Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

When responsibility for a companys long-term growth and differentiation in the market is part of your job description, it can be an adventure. Nathan Jokel , senior vice president of corporate strategy and alliances at Cisco, has stepped up to the challenge. I support our executive leadership team, and I work very closely with the general managers that lead all of our business units and functional leaders to help make the strategic decisions and chart Ciscos course to make sure that were deliver

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2025

CEOs, their boards, and the rest of the C-suite continue to push AI as a strategic imperative. As a result, ITs investments in AI are up, with the percentage of the IT budget earmarked for AI projects nearly tripling from last year, according to the 2025 CIO Playbook from Lenovo and research firm IDC. But while research also shows that most IT budgets are higher this year than in 2024, CIOs say those increases arent enough to cover all the tech-enabled initiatives their organizations have identi

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Forrester IT

APRIL 14, 2025

Forresters 2025 top 10 emerging technologies report reveals a major shift in the tech landscape, driven by AI acceleration and changing market dynamics. Longtime list members extended reality and Zero Trust edge are stepping back, making room for two fast-moving innovations one of which was virtually unknown just a year ago. The earlier release gives tech leaders more time to strategize and align with upcoming breakthroughs in AI and beyond.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 15, 2025

A UK government survey of 2024 data shows phishing remains the top cyber threat, ransomware cases doubled, and fewer boards include cyber experts despite steady attack rates.

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Information Week

APRIL 14, 2025

Here are key AI insights from a recent panel I served on, including the importance of using AI to solve real business problems, augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing jobs, and ensuring ethical and responsible practices.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Microsoft has released emergency patches to fix an apparent reporting error in Active Directory (AD) Group Policy, which allows administrators to manage and configure user and computer settings in Windows. The company reported in a Microsoft 365 message center update that the status of local audit logon/logoff policies might be incorrectly displayed, with audits showing as not occurring when they were actually running in the background.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 14, 2025

Im excited to announce the release of our latest Forrester DMA Platforms Wave, Q2 2025. This edition evaluated the 11 most significant Data Management and Analytics (DMA) platform vendors, providing a comprehensive view of a market undergoing rapid transformation.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 14, 2025

Learn how to use LastPass to manage your passwords securely. Follow this step-by-step guide to enhance your online security with ease.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 14, 2025

The future of end-user computing (EUC) envisions reliance on cloud services for all computing needs, managed centrally and securely. Changes led by Microsoft and Nerdio highlight virtual desktops enhancing employee experience and reducing costs. Transitioning to virtual desktops allows CIOs to rethink device necessity, making the shift inevitable in the evolving work landscape.

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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

Cybercriminals are adopting increasingly stealthy tactics for breaking into networks, while attacks targeting specific AI technologies are an emerging threat. Those are just a couple of the core findings in IBM X-Forces newly released 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index , which draws from incident response engagements, dark web and other threat intelligence sources to uncover attack trends and patterns.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2025

Artificial intelligence has great potential in predicting outcomes. While AI can predict the likelihood of precipitation, it most likely wont help you dress or prepare for inclement weather. That preparation involves more than the probability of rain or snow. Humans make extremely subtle judgment calls on what to wear based on their preferences, intuition, or life experiences.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 16, 2025

2025 started with a bang! Technology and geopolitics are changing faster than many can keep track. Theres an announcement of a new, benchmark-shattering generative AI seemingly every week. Planned job cuts across US employers are at their highest levels since 2020.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 17, 2025

In a presentation delivered this month by the European Commission, a meeting etiquette slide stated No AI Agents are allowed.

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Information Week

APRIL 14, 2025

Neuromorphic computing technology is advancing rapidly. What does this mean for CIOs and their organizations?

