Information Week

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As enterprises race to adopt AI, security and budgeting questions loom large. What security costs does AI create?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Perhaps we got digital transformation wrong this whole time. Instead of focusing on the transformation part, we did a lot less transforming and a lot more digitalization. Instead of seeing digital as a new paradigm for our business, we over-indexed on digitizing legacy models and processes and modernizing our existing organization. As a result, most businesses remain saddled with complexity, department silos, and old ways of doing things.

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Tech Republic Data Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernels network stack.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The potential of Generative AI as a driver of digital transformation, emphasizing the need for meaningful use cases that can significantly impact business models. Highlights various applications across customer service, marketing, fintech, supply chain, and more, advocating for focused initiatives that can enhance customer experiences, scalable efficiencies, and robust security.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Broadcoms $61 billion acquisition of VMware caused quite a stir in the technology industry and continues to prompt VMware customers to consider alternatives. New data from research firm Gartner might give IT leaders pause, however, as analysts detail the long, costly, and risky road ahead for enterprise organizations considering a large-scale VMware migration.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Couldnt make the recent webinar covering our 2025 technology and security predictions? Check out the webinar replay and read our analysts responses to some of the most pressing attendee questions about the year ahead.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A chart from the s1 research paper shows accuracy improving as thinking time goes up. In a new demonstration of the potential to improve artificial intelligence without breaking the bank, researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), and Stanford University have developed a technique that makes AI models “think” longer before answering.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The feature will no longer be available starting Feb. 28. Microsoft wants to focus on new areas that will better align to customer needs.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a significant victory against cybercrime, U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers in an effort to disrupt a Pakistan-based network of online marketplaces selling phishing and fraud-enabling tools. Dubbed Operation Heart Blocker, the coordinated effort targeted a cybercriminal group known as Saim Raza, also operating under the name HeartSender.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform used by over 200,000 developers to build speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and full speech-to-speech (which enables individuals with speech disabilities to be clearly understood) tools. Its aimed at businesses and developers who need accurate and scalable transcriptions for applications like call centers, video captioning, voice assistants and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

SAP on Tuesday said it plans to announce a new offering in the next quarter that is based around SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) and is designed to help the firms largest customers plan, execute and succeed in their cloud transformation. To be called SAP ERP, private edition, transition option , the company said in a release that it will be available for purchase starting in 2028 and will be active for usage from 2031-2033.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This blog post follows several others by my excellent colleagues at Forrester who have previously offered various approaches to thinking about, and understanding, Deepseek-R1. Last week saw the unmatched hysteria surrounding DeepSeek’s release of an open-source model that purportedly matches GPT-4’s capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As AI saturates the market, what becomes of its competitive advantages? Does it become a basic, digital commodity in the background?

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology. With the new L3AF 2.1.0 update, the technology is gaining a series of improvements including: enhanced observability features, application container improvements

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change. Recently, my involvement with IASA and SustainableIT.org has given me a new lens through which to view these projects: sustainability.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

On January 30th, 2025 the DOJ moved to block the acquisition of Juniper by HPE. They are concerned about 60% of WLAN market being occupied up by two vendors (HPE and Cisco) and that it would stifle any innovation coming from other vendors that have single-digit market share.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As reported by The Washington Post, Apple received notice of a possible request in March 2024, but the official ask occurred in January 2025.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Nvidia is touting a near 50% improvement in storage read bandwidth thanks to intelligence in its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking equipment, according to the vendors technical blog post. Spectrum-X is a combination of the companys Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch and InfiniBand-based BlueField-3 SuperNIC smart networking card, which supports RoCE v2 for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Theres a fine art to being a successful digital leader. While all leaders should possess a good command of business goals and help their organizations maintain a competitive edge, digital leaders must balance that with a deep understanding of ever-changing technologies and the capabilities needed to transform and innovate. Most leaders agree: Even in todays AI-obsessed world, digital leaders cannot just focus on tech; they must be a strategic business enabler who collaborates, supports, and empo

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

First and foremost, we abhor violence. Like so many others we were dismayed by the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. But our dismay wasn’t the only response. This event revealed widespread negative views of health insurers: stories of coverage denials, care delays, and medical bankruptcy spread across social media.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In every technology wave there are leaders and laggards, but this gap has never been more pronounced than in this race of GenAI.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kyndryl has expanded its alliance with Palo Alto Networks to add secure access service edge ( SASE ) services to its managed services offerings. In 2023, when Kyndryl first said it would integrate Palo Altos security products and services into its own managed security services, the vendors said they would ultimately support SASE, and now they have. Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection,

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In recent years, the role of women in the field of Artificial Intelligence has steadily increased, with a particularly notable surge in the UAE. The countrys initiatives focused on empowering women in technology, education, and innovation are beginning to pay off, as more female AI engineers and researchers emerge. These efforts are not just transforming the landscape of AI in the UAE, but they are also influencing global trends in tech, making women a driving force in AIs future.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Yes, really! Paint is downright useful now. Like many, Ive been using genAI systems for about two years. Nothing has quite triggered my imagination like Microsoft Paints Cocreator capability. The Concept is Straightforward: you can doodle using Paint, describe what you want, and genAI will create an image to your specifications.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The path to realizing those AI expectations, however, comes with a variety of costs that are not all monetary -- and could have surprising impacts on the world.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Traffic management is a growing challenge for cities worldwide, requiring a balance between enforcement, efficiency, and public trust. In Kazakhstan, the Qorgau system is redefining road safety through an innovative fusion of artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and mobile technology. Designed to assist traffic police in real-time violation detection and enforcement, Qorgau represents a leap forward in smart policing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As enterprises across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong undergo rapid digitalisation, democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and evolving cloud strategies are reshaping how they operate. Enterprises must adapt to an increasingly interconnected and intelligent ecosystem while keeping a watchful eye on evolving cybersecurity threats, regulatory changes, and sustainability-driven innovation.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Managed detection and response (MDR) without a doubt has successfully claimed the crown of all managed security services for making and keeping clients happy. Clients are far happier with MDR services than they ever were with legacy managed security service provider (MSSP)-style security services.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The U.K.s new cyberattack rating system ranks incidents from 1 to 5, but experts warn businesses must go beyond awareness and strengthen their defences.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Fortinet has refreshed its branch office firewalls, adding power and features to its next-generation FortiGate G-series devices. Three new boxes in the FortiGate G Series portfolio the 70G, 50G, and 30G include integrated firewall, intrusion prevention, malware and ransomware protection, SD-WAN, and switching capabilities, all of which can be managed via the vendors FortiManager centralized management platform.

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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.

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