasingly cloud-based applications, and heightened security threats. Enter zero trust network access (ZTNA), which provides secure remote connectivity that has quickly become a preferred alternative to VPN.
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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.
Anoop
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
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 New Windows 11 Policy to Manage Quality Updates During OOBE in 2025 appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
As a CIO, its likely that this year, your IT team is moving quickly from evaluating and deploying discrete third-party AI software packages, to integrating custom AI agents throughout your client-facing and internal business applications for even further automation and productivity. Theyre likely working with at least one AI agent builder platform and perhaps several others.
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Network World
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
When 80,000 fans fill the University of Notre Dames iconic football stadium on Saturday afternoons in the fall to cheer on the Fighting Irish, theres no shortage of high-decibel screaming. And now, thanks to a major network expansion, theres no shortage of high-bandwidth streaming. Last fall, Notre Dame became the first college or university in the U.S. to turn on Wi-Fi 6E , the relatively new standard that takes advantage of the 6Ghz wireless spectrum to provide enhanced wireless coverage for o
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Hackers can crack weak passwords in seconds, while strong ones may take years. Learn about the time to crack your password and boost security.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
In the wake of Broadcoms acquisition of VMware, many CIOs have considered whether to drop VMware from their IT portfolios. But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
In this two-part blog series, Principal Analysts Anthony McPartlin and Seth Marrs debate the idea of AI agents as coworkers. Here, Anthony takes a skeptical perspective, while in his blog, Seth (ever the optimist) makes his case for a more positive view of AI agents.
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
Network World
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system. The discovery of the vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) was made by researchers at Assetnote and, according to researchers at Greynoise, is already being exploited.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Navigating the most pressing challenges for CISOs and cyber security teams in the year ahead.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
If youre like most CIOs, youre under pressure to introduce exciting new technological capabilities to the enterprise at large, promoting visions of digital transformation, generative AI, AGI, AI transformation, agentic AI, or some other version of being an FBC CIO thats Fully Buzzword Compliant for those who havent joined the AFC (Acronymic Fan Club).
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
MITRE released its latest Enterprise MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations in December of 2024. At that time, we published a blog with a quick overview of the results.
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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.
Network World
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
In a landmark shift, Arm has secured Meta as the first major customer for its internally designed server CPUs, a move that signals its entry into direct chip sales and places it in direct competition with its biggest customers, including Qualcomm and Nvidia. The company, known for licensing its chip designs to industry heavyweights like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, is now stepping directly into the silicon market, a move that could put it in direct competition with the very customers it once ser
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Isaac Sacolick cautions against forecasting ROI for digita transformationl initiatives, particularly AI, emphasizing the importance of defining clear objectives and key results (OKRs) instead. While recent research indicates that generative AI investments can yield significant returns, organizations often struggle to quantify productivity improvements.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Technology leaders in the financial services sector constantly struggle with the daily challenges of balancing cost, performance, and security the constant demand for high availability means that even a minor system outage could lead to significant financial and reputational losses. Add to this the escalating costs of maintaining legacy systems, which often act as bottlenecks for scalability.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
DeepSeek: New Model & New Hopes DeepSeek released the opensource AI model DeepSeek R1, with impressive performance, and significantly lower training cost. It garnered immediate attention and rapid adoption. It has outperformed many, if not all, competitors’ latest models across many commonly used AI tests.
Advertiser: Procom Services
The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.
Network World
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. A recent investigation by German news portal Heise has uncovered that used Seagate data center-grade hard drives, originating from cryptocurrency mining farms, are being sold as new.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
As artificial intelligence technology heats up, data center operators are struggling to keep facility temperatures down. Its a battle with chilling consequences.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
When you lead a team, your people will turn to you to make the final call on a huge number of decisions. People admire a leader who is decisive. But decisiveness is challenging to master. You have to live with the decisions you make. And history is rich with tales of hubristic leaders who were willing to make tough decisions boldly ignoring naysayers and ultimately leading their crew into crushing disasters.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Dynatrace Perform, the annual event to highlight all things Dynatrace, was held at the Aria in Las Vegas from February 5-7. I was there to get a look at their new offering directed at developers: Observability for Developers.
Advertiser: GEP
2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.
Network World
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Cisco rolled out its first of many AI agents codeveloped with partner Mistral AI, a genAI and large language model (LLM) startup. The so-called AI Renewals Agent is an on-premise, AI-based application that Ciscos internal Customer Experience (CX) group will use to help retain and renew customers more quickly. The AI Renewals Agent gathers data from more than 50 different sources of structured and unstructured data and then offers real-time sentiment analysis, intelligent automation, and personal
Information Week
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The rapid growth of data centers and ongoing drought are forcing Iowa to examine water consumption.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Security and IT operations (SecOps) teams face serious fatigue dealing with rapidly evolving threats. Traditional vulnerability management requires too much manual investigation before finding a fix. SecOps teams can take weeks and even months to review documentation, make recommendations, and coordinate vulnerability patches. Thats a lot of time for an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities and potentially compromise your organizations systems and data.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The 2024 CrowdStrike software incident reinforced the importance of three key pillars for crisis communications. While CrowdStrike CEO, George Kurtz, issued a specific, fact-based statement within hours of learning there was a major outage caused by a bad software update, he faced criticism for not immediately offering an apology.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
Network World
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The industry transition to 400 Gigabit Ethernet networking took a big step forward this week when the worlds leading Internet exchange operator announced plans to upgrade its New York backbone to 400G. DE-CIX selected Nokia for the project, which will also add 800G readiness to DE-CIX New York, the largest IX in the US northeast region. The 400G upgrade should be completed by around June, according to DE-CIX CTO Thomas King.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The semiconductors that drive AI development require a wide variety of elements, some of which are hard to come by. Is supply meeting demand in this novel technological landscape?
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The mission of aligning Cerealtos IT with business objectives is the ongoing responsibility of CIO Juan Manuel Garca Dujo. After more than a decade leading the digital transformation and cybersecurity initiatives of the services company, hes managed to forge a synergy where tech and information security are established as fundamental pillars for business success.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Advanced Analytics: The Future Of CX Despite the recent challenges in overall experience quality seen in Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index) benchmarks, customer experience (CX) remains a priority for many organizations. Unfortunately, these organizations have struggled to realize tangible benefits from their CX programs.
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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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