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XR Steps Back, AI Steps Up: The Shake-Up In Our 2025 Emerging Technologies

Forrester IT

Forresters 2025 top 10 emerging technologies report reveals a major shift in the tech landscape, driven by AI acceleration and changing market dynamics. Longtime list members extended reality and Zero Trust edge are stepping back, making room for two fast-moving innovations one of which was virtually unknown just a year ago. The earlier release gives tech leaders more time to strategize and align with upcoming breakthroughs in AI and beyond.

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Cisco SVP talks agentic AI, quantum security and sustainable infrastructure

Network World

When responsibility for a companys long-term growth and differentiation in the market is part of your job description, it can be an adventure. Nathan Jokel , senior vice president of corporate strategy and alliances at Cisco, has stepped up to the challenge. I support our executive leadership team, and I work very closely with the general managers that lead all of our business units and functional leaders to help make the strategic decisions and chart Ciscos course to make sure that were deliver

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns. These include everything from technical design to ecosystem management and navigating emerging technology trends like AI.

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‘No AI Agents are Allowed.’ EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

Tech Republic Security

In a presentation delivered this month by the European Commission, a meeting etiquette slide stated No AI Agents are allowed.

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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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Balancing AI’s Promise and Complexities: 6 Takeaways for Tech Leaders

Information Week

Here are key AI insights from a recent panel I served on, including the importance of using AI to solve real business problems, augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing jobs, and ensuring ethical and responsible practices.

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Microsoft releases out-of-band updates to fix reporting error

Network World

Microsoft has released emergency patches to fix an apparent reporting error in Active Directory (AD) Group Policy, which allows administrators to manage and configure user and computer settings in Windows. The company reported in a Microsoft 365 message center update that the status of local audit logon/logoff policies might be incorrectly displayed, with audits showing as not occurring when they were actually running in the background.

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Google Cloud Next 2025’s Developer Keynote: Agents Take Center Stage

Forrester IT

Google Cloud Next 2025s (full takeaway blog here) developer keynote offered a detailed look at the company’s latest AI innovations, with a particular focus on agent technology and developer tools.

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UK’s Cyber Crime Down in 2024: Better ‘Cyber Hygiene Among Small Businesses

Tech Republic Security

A UK government survey of 2024 data shows phishing remains the top cyber threat, ransomware cases doubled, and fewer boards include cyber experts despite steady attack rates.

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IBM X-Force: Stealthy attacks on the rise, toolkits targeting AI emerge

Network World

Cybercriminals are adopting increasingly stealthy tactics for breaking into networks, while attacks targeting specific AI technologies are an emerging threat. Those are just a couple of the core findings in IBM X-Forces newly released 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index , which draws from incident response engagements, dark web and other threat intelligence sources to uncover attack trends and patterns.

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CIOs must mind their own data confidence gap

CIO Business Intelligence

As far as many C-suite business and IT executives are concerned, their company data is in great shape, capable of fueling data-driven decision-making and delivering AI-powered solutions. But the closer an IT leader is to that data, the less confidence they have in its quality, according to a recent survey from IT consulting firm Softserve, which found that nearly half of C-level execs at large enterprises, including C-level IT leaders, believe their organizations data is fully mature, while just

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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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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: DMA Platforms Q2 2025

Forrester IT

Im excited to announce the release of our latest Forrester DMA Platforms Wave, Q2 2025. This edition evaluated the 11 most significant Data Management and Analytics (DMA) platform vendors, providing a comprehensive view of a market undergoing rapid transformation.

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How Will the Role of Chief AI Officer Evolve in 2025?

Information Week

The AI boom gave rise to a new executive role: the chief AI officer. That role and its demands could change over time.

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Windows Server 2025 domain controllers may lose connectivity after reboot, says Microsoft

Network World

Microsoft is warning IT administrators that their Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (DC) may lose network connectivity after they are restarted. In a Windows release health dashboard update posted Friday, the company said that, after a restart, Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (such as servers hosting the Active Directory domain controller role) might not manage network traffic correctly, rendering them inaccessible on the domain network, or possibly allowing incorrect access over por

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10 most used gen AI tools in the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

Gen AI has entered the enterprise in a big way since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT in 2022. According to Precedence Research, the global gen AI market was over $25 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach a staggering $803 billion by 2033. And AI at Wharton, part of the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative at the UPenns Wharton School, together with consultancy GBK Collective, also found in a study of senior decision-makers that enterprises with 1,000 or more employees invested on average more th

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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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Forrester’s Top Threats For 2025

Forrester IT

2025 started with a bang! Technology and geopolitics are changing faster than many can keep track. Theres an announcement of a new, benchmark-shattering generative AI seemingly every week. Planned job cuts across US employers are at their highest levels since 2020.

