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Avoid These Common Mistakes When Using AI

Information Week

Before leaping into an artificial intelligence strategy, business leaders need to be aware of crucial steps to ensure a proper balance between technology and humans.

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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024: As AI Dominates, Security Becomes Paramount

Forrester IT

Forrester’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2024 reflects the continued dominance of AI but also emphasizes the growing importance of security in our increasingly connected world. Get a deep dive on the top 10 list in this blog post.

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Bitdefender VPN vs NordVPN (2024): Which VPN Is the Best?

Tech Republic Security

Which is better, Bitdefender VPN or NordVPN? Use our guide to help you compare pricing, features and more.

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Optical networking challenges gain attention as AI networking demands rise

Network World

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. Ultimately, optical is the only type of connectivity technology that can deliver the capacity organizations require, over the distances needed, to connect data centers, servers, routers, switches and all of the distributed components that make up today’s network architectures, sa

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

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.

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Well-Intentioned Things IT Leaders Do That Hurt Team Productivity

Information Week

Good intentions aren't enough to build a successful IT team. Here's how to keep seemingly ordinary practices from backfiring.

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Unleash The Potential Of Knowledge Management And Generative AI

Forrester IT

To stay ahead of competition, organizations must enable seamless information-sharing across departments. But how? Learn how combining knowledge management and generative AI can unlock a new level of knowledge-sharing and collaboration in your organization.

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AI success: Real or hallucination?

Network World

Ever consider how much of AI is a hallucination? Not how much AI output is hallucination, but rather how much of what we hear or read about it is genuine? Could it be that AI success is mostly hype, and that all the hype may be hurting the technology rather than helping? Enterprises need to get to the bottom of AI, not in technical terms but in terms of making a business case.

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Getting a Handle on IT Change Management

Information Week

Change is inevitable. It's also challenging. Here's how a managed approach to IT change can make transitions less painful.

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The Public Sector Wants GenAI, But Must Overcome Its Hesitancy

Forrester IT

Generative AI is revolutionizing the private sector, and its leaders are determined to implement this emerging technology at scale and without delay.

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AI success depends on a culture of innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2001, Steve Jobs called it as big a deal as the PC and venture capitalist John Doerr said it might be bigger than the internet. What revolutionary technology were they referring to? The Segway. You know, the personal transport device that flopped in the marketplace and became synonymous with mall security guards. The fanfare around artificial intelligence (AI) today is even bigger than the lofty talk about the Segway over twenty years ago.

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AI Isnt the Future — Its the Fight Youre Already In: Are You Ready?

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.

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Tata Communications partners with Versa Networks on hosted SASE

Network World

Tata Communications has entered the fast-growing SASE market with a hosted offering for global enterprises. It said that Hosted Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), offered in partnership with unified SASE platform vendor Versa Networks, “converges software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) and secure service edge (SSE) capabilities in a single pass technology.

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What IT Leaders Can Learn From Shadow IT

Information Week

Shadow IT has a notoriously bad reputation, yet it can also help teams work more efficiently and productively. Learn how to detect shadow IT and put it to safe use.

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Generative AI Marks A New Dawn For Contact Centers

Forrester IT

Contact center leaders are now employing generative AI to mark a new dawn in the contact center. Brands will need to face challenges head on and capitalize on opportunities to redefine the contact center as we know it.

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Healthcare’s long road to digitization gets an AI boost

CIO Business Intelligence

The University of Pennsylvania Health System had an enormous amount of anonymized patient data in its Penn Medicine BioBank, and SVP and CIO Michael Restuccia’s team saw an opportunity to use it to benefit the research hospital’s patients. “We had a conversation about how to take some of the innovation occurring in research around AI and deploy it in the clinics,” he says.

