Sat.Feb 22, 2025 - Fri.Feb 28, 2025

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Will Enterprises Adopt DeepSeek?

Information Week

DeepSeek seemingly came out of nowhere. Its disrupting LLM economics in a positive way, but there are risks enterprises need to consider.

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Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn talks culture: ‘They can steal your technology, but not your philosophy’

Network World

Cisco celebrated forty years of history in Amsterdam with the EMEA version of its flagship customer conference, Cisco Live! During the event, Cisco positioned itself as a unique partner for customers facing challenges from the changing nature of the workplace to the revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in data centers and network infrastructure or the need for digital resilience, said Oliver Tuszik, Ciscos vice president for EMEA.

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO Business Intelligence

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. According to a study from Rocket Software and Foundry , 76% of IT decision-makers say challenges around accessing mainframe data and contextual metadata are a barrier to mainframe data usage, while 64% view integrating mainframe data with cloud data sources as the primary challenge.

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$1.5B Hack of Bybit Might Be the Largest Crypto Heist Ever

Tech Republic Security

Get details about how this cryptocurrency heist happened, and what Bybits CEO has said about it.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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Lessons From The Inaugural Conference Of The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI

Forrester IT

Last weeks inaugural conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI in Paris started with a dire warning from renowned computer scientist Stuart Russell: There are two potential futures for humanity: a world with safe and ethical AI, or a world with no AI at all. We are currently pursuing a third option.

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Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier

Network World

Most enterprises deploying AI technology have been turning to hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to provide all the necessary infrastructure. According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. Thats because enterprises have been lagging behind on adopting on-premises infrastructure, the research firm says.

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What It Takes to Become Cloud-First

Information Week

More organizations are adopting a cloud-first approach. The little things can make a big difference.

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IBM’s Acquisition of DataStax: A Major Boost for Its AI Data Platform

Forrester IT

IBM has announced its intent to acquire DataStax, a leading data platform provider. This strategic acquisition significantly boosts IBM’s AI data platform by integrating advanced vector capabilities critical for powering RAG applications. It positions IBM to help businesses leverage value from vast volumes of unstructured data, an area where IBM lacks a strong foothold.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today.

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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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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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The Top Habits of High-Performing IT Development Teams

Information Week

Top-tier development teams are highly productive and efficient. They also share several common attributes.

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It’s Time to Define Your Professional Existence and Articulate Your Story

Forrester IT

The urgency of telling your story as a data or technology leader within the current corporate landscape cannot be overstated. As we navigate these turbulent times, the ability to articulate your professional identity clearly and compellingly has emerged as a critical lifeline. Let this be the moment you choose to define your existence within your organization and beyond.

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

Network World

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. OpenShift is Red Hats commercially supported Kubernetes distribution. The open-source Kubernetes technology in recent years has become the de facto standard for cloud-native deployments, running on all major cloud hyperscalers and supported by a long list of vendors, including Red Hat.

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Can AI live up to its promise?

CIO Business Intelligence

This is one of the questions that has been on our minds for some time now every time we read about the latest advances and promises of artificial intelligence (AI). The bombardment of information about the progress of AI is continuous and comes from many fronts with different objectives; either conveying excessive optimism (e.g. superintelligent, conscious AI, etc.) or, on the contrary, drawing dystopian scenarios (e.g.

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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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Lumen Orbit changes its name to Starcloud and raises $10M for space data centers

GeekWire

An artist’s conception shows data-center spacecraft being added to an orbital array. (Starcloud via YouTube) Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud got its start just last year under a different name — Lumen Orbit — but the newly renamed company is already filling out its seed funding round with $10 million in fresh investment for space-based data centers.

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection And Response Services, Q1 2025!

Forrester IT

The third installment of the Forrester Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services Wave is now live. Theres so much to love about the MDR market: fantastic providers, engaged clients, and meaningful outcomes. This year is no different. Forrester clients can access The Forrester Wave: Managed Detection And Response Services, Q1 2025 here.

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AI, automation spur efforts to upskill network pros

Network World

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. At the same time, they need to expand their cloud and security skill sets to accommodate more complex tools and technologies. Networking roles are undergoing significant evolution, with a key emphasis on the integration of emerging technologies such as AI and automation, says Joost Heins, head of intelligenc

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Generative AI: Eight fundamental security risks and considerations

CIO Business Intelligence

As new technologies emerge, security measures often trail behind, requiring time to catch up. This is particularly true for Generative AI, which presents several inherent security challenges. Here are some of the key risks related to AI that organizations need to bear in mind. 1. No Delete Button The absence of a delete button in Generative AI technologies poses a serious security threat.

