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AI begins to reshape the IT job landscape as layoffs rise

CIO Business Intelligence

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon was one of many tech companies that rapidly ramped up hiring to meet demand in a new, locked-down business paradigm. Other organizations, seeking to support all-remote workforces, followed suit, as tech hiring — and salaries — reached unprecedented heights. But the boom didn’t last long, as Amazon along with Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other prominent enterprises collectively laid off more than 100,000 employees in 2022 to re-adjust to a world emerging from

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AppGen Is Here: Say Goodbye to Software Development As You Know It

Forrester IT

The software development world is standing on the edge of a seismic shift — and most organizations don’t even see it coming. The age of handcrafted code, siloed software development lifecycle (SDLC) phases, and bloated SaaS portfolios is ending. What’s replacing it?

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Shadow IT Isn’t Your Enemy -- It’s Your Secret Weapon

Information Week

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AMD rolls out first Ultra Ethernet-compliant NIC

Network World

AMD ( Nasdaq:AMD ) will be the first to market with a new Ultra Ethernet-based networking card, and Oracle will be the first cloud service provider to deploy it. The announcement came at the recent Advancing AI event, where AMD introduced its latest Instinct MI350 series GPUs and announced the MI400X, which will be delivered next year. Overlooked in that news blitz is the availability of the Pensando Pollara 400GbE network interface card, which marks the industry’s first NIC that’s compliant wit

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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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Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

ComputerWeekly

We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

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10 tough cybersecurity questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

As CISOs gain stature and responsibility, the top security role only gets more demanding. In addition to having to continuously evaluate their security postures to determine what adjustments to make to adequately protect their organizations, today’s CISOs must align with the business in ways that enforce key business objectives — and bring questions and tradeoffs around risk management squarely in the spotlight.

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Cisco backs quantum networking startup Qunnect

Network World

Cisco is part of a $10 million extended financing round for quantum computing startup Qunnect. Cisco Investments joins round leader Airbus Ventures and venture capital fund Quantonation in backing Qunnect, a network hardware company that has designs on building quantum communication systems using existing telecom fiber. The company is working with industry partners to develop turnkey variants of its Carina suite, which includes repeaters, sensors and other components for building distributed qua

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Google is bringing Gemini CLI to developers’ terminals

The Verge

Google has launched a new open-source AI agent that brings Gemini’s coding, content generation, and research capabilities directly into developers’ terminals. Gemini CLI provides a “fundamental upgrade to your command line experience,” according to Google, making it easier for developers to write and debug code using natural language prompts. “It provides lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model,” Google said in its announcement.

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CIOs drop shotgun approach to get more strategic with AI pilots

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past two years, many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects, with a high failure rate and disappointing ROI , but there’s a new trend emerging, marked by a major reevaluation of the shotgun approach to AI experimentation. Some IT observers now see many organizations pulling back on the number of AI POCs they launch, with some IT leaders turning to commercial AI tools and many others focused on a limited number of strategic and targeted use cases.

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Operational data store (ODS)

Dataconomy

The operational data store (ODS) plays a pivotal role in modern data management, serving as a bridge between raw operational data and analytical frameworks. By providing a real-time view of organizational data, ODS systems empower businesses to make agile decisions based on current insights rather than relying solely on historical trends. This unique capability is crucial for operational reporting and performance monitoring, enhancing the overall understanding of business performance.

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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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Cisco CIO on the future of IT: AI, simplicity, and employee power

Network World

As Cisco infuses its enterprise infrastructure products with AI , the technology is also infiltrating its internal platforms, directed by Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn. His focus is on developing and using AI tools that can change how Cisco and its employees do business. Cisco is immersed in AI, looking for ways to make life and work better for employees and customers, Previn told Network World.

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How Cyberwarfare Changes the Face of Geopolitical Conflict

Information Week

As geopolitical tensions rise, the use of cyber operations and hacktivists continues to grow, with the current conflict between Israel and Iran showing the new face of cyber-augmented war.

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Why CIOs must embrace persona-based AI

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise applications is not just a trend — it’s a transformative force reshaping how businesses operate, compete and innovate. As emerging technologies like edge computing, genAI and intelligent automation mature, they are converging with enterprise systems to create smarter, more responsive and efficient organizations.

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Software-defined storage (SDS)

Dataconomy

Software-defined storage (SDS) is revolutionizing how organizations approach data storage. By decoupling storage management from hardware limitations, businesses can optimize their data environments, enhancing flexibility and scalability. As data volumes grow and the diversity of storage needs increases, understanding SDS’s intricacies is more critical than ever.

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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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Data center costs surge up to 18% as enterprises face two-year capacity drought

Network World

If you’re trying to secure data center space right now, here’s the reality: You’re probably out of luck for the next two years, and what little is available will cost you significantly more than you budgeted. In the first quarter of this year, the average cost of data center space globally was up 3.3% year-over-year to $217.30 per kilowatt per month, according to CBRE’s latest Global Data Center Trends report.

