Forrester IT
JANUARY 28, 2025
DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1) by a little-known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models. Yes, it’s partially open-source. Yes, the DeepSeek app explains its reasoning by default. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.
Network World
JANUARY 14, 2025
2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Multiple standards and certification efforts made progress in 2024, helping networks to be more reliable and deliver more bandwidth.One of the most significant developments was the maturation of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (800GbE).
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Information Week
JANUARY 13, 2025
Industry-specific cloud platforms are growing in size and scope. Now may be the time to consider a move.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 14, 2025
The world plunged headfirst into the AI revolution. Now many are admitting they werent quite ready. The 2024 Board of Directors Survey from Gartner , for example, found that 80% of non-executive directors believe their current board practices and structures are inadequate to effectively oversee AI. The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the
Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN
The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 8, 2025
The Cyber Trust Mark will help consumers make more informed decisions about the cybersecurity of products, according to the White House.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 6, 2025
Isaac Sacolick shares insights on his favorite books from the past year, highlighting essential reads for digital storytellers and tech leaders. Key recommendations include "Storyworthy" by Matthew Dicks, "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte, and Adam Grant's "Hidden Potential." Additional notable mentions cover AI and leadership books.
Information Technology Zone brings together the best content for IT professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Network World
JANUARY 9, 2025
CompTIA recently upgraded its PenTest+ certification program to educate professionals on cybersecurity penetration testing with training for artificial intelligence (AI), scanning and analysis, and vulnerability management, among other things. PenTest+ certification training now includes access to a hackable website that provides live targets and vulnerabilities for cybersecurity professionals to identify and mitigate real-world threats, according to CompTIA.
Information Week
JANUARY 29, 2025
A new generation of quantum computers could render current cryptographic technology approaches useless. Is a solution even possible?
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 8, 2025
Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester.
Tech Republic Security
JANUARY 23, 2025
Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.
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The AI era isn’t coming—it’s here. But over 70% of AI projects fail before they scale. Why? No strategy. No alignment. No ROI. We worked with a $50M company that wasted a year and half their budget chasing AI pilots with no payoff. Sound familiar? That’s where our four-step transformation system comes in: Assess, Strategize, Execute, Scale. We help you cut through the hype, find what actually moves the needle, and build a roadmap that delivers results.
Network World
JANUARY 8, 2025
The new version of Oracles Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments.
Network World
JANUARY 21, 2025
Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow. Uptime Institute details the major challenges and opportunities the data center industry will encounter this year in its report, Five Data Centers Predictions for 2025.
Network World
JANUARY 14, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a contract exceeding $1 billion to provide AI servers for X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to Bloomberg. The deal represents a critical endorsement of HPEs technology as the company reportedly edged out leading competitors Dell and Supermicro. While the finer details remain confidential, the agreement underscores HPEs growing clout in the rapidly expanding AI server market.
Network World
JANUARY 6, 2025
Enterprises have been slow to adopt NaaS for a number of reasons, including lack of clarity on exactly what NaaS is , lack of a solid business case that NaaS saves money over the long term, and questions around security, visibility, control, and data privacy. ABI Research predicts that by 2030 more than 90% of enterprises will consume at least 25% of their network services via NaaS.
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“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.
Network World
JANUARY 16, 2025
Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added an AI-based tool aimed at helping enterprise customers provision and operatethe vendors Campus Network-as-a-Service deployments. Founded by former Cisco CEO John Chambers and Pankaj Patel, Ciscos former chief development officer, Niles subscription-based NaaS offering, Nile Access Service, lets customers set up and manage campus network operations without requiring them to purchase and maintain their own networking infrastructure.
Network World
JANUARY 21, 2025
Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools.
Network World
JANUARY 23, 2025
Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware a finding that provides yet more evidence of a broader issue with specialized devices today. Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles.
