May, 2025

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Unstructured Data Management Tips

Information Week

Managing unstructured data can be both challenging and confusing. A few handy tips can make the task much faster and easier.

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Zscaler Snatches Up Red Canary: The Good, The Bad, And The Concerning

Forrester IT

Although details are limited with more expected to come during an upcoming earnings call, we know that a leader in the SSE market will consume a leader in the MDR market with Zscaler announcing that it intends to acquire Red Canary.

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New agentic AI tools bring new threat: agent sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

You may already have a platform to develop and manage AI agents. You may already have two. Or more. This agent sprawl enables agents to operate in more areas of the enterprise but brings increased complexity, adds to security concerns, and can hurt return on investment. Over the last year, vendors have been rushing to add agentic AI products to their offerings.

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Networking errors pose threat to data center reliability

Network World

Power-related outages remain the leading cause of major data center downtime, accounting for more than half (54%) of all cases tracked in Uptime Institutes 7 th annual outage analysis. Network-related and IT systems issues accounted for 12% and 11% of impactful data center outages, respectively, with networking/connectivity accounting for 30% of end-to-end IT service outages, the report found.

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How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops

IT teams are under pressure to do more with less. AI isn’t just hype—it’s already helping lean IT teams cut support volume by up to 60%, reduce cloud waste, and eliminate risk from their stack. In this executive playbook, you'll learn how mid-sized companies are deploying AI to automate tier-1 tickets, predict outages, optimize SaaS spend, and secure infrastructure without hiring a bigger team.

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Noodlophile Malware Distributed Through Bogus AI Video Generators: Who Are the Targets?

Tech Republic Security

By downloading what they believe is an AI-generated video, victims have installed malware that can steal their data or offer attackers remote access to infected devices.

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The IT job market of 2030: Learning to work alongside AI

IT Toolbox

When I started in the IT job market, we were still looking for jobs in the classified sections of paper newspapers. That may sound like trying to build a computer with stone knives and bearskins, but.

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How Emerging Tech Will Transform Digital Banking Experiences Over The Next Decade

Forrester IT

Over the next decade, banks, fintechs, and big tech firms will use a combination of maturing and emerging technologies to introduce innovative interfaces, making digital experiences more intuitive and human-centered. These technologies will amplify consumer understanding, enhance automation, and accelerate the orchestration and delivery of digital banking experiences.

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5 questions to test tech resilience and build a 90-day action plan

CIO Business Intelligence

Major events demand quick reaction from companies. That means having the agility in your technology estate to respond at a pace to circumstances few companies will have experienced before. The unprecedented speed of tech evolution, ongoing geopolitical instability, and the constantly shifting landscape of trade agreements are just some of the recent dynamics that many companies have had to adapt to.

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Nvidia eyes China rebound with stripped-down AI chip tailored to export limits

Network World

Nvidia plans to launch a lower-cost AI chip for China in June, aiming to protect market share under the US export controls and signal a broader shift toward affordable, segmented products that could impact global enterprise AI spending. The new GPU, part of Nvidias Blackwell architecture, is expected to be priced between $6,500 and $8,000, significantly lower than the restricted H20 chip, which sold for $10,000 to $12,000, according to a Reuters report.

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New ChatGPT Scam Infects Users With Ransomware: ‘Exercise Extreme Caution’

Tech Republic Security

Cisco Talos identified three strains of malware that spoof AI tools, including ChatGPT.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“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.

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Europe leads shift from cyber security ‘headcount gap’ to skills-based hiring

Computer Weekly

Research from Sans Institute reveals European organisations are leading a global shift in hiring priorities, driven by regional regulatory frameworks.

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Quantum’s Double-Edged Sword: Balancing Risk and Readiness

Information Week

Preparing for quantum now unlocks future innovation and ensures resilience against emerging cybersecurity threats.

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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2025: Automation Evolves, Robots Rise, And Synthetic Data Steps Forward

Forrester IT

Emerging technology isnt just speeding up its splintering into newer, riskier, and more powerful directions. Learn three noteworthy changes to this years top 10 emerging technologies listand one foundational truth that hasnt changed in this preview of our upcoming webinar and new report.

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Rethinking digital transformation for the agentic AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation enables growth, creates efficiencies, improves experiences, and develops competitive advantages. A primary objective is evolving business models as technology, data, and AI rapidly change customer expectations and market opportunities. Technological paradigm shifts and disruptive global forces require CIOs to rethink their digital strategies every two years.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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.