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Microsoft is warning IT administrators that their Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (DC) may lose network connectivity after they are restarted. In a Windows release health dashboard update posted Friday, the company said that, after a restart, Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (such as servers hosting the Active Directory domain controller role) might not manage network traffic correctly, rendering them inaccessible on the domain network, or possibly allowing incorrect access over por

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

Throughout history, the movement of goods, knowledge and influence has been shaped by gravitational forces not those of planets, but of human civilization. One of the most striking examples is the Silk Road , a vast network of trade routes that connected the East and West for centuries. Cities like Samarkand, Constantinople and Alexandria became gravitational hubs, attracting merchants, culture and commerce due to their strategic locations.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 14, 2025

Cloud vendors are focusing on bringing AI solutions to their customers in ways that address sovereignty concerns rising from the mounting geopolitical instability globally. Just in the first two weeks of April, we have seen this at KubeCon Europe 2025 and at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2025

Billionaire Jeff Bezos takes questions in front of Blue Origin’s mock-up for the New Shepard spaceship’s crew capsule in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Aaron Cohen , a longtime PR and brand executive. Cohen originally wrote about this topic on LinkedIn. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin may have made history on Monday for sending an all-woman crew into sub-orbit on its New Shepard rocket ship for all the wrong reasons.

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Information Week

APRIL 15, 2025

Many AI skeptics lost ground to early adopters. Fortunately, it's not too late to catch up.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

Enterprises have told me from the start that cloud-hosted generative AI based on large language models isnt going to transform their business operation. They were very hopeful when the concept of AI agents came along, because it seemed to align with their own AI thinking. Now that this AI agent story has morphed into agentic AI, it seems to have taken on the same big-cloud-AI flavor that they already rejected.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2025

Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022. According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. And AI at Wharton, part of the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative at the UPenns Wharton School, together with consultancy GBK Collective, also found in a study of senior decision-makers that enterprises with 1,000 or more employees invested on average more th

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Forrester IT

APRIL 18, 2025

Steering through a maelstrom of uncertainty and risk in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape requires resilient leaders who will adapt strategies centered on the human experience. Advancements in AI and the widespread availability of medical information are compelling healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) to reassess how they engage with customers and employees.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 16, 2025

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2025

Jeff Bezos extends his arms to hug his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, at the end of an all-female suborbital spaceflight, with Blue Origin trainer Sarah Knights standing by. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Six women rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship today on a short suborbital space trip that was notable because of a crew that included pop superstar Katy Perry , morning TV host Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez , the fiance of the space venture’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

This post examines eight somewhat unusual Linux commands that are worth knowing. But before we get into the specific commands, you can run the command below to see whether these eight commands are installed on your system. For each command, youll see the file system location for the command executable or a line that starts with no command in (PATH) where PATH will be a display of your search path the places where the command looks for them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2025

A recent survey found IT compensation satisfaction has hit a record low, with relatively few IT workers saying they are satisfied with their pay. Industry observers, however, suggest the issue might not be entirely about money, leaving CIOs with options for boosting morale on thin budgets. In its latest IT salary survey , tech careers site Dice found IT worker compensation satisfaction has recently plunged, with only 41% of tech professionals reporting they were either very or somewhat satisfied

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Forrester IT

APRIL 14, 2025

After the stock market and hopes of consumer electronics companies like Apple were buoyed by news of a tariff reprieve on consumer electronics on Friday, they were rapidly dashed by reports that no such exception was in the offing. Instead, these categories were moved to a different bucket.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 17, 2025

The widespread use of AI, particularly generative AI, in modern businesses creates new network security risks for complex enterprise workloads across various locations.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2025

(Overland AI) Seattle startup Overland AI debuted its own autonomous tactical vehicle designed to navigate off-road terrain for military use. The vehicle, dubbed “ULTRA,” reaches a top speed of 35 MPH and has a 1,000-pound payload capacity. It can travel for 100 miles. The vehicle is built with Overland’s self-driving technology that enables giant 4-wheelers to drive without humans or GPS.

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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

Kyndryl has taken the wraps off a suite of private cloud services designed for enterprise customers that want to rapidly deploy AI applications in production environments. Kyndryls AI Private Cloud service taps the vendors relationships with Nvidia and Dell to help enterprises plan, design and develop fully managed, operational AI systems. Kyndryl is incorporating Nvidias AI Enterprise software platform and NIM inference microservices in the Kyndryl Bridge integration platform , for example.

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