December, 2024

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Environmental Sustainability: Even If You Change The Route, Keep The Destination

Forrester IT

Theres a school of thought that writes most sustainability efforts off as annoying virtue signaling: Consumers with time and disposable income choose to pay a green premium for products that make them feel good, and companies plant trees and recycle coffee cups to make those customers like them.

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China launches anti-monopoly probe into Nvidia amid rising US-China chip tensions

Network World

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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Top 5 Cyber Security Trends for 2025

Tech Republic Security

TechRepublic asked cyber experts to predict the top trends that will impact the security field in 2025.

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Does Cyber Insurance Drive Up Ransom Demands?

Information Week

The ransomware market continues to boom, and some stakeholders believe cyber insurance adds fuel to the fire.

Insurance 205
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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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This Most Boring Gen AI Use Case Saves Millions in Regulated Industries

Social, Agile and Transformation

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.

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Your Tech Stack Isn’t Your Strategy

Eric D. Brown

“What’s your AI strategy?” I hear this question from business leaders, and I cringe every time. Why? It fundamentally misunderstands strategy. Your choice of ChatGPT, Claude, or any other LLM isn’t a strategyit’s a tool choice. Confusing tools with strategy is a fast track to wasted resources and missed opportunities. Let me share a quick story.

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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

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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Over 600,000 Personal Records Exposed by Data Broker

Tech Republic Security

The exposed database creates opportunities for staging convincing phishing and social engineering attacks, among other issues.

Data 198
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How to Find and Train Internal AI Talent

Information Week

Searching for skilled artificial intelligence professionals? Consider looking inward.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

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

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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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Building a Data-First Culture: Beyond Data Collection

Eric D. Brown

Last week, I talked to an old colleague who proudly explained that their company had collected over ten years of customer interaction data. When I asked what insights they’d gained from this information, he was silent for a minute and said, “I’m not real sure, honestly.” He had the data but wasn’t using it to make better decisions or improve his business.

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GDPR Isn’t Enough: Navigate Privacy Regulations In APAC

Forrester IT

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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Fortinet offers integrated cloud app security service

Network World

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.

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UK Cyber Risks Are ‘Widely Underestimated,’ Warns Country’s Security Chief

Tech Republic Security

Richard Horne, the head of the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre, says that hostile activity has “increased in frequency, sophistication and intensity.

Security 189
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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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CISOs in 2025: Evolution of a High-Profile Role

Information Week

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.

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How the world can tackle the power demands of artificial intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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How to Check SSD Health in Linux

Tech Republic Data Center

Do you use Linux machines in your data center? If so, it's probably a good idea to regularly check the health of the SSD drives used on those machines. Here's how to do it.

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The Quest To Measure Developer Productivity Is Fueling The Market For Value Stream Management And Software Engineering Intelligence Tools

Forrester IT

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.

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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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AWS tries to lure users to its cloud via storage ease of use

Network World

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.

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Cybersecurity News Round-Up 2024: 10 Biggest Stories That Dominated the Year

Tech Republic Security

TechRepublic looks back at the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2024, from record data breaches to rising ransomware threats and CISO burnout.

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Have We Gone Too Far With AI in Software Development?

Information Week

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?

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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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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Google Introduces Veo and Imagen 3 to AI Platform

Tech Republic Cloud

Veo is in private preview, while Imagen 3 will be in general availability next week.

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“Managed Services-as-Software” Offer A Vision for the Future of Managed Services

Forrester IT

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.

Software 273
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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

Network World

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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Employee Data Access Behaviors Putting Australian Employers At Risk

Tech Republic Security

A new report by security vendor CyberArk shows that most Australian employees fail to adhere to safe cybersecurity practices.

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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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Yes, AI Will Kill Jobs, Then Create More

Information Week

When we create a step function increase in productivity, we create more jobs in technology and related off-spins.

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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Three Timely Strategies for CIOs and Digital Trailblazers

Social, Agile and Transformation

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.

Strategy 142
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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation is Revolutionizing Businesses

Forrester IT

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.

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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.