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DeepSeek Just “Opened” The Path To AI ROI

Forrester IT

DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1) by a little-known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models. Yes, it’s partially open-source. Yes, the DeepSeek app explains its reasoning by default. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.

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How IT Leaders Can Weather Geopolitical Unrest

Information Week

Ensuring business continuity in times of geopolitical unrest can be very challenging. Extreme agility helps.

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Data Privacy Week: How Every CIO and CDO Must Take Control of Their Data

Social, Agile and Transformation

Data Privacy Week 2025 emphasizes the theme "Take control of your data." Organizations are urged to enhance data governance and security in light of increasing risks from breaches and regulations holding leaders accountable. Key areas to focus on include human factors, data security, and AI governance to mitigate risks effectively.

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UK regulator may investigate AWS and Microsoft cloud businesses

Network World

AWS and Microsoft could potentially face an investigation of their cloud businesses in Britain should the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follow the recommendation of an independent inquiry group that reports into the UKs antitrust regulator. In a release issued on Monday, the group asks that the CMA use its powers under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ( DMCCA ), to designate the two largest providers, AWS and Microsoft, with strategic market status (SMS) in relat

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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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SAP to give on-prem customers three-year reprieve — with a catch

CIO Business Intelligence

The clock is ticking for many SAP customers. The standard maintenance for SAP ERP and Business Suite is set to expire at the end of 2027. After that, SAP user companies would have the option to purchase the more expensive extended maintenance for an additional three years. All told then, migration to S/4HANA would need to be completed by the end of 2030.

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MDM Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Intune From Enrollment to Retirement

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 MDM Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Intune From Enrollment to Retirement appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

Tech Republic Big Data

Competing with OpenAIs o1, DeepSeeks models scored higher on benchmarks and disrupted the AI market, sparking debates on U.S.-China tech dynamics.

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Is Your Cybersecurity Job Burning You Out? How to Spot the Warning Signs

SecureWorld News

Working in cybersecurity is demanding. Analysts must investigate and remedy thousands of alerts every day while remaining adaptable to an ever-changing technological landscape. Cybersecurity is fast-paced and can be demanding. You can't always turn off your laptop at the end of the day and forget about it. Most professionals in this field work unsociable hours just to stay on top of their workload.

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DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.

Vox

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Lodge for a media finance conference on July 11, 2023. When it comes to AI, Id consider myself a casual user and a curious one. Its been creeping into my daily life for a couple of years, and at the very least, AI chatbots can be good at making drudgery slightly less drudgerous.

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What's New (And Worrisome) in Quantum Security?

Information Week

A new generation of quantum computers could render current cryptographic technology approaches useless. Is a solution even possible?

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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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US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14 billion Juniper buy

Network World

*Article has ben updated to include a joint response from HP and Juniper to the U.S. DOJ complaint* After months of speculation, the U.S. Justice Department today sued to block the $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The Justice Department said reduced competition in the wireless market is the biggest problem with the proposed buy.

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AI Pact: Simplifying EU AI Act compliance for enterprises

CIO Business Intelligence

While most provisions of the EU AI Act come into effect at the end of a two-year transition period ending in August 2026, some of them enter force as early as February 2, 2025. The European law on artificial intelligence is extensive and complex and understanding it and integrating it into daily practice requires a great deal of effort, knowledge, and resources, say CIOs, experts and executives from the legal and public policy areas of enterprises, who agree that those two years to reach full co

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Third-Party VMware Support: A New Alternative On The Table

Forrester IT

Tech buyers scrambling to get VMware support in the wake of the Broadcom deal are happy to hear about new third-party support service providers. Learn some of the pitfalls to avoid in evaluating these new providers.

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AI Integration Impacts Data, Cybersecurity Skillsets

Information Week

Adoption and evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming tech roles, prioritizing advanced skills and interdisciplinary expertise.

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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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SD-WAN to gain AI-driven deployment, management capabilities

Network World

AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology. For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. In addition, AI workloads have distinctive requirements that will influence SD-WAN connectivity choices. SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility.

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5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. A lot has gone down since 2019, and Gartners latest guidance on the topic comes from John-David Lovelock, vice president analyst,who says, Its not as though the data center is going away.