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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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Hot Tech Jobs in 2025

Information Week

For the most part, hiring intentions have been holding steady. But seismic shifts in job openings are underway. Heres a look at the hot job opportunities the experts say are rising from the rubble this year.

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Detect, Defend, Deny: Zero Trust World 2025

Forrester IT

Cybersecurity vendor ThreatLocker recently hosted its fifth annual Zero Trust World (ZTW) conference in Orlando, welcoming attendees from 28 countries to learn about Zero Trust principles and ThreatLocker offerings. Over two days, the event celebrated Zero Trust as a cybersecurity model and the ThreatLocker approach for achieving Zero Trust.

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StarlingX bridges IPv4-IPv6 gap with dual-stack networking support

Network World

The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0, a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. This latest version introduces substantial improvements to networking capabilities, security features and management tools. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform.

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IT leaders’ AI priorities emphasize productivity over innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are still aiming for the low-hanging fruit when using AI, zeroing in on improving employee productivity rather than more advanced uses such as enabling innovation or expanding revenue, according to a new survey. Over two-thirds of IT leaders have focused their AI investments on employee productivity, with just over half using AI to improve customer support or to enable innovation, according to the AI Priorities Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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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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Bridging the Tech Gap: Fostering Cross-Generational Adoption

Information Week

Businesses are closing generational IT gaps with tailored training, collaboration, and AI adoption strategies that empower employees of all ages to embrace transformative tools.

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End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

GeekWire

A meeting in Skype, the messaging and calling app that once ranked as Microsoft’s largest acquisition. (Microsoft Photo) Before Zoom, before FaceTime, and before video-calling became a default feature of today’s messaging apps there was Skype. Microsoft paid $8.5 billion in 2011 to acquire what was once a dominant player in voice and video calls over the internet.

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3 strategies for carbon-free data centers

Network World

The construction of massive data center campuses is booming, with hyperscalers, colocation providers and large enterprises developing new capacity to support the exploding requirements of AI. This rapidly escalating demand is raising concerns that the traditional power grid will not be able to keep up , and that this lack of capacity will actually inhibit data center expansion.

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KeyBank CIO Amy Brady heeds the transformative call of IT leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO Amy Brady wears a vast array of hats in leading KeyBanks Technology, Operations, and Services (KTOS) organization. In this role, Brady oversees the front-to-back IT organization, data and analytics, enterprise security, enterprise risk, and an intelligent automation center of excellence, all while managing back-office operations, contact center services, and KeyBanks corporate real estate portfolio.

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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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How to Overcome the Quantum Threat

Information Week

Quantum computing is capable of breaking classical encryption. The race is on to build quantum-proof cryptography.

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Amazon Web Services focuses on optimizing artificial intelligence in space

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services demonstrated data processing in orbit in 2022, using a payload on D-Orbit’s ION satellite carrier, shown in this artist’s conception. (D-Orbit Illustration) Artificial intelligence and machine learning are turning into requirements for space operations, and Amazon Web Services is optimizing its products to reflect that view, according to the former Air Force major general who’s now in charge of AWS’ aerospace initiatives. “AI, ML, generative AI h

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Lenovo renews ThinkSystem lineup for AI workloads and more

Network World

Lenovo has introduced a family of servers tuned for AI and more. The vendor announced three next-gen ThinkSystem V4 servers are built on P-core-based Xeon 6 processors , that are purpose-built to run a wide range of workloads, including the most compute intensive tasks such as algorithmic trading, astrophysics, and CRM. Lenovo claims that with the new systems, customers can see up to 6.1x higher compute performance than previous generation of CPUs as well as twice the memory bandwidth when using

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Salesforce and Google expand partnership to bring Agentforce, Gemini together

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce and Google expanded their strategic partnership on Monday to enable Salesforce customers to use Google Gemini to build Salesforce Agentforce AI agents and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud. The partners said the new agreement will give customers more choice in the models and capabilities they use to build and deploy AI agents, noting that customers will be able to develop AI solutions tailored to their specific needs while avoiding lock-in to AI model providers.

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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!