Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Broadcom’s research found that 98% of companies use or plan to use cloud infrastructure and 95% support remote workers—two factors that contribute to network complexity. And 80% reported that the internet and cloud environments create network blind spots, while 78% said that network complexity has “grown significantly over the last few years.”

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Companies have historically secured OT systems which include physical security controls, HVAC systems, industrial control systems like factory automation equipment, and medical scanning equipment by air-gapping them. Companies often need new security solutions to protect OT.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it. Some 8,000 global companies were surveyed for the AI Readiness Index, which aims to measure how prepared organizations are to invest in, deploy and use AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Two of six critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition Migration tool, which the company patched in October, are being actively exploited according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. Both companies claim that their two approaches, both still in the very early stages, have the potential to scale better than their competitors.

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Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Since qubits quantum bits are notoriously unstable, quantum computer companies use redundancy to improve accuracy, with multiple physical qubits combining into a single logical qubit. QuEra is a quantum computing company that uses the neutral ions approach to building qubits, in contrast to Googles superconducting circuits approach.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

New middleware from Fujitsu has achieved more than a 2x increase in GPU computational efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in trials according to the company, which designed the technology specifically to help solve the issue of GPU limitations and shortages related to computing demands of AI.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Culture is the only thing you really own about your company. We are a global company and do business in more than 100 countries around the world. Bridget, a business success story At Cisco, Previn says, our people are our most important asset; our purpose in the company is to enable everyone else to do their lifes work.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The proposed rules, expected to be announced this month, would require these companies to meet strict conditions, such as reporting key data to the US government and ensuring Chinese entities are barred from accessing the chips. This consolidation of control risks reinforcing US market dominance while potentially stifling global AI progress.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The company was given 30 days to respond. Effect of FCCs actions The FCC has taken steps to restrict companies like China Mobile and China Telecom from operating in the US due to national security concerns. However, there are still gaps that need to be addressed, said Sanjaya Kumar, CEO of SureShield.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. Many also use air cooling systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. According to a Capgemini survey released in mid 2024, 60% of executives at large companies say that AI agents will handle most of the coding in enterprises within three to five years.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The company is adding new components to Fortinet Advisor (FortiAI), its natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. Lacework helps customers manage and secure cloud workflows.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies can keep their data local, for example, or reduce lag by putting their computing capacity close to where it is needed. And if companies know theyre going to need a predictable amount of computing every month, on-premises deployments can even reduce costs. Other companies are also getting in on the act.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Despite a mostly positive revenue report for the first quarter of its fiscal 2025, HPE executives detailed a number of challenges the company will face in the coming months, including layoffs, a court case over its proposed buy of Juniper Networks, and the U.S. governments tariff plan. Revenues were up $7.9 billion, Myers said.

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Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

ServiceNow expects the deal to close in the second half of this year, and initial technology integrations between the two companies will provide customers with a universal AI assistant and agentic AI capabilities, according to ServiceNow. The last round of funding brought the companys total to $315 million. billion in cash and stock.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to a January KPMG survey of 100 senior executives at large enterprises, 12% of companies are already deploying AI agents, 37% are in pilot stages, and 51% are exploring their use. Thats according to a December survey from AI platform company Langbase of 3,400 developers building AI agents. Thats what Cisco is doing.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Competition authorities in other markets are closely examining the companys acquisition strategy, and earlier this month Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation regulators called in a five-year-old Nvidia acquisition coincidentally of another Israeli company for renewed scrutiny. But Nvidia may not be out of the woods yet.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

To solve the error problem, quantum computing companies use multiple physical qubits to create one error-corrected qubits. The company outlined a three-year roadmap that calls for a computer with 10 logical qubits in 2024, 30 in 2025 using magic state distillation, and 100 logical qubits by 2026.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. But not every company can say the same. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

B2B buyers and customers aren’t seeking more content from providers or new ways to see their first name and company used in otherwise generic messaging. Rather, they crave relevance and responsiveness — the right content delivered in the moment of need, specific to their role, in a suitable format.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A string of accounting and reporting troubles This week the company projected its Q4 revenue to be between $5.5 A string of accounting and reporting troubles This week the company projected its Q4 revenue to be between $5.5 Prior to this, the company missed the August deadline to file its annual 10-K financial report.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Multiple vulnerabilities allow an attacker to read Expedition database contents and arbitrary files, as well as write arbitrary files to temporary storage locations on the Expedition system, the company said in a security advisory this week. Read more on CSOonline.com

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it. And then there are guardrail considerations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

The hope is to have shared guidelines and harmonized rules: few rules, clear and forward-looking, says Marco Valentini, group public affairs director at Engineering, an Italian company that is a member of the AI Pact. We hope to work closely with the AI Office to achieve these goals. The Pact is structured around two pillars.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran and a senior fellow and chief architect for the companys Xeon processors, made the announcement on LinkedIn on January 13, stating that he joined Qualcomm as a senior vice president. More recently, the company acquired a company called Nuvia in 2021 for $1.4

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

This release really focuses on workload consolidation and optimization, something that will resonate well with companies looking to lower operational costs while adopting generative AI, he said.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a result, just four companies Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will account for nearly half of global data center capex this year, he says. These improvements are likely to be quickly replicated by other AI companies. A lot of these companies are trying to push out more efficient models, says Fung.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

When we go into most companies, their backlog of gen AI use cases [is substantial], specifically in the hundreds, he says. Spending still increasing Even with mixed results in the past year, many companies are planning to increase their gen AI spending in 2025 and beyond.

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