The Future Of Digital Experiences: A Human-Centered, Empowering Journey
Forrester IT
APRIL 24, 2025
Emerging technologies are transforming digital experiences, which are evolving to become more human-centered, assistive, anticipatory, and agentic.
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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 23, 2025
In 2025, insurers face a data deluge driven by expanding third-party integrations and partnerships. Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. These environments often consist of multiple disconnected systems, each managing distinct functions policy administration, claims processing, billing and customer relationship management all generating exponentially growing data as businesses scale.
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What are GPUs? Inside the processing power behind AI
Network World
APRIL 21, 2025
5 key advantages of GPUs GPUs have several key advantages that make them essential for modern computing: Parallel Processing: GPUs can perform numerous calculations simultaneously, making them significantly faster than CPUs for specific tasks. Acceleration of AI and Machine Learning: GPUs are designed to handle the complex computations involved in training and running AI and machine learning models.
Building Secure Cloud Infrastructure for Agentic AI
Information Week
APRIL 21, 2025
Enterprises are gearing up to unleash agentic AI, but is their cloud infrastructure ready?
How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops
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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.
How to Drive a Smarter, Innovative, and Predictable Agile Delivery Model
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 21, 2025
Many organizations struggle with evolving their agile delivery model, leading to missed deadlines and customer dissatisfaction. The key issue is teams rush into solving problems without proper planning. To improve, simplify the approach by developing a clear vision, fostering collaboration, and enhancing change management while avoiding jargon and rigid frameworks.
Agents are here — but can you see what they’re doing?
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 23, 2025
In a February survey conducted by 3GEM on behalf of SnapLogic, out of 1,000 IT decision makers and transformation leaders , half say large enterprises already use AI agents, with 32% planning to implement them within the year. It also showed that 92% of respondents expect AI agents to deliver meaningful business outcomes over the next 12 to 18 months, and 44% trust AI agents to do as good a job as a human while 40% actually trust the AI more.
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To DOGE Or Not To DOGE – Tesla Hits A Road Block
Forrester IT
APRIL 23, 2025
“Souffle under a sledgehammer.” Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, said in 2020 that if the company didn’t deliver on profits, Tesla stock would be “crushed like a souffle under a sledgehammer.” Messy dessert, anyone? The fairytale growth story of Tesla had already hit a speed bump in 2024 as revenue and profit declined.
Low-Cost AI Projects -- A Great Way to Get Started
Information Week
APRIL 24, 2025
It's AI on a shoestring. These five inexpensive projects offer a painless way to understand the technology's business potential and value.
9 IT skills where expertise pays the most
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 25, 2025
Tech companies still hold a competitive edge when it comes to salaries, despite mass layoffs across the industry in recent years. Despite reductions in staff, there are tech skills that continue to demand a premium salary, driving industry competition to hire talent with the right skills. The average annual salary for tech professionals inside the tech industry is $114,861, while those outside it earn about $108,674, according to the Dice 2025 Tech Salary Report.
Slowdown in AWS data center leasing plans poses little threat to CIOs
Network World
APRIL 24, 2025
A slowdown in data center lease talks by two of the larger public cloud service providers AWS and Microsoft is unlikely to have an immediate effect on enterprises running advanced workloads in the cloud. The pause in data center lease talks is unlikely to significantly disrupt enterprise ability to scale generative AI , agentic AI , or optimize AI workloads in the short term, said Ron Westfall, research director at Futurum Group.
Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence
Advertiser: GEP
“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.
Technology Service Provider Acquisitions: A Strategic Shift To AI And Industry Services Is Underway
Forrester IT
APRIL 23, 2025
Thanks to my colleagues Hannah Murphy and Hayden Weatherall for this research foundation.
5 Most Common Security Attack Methods in 2024: Mandiant’s M-Trends Report
Tech Republic Security
APRIL 25, 2025
Mandiant, which was acquired by Google Cloud in 2022, paints a picture of global cyber threats from last year in order to help readers be better prepared this year.
5 tips for transforming company data into new revenue streams
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 24, 2025
Enterprises worldwide are harboring massive amounts of data. Although data has always accumulated naturally, the result of ever-growing consumer and business activity, data growth is expanding exponentially, opening opportunities for organizations to monetize unprecedented amounts of information. Data can be effectively monetized by transforming it into a product or service the market values, says Kathy Rudy, chief data and analytics officer with technology research and advisory firm ISG.
As clock ticks, vendors slowly patch critical flaw in AMI MegaRAC BMC firmware
Network World
APRIL 24, 2025
Weeks after BIOS developer AMI released an update fixing a critical vulnerability in its MegaRAC baseband management controller (BMC) firmware used in many enterprise servers and storage systems, OEM patches addressing the issue are slowly trickling out. A BMC is an embedded chip that allows IT teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and control servers remotely via the industry standard Redfish interface, even when they are turned off or the OS is unresponsive.
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.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! The US Government Applies The Concept To Software Coding
Forrester IT
APRIL 24, 2025
The US Government’s SHARE IT Act became law in December 2024. It ensures that all custom-developed software must be accessed, shared, used, and modified governmentwide.
