Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Why CIOs must taget comprehensive digital transformation beyond mere cost-cutting, especially in the context of GenAI. CIOs must focus on growth, trust, collaborative technology, agentic AI, and customer experience improvements. Seven key recommendations provide guidance for successful digital and AI initiatives. The post 7 Ways Ambitious CIOs Drive Digital Transformation from GenAI appeared first on StarCIO Digital Trailblazer Community.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that could enable a network transformation. I said there are two transformational applications that could drive the gains in IT spending everyone would like to see.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The complexity of IT and security infrastructure was highlighted as the greatest obstacle to achieving cyber resilience according to new research, Unlock the Resilience Factor from Zscaler. Forty-three percent of 1,700 IT and security leaders worldwide ranked the challenge as a major barrier to an improved ability to recover from serious cyber events, nine percentage points above the second-placed issue: legacy security and IT issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. In a survey of 2,300 IT decision makers that IBM released in December, 47% say theyre already seeing ROI from their AI investments, and 33% say theyre breaking even on AI. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it.

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The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall. Our latest white paper reveals the six critical supply chain elements that are increasingly separating AI leaders from the rest.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Researchers warn of rising macOS-targeted attacks as hackers exploit fake updates to bypass security. FrigidStealer malware highlights growing enterprise risks.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 trillion by 2029, up from $430 billion in 2024, according to DellOro Group. Much of this growth is due to AI. Enterprises are now spending about 35% of their data center CapEx budgets on accelerated servers optimized for AI, up from 15% in 2023, says DellOro analyst Baron Fung.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation. Is your organization needlessly throwing away money on cloud services?

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The cyber security firm reported in its latest annual report that their researchers found more than 30.4 million phishing emails last year.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, patched last week, is now being actively exploited by threat actors to gain root-level access to affected firewall systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-0108, the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the PAN-OS management web interface to bypass authentication requirements.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Rather than aim for the most powerful AI model, perhaps choosing something lighter weight that is more accessible and cost-efficient will meet your needs. Heres a look at things to consider and some small language model options.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What do the chief digital officer, chief technology officer, chief information security officer, chief transformation officer, chief data officer, and so on, have in common? All their responsibilities were previously owned by one person: the CIO. The CIO role today is increasingly being cloned and divided up into multiple mini-CIO roles. Its to the point where you can hardly define what each of these high-powered executives is responsible for and where their clear lines of ownership are.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In under two months of 2025, organizations face a battery of changing regulations, new tariffs, and economic uncertainty all while trying to stay competitive, remain resilient, and execute on their AI strategy.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Microsoft announced a breakthrough in quantum computing today, unveiling a new kind of quantum processing unit, using a new type of material, to create what it says is a radically different type of qubit. The Majorana 1 named after the Majorana quasiparticle is designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip that can fit in the palm of a hand.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

AI is reframing sustainability. Avoiding greenwashing accusations requires an understanding of the technologys true benefits and costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

DeepSeeks launch of its R-1 AI model in January has clearly upset the AI apple cart. More than $1 trillion was wiped off US technology stocks with frontier model developers such as OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta caught off guard by this Chinese startup. DeepSeek claims its reasoning model is comparable in performance to OpenAIs o1 offering, working twice as fast but at only 10% of the cost.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This news about Google Cloud Key Management Service is part of the tech giants post-quantum computing strategy.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With all the focus on power consumption, the water consumption of data centers has been somewhat overlooked. However, red flags are being raised in the United Kingdom, and those concerns that have application in the US as well and elsewhere. Data centers are already wearing out their welcome in certain areas. They are enormous buildings and even with modern designs are considered an eyesore, especially when you have dozens of them in one area like in Northern Virginia.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Explore how B2B leaders can turn genAI possibilities into reality by tackling the fundamental challenges that hold them back.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

AI-based humanoid robots could soon start becoming a workforce reality, thanks to parallel advances in generative AI and electromechanical components and mechatronics, enabling robots to have reasoning skills as well as physical abilities that exceed their predecessors. Were still very early in the journey, but its only going to get better, says Dwight Klappich, a research vice president at Gartner.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor (pronounced my-or-ana ) is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) Microsoft says it has developed a new quantum processor based on a novel state of matter, giving it a clear path to achieve quantum computings long-term promise of solving some of the worlds most difficult problems. “We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meanin

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant traction among business leaders keen to explore ways it can drive operational efficiencies and cost savings. But while top leadership is sold on its potential, its a different tale for IT teams working the ground. In Australia, the challenges of implementing AI are particularly pronounced, ranging from limited expertise and siloed operations to the rising tide of cybersecurity risks.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide. The advisory, part of the #StopRansomware campaign, outlines the attack methods, technical details, and mitigation strategies needed to defend against this persistent ransomware strain.

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Tail spend — often unmanaged, fragmented and costly — can account for as much as 80% of total transaction volume. Without the right strategy, enterprises face hidden risks and unnecessary spend. It’s time to shift from fragmented, ad hoc purchasing to a strategic, technology-driven approach. Download this GEP-sponsored Everest Group research for insights on how your competitors are upping their tail spend management game.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrateddistributed quantum computing for the first timeby connecting two separate quantum processors via a photonic network interface. By using optical fibers to entangle quantum bits in separate modules, quantum logic operations can be performed across the modules via quantum teleportation. The method makes it possible to link together small quantum units, which could potentially lead to functioning quantum computer systems on a large scale that

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Remotely monitoring medical conditions and following up with patients is a major challenge in modern medicine. Artificial intelligence technology may be able to streamline the process.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fortinet has reinforced its FortiAnalyzer security analytics and log management platform with capabilities that enhance enterprise threat detection and automate incident response. FortiAnalyzer securely collects logs from Fortinet devices such as FortiGate firewalls and endpoint security agents.It uses AI to look for trends, anomalies and potential security threats to then build security analyses, network traffic reports and incident response playbooks.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The U.K. government demanded a backdoor into Apples Advanced Data Protection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At the end of 2023, Chicago-based Article Student Living was acquired by a global real estate investment company, which allowed the business to expand, and enabled it to make key investments in the high-demand student housing market. But because Article was growing so quickly, managing one of the largest student housing portfolios in the US, it needed to be more intentional about operational efficiency.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Ali Farhadi, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, recording an episode of the GeekWire Podcast at the non-profit institute’s Seattle headquarters on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It has been a wild few weeks and an eventful few months in AI:DeepSeek, OpenAI, Stargate, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Elon Musk, and much more.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Some Linux commands can make your time on the command line easier and more productive. This post covers some commands that can come in very handy. 1. Using the tldr command to simplify man pages The tldr command displays simplified man pages, providing practical examples of how to use a command and its options. It helps users to learn about a command without having to read through what might be an extensive man page.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The AI world is moving so fast that its easy to get lost amid the flurry of shiny new products. OpenAI announces one , then the Chinese startup DeepSeek releases one , then OpenAI immediately puts out another one. Each is important, but focus too much on any one of them and youll miss the really big story of the past six months. The big story is: AI companies now claim that their models are capable of genuine reasoning the type of thinking you and I do when we want to solve a problem.

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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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