Forrester IT
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Traditional managed services have long been caught in a fundamental dilemma: achieving high-quality service delivery while maintaining cost-effectiveness. After offshore and cloud, managed services are being reshaped by AI at a fundamental level, introducing a new services paradigm that blends performance-based models, automation, and human-centric refinement.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape. Nearly nine in 10 business leaders say their organizations data ecosystems are ready to build and deploy AI at scale, according to a recent Capital One AI readiness survey.
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Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 10, 2024
TechRepublic looks back at the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2024, from record data breaches to rising ransomware threats and CISO burnout.
Network World
DECEMBER 10, 2024
China has initiated an investigation into Nvidia over alleged violations of the countrys anti-monopoly laws, signaling a potential escalation in the ongoing tech and trade tensions between Beijing and Washington. The probe, announced by Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation ( SAMR ), aims to assess whether the US chipmaker breached conditions tied to its 2019 acquisition of Israeli chip designer Mellanox Technologies.
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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?
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Isaac Sacolick reflects on his experiences and shares valuable lessons from his book, Digital Trailblazer. Highlighting the significance of addressing burnout in IT, promoting diverse teams for innovation, and fostering a positive team culture, Isaac emphasizes the need for compassionate leadership heading into 2025.
Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The technology world becomes fixated on a new phenomenon every few years, creating what Gartner calls the ‘AI hype cycle.’ We’re deep in one now; if we’re not careful, we’ll miss the real revolution under our noses. Remember when I wrote about AI’s knowledge-wisdom gap ? We’re seeing that gap widen as organizations rush to implement AI without understanding its true transformative potential.
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GeekWire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Hanna Hajishirzi in her office at the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors note: This series profiles five of the Seattle regions Uncommon Thinkers : inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world. They will be recognized Dec. 12 at the GeekWire Gala.
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 8, 2024
Quantum computing brings both opportunities for advancement and significant security challenges. Recent progress has sparked discussions, but current capabilities are still far from threatening encryption standards like 2048-bit RSA. Despite media hype suggesting potential for "cracking military-grade encryption," experts clarify that these achievements neither target nor compromise robust methods like AES, TLS, or other military-grade algorithms.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Using SEI tools, dev leaders can optimize their software development processes while improving the developer experience. The market growth in SEI tools directly corresponds to the explosive use of genAI TuringBots, commonly referred to as copilots for software development.
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. According to a recent InformaTech survey , 77% of data center professionals say they saw salary increases last year, with a median compensation now at $130,000. But its not all smooth sailing.
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CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. And part of that success comes from investing in talented IT pros who have the skills necessary to work with your organizations preferred technology platforms, from the database to the cloud. Indeeds 2024 Insights report analyzed the technology platforms most frequently listed in job ads on its site to uncover which tools, software, and programming languages are the most in-demand for
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Gemini 2.0 Flash is available now, with other model sizes coming in January. It adds multilingual voice output, image output, and some trendy agentic capabilities.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Generative AI (genAI) has the potential to radically elevate customer experiences and streamline operations, delivering transformative impact across the enterprise. Yet, businesses encounter a significant challenge: the inherent limitations of foundational models (FMs). These models often struggle with delivering accurate and relevant outputs, primarily due to their constrained training datasets.
Network World
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. The design is part of the companys aim to reduce strain on the local resources of the communities where its data centers are located, as it continues to scale infrastructure to support AI and other technology investments.
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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.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. It could be used to improve the experience for individual users, for example, with smarter analysis of receipts, or help corporate clients by spotting instances of fraud. Take for example the simple job of reading a receipt and accurately classifying the expenses.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The E.U. Cyber Resilience Act is now in effect. The legislation affects manufacturers, distributors, and importers of software and hardware.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 11, 2024
As pure knowledge businesses that make money in billable hours worked, service providers are on the front lines of genAI-powered disruption. GenAI-powered digital assistants supplement peoples work, augmenting their knowledge, skills, and experience as well as automating their tasks. The impact is more work completed in less time with fewer people.
Network World
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of platforms. It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g., exporting a document as a PDF from Word) and edit PDF files (e.g., using a PDF editor).
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight. According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five y
GeekWire
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Stoke Space rocket engine test lights up a vertical test stand in Moses Lake, Wash. (Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Thursday in what was called “a very big deal” for the 4-year-old startup. The company released dramatic photographs of the test in action, posting on X that it was an “incredible team effort.” Kent, Wash.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 12, 2024
AWS may have been caught off guard by the sudden rise of generative AI, but now its coming for the competition from every possible angle. Get our key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024.
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Graphiant is expanding its network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform today with new data assurance capabilities in a bid to help organizations meet the challenges of data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. Graphiant emerged from stealth in 2022, led by founder and CEO Khalid Raza, who previously was a co-founder and CTO at SD-WAN pioneer Viptella, which was acquired by Cisco in 2017 for $610 million.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. In just about two years since OpenAI jolted the news cycle with the introduction of ChatGPT, weve already seen the launch and subsequent upgrades of dozens of competing models. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5 to GPT-o1, the list keeps growing, along with a legion of new tools and platforms used for developing and customizing these models for specific use cases.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 7, 2024
AWS re:Invent brought 60,000 people to Las Vegas this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS Amazon’s artificial intelligence strategy came into focus this week with the unveiling of Amazon Nova, its new family of homegrown AI models, a new Amazon Bedrock marketplace, and more news from AWS re:Invent. It turns out we’ve seen this before.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Google recently released some blogs about Willow, its next-generation quantum processor. These blogs are currently making headlines and causing substantial confusion.
Network World
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Googles announcement on Monday of its new quantum chip, called Willow, was full of eye-catching statements. For starters, Willow took less than a minute to perform a benchmark computation that would take one of todays fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years to do. That number exceeds known timescales and physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe, says Hartmut Neven, founder and lead at Google Quantum AI, in the announcement.
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CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 9, 2024
No CIO expects the job to be easy or free from difficult decisions. Nor do they expect to get their way all the time, as the days of command-and-control leadership over all technical decisions are long gone. CIOs get that. Yet, CIOs still encounter plenty of frustrating circumstances and wish-it-werent-so realities. We know thats true, because we asked.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. The strategy will still use water, but it’s contained in a closed-loop system where it flows past heat-generating processing chips, drawing off heat that it carries to chillers.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 13, 2024
What would you want your RevOps true love to give to you on the twelve days of Christmas?
Network World
DECEMBER 12, 2024
For the most part the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, and software is in place to prevent the address apocalypse that many were predicting. But before we see where are and where were going with IPv6, lets go back to the early days of internet addressing.
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