Lunar Data Centers Loom on the Near Horizon
Information Week
APRIL 21, 2025
Lonestar Data Holdings will launch six data storage spacecrafts between 2027 and 2030.
Thanks to AI, the data reckoning has arrived
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 23, 2025
In the race to build the smartest LLM, the rallying cry has been more data! That same mantra has made its way to company boardrooms, too. As businesses hurry to harness AI to gain a competitive edge, finding and using as much company data as possible may feel like the most reasonable approach. After all, if more data leads to better LLMs , shouldnt the same be true for AI business solutions?
Cloudbrink pushes SASE boundaries with 300 Gbps data center throughput
Network World
APRIL 23, 2025
Throughput is always a consideration for any type of networking technology. With security technologies in particular, networking throughput has long been somewhat constrained as the overhead of inspection and encryption slows things down. Today, networking access vendor Cloudbrink is claiming it has achieved a new milestone of 300 Gbps data center throughput for its SASE technology.
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.
Overregulation Forges A CISO Coalition With The G7 Letter
Forrester IT
APRIL 24, 2025
A coalition of over 40 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from leading companies, including Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS, Mastercard, and Siemens, sent a letter to the G7 and OECD, urging them to take action on aligning international cybersecurity regulations.
Strategies for Navigating a Multiday Outage
Information Week
APRIL 24, 2025
How can CIOs and other business leaders guide their organizations through the chaos and stress of a multiday system outage?
IBM claims $3.5 billion productivity boost through AI agent use
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 24, 2025
Companies are intrigued by AIs promise to introduce new efficiencies into business processes, but questions about costs, return on investment, employee experience and expectations, and change management remain important concerns. To address its customers concerns, IBM is taking a Client Zero approach, having introduced AI directly into more than 70 of its business areas to solve real-world problems, and through this effort, suggesting use cases that customer companies can utilize based on IBMs o
Proof-of-concept bypass shows weakness in Linux security tools, claims Israeli vendor
Network World
APRIL 25, 2025
An Israeli vendor was able to evade several leading Linux runtime security tools using a new proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit that it claims reveals the limitations of many products in this space. The work of cloud and Kubernetes security company Armo, the PoC is called Curing, a portmanteau word that combines the idea of a cure with the io_uring Linux kernel interface that the company used in its bypass PoC.
Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI
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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.
Schneider Electric Data Center Summit 2025: AI, Power, Cooling, Services, and More
Forrester IT
APRIL 22, 2025
Schneider Electric’s Data Center 2025 Industry Summit focused on data centers and exhibited presentations covering a variety of data center topics, as well as a tour of their manufacturing facilities showcasing their production and testing expertise as well as the following in-depth topics and session: The Data Center Landscape How the rapid growth of generative […]
Edge AI: Is it Right for Your Business?
Information Week
APRIL 22, 2025
By bringing AI directly to IT devices and systems, edge AI promises to slash latency and speed response times.
AI agents: The next stage in the evolution of enterprise AI
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 24, 2025
The first wave of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions has already achieved considerable success in companies, particularly in the area of coding assistants and in increasing the efficiency of existing SaaS products. However, these applications only show a small glimpse of what is possible with large language models (LLMs). The real strength of this technology is now unfolding in the second generation of AI-powered applications: agent-based systems that build on the solid foundat
Lenovo targets AI workloads with massive storage update
Network World
APRIL 25, 2025
Lenovo Group has unleashed a wave of new storage solutions and arrays specifically aimed at helping customer gain control over the complexity of AI data operations and support real-time reasoning applications. A total of 21 new systems span both Lenovos ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile server models. The company promises a substantial increase in performance for AI inferencing, AI workload consolidation, and much faster deployment, all while reducing the total cost of ownership, according to the vendo
How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Put down the phone: Don’t let tech prevent your present moment
GeekWire
APRIL 19, 2025
A fan uses a smartphone to capture video of Seattle band Deep Sea Diver during a recent show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Earlier this year I saw an amazing flamenco show in southern Spain. The memory is still vivid. I can hear the sharp staccato of tap shoes rattling against the plywood and visualize the dancer drifting across the stage, flowing with guitar riffs, hand claps, and vocals from her fellow artists.
Essential Tools to Secure Software Supply Chains
Information Week
APRIL 24, 2025
Security is not about achieving perfection; it is about recognizing that breaches are inevitable and focusing on continuous improvements and effective risk management.
Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 25, 2025
Bank of America will invest $4 billion in AI and related technology innovations this year, but the financial services giants 7-year-old homemade AI agent, Erica, remains a key ROI generator , linchpin for customer and employee experience , and source of great pride today. Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI , in 2018, but the bank built a team of software engineers, linguistic specialists, and banking experts to create the small language model, which has been tuned over the years using
AI plus digital twins could be the pairing enterprises need
Network World
APRIL 25, 2025
A recent report by Hexagon looked at data from 660 enterprise executives worldwide to identify the ROI that could be achieved by digital twin technology. It found that only half of companies reported an ROI above 20%, which is roughly where CFOs tell me a project can get quick approval. Interestingly, this is almost exactly the ROI enterprises tell me they can expect from the AI projects that are approved.
State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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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