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The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends

IT Toolbox

We love to hate buzzwords. but what happens after some time has passed? Peter Tsai takes a deep dive into how some of 2022's biggest buzzwords have held up. The post The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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How Can CIOs Prepare for AI Data Regulation Changes?

Information Week

Constantly changing artificial intelligence ethical regulations and frameworks have created havoc for CIOs charged with balancing compliance and driving innovation. Here are some strategies and best practices.

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Sensible Disruption: The Pragmatist’s Approach to Innovation

Information Week

In today’s world, the pragmatic CTO is one that stays apprised of how innovations affect our day-to-day business operations. So how is this done?

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Australian Organisations Targeted by Phishing Attacks Disguised as Atlassian

Tech Republic Security

Mimecast said a phishing campaign using Atlassian workspaces shows the growing sophistication of cyber threat actors.

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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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HPE Aruba boosts observability, third-party management capabilities

Network World

HPE Aruba is expanding the capabilities of Networking Central, its cloud-based management platform for administering and managing all aspects of an Aruba wired and wireless customer infrastructure. Among the upgrades are an improved network device configuration engine, expanded network observability features , and a broader menu of AI-generated, network trained and tuned optimization models.

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How Accurate Were Our Predictions For 2024?

Forrester IT

As we prepare to launch our 2025 predictions, we look back on some of the ones we made a year ago. Find out how we did, and get a first peek at what our forthcoming predictions will cover.

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Is Google Password Manager Safe to Use in 2024?

Tech Republic Security

Google Password Manager is a free password management service built into Chrome and Google apps. Learn how it works and how secure it is in this detailed review.

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Selector AI debuts ‘network language model’ for netops

Network World

Thanks to the popularity and widespread success of ChatGPT, most IT users are familiar with the concept of a large language model (LLM). But how does an LLM apply to network operations? Network and infrastructure operations startup Selector AI today announced its Network Language Model (NLM) technology, which builds on top of an LLM to help optimize network operations.

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Avoiding Digital Imperialism In Age Of AI

Forrester IT

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a key driver of economic growth, it presents both opportunities and challenges. To ensure AI benefits society, employees, customer and organizations, it’s crucial to prevent a scenario where the concentration of power in the tech sector leads to a new form of digital dominance.

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AI Will Make Cars and Trucks Smarter, Faster, and Safer

Information Week

AI promises to revolutionize driving. Here's a look at what's coming down the road.

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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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Microsoft Initiative the ‘Largest Cybersecurity Engineering Effort in History’

Tech Republic Security

The Secure Future Initiative was created around the same time the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board chided Redmond for having a poor security culture.

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10-year forecast shows growth in network architect jobs while sysadmin roles shrink

Network World

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is forecasting a decade of growth for many – but not all – IT positions. The U.S. economy is expected to add 6.7 million jobs from 2023 to 2033, which equates to 4% job growth overall. The picture is rosier for IT occupations. The market segment that BLS calls “computer and mathematical occupations” is projected to grow 12.9% between now and 2033, increasing by 699,000 jobs.

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

CIO Business Intelligence

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

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How CIOs Are Advancing ESG

Information Week

CIOs play an important role in a company’s environmental, social, and governance strategy. Their involvement in ESG has also changed their approach to tech procurement.

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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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‘Titanic Mindset’: Just 54% of UK IT Pros Confident in Data Recovery

Tech Republic Security

U.K. IT pros are adopting a “Titanic mindset,” a study has found, as they are blind to the upcoming iceberg of their data recovery solution.

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Infoblox tackles integrated DDI across multi-cloud environments

Network World

Infoblox is rolling out a unified management platform to allow customers to see, control and secure IT resources spread across their hybrid multi-cloud enterprises. The Infoblox Universal DDI Product Suite integrates core network security tools to enable efficient management, increase security, and reduce the administrative burden those systems require, according to Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox.

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23 key gen AI terms and what they really mean

CIO Business Intelligence

As abruptly as generative AI burst on the scene, so too is the new language that’s come with it. A complete list of AI-related vocabulary would be thousands of entries long, but for the sake of urgent relevance, these are the terms heard most among CIOs, analysts, consultants, and other business executives. Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions.

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Is Synthetic Data the Future of AI Model Training?

Information Week

As AI models require more and more information, synthetic data might be the answer. But users have both benefits and risks to consider.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Get Real-World Cybersecurity Skills for $30

Tech Republic Security

Engage in active learning to build skills, confidence, and competence through practical, hands-on experience with professional feedback.

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Examining the many ways to run loops on Linux

Network World

The bash shell provides numerous ways to loop through data to make your work – especially scripting challenges – easier. You can loop through a pile of data so you can get a lot done just by running a single script, and you can generate and loop through different sequences of values. Whether you’re looping through a large group of numeric values, days of the week, usernames, words, file names or something else entirely, bash has an option that can make it easier for you.

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Data Security: The Time Is Now To Pioneer A New Strategy

Forrester IT

Data security is both a high priority and struggle for many organizations. Find out why and get some next steps in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit December 9-11 in Baltimore.

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Is Explainable AI Explainable Enough Yet?

Information Week

The “black box” nature of some types of deep learning inspired an outcry for explainable AI. It’s a tough problem to solve for a lot of reasons.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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2024 Exposed: The Alarming State of Australian Data Breaches

Tech Republic Security

Implementing multi-factor authentication, supplier risk-management frameworks, and staff security training could help to reduce data breaches.

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Cloudflare accelerates its network with security, traffic optimizations

Network World

Cloudflare unwrapped a series of networking and security innovations during its birthday week event. The announcements include implementations of new and emerging internet standards that could have a wide-ranging impact over time. Cloudflare commands a sizable share of internet traffic, and its network footprint spans the globe. Key announcements include: AI Audit: Tool for website owners to monitor AI crawler access Speed Brain: Predictive technology for faster page loading Workers AI: Enhanced

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Generative AI strategy dilemma: Buy, build, or partner?

CIO Business Intelligence

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development.

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It’s Urgent: AI and Data Must Drive the Circular Economy

Information Week

The idea of a circular economy isn’t new, but using AI and data analytics to streamline its complexities is. Industries can finally realize sustainability.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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CrowdStrike Holds Its Fal.Con Conference As It Tries To Move On From July 19

Forrester IT

Last week, CrowdStrike held its yearly user conference, Fal.Con, in Las Vegas. The conference comes just two short months after CrowdStrike issued a config update that took down 8.5 million Windows endpoints, which disrupted air travel, hospitals, and media outlets while impacting many other industries.

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F5, NetApp team to streamline AI app deployments

Network World

F5 and NetApp announced plans to combine their technologies to help enterprise customers securely deploy AI applications across multicloud environments. The deal will bring together F5’s secure multicloud networking technology and NetApp’s BlueXP suite of data management products to streamline the use of large language models (LLM) across hybrid environments.

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Reporting cybersecurity posture and systemic risk to the board

CIO Business Intelligence

Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. As we saw recently with the CrowdStrike outage, the interconnected nature of enterprises today brings with it great risk that can have a significant negative effect on any company’s finances. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company.

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CIOs Go Bold

Information Week

If “being bold” is a CIO career goal, what does it really mean? And how do you go about becoming bold?

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.