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DNA is an Ancient Form of Data Storage. Is it Also a Radical New Alternative?

Information Week

Life on Earth emerged as early as 4 billion years ago. It is the product of the codes stored in DNA. Now, we are repurposing DNA to store other forms of information.

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Why Digital Trailblazers Must Be Paranoid In These Four Important Areas

Social, Agile and Transformation

My friends and colleagues know I can be paranoid sometimes, but it’s part of my survival instincts. When you’re driving transformation and responsible for operations, as I was for most of my career, you develop anxieties over what can go wrong, how it will impact your objectives, and whether you’re missing opportunities to address a material risk.

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Hacking our way to better team meetings

All Things Distributed

My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.

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Google Steps Up The Battle Against Gmail Spam

Tech Republic Security

Additional enforcement means non-compliant email may be delivered to spam folders. Here’s what Google Workspace administrators and Gmail users need to know.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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The Cybersecurity Crucible: Unsung CISO Struggles Under Fire

Information Week

While cybercrime makes a CISO’s position daunting, board support can strengthen organizational resilience. There are five critical questions the board should ask their CISO to create this outcome.

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The State Of Generative AI For Marketing In Asia Pacific

Forrester IT

I’m pleased to announce the publication of the first of my two generative AI (genAI) Marketing in APAC reports, “The State Of Generative AI For Marketing In Asia Pacific.” The data overview report covers a wide range of topics on APAC marketers’ use of genAI, including adoption, investment, use cases, benefits, challenges, and concerns.

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Can VPNs Be Tracked by the Police?

Tech Republic Security

VPNs are popular due to the fact they add security and privacy to what are otherwise daily open Wi-Fi and public internet channels. But can VPNs be tracked by the police?

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Is an AI Bubble Inevitable?

Information Week

Remember the dot-com boom and collapse? Experts warn that history may repeat itself.

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Results of the Forrester Commerce Solutions for B2C Wave – digital leaders focus on extending the life of their commerce solution

Forrester IT

Read Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer's insights on the shifts in the B2C Commerce market over the past two years.

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Rethinking ‘Big Data’ — and the rift between business and data ops

CIO Business Intelligence

When it broke onto the IT scene, Big Data was a big deal. Now, you’d be hard-pressed to find many IT leaders willing to be caught using the term anymore. Still, CIOs should not be too quick to consign the technologies and techniques touted during the honeymoon period (circa 2005-2015) of the Big Data Era to the dust bin of history. There remains an enormous amount of value to be harvested from basic data blocking and tackling.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Contact Centers: 2025 Strategy + ROI Playbook

In 2025, contact centers aren’t just changing—they’re being rebuilt by AI. This no-fluff, executive-ready guide shows you how to capitalize on the transformation. Inside: proven ROI calculators, workforce optimization tactics, deflection strategies, and a 90-day AI deployment plan. Built for CIOs, COOs, CX leaders, and contact center strategists, it goes beyond buzzwords into play-by-play implementation.

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RSA: Google Enhances its Enterprise SecOps Offerings With Gemini AI

Tech Republic Security

In this RSA roundup, we also cover AI news about IBM, AWS and Proofpoint, as well as details about Cisco Hypershield.

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‘They’re Coming After Us’: RSA Panel Explores CISO Legal Pressure

Information Week

The panel pondered the future of the CISO role as prosecutors are increasingly taking aim at holding corporations -- and specifically security executives -- legally accountable for breaches and security responses.

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A Five-Step Guide To Conducting A Successful Sustainability Materiality Assessment

Forrester IT

Read this blog post to understand the actions that organizations need to take throughout the sustainability materiality assessment process.

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Red Hat seeks to shrink IT skills gap with Lightspeed gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

For IT leaders experiencing skills gaps in the data center and cloud, Red Hat believes it may have an answer. At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). By infusing gen AI functionality across its portfolio, Red Hat aims to reduce the complexity of enterprise IT and help platform engineers and developers be more accurate a

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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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Data Classification Policy

Tech Republic Security

In many ways, data has become the primary currency of modern organizations. It doesn’t matter whether you are a large business enterprise, SMB, government or non-profit, the collection, management, protection and analysis of data is a determining factor in your overall success. This policy, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, establishes an enterprise-wide.

