Eric D. Brown
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Managing technical debt is a challenge every tech leader faces. You’re pushing hard to meet deadlines, and someone says, “We’ll clean this up later.” That quick fix becomes permanent, and your technical debt is spiraling out of control before you know it. Technical debt isn’t just a development issue—it’s a business risk that can kill innovation, slow delivery, and crush team morale.
Information Week
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Cloud misconfigurations can lead to costly data breaches. Take-charge measures, tools, and a security-focused culture are essential to prevent these silent threats.
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Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 2, 2024
TechRepublic asked cyber experts to predict the top trends that will impact the security field in 2025.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 2, 2024
According to Forrester’s Business Privacy Survey 2024, 46% of privacy decision-makers in Asia Pacific (APAC) reported full compliance with GDPR. However, compliance with the EU’s GDPR alone isn’t sufficient in APAC, where local regulations may impose additional or different requirements.
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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.
Network World
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Cisco this week said it has bolstered integrations between its own hybrid cloud offerings and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve visibility and help enterprise customers more accurately troubleshoot application availability issues across multicloud networks. The new network troubleshooting capabilities revolve around container security technology that Cisco gained in its acquisition of Isovalent and integrated into its infrastructure offerings.
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 2, 2024
TechRepublic sat down with a Macquarie Data Centres' exec to discuss the local data center landscape amid the AI revolution. Here's what’s driving massive change.
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All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 5, 2024
We've entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. These are the areas where I see technology shaping society in 2025 and beyond—and it all starts with mission-driven work.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 2, 2024
When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? You’re not alone. While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Massgrave is a prominent group within the piracy scene, known for creating highly effective scripts designed to activate Microsoft software. These tools have gained significant popularity and are expected to see even broader use in the near future.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 2, 2024
It's predictions season at Forrester. Read this blog to get a look at what won't happen in the year ahead in our 2025 anti-predictions.
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For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. The new service, FortiAppSec Cloud, brings web and API security, server load balancing, and threat analytics under a single console that enterprise customers can use to more efficiently manage their distributed application environments, according to Vincent Hwang, vice president of cloud security at Fortinet.
Information Week
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The ransomware market continues to boom, and some stakeholders believe cyber insurance adds fuel to the fire.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The exposed database creates opportunities for staging convincing phishing and social engineering attacks, among other issues.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Lets brace ourselves for a hard truth. Trust in marketing measurement is already poor. Left unchecked its about to get 20% worse. Learn about the challenges and market forces contributing to this decline and find out what steps you can take to enhance trust in marketing measurement.
Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton
Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
Network World
DECEMBER 2, 2024
At its re:Invent 2024 conference this week, AWS rolled out five new storage tools and services with the goal of making its offerings easier to work with, if not cheaper or better. With the incremental differences in the major enterprise cloud environments today, that may be enough. Analysts generally praised the rollouts, saying that the company is trying to make things a little easier to use AWS.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 2, 2024
By 2025, generative AI will drive significant business value, focusing on practical, less glamorous use cases like document processing, intelligent automation, and AI agents. These advancements promise to increase accuracy and reduce costs, particularly in regulated industries like financial services, insurance, and life sciences. Private AI implementation within secure environments will be essential for maximizing efficiency and compliance.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Richard Horne, the head of the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre, says that hostile activity has “increased in frequency, sophistication and intensity.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Our latest survey of more than 16,000 global B2B buyers shows that they’re increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied. Learn where they experience friction and how companies can help overcome it.
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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?
Information Week
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Has the promise of improved efficiency through AI been realized in software development? Is there still a place for citizen developers with AI in the development cycle?
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions. But pioneering technologists are working on a potential game changer that goes some way to address these issues: photonics.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 6, 2024
A new report by security vendor CyberArk shows that most Australian employees fail to adhere to safe cybersecurity practices.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 5, 2024
You know it. You love it. And now you’ll love it more. Get an inside look at the recent changes made to the iconic Forrester Wave™ report.
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In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.
Information Week
DECEMBER 4, 2024
A bored IT team is also an unproductive IT team. Here's how to keep your staff motivated and energetic.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. And while three-quarters of CIOs looking for AI expertise turn to their peers for guidance, only 9% believe their fellow CIOs know more about AI than they do.
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Artificial intelligence is driving growth for the IT workforce, and jobs in the technology sector are stabilizing as the market continues to show moderate growth amidst economic volatility, rapid hiring cycles, and public layoffs , according to a new study by IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment. IT unemployment rates have been below the national U.S. average for the past five years, and there are 56% more tech job postings in 2024 than in 2019, according to the firm’s 2025 Tech Salary Guide.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Retailers and brands in the US presented many offers to customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024.
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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
Information Week
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Over the past decade, the chief information security role has evolved from being a supporting position under the CIO or chief risk officer to a core member of the executive team.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers.
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
While virtualized compute is the foundation of cloud computing, enabling all that compute to transmit data is the job of the network. So how does the world’s largest cloud scale its network to meet the increased demands of AI? At the AWS re:Invent conference this week, the cloud giant detailed a series of enhancements to its network infrastructure aimed at handling those challenges.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Forrester is revising our "Tech Tide: Smart Manufacturing, Q2 2020" for 2025, and invites your input to the process.
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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.
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