Tue.Nov 26, 2024

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Adtech Competition Heats Up With A Potential Divestment, A New Offering, And An Acquisition

Forrester IT

It’s been a busy news week on the advertising technology (adtech) front. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it is requesting Google to divest of the Chrome browser as the outcome of the monopoly trial that the search giant lost earlier this year.

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Equinix to cut 3% of staff amidst the greatest demand for data center infrastructure ever

Network World

Even as demand for data infrastructure surges to an all-time high, Equinix is planning to lay off 3% of its workforce, suggesting a growing skills mismatch in the industry. The data center provider, whose major competitors according to IDC are Digital Reality, NTT Communications, and QTS, operates more than 260 data centers in 33 global markets, and expects revenues of roughly $8.7 billion this year , up around 7% over 2023.

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SolarWinds CEO on Building Trust After Breach, Unifying IT and C-Suite, and GenAI Future

Information Week

The company stands on solid financial ground even after a massive breach four years ago shook the tech community. SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna tells InformationWeek that his “against the grain” approach helped rebuild trust.

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Cisco, NTT partner to simplify private 5G connectivity

Network World

Cisco and NTT Data are extending their partnership to offer customers more streamlined options for deploying private 5G services for enterprise connectivity. The partnership ties Cisco’s networking technologies to NTT Data’s Transatel network. Specifically, Cisco’s eSIM technology will let customers easily connect devices to the Transatel network, where they can then activate, provision, setup, configure and manage Cisco networking gear to securely connect mobile branches anywhere, the companies

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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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Uncommon Thinkers: Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa explores an innovative route to rocket reusability

GeekWire

Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa is framed by a propellant tank that’s taking shape at the startup’s rocket factory in Kent, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling five of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers” : inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world.

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Three reasons why your Zero Trust project isn’t delivering results (and what to do about it.)

Network World

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is relatively easy to understand as a cybersecurity concept. Trust no one. Verify every request to access enterprises resources. Continually monitor end user activity for suspicious behavior. Implementation, however, has proven difficult for most enterprises. Forrester Research reports that 63% of network security leaders say their firm is struggling to operationalize Zero Trust.

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Your IT infrastructure may be more outdated than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

CEOs and CIOs appear to have conflicting views of the readiness of their organizations’ IT systems, with a large majority of chief executives worried about them being outdated, according to a report from IT services provider Kyndryl. About two-thirds of CEOs say they’re concerned their IT tools are out-of-date or close to the end of their lives, according to Kyndryl’s survey of 3,200 business and IT executives.

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QNAP fixes critical security holes in its networking solutions

Network World

Network and software solutions provider QNAP — whose customers include trusted IT service providers like Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys — is urging customers to apply fixes for a few critical severity bugs affecting its Network Attached Storage (NAS) and router services. The flaws, which include a mix of missing authentication and OS command injection bugs, could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on affected systems.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

IT modernization is a necessity for organizations aiming to stay competitive. However, the journey toward modernization has significant hurdles. Understanding these barriers and implementing effective solutions is crucial for the journey. Here, we explore the key factors impeding IT modernization and provide recommendations to overcome them (with real-world illustrations of strategies).

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Develop an Effective Strategy for User Self-Help Portals

Information Week

Too often, user self-help portals fall short in companies, but they don’t have to. By formalizing a strategy for building and maintaining self-help systems, IT and user departments can optimize self-help.

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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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Why a data-first culture is key to unlocking value from AI in insurance

CIO Business Intelligence

Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurance business. It is the central ingredient needed to drive underwriting processes, determine accurate pricing, manage claims, and drive customer engagement. Yet, despite the huge role it plays and the massive amount of data that is collected each day, most insurers struggle when it comes to accessing, analyzing, and driving business decisions from that data.

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ChatGPT Anniversary: How the Second Year of Generative AI Changed Tech Work

Tech Republic

Tech professionals are now well-practiced in using ChatGPT for coding and development, including the new Canvas feature. However, the AI can still make mistakes.

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CIOs’ top 2025 goal? Turning around IT’s sagging reputation

CIO Business Intelligence

As executives shift their attention to 2025, global minds are open — ever so briefly — to focusing on actually understanding and acting on technology trends and opportunities. Those of us who read tea leaves for a living lament the fact that IT trend analysis has, for the past three years, been hijacked by the term “ChatGPT.” Yes, every board member has played with generative AI.

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Nvidia's Fugatto AI sound model is set to transform audio production

TechSpot

The new model is known as Fugatto, which is short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1. According to Nvidia, its capabilities are unparalleled. For example, Fugatto can create a tune based solely on text, change the emotion in a singer's voice or modify their accent, and even add or.

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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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How Du’s vision for sovereign cloud and AI will transform UAE’s digital governance

CIO Business Intelligence

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. By partnering with Oracle, Du is set to enhance sovereign cloud and AI capabilities for the government and public sector entities, specifically targeting Dubai and the Northern Emirates.

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Seattle tech leader Jennifer Wong launches networking app to connect parents of young kids

GeekWire

Screenshots of the Visible app. (Visible Image) Jennifer Wong , founder of the Seattle NFT Museum and a former leader at Convoy and Tune, has launched an app to help parents of young children network with each other and manage their conversations. Visible bills itself as a tool for parents that is comparable to LinkedIn for professionals. Parents create a profile and can use the app to help find each other by searching for their kid’s school or other organizations.