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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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Broadcom bolsters VMware Edge Compute Stack

Network World

A slew of updates in VMware Edge Compute Stack (ECS) 3.5 are aimed at helping customers more easily manage edge devices, applications, and infrastructure across multiple locations, and industry watchers say the updated platform will support AI at the edge. Enterprises are expanding edge computing deployments to meet the scalability and performance requirements of AI applications, and tech vendors are extending feature sets to enable AI in edge locations, according to IDC, which predicts that edg

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Investing in the Green Future

Information Week

Here’s how sustainable supply chain transformation can set organizations up for long-term success.

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Never “Too Small For Cybercriminals”: One Town’s Cautionary Tale

Forrester IT

In a world of Scattered Spiders and Midnight Blizzards and UNC2452s, why is Arlington’s BEC important? Because it’s happening all the time to towns, municipalities, regional health systems, and small businesses lacking the resources to prepare for such an event.

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MicroStrategy boosts HyperIntelligence with artificial intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

MicroStrategy has added generative AI capabilities to HyperIntelligence, part of its One business intelligence platform, making it possible for workers to access data using natural language by asking questions from within any web application. The HyperIntelligence software uses a browser extension to turn keywords in web applications into pop-up “cards” containing key information that employees can consult on demand.

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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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Download the endpoint detection and response (EDR) enterprise buyer’s guide

Network World

From the editors of our sister publication CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps security and network IT staff understand what endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution.

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AI and Inductive Reasoning: Possibilities and Implications

Information Week

Induction has been part of the development of artificial intelligence since its early days, but is it the optimal methodology for AI to find answers?

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Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Affects More Than 110,000 Websites

IT Toolbox

Polyfill.io, a domain used by more than 110,000 websites to deliver javascript code, has been used for a supply chain attack, potentially leading to data theft and clickjacking attacks. Learn more about the threat and its effects on web users. The post Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Affects More Than 110,000 Websites appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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New trade body wants to license training data for AI use

CIO Business Intelligence

Seven companies that license music, images, videos, and other data used for training artificial intelligence systems have formed a trade association to promote responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property. The issue has become a concern for builders of generative AI models and the enterprises that use them, as some data sets used in AI training have legally and ethically uncertain origins.

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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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How to find files on Linux

Network World

The Linux find command makes it easy to find files on your system – even if you don’t remember their names or exactly when you last updated them. Some of the options are a bit more challenging than others, but all are very handy. This post provides insights into the types of criteria you can use to find just what you’re looking for. To begin, move into your terminal window and get ready to use the find command.

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Face Facts: Are Biometrics Key to Deleting Passwords for Good?

Information Week

Facial recognition and other biometric technologies have been proposed as replacements for traditional passwords. How viable are these technologies and what are their vulnerabilities?

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Embracing Technology in the Trades: The Gen Z Influence

IT Toolbox

Discover how AI and technology are transforming the U.S. job market. The post Embracing Technology in the Trades: The Gen Z Influence appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO Business Intelligence

Manifesto is “more than a declaration of our current contributions; it’s a promise to continue driving open innovation and collaboration at a significant scale,” says SAP CTO. It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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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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Cato Networks launches managed SASE partner platform

Network World

Cato Networks is targeting managed service providers with its new Managed SASE Partner Platform. The MSASE platform is aimed at helping channel partners more efficiently deliver Cato’s SASE Cloud Platform , which combines threat prevention, data protection, and incident detection and response, to their customers. It enables multi-tenancy, immediate access to new features, and centralized management capabilities geared for MSPs.

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Digital Growth Strategies That Work

Information Week

Today’s digital-first world is reshaping the competitive landscape and how companies operate. Successful organizations have a few secrets.

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How HR Teams Can Build a High-performance Tech Stack

IT Toolbox

Discover how to enhance the HR tech stack by focusing on integration, automation, and security. The post How HR Teams Can Build a High-performance Tech Stack appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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MuleSoft unveils composability solution for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce subsidiary MuleSoft announced a new AI-powered composability solution on Tuesday aimed at helping organizations build discrete AI services that form the building blocks of more complex systems and applications. “We believe the world of AI is really the world of APIs,” said Param Kahlon, Salesforce EVP and GM of Automation and Integration.

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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.