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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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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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How to Keep IT Team Boredom From Killing Productivity

Information Week

A bored IT team is also an unproductive IT team. Here's how to keep your staff motivated and energetic.

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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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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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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.

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B2B Marketing Measurement Isn’t Trusted; And It’s About To Get Worse – A Bonus Prediction

Forrester IT

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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IBM’s Co-Packaged Optics Prototype Packs More Bandwidth Into a Single Connector

Tech Republic Data Center

Polymer optical waveguides in co-packaged optics could speed up AI training.

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4 ways to build a team equipped with emerging skills

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Uncommon Thinkers: Hanna Hajishirzi’s open approach to AI challenges the industry’s norms

GeekWire

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.

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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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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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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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Is Open Source a Threat to National Security?

Information Week

Lots of enterprise software includes open source, but bad actors are poisoning projects. Is it still safe to use?

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Ask the Expert: What are my career options at a slow-growing software-as-a-service company?

GeekWire

Hello, GeekWire readers. I’m excited to announce that we’re launching a new business advice column, featuring different experts from the Pacific Northwest tech community, answering questions about an array of topics. It’s inspired by common questions from tech workers and entrepreneurs. We’ll be taking reader submissions, so email us at tips@geekwire.com with your questions, and we’ll do our best to get them answered.

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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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A Look Under The Hood Of Our New Forrester Wave™ Report

Forrester IT

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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Report: AI expands the IT workforce as tech jobs return to offices

Network World

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.

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How Conflict With China Might Play Out in the Cyber Realm

Information Week

Cybersecurity leaders have warned of China-backed hackers’ presence in US critical infrastructure for years. How much disruption could they cause?

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2025 IT headcount expectations lowest in over a decade

CIO Business Intelligence

Predictions are all about timing, but sentiment can take a long time to sway. That may be a key tension unfolding for the 2025 IT hiring market, as evidenced by IT recruitment firm Harvey Nash stepping back from the ramifications of its own recent survey of CIOs, who were decidedly pessimistic about IT hiring in the new year. Harvey Nash’s survey found that only 36% of CIOs believed IT headcounts would increase in 2025 — the lowest such sentiment reported since 2011.

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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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Managing Technical Debt Before It Manages You

Eric D. Brown

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.

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Black Friday And Cyber Monday 2024: Offers Galore Spur Spending

Forrester IT

Retailers and brands in the US presented many offers to customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024.

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Cisco strengthens AWS integration to speed troubleshooting in multicloud environments

Network World

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.

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Preparing for AI-Augmented Software Engineering

Information Week

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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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8 hard truths CIOs must learn to accept

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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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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The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations

Forrester IT

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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Will AWS’ next-gen Trainium2 chips accelerate AI development and put Amazon ahead in the chips race?

Network World

AWS appears to have upped the stakes in the AI infrastructure market this week with the rollout of its next-gen Trainium2 chips. What’s more, the company is already teasing its Trainium3 chip, expected in late 2025. Trainium2 powers AWS’ most powerful instances for generative AI, and the tech giant says it continues to see great gains generationally, chip to chip.

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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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Why Smart Security and Resiliency Matter for Critical Infrastructure

Information Week

Achieving critical infrastructure resiliency requires a holistic approach that embraces collaboration, strict standards, and a roadmap for modernizing aging systems.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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

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Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond

All Things Distributed

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.

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The Automation Paradox Strikes Again: Lessons From Woolworths “Amazon Era” Productivity Play

Forrester IT

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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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.