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Beyond static AI: MIT’s new framework lets models teach themselves

Venture Beat

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7 reasons the right relationships lead to better tech outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

When done right, relationships built on a foundation of trust and collaboration, in addition to tech, can deliver groundbreaking results that are easier to quantify. Here are seven reasons why getting the formula right matters. 1. Accelerate decision-making The ability to make decisions quickly can become a company’s greatest strength, particularly in today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment.

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Stream processing

Dataconomy

Stream processing has become a crucial technique in today’s data-driven world, allowing organizations to harness the power of continuous streams of data. This method not only enables timely decision-making but also opens doors to innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency. As businesses generate and receive massive amounts of data daily, stream processing emerges as a means to effectively manage and analyze this flow in real time.

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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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StorONE launches turnkey enterprise AI storage package

Network World

Enterprise storage vendor StorONE has partnered with Phison Electronics, a developer of NAND flash technologies, to create ONEai, a turnkey, automated AI package for enterprise data storage that accelerates AI deployment and delivers domain-specific responses for end users. ONEai uses Phison’s aiDAPTIV+ AI capabilities in the StorONE enterprise storage systems. aiDAPTIV+ is a hybrid hardware‑software AI offering that extends GPU memory capacity by using high-endurance NAND flash SSDs, enabling o

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AI Bug Hunter Sets Milestone By Claiming Top Spot on HackerOne’s Leaderboard

Tech Republic Security

XBOW, an autonomous AI, has overtaken human hackers on HackerOne’s US leaderboard after submitting more than 1,000 vulnerability reports in a few months.

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The 8 highest paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Technology has become a universal top priority for businesses, to the point where IT roles are no longer just the purview of the IT department. Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. While Silicon Valley still pays top dollar for IT pros, the war for talent has moved beyond the tech industry, with other verticals vying for talented IT workers with

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Data retention policy

Dataconomy

A well-structured data retention policy is crucial for organizations that wish to manage their information effectively. With the increasing volume of data generated each day, businesses must establish clear guidelines on how to retain, archive, or dispose of sensitive information. By implementing a data retention policy, organizations can streamline their data management strategies, ensuring compliance with legal obligations while also optimizing data storage resources.

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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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HPE announces GreenLake Intelligence, goes all-in with agentic AI

Network World

HPE ( Nasdaq:HPE ) unveiling its latest vision for hybrid IT in the form of GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI framework for hybrid operations, at its annual Discover conference on Tuesday. Accessed through GreenLake Copilot, which will be available in beta in the third quarter of 2025, GreenLake Intelligence will provide what the company calls a “unified hybrid cloud operating model powered by agentic AIOps.

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Kumo’s ‘relational foundation model’ predicts the future your LLM can’t see

Venture Beat

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Your team is losing a workday every week— here’s how AI can win it back

CIO Business Intelligence

A recent survey finds cross-functional corporate teams waste a full day out of every work week trying to find information they need while three-quarters of workers suffer from poor communication that affects the speed and quality of their work. The impact of these problems is alarming, according to the survey by Atlassian of 200 Fortune 1000 executives and 12,000 knowledge workers.

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OLAP

Dataconomy

OLAP, or Online Analytical Processing, revolutionizes the way businesses analyze data. By enabling multidimensional analysis, it provides users the ability to dissect vast amounts of information quickly and efficiently. With OLAP, companies can reveal trends, generate reports, and predict future outcomes, all of which are essential for strategic decision-making.

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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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CPU interconnect technology CXL gains acceptance

Network World

The market for Compute Express Link (CXL) products will enjoy rapid growth to nearly $3.4 billion by 2028 as servers come to market with the technology. That’s the conclusion of a new report from semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis , which finds that CXL technology will gain popularity as computing systems are configured to take advantage of its many features and customers realize what it can do.

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Navigating Generative AI's Expanding Capabilities and Evolving Risks

Information Week

This session provides practical insights for harnessing generative AI's transformative potential while implementing appropriate safeguards.

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Is your GenAI adoption outpacing your ability to secure it?

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) continues to soar in Asia Pacific, with spending predicted to reach US$26 billion by 2027. This highlights organizations’ strong belief in GenAI’s potential to enhance product development and design workflows, automate processes, and generate content, ultimately creating better business outcomes. Central to this growth is the evolving capabilities of large language models (LLMs).

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EmoNet signals new wave of emotionally aware AI models

Dataconomy

LAION released EmoNet, a suite of open-source tools designed to interpret emotions from voice and facial recordings, aiming to democratize emotional intelligence technology. LAION founder Christoph Schuhmann stated that the release’s objective is to make emotional intelligence technology, currently accessible to large laboratories, available to a broader community of independent developers.

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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.