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Why Polyfunctional Robots Are Gaining Momentum

Information Week

Robots are becoming increasingly versatile. Polyfunctional robots prove that multitasking isn't just limited to humans.

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AI agents vs. agentic AI: What do enterprises want?

Network World

Enterprises have told me from the start that cloud-hosted generative AI based on large language models isnt going to transform their business operation. They were very hopeful when the concept of AI agents came along, because it seemed to align with their own AI thinking. Now that this AI agent story has morphed into agentic AI, it seems to have taken on the same big-cloud-AI flavor that they already rejected.

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Judgment Day is coming… for AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has great potential in predicting outcomes. While AI can predict the likelihood of precipitation, it most likely wont help you dress or prepare for inclement weather. That preparation involves more than the probability of rain or snow. Humans make extremely subtle judgment calls on what to wear based on their preferences, intuition, or life experiences.

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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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Leading Through Tech Workforce Changes

Forrester IT

Many organizations, especially federal agencies, are facing unprecedented upheaval as they implement large-scale workforce reductions. For technology leaders, many navigating this process for the first time, layoffs represent a particularly challenging leadership test that cannot be executed without significant trade-offs.

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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Tech Republic Security

Slopsquatting and vibe coding are fueling a new wave of AI-driven cyberattacks, exposing developers to hidden risks through fake, hallucinated packages.

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Cato Networks augments CASB with genAI security

Network World

Cato Networks recently unveiled new generative AI capabilities in its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that the secure access service edge (SASE) provider says will let enterprise IT organizations detect, analyze, and gain insights into the use of genAI applications. Cato CASB is a native feature in the Cato SASE Cloud Platform that can track applications that employees access, where employees log in from, and in some cases, what they do when using those applications.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Throughout history, the movement of goods, knowledge and influence has been shaped by gravitational forces not those of planets, but of human civilization. One of the most striking examples is the Silk Road , a vast network of trade routes that connected the East and West for centuries. Cities like Samarkand, Constantinople and Alexandria became gravitational hubs, attracting merchants, culture and commerce due to their strategic locations.

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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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Sovereign AI: NexGen Cloud Gets Funds For Its Infrastructure In Europe

Forrester IT

Cloud vendors are focusing on bringing AI solutions to their customers in ways that address sovereignty concerns rising from the mounting geopolitical instability globally. Just in the first two weeks of April, we have seen this at KubeCon Europe 2025 and at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas.

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How to Use LastPass Password Manager

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to use LastPass to manage your passwords securely. Follow this step-by-step guide to enhance your online security with ease.

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Kyndryl launches private cloud services for enterprise AI deployments

Network World

Kyndryl has taken the wraps off a suite of private cloud services designed for enterprise customers that want to rapidly deploy AI applications in production environments. Kyndryls AI Private Cloud service taps the vendors relationships with Nvidia and Dell to help enterprises plan, design and develop fully managed, operational AI systems. Kyndryl is incorporating Nvidias AI Enterprise software platform and NIM inference microservices in the Kyndryl Bridge integration platform , for example.

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Best practices for migrating between public clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

Historically, cloud migration usually meant moving on-premises workloads to a public cloud, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. And because so many businesses were keen to get out of the on-prem infrastructure management business by moving to public cloud, there were plenty of guides and tools to help with an on-prem to public cloud migration.

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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.

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Ingenuity And Core Values Will Steady The Ship: Top Healthcare Provider Trends In 2025

Forrester IT

Steering through a maelstrom of uncertainty and risk in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape requires resilient leaders who will adapt strategies centered on the human experience. Advancements in AI and the widespread availability of medical information are compelling healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) to reassess how they engage with customers and employees.

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Is Now the Time for the CIO to Fully Embrace Virtual Desktops?

Social, Agile and Transformation

The future of end-user computing (EUC) envisions reliance on cloud services for all computing needs, managed centrally and securely. Changes led by Microsoft and Nerdio highlight virtual desktops enhancing employee experience and reducing costs. Transitioning to virtual desktops allows CIOs to rethink device necessity, making the shift inevitable in the evolving work landscape.

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8 unusual Linux commands

Network World

This post examines eight somewhat unusual Linux commands that are worth knowing. But before we get into the specific commands, you can run the command below to see whether these eight commands are installed on your system. For each command, youll see the file system location for the command executable or a line that starts with no command in (PATH) where PATH will be a display of your search path the places where the command looks for them.

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From Copilot to agent – AI is growing up, and CISOs need to be ready

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past year, CISOs have wrestled with integrating AI into security processes, balancing the promised efficiencies with the need for stringent testing and adherence to security protocols. Hot on the heels of this integration effort comes another innovation: agentic AI. An evolution that marks the next leap in AI maturity, agentic AI offers both opportunities and challenges that could redefine how CISOs, CIOs, and their teams defend against cyber threats.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.