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AI and ML Security: Preventing Jailbreaks, Drop Tables, and Data Poisoning

Forrester IT

Its a fast and furious week in the world of generative AI and AI security.

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AI's Key Role in the Emerging Bio Revolution

Information Week

It may be AI's most important breakthrough: helping people live longer and healthier lives.

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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.

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AI-powered automation set for gains in 2025

Network World

Automation technology has long been a part of ITs arsenal, as enterprises work to simplify increasingly complex networking and operational environments. Looking ahead, the more AI is added to the automation mix, the more enterprise operations teams stand to gain. 2025 will be the year for AI initiatives, where AI-powered automation has reached a tipping point from being a nice-to-have to a requirement, said Bill Lobig, vice president, product management, withIBMAutomation.

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Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) are good at learning from unstructured data. But a lot of the proprietary value that enterprises hold is locked up inside relational databases, spreadsheets, and other structured file types. Large enterprises have long used knowledge graphs to better understand underlying relationships between data points, but these graphs are difficult to build and maintain, requiring effort on the part of developers, data engineers, and subject matter experts who know what the data

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How to Use Keeper Password Manager: A Comprehensive Guide

Tech Republic Security

This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up Keeper Password Manager and use it to secure and organize your passwords.

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AI Projects at the Edge: How To Plan for Success

Information Week

Planning AI projects at the edge -- when is it appropriate tomakethe move and what steps need to be taken to ensure deployments are successful?

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

When AI agents begin to proliferate, a new, open structure will be needed so they can securely communicate and collaborate together to solve complex problems, suggests Cisco. To head off potential problems such as agent sprawl and fragmented infrastructure, Ciscos advanced research outfit Outshift is proposing the Internet of Agents, an open-sourced, three-layer architecture that would enable quantum-safe, agent-to-agent communication to allow AI agents to collaborate autonomously and share comp

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Abu Dhabi set to become the world’s first fully AI-Powered government by 2027

CIO Business Intelligence

In a move to establish itself as a global leader in AI-driven government, the government of Abu Dhabi has unveiled its ambitious Abu Dhabi Government Digital Strategy 2025-2027. This transformative plan, developed by the Department of Government Enablement (DGE) in collaboration with various governmental bodies, will see an investment of AED 13 billion over the next three years.

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DeepSeek Unleashes Smaller-Footprint Models That Can Transform AIOps From Cloud To Edge

Forrester IT

Exciting developments such as DeepSeeks R1 announcement are extending opportunities to run large language models on edge devices. These advancements could have profound implications for edge computing, particularly in the realms of AIOps and observability. By enabling real-time insights and faster automations at the edge, enterprises can enhance their operational posture, drive down costs, and improve operational efficiency and resilience.

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China’s DeepSeek Dethrones ChatGPT as US Tech Stocks Plunge

Information Week

The one-year-old startup is wreaking havoc with its cost-saving training model, threatening to set China ahead in the AI arms race.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

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.

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VMware offers fixes to severe vulnerabilities in VMware Aria

Network World

VMware has fixed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its cloud management platform (CMP), VMware Aria, which could allow attackers to steal sensitive credentials from the virtualization giants IT management and logging solutions. Parent company Broadcom, in an advisory issued on Thursday , revealed that two out of five recently disclosed vulnerabilities are high severity information disclosure flaws impacting the VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria operations for Logs components,

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What CIOs should learn now that DeepSeek is here

CIO Business Intelligence

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made a big splash last week when it unveiled an open-source version of its reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, claiming performance superior to OpenAIs o1 generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). The news caused NVIDIA, leading maker of GPUs used to power AI in data centers, to shed nearly $600 billion of its market cap on Monday because DeepSeeks innovations, according to Gartner, appear to use significantly less advanced hardware and computing power resources, while stil

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Deepfakes: The Hidden Threat CMOs Can’t Ignore

Forrester IT

AI advancements have caused deepfakes to emerge as a significant threat that B2B CMOs and brand leaders cannot afford to ignore. These synthetic audio-visual impersonations can mimic real individuals with alarming accuracy. As this technology becomes more accessible, the potential for misuse grows, posing risks to businesses’ reputations, stock prices, and overall trust.

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Speech-to-Speech AI: Empowering a More Connected World

Information Week

Speech-to-speech AI is reshaping industries by enabling real-time translation and seamless voice interactions.

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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.