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10 Cyber Incident Response Tips From Those Who've Had a Breach and Lived to Tell About It

Information Week

RSA Conference 2024 -- Cybersecurity leaders from Equifax and others who've responded to data breaches and cyber incidents, gave their best advice on crisis communications, general counsel, and good community.

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Introducing the Forrester Reference IT Capability Map

Forrester IT

Today, I am happy to announce the publication of the Forrester Reference IT Capability Map. This is a comprehensive, mutually exclusive and comprehensive statement of the major capabilities used to define and deliver IT and digital systems, individually and at a portfolio level.

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CDOs’ biggest problem? Getting colleagues to understand their role

CIO Business Intelligence

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. Now, CDOs find themselves under additional pressure to make sure organizational data is accurate and complete, as companies launch AI projects hungry for clean and easy-to-access data.

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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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10 Myths about Cybersecurity You Shouldn’t Believe

Tech Republic Security

The first step to increasing your business’ cybersecurity is to educate yourself about any misconceptions so you understand the very real consequences of a cyberattack. This TechRepublic Premium article, written by Kara Sherrer, breaks down the top 10 most common myths. Featured text from the download: MYTH #5: THE ONLY CYBERSECURITY THREAT IS EXTERNAL You.

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Becoming Neuroinclusive: How Tech Organizations Can Succeed

Information Week

Here’s how organizations in the tech sector can adjust their environments and policies to be more inclusive of all employees.

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GreenOps, FinOps, And The Sustainable Cloud

Forrester IT

The consistent, high-usage profile of data centers may lead us to believe that cloud data centers are markedly more sustainable than private cloud data centers. But data shows that public cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry – a notoriously carbon-intensive segment.

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6 cloud market forces impacting IT strategies today

CIO Business Intelligence

The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps. Here is a closer look at recent and forecasted developments in the cloud market that CIOs should be aware of. 2023: Greater flexibility, challenging decisions In 2023, the cloud services space — including hosting and managed and mig

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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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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners

TechSpot

Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible, Amazon's audiobook platform. The eye-popping stat, revealed in a recent Bloomberg report, has many authors celebrating but is also raising red flags for.

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5 Hard Truths About the State of Cloud Security 2024

Information Week

Dark Reading talks cloud security with John Kindervag, the godfather of zero trust.

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Is Your VMware Knowledge Stuck in 2010? Let’s Catch You Up!

Forrester IT

VMware Has Evolved Over the years, most of the Fortune 5000 have standardized on VMware technologies. However, once Broadcom announced its intent to acquire VMware, many of the tech leaders at these firms, concerned with the acquisition, began exploring options.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO Business Intelligence

The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some skills have consistently maintained earning power for IT pros over the years. And while several factors impact one’s salary, such as tenure, experience, and location, expert-level competency comes at a higher premium for some skills versus others. Data from the Dice 2024 Tech Salary Report shows that, for certain IT skills, organizations are willing to pay more to hire experts than IT pros with strong compe

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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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GeekWire Awards 2024 revealed: Winners bask in momentum of AI and potential of region

GeekWire

GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop, left, and John Cook open the 2024 GeekWire Awards at Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) After giving a nod to tech’s bygone era of gadgets and gimmicks, we celebrated the new entrepreneurs shaping the future of innovation in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night at the GeekWire Awards.

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Wisdom From the Pump: What Gas Spending Can Teach Us About Managing Public Cloud Costs

Information Week

Both gas and cloud spending are on the rise, but there are common-sense efficiency steps organizations can take to get cloud spending under control.

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More Alliance: MACH Comes of Age With Coaching Focus

Forrester IT

Now that The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B, Q2 2024 is released, I can share an update of my perspective on The MACH Alliance.

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Innovating Services for a Digital, Intelligent Future

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation remains top of mind worldwide. According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognised as a keystone for future growth.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!