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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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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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Clean, Lean Data Is the Cornerstone of AI Sustainability

Information Week

Messy data is making AI inefficient and hampering its sustainability. So why aren’t more organizations doing a better job of optimizing their data for AI?

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If You Are A Business Resilience Pro, We Need You To Answer A Few Questions!!

Forrester IT

Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resilience. We examine different topics in business resilience such as disaster recovery, but this time it’s all just business resilience.

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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 We Redesigned “Drive” With Help From Gen AI

Social, Agile and Transformation

How Isaac Sacolick and team rebrand, redesign, and replatform his 700 post blog with tech assistance from Gen AI like ChatGPT and autimation like Zapier and Quickbase. They enhance the information architecture, establish the StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community, and launch "Drive," the redesigned blog for digital transformation leaders.

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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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NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs Sold Out: Demand Surges, What’s Next?

Tech Republic Data Center

The supply of next-gen processors is sold out for the next 12 months as company demand for more sophisticated AI models and applications continues unabated.

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AI makes edge computing more relevant to CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs.

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Windows 10 support ends in a year, leaving users with difficult choices to make

TechSpot

As the clock ticks down to October 14, 2025, millions of Windows 10 users face a critical decision. On that date, Microsoft will officially end support for its widely used operating system, leaving many wondering what to do with their computers.

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Izola Turns One — And It’s Just Getting Started

Forrester IT

We launched our genAI tool, Izola, one year ago today with the goal of helping clients accelerate progress on their top initiatives. To celebrate Izola’s birthday, we’re thrilled to share a few of the ways that our clients are deriving value.

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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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9 Cybersecurity Channels to Follow on YouTube

IT Toolbox

If you click the "subscribe" button for any of these YouTube cybersecurity channels, you're guaranteed to learn something new, get great tips on ethical hacking, and discover what it's really like to work in cybersecurity. The post 9 Cybersecurity Channels to Follow on YouTube appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Global cybersecurity talent gap widens

Network World

Despite some recent positive news for tech hiring , a growing cybersecurity talent shortage threatens to hamstring businesses. Data from CyberSeek shows that in the U.S., some 265,000 more cybersecurity workers are needed to solve current staffing needs. CyberSeek is a data analysis and aggregation tool powered by a collaboration among Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data and analytics; NICE, a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology focused on advancing cyber

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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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Forrester’s 2024 Enterprise Architecture Award Winner And Finalists For APAC

Forrester IT

What does excellence in enterprise architecture look like? Learn more about the enterprise architecture strategy that won Contact Energy, a New Zealand electricity generator and retailer, this year’s EA Award for the APAC region.

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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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Zscaler Report: Mobile, IoT, and OT Cyber Threats Surge in 2024

Tech Republic Security

Zscaler ThreatLabz report reveals a 2024 surge in mobile, IoT, and OT cyberattacks, highlighting key trends and the need for zero trust security.

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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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Quantum Compute Report Card: Looking Beyond Two-qubit Gates

Information Week

Delivery of commercially viable quantum computers remains years away, however IBM believes the technology remains on track -- though there is more work to come.

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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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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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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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SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge

Network World

Open source and Linux platform vendor SUSE is looking to help organizations solve some of the complexity and challenges of edge computing with the company’s SUSE Edge 3.1 release, announced today. SUSE Edge is not a single technology but rather a set of capabilities that together enable deployment and management of an edge platform. SUSE Edge integrates SUSE Linux Micro, which is an optimized Linux distribution for smaller deployments based on the company’s flagship SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE).

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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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Board of Clients Book+Media list, 2024

Forrester IT

Every year for the last 26 years, Forrester has convened its Board of Clients — a group of clients (pic to the left) who advise us on our strategy, new products, and research agenda.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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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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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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Boosting Sales With the Power of AI

Information Week

A growing number of businesses use AI to increase sales. Here's how your firm can cash in.

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Introducing Forrester’s Partner Selection Blueprint

Forrester IT

Selecting the right partner can be the difference between success and failure for technology-driven initiatives. Businesses and institutions make dozens or hundreds of technology and service provider selections every year. Most don’t follow a rigorous process or involve all the right people in the decision.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Maximizing Return on Investment with Your Security Budget

IT Toolbox

Demonstrating a return on investment for security spending can be difficult. The cost of a breach is often cited to demonstrate spending on technology, personnel, or services. However, this doesn't always articulate the best business case for the budget, shares Andy Collins, CISM, CIPP/E. The post Maximizing Return on Investment with Your Security Budget appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. In its data center switch family, Cisco is adding the Nexus 9364E-SG2 switch, a high-density 800G aggregation box that supports numerous port speeds and densities including 400, 200, and 100 Gbps.

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8 Technical Skills Everyone Should Have

Information Week

Technology tends to get easier to use over time to expand the base of potential users. Meanwhile, new tech and channels continue to emerge challenging workers to keep up. Here’s a look at some skills that all employees should have.

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Now Live: A Retailer’s Guide To Planning For The 2024 Holiday Season

Forrester IT

Retailers needing advice before the winter shopping season: Read this blog for a sneak peek into Forrester's Retail Holiday Planning Guide.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.