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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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?
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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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.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The exposed database creates opportunities for staging convincing phishing and social engineering attacks, among other issues.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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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Network World
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Intel is rolling out a new form of memory that requires no changes to existing hardware or software, is usable by the competition, and promises up to a 40% increase in memory performance for certain workloads. The product is called Multiplexed Rank Dual Inline Memory Module, or MRDIMM. It uses the same memory chips as standard DDR5 memory and the same size DIMM module, so it fits into existing motherboards.
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
Many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects only to see a huge percentage fail, in part because CIOs don’t know whether the POCs are meeting key metrics, according to research firm IDC. In a September IDC survey , 30% of CIOs acknowledged they didn’t know what percentage of their AI POCs met target KPI metrics or were considered successful.
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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Network World
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Linux provides a useful array of commands for managing file permissions, getting information on commands, displaying running processes and displaying details on the system itself. File permissions chmod: change file permissions One command that’s important when working with files is the chmod command. It allows you to set file permissions, determining who has read, write and execute permissions.
Information Week
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Lots of enterprise software includes open source, but bad actors are poisoning projects. Is it still safe to use?
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 4, 2024
We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. Changing demographics, fast-evolving technologies, and the globalization of job opportunities make recruiting and holding onto skilled professionals much more difficult.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Recent worker strikes at Woolworths’ distribution centers in Australia have reignited concerns over the use of AI-powered productivity systems in the workplace. In early 2024, Woolworths introduced the “Coaching and Productivity Framework,” a new worker performance management program aimed at monitoring and optimizing workers output across warehouses.
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