September, 2024

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How Accurate Were Our Predictions For 2024?

Forrester IT

As we prepare to launch our 2025 predictions, we look back on some of the ones we made a year ago. Find out how we did, and get a first peek at what our forthcoming predictions will cover.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. 11, users and developers detailed how they are working with eBPF today and where the technology is headed in the future.

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Exploring the Intersection of Security, Governance, and Generative AI

Information Week

This session emphasizes the need for a balanced approach that embraces innovation while prioritizing ethical and secure AI practices.

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Australian Organisations Targeted by Phishing Attacks Disguised as Atlassian

Tech Republic Security

Mimecast said a phishing campaign using Atlassian workspaces shows the growing sophistication of cyber threat actors.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO Business Intelligence

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

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Seven Ways To Use GenAI For B2B Personalization

Forrester IT

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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Forrester CEO: Lessons for Executives to Implement AI Successfully

Information Week

The research firm kicked off its annual technology summit in Austin with advice for companies now in a race to adopt GenAI and other artificial intelligence tools.

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AI Computing Will Change The World By Empowering People, Not Automating Tasks

Forrester IT

Most of the hype and boardroom enthusiasm for genAI stems from the belief that AI machines will automate the repeatable tasks that people used to do, thereby saving firms money with fewer employees doing more work. While we believe that’s true for rote knowledge tasks and some knowledge worker roles, it’s not really the point.

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Will Future AI Demands Derail Sustainable Energy Initiatives?

Information Week

As AI use grows, so will its energy demands. How will power-hungry AI deployments affect sustainable energy initiatives?

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Complying With GDPR in the Age of AI

Information Week

With the rise of artificial intelligence, there is opportunity and risk. Yet, many of AI’s challenges are mitigated if businesses just leverage the GDPR as a framework.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Forrester Speaker Sneak Peek: Analyst Jayesh Chaurasia to Talk AI Data Readiness

Information Week

Observability, data quality, and data trust will make up some of the sessions he plans to lead at the Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit North America.

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IBM Executive on Future Cybersecurity: Passkeys, Deepfakes & Quantum Computing

Tech Republic Security

IBM's Chris Hockings predicts a safer internet with advances in passkey tech, digital identity, deepfake defenses, and post-quantum cryptography.

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What Will Be the Next Big Thing in AI?

Information Week

What's next in AI? Here are five expert predictions about tomorrow's brave new world.

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IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing

Network World

The world’s top quantum researchers, investors, and government officials gathered in D.C. for the third annual Quantum World Congress last week, and, even though we’re still years away from a practical quantum computer, the mood was upbeat, with significant new announcements in the areas of quantum computing, quantum networking, and investment. IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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The AI Power Paradox

Information Week

The energy needed to train AI models is draining the power grid. But AI may also be key to sustainable energy management.

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3 Ways for Boardrooms To Increase Their Security IQ and Address Cyber Risk

Information Week

Here’s how boards can uplevel their security intelligence and establish appropriate enterprise risk management strategies to close potential gaps.

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How AI and IoT Are Reshaping Agriculture

Information Week

Agriculture is quite literally the foundation of civilization. Now, artificial intelligence, aided by innovations in the Internet of Things, is revolutionizing this ancient practice.

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How Can CIOs Prepare for AI Data Regulation Changes?

Information Week

Constantly changing artificial intelligence ethical regulations and frameworks have created havoc for CIOs charged with balancing compliance and driving innovation. Here are some strategies and best practices.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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How to Avoid Common AI Newbie Mistakes

Information Week

To err is human, but AI doesn't really care about that. It's up to you to ensure that your first AI project doesn't turn into a big, costly mistake.

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How to Get IT and Security Teams to Work Together Effectively

Information Week

As cyberattacks grow in number and viciousness, it pays to have a unified defense team. Here's how IT and security experts can join forces to defeat a common enemy.

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5 Steps for Implementing the New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Information Week

Develop new strategies to mitigate quantum risks, map vulnerabilities, prioritize high-value assets, prototype PQC impacts, and enhance cryptographic agility.

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Building the Best Data Pipelines

Information Week

Scalability, real-time analytics, team collaboration, and readiness for new technologies are key to building future-proof data pipelines.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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AI Will Make Cars and Trucks Smarter, Faster, and Safer

Information Week

AI promises to revolutionize driving. Here's a look at what's coming down the road.

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Ten More Important Emerging Technologies For 2024

Forrester IT

As AI continues to dominate the technological landscape in 2024, security, the need for trust, and innovation in advanced computing remain vital. These trends influenced our selection of the next 10 top emerging technologies for 2024.

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HPE Aruba boosts observability, third-party management capabilities

Network World

HPE Aruba is expanding the capabilities of Networking Central, its cloud-based management platform for administering and managing all aspects of an Aruba wired and wireless customer infrastructure. Among the upgrades are an improved network device configuration engine, expanded network observability features , and a broader menu of AI-generated, network trained and tuned optimization models.

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Skills-Based Hiring in IT: How to Do it Right

Information Week

By focusing directly on skills instead of more subjective criteria, IT leaders can build highly capable teams. Here's what you need to know to get started.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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How CIOs Are Advancing ESG

Information Week

CIOs play an important role in a company’s environmental, social, and governance strategy. Their involvement in ESG has also changed their approach to tech procurement.

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What Lawyers Want You to Know About NFTs

Information Week

NFTs have a rocky history, and for good reason: Buyers and sellers aren’t thinking things through enough.

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AI, Edge, and IoT Demand a Software-Centric Approach

Information Week

As edge computing and IoT continue to evolve, security risks take shape in the software supply chain.

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Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform

Network World

Open-source powerhouse Red Hat jumped into the generative AI space three months ago, announcing a new AI-focused vision for its Linux operating system at its annual summit. Today, that vision became a reality with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. RHEL AI is Red Hat’s solution to the problems enterprises have building and deploying AI across hybrid clouds and the high costs of training and inference.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.