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HPE ‘morphs’ private cloud portfolio with improved virtualization, storage and data protection

Network World

HPE acquired Morpheus Data in August of last year in a bid to bolster multicloud management.Nine months later, that acquisition has spawned new capabilities as part of the integrated HPE Morpheus software portfolio, aimed at alleviating the challenges of managing hybrid environments. Enterprises are under tremendous pressure from all sides with cloud sprawl, technical debt and astronomical virtualization costs all hindering their ability to invest in and adopt AI, said Cheri Williams, senior vic

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GitLab ‘Vulnerability Highlights the Double-Edged Nature of AI Assistants’

Tech Republic Security

A remote prompt injection flaw in GitLab Duo allowed attackers to steal private source code and inject malicious HTML. GitLab has since patched the issue.

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Is there really such a thing as work-life balance in IT?

IT Toolbox

If you believe the grindbro orthodoxy, the only way to get ahead at work is to put in 120 hours a week. Now, I’m a workaholic’s workaholic who has been working 50-plus-hour weeks for decad.

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Don’t Automate the Wrong Thing: Lessons from Building Agentic Hiring Systems

Information Week

Automation in hiring can boost efficiency -- or backfire. Heres how to use AI agents to support, not sabotage, human judgment.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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.

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Salesforce Accelerates Its Path to Agentic AI

Forrester IT

Salesforce, a leader in CRM applications, has announced its intent to acquire Informaticaa global leader in enterprise data managementfor approximately $8 billion. Informatica fuels Salesforces hard pivot to reinvent itself as an AI-first company and away from its CRM roots.

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12 reasons to ignore computer science degrees

CIO Business Intelligence

Does the tech world need computer science? Not the computers or the chips, but the abstract collection of theories taught in universities with departments sporting that name. Not science in general, but the idea of thinking about programming with a theoretical lens. The question becomes trickier now that AI will be quickly putting us all out of business.

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Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

Network World

Enterprise cloud spending is spiraling out of control, with over half of organizations estimating that more than 40% of their cloud budget is wasted on preventable mistakes and inefficient processes. And the accelerating growth in AI adoption isnt helping. Cloud networking is often an overlooked area, and the growing demands of AI-driven data movement are compounding the challenge.

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Practical IT & Cybersecurity Training for Just $29.99

Tech Republic Security

Learn by doing build job-ready skills and train for CompTIA exams through real-world IT and coding exercises.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Security and verification concerns dog debate over Data (Use & Access) Bill

Computer Weekly

With the long-awaited Data (Use & Access) Bill returning to the House of Commons on 7 May, there remain pros and cons in the bill in relation to financial crime and cyber security

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How To Measure AI Efficiency and Productivity Gains

Information Week

Measuring AI efficiency and productivity is essential to reach maximum returns on your investment. Here's how to get started.

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Agentic AI and IT Maturity: Bridging the Gap Between ServiceNow’s Vision And The IT Reality

Forrester IT

The ServiceNow Knowledge 25 event unveiled ambitious advancements in AI-driven enterprise technology, with a focus on autonomous workflows, unified data platforms, and human-machine collaboration. Key announcements included the launch of the AI Control Tower for managing AI agents, the expansion of workflow data fabric to unify disparate data sources, and the intent to acquire data.

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M&S says it will respond to April cyberattack by accelerating digital transformation plans

CIO Business Intelligence

Weeks after suffering one of the most disruptive cyberattacks in UK history, UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) said it will respond by accelerating a planned two-year overhaul of its digital operations to bring it to completion in only six months. Given that the company expects the aftereffects of the attack, including cessation of online shopping, to continue until July, compressing new IT and digital infrastructure spending into a matter of months might strike investors as ambitious.

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Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI

Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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AMD launches new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to challenge Intel’s workstation dominance

Network World

Marking an aggressive push into theprofessional workstationandhigh-end desktop (HEDT)segments, AMD ( Nasdaq:AMD ) has launched its latest high-performance computing processors at Computex 2025. The processors are purpose-built to handle tough workloads such as VFX rendering, scientific simulation, CAD, and AI development forenterprise-grade workstations in industries such as engineering, healthcare, defense, and AI development.

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Malwarebytes vs McAfee: Which Antivirus Is Right for You?

Tech Republic Security

Malwarebytes and McAfee are both firmly established in the antivirus business, but which is better? Read this guide to find out.

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How to choose the right cybersecurity certificate for your IT career

IT Toolbox

Whether you’re a seasoned IT pro or relatively new to the field, you may have picked up on an interesting dilemma: almost everyone agrees cybersecurity skills are essential, but many IT professi.

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Why AI Will Drive Demand for Nuclear Power Plants

Information Week

Artificial intelligence needs lots of power as it ingests data and produces results. Nuclear energy is ready to help.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.