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5 ways GenAI is transforming financial planning for banks

CIO Business Intelligence

McKinsey estimates that AI—and generative AI in particular— could contribute up to $340 billion annually to the global banking sector, accounting for approximately 4.7% of total industry revenues. This includes leveraging AI to significantly enhance financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes by automating routine tasks such as accounts payable, journal entries, data gathering, and reporting.

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Amazon employee survey reveals concerns about company’s climate leadership and enviro impacts

GeekWire

Amazon’s headquarters towers and The Spheres in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon Employees for Climate Justice surveyed 800 of the tech giant’s workers to get feedback on Amazon’s climate impacts and the role of leadership in portraying and addressing these issues. The employee advocacy group found that only 14% of those surveyed believe that climate impacts are a key consideration when Amazon leaders make business decisions.

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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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Download our CIO Pulse enterprise AI survey

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is arguably the hottest topic in enterprise IT, and just shy of three quarters of CIOs surveyed say it is a critical focus for their organization. Our CIO Pulse survey explores CIOs’ AI strategies.

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Qualcomm backs off full Intel acquisition, could consider buying select divisions

TechSpot

In September, reports claimed that Qualcomm had made a takeover offer to rival Intel. The proposal arrived as Team Blue lurched from one crisis to another, from its poor financial performance leading to mass layoffs and cost-cutting, to the problems with its foundry business and the Raptor Lake disaster.

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Modernización del ERP: todavía un proyecto decisivo para los CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Cuando se embarcó en un proyecto de modernización del ERP, la segunda resultó ser la vencida para Allegis Corp, que realizó dos implementaciones de ERP en siete años. “Dos implantaciones de ERP en siete años no es para los débiles de corazón”, admite Dave Shannon, CIO de la empresa de distribución de hardware. Allegis había estado utilizando un sistema ERP local heredado llamado Eclipse durante aproximadamente 15 años, que según Shannon satisfacía bien las necesidades de la empresa, pero tenía l

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Microsoft is using Word and Excel user data for AI training by default, and opting out isn't easy

TechSpot

Microsoft's connected experiences in Office analyzes user content to provide the likes of design recommendations, editing suggestions, data insights, and similar features.

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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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Generative AI in healthcare: benefits and challenges according to CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

The implementation of these techniques in medical care will allow the transformation of the way we diagnose, in addition to personalizing treatments, helping to identify risk factors and, in general, improving the results and productivity of the health sector. Thanks to recent technological advances, fueled by COVID-19, AI has become an integral part of modern healthcare.

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Don't Buy a GPU Now: Wait for Next-Gen or Grab a Discount?

TechSpot

Wondering if now's the time to upgrade your GPU? With key announcements and next-gen GPUs just weeks away, waiting is the smarter strategy than jumping on holiday sales.

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Navigating the cybersecurity threat landscape in the UAE: Strategies for CISOs

CIO Business Intelligence

In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as a global hub for technology and innovation. With rapid digitization across various sectors and an increasing reliance on digital infrastructure, the country has witnessed a parallel rise in cybersecurity threats. From sophisticated cyberattacks targeting government entities to ransomware attacks on businesses, the threat landscape in the UAE is evolving rapidly, presenting significant challenges for CISOs tasked with safeguarding critical

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An unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 is coming just in time for Christmas

TechSpot

Harbour Masters 64 recently announced on its Discord server the latest project it has been secretly working on for a few months. Starship is a fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64, the classic shooter on-rails released by Nintendo in 1997 for the Nintendo 64 console.

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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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Human-AI Teaming in the Age of Collaborative Intelligence

SecureWorld News

This article explores the evolving landscape of human-AI teaming, focusing on its transformative impact, adaptive intelligence in mixed-reality environments, collective intelligence, transparency challenges, and the transition toward collaboration. Introduction to human-AI teaming (understanding the shift, key concepts, and examples of collaborative intelligence) Expanding the definition of collaboration (moving beyond traditional AI roles, emphasizing real-time adaptability and dynamic role cha

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Authorities bust multi-million message SMS fraud and 730 million call VoIP scam in Thailand

TechSpot

One of the arrested gangs employed a technique known as SMS blasting, a method that exploits cellular network vulnerabilities to bombard nearby mobile devices with fraudulent text messages. The gang's mobile setup was highly sophisticated, consisting of an 8,000-watt mobile power station, a Wi-Fi router, four mobile phones, and a.

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Best HIPAA-Compliant CRM Software

Tech Republic

HIPAA protects health information privacy and security. Discover the best HIPAA-compliant CRM software to guard sensitive customer data.

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The UAE emerges as a global leader in AI, driving innovation and future technology

CIO Business Intelligence

The UAE made headlines by becoming the first nation to appoint a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in 2017. This move underscores the country’s commitment to embedding AI at the highest levels of government, ensuring that AI policies and initiatives receive focused attention and resources. The country also launched Smart Dubai, an initiative under the Dubai Future Foundation, Smart Dubai aims to transform Dubai into the world’s smartest and happiest city.

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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.