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
*Article has ben updated to include a joint response from HP and Juniper to the U.S. DOJ complaint* After months of speculation, the U.S. Justice Department today sued to block the $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The Justice Department said reduced competition in the wireless market is the biggest problem with the proposed buy.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Network World
JANUARY 26, 2025
AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology. For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. In addition, AI workloads have distinctive requirements that will influence SD-WAN connectivity choices. SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility.
Network World
JANUARY 6, 2025
Zscaler ThreatLabz research team has revealed critical insights and predictions on ransomware trends for 2025. The latest Ransomware Report uncovered a surge in sophisticated tactics and extortion attacks. As ransomware remains a key concern for CISOs and CIOs, the report sheds light on actionable strategies to mitigate risks. Top Ransomware Predictions for 2025: AI-Powered Social Engineering: In 2025, GenAI will fuel voice phishing (vishing) attacks.
Network World
JANUARY 15, 2025
Cisco has rolled out a service that promises to protect enterprise AI development projects with visibility, access control, threat defense, and other safeguards. The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.
Network World
JANUARY 14, 2025
Telecommunications and networking provider Ericsson recently launched its generative AI-based virtual assistant that uses large language model (LLM) technology to read, understand, and generate new content to provide personalized answers for network operators configuring wireless 5G networks, troubleshooting problems, and creating policies. Ericssons AI-based NetCloud Assistant, or ANA, is LLM-based and provides concise responses and summaries to queries using information gathered from multiple
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Network World
JANUARY 16, 2025
The traditional separation between Wi-Fi and cellular networks a cornerstone of enterprise wireless planning is facing fundamental challenges according to a new 6G vision statement released this week by the World Broadband Association, It is important that the 6G era brings together cellular, Wi-Fi, and non-terrestrial access in a more seamless fashion, to create a network of networks,' said Maria Cuevas Ramirez, network infrastructure research director at BT and a board director of the Wirele
Network World
JANUARY 8, 2025
For a company of its size, Cisco executed a fairly short list of technology rollouts in 2024 and made a surprising lack of major updates to its core networking portfolio, which might have contributed to the 23% decline in networking revenue Cisco reported in its latest quarterly financials. Ciscos most significant activities of 2024 included further development of its AI networking offerings.
Network World
JANUARY 23, 2025
Due to a partner disclosure, AMD has found itself in the unenviable position of having to confirm the existence of a major cybersecurity problem in its chip microcode before it could post a fix. But that headache is mild compared to those of their customers CISOs. Microcode often loads during startup and it can change chip capabilities. Security specialists are recommending that CISOs consider extreme protective measures, including network isolation, possible air gapping, and ideally blocking al
Network World
JANUARY 22, 2025
The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Sysdig, the lead commercial sponsor behind Wireshark, wants to change that with the new Stratoshark tool.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Network World
JANUARY 13, 2025
HPE Aruba Networking has rolled out a variety of new products for retailers that are aimed at boosting connectivity for in-store and IoT networks, improving analytics, and streamlining management. New to the vendors retail-ready networking portfolio are the 100 Series Cellular Bridge, an 18-port Ethernet switch designed to fit into tight spaces, and the 750 Series wireless access point all of which can be managed from the companys HPE Aruba Networking Central platform.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 13, 2025
As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago. AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges. To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and econo
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 6, 2025
CIOs are an ambitious lot. Not the type to be satisfied with the status quo, they have set big goals for themselves in the upcoming year, according to countless surveys of IT execs. They want to expand their use of artificial intelligence, deliver more value from those AI investments, further boost employee productivity, drive more efficiencies, improve resiliency, expand their transformation efforts, and more.
Network World
JANUARY 10, 2025
2024 was Nvidias year. Its command of mindshare and market share was unequaled among tech vendors. Heres a recap of some of the key events of 2024 that highlight just how powerful the worlds most dominant chip player is. Nvidia teams up with Cisco On February 6, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Cisco to deliver AI infrastructure solutions for data centers.
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