Sat.May 24, 2025 - Fri.May 30, 2025

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The 7 unwritten rules of leading through crisis

CIO Business Intelligence

Virtually all enterprises have some form of crisis management plan in place. Yet simply creating a crisis management program isnt enough. Whats often more important are the unwritten rules that help ensure the program is executed effectively when crisis hits. Whether youre facing a data breach, a production outage, or a cloud misconfiguration gone wrong, how you manage a crisis can make or break the trust in your team and your technology, says Trevor Young , chief product officer at cybersecurit

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Future-Proofing Enterprise Transformation: A CIO’s Guide to AI-Driven Innovation

Information Week

Companies that fully integrate AI are seeing significant revenue growth, yet many still treat it as an add-on rather than a core capability.

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The IT job market of 2030: Learning to work alongside AI

IT Toolbox

When I started in the IT job market, we were still looking for jobs in the classified sections of paper newspapers. That may sound like trying to build a computer with stone knives and bearskins, but.

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Cisco bolsters DNS security package

Network World

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) has bulked-up its Domain Name System (DNS) security software with new features including AI-enhanced DNS tunneling mitigation and stronger cloud malware detection. Cisco Secure Access DNS Defense replaces the current Cisco Umbrella DNS Essentials and Advantage packages and significantly enhances those offerings, according to Steve Brunetto , director of product management for Cisco Secure Access and Umbrella.

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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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How not to go off the rails with agentic AI

ComputerWeekly

When enterprises multiply AI, to avoid errors or even chaos, strict rules and guardrails need to be put in place from the start.

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Unstructured Data Management Tips

Information Week

Managing unstructured data can be both challenging and confusing. A few handy tips can make the task much faster and easier.

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Nvidia eyes China rebound with stripped-down AI chip tailored to export limits

Network World

Nvidia plans to launch a lower-cost AI chip for China in June, aiming to protect market share under the US export controls and signal a broader shift toward affordable, segmented products that could impact global enterprise AI spending. The new GPU, part of Nvidias Blackwell architecture, is expected to be priced between $6,500 and $8,000, significantly lower than the restricted H20 chip, which sold for $10,000 to $12,000, according to a Reuters report.

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5 questions to test tech resilience and build a 90-day action plan

CIO Business Intelligence

Major events demand quick reaction from companies. That means having the agility in your technology estate to respond at a pace to circumstances few companies will have experienced before. The unprecedented speed of tech evolution, ongoing geopolitical instability, and the constantly shifting landscape of trade agreements are just some of the recent dynamics that many companies have had to adapt to.

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How To Measure AI Efficiency and Productivity Gains

Information Week

Measuring AI efficiency and productivity is essential to reach maximum returns on your investment. Here's how to get started.

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Salesforce Accelerates Its Path to Agentic AI

Forrester IT

Salesforce, a leader in CRM applications, has announced its intent to acquire Informaticaa global leader in enterprise data managementfor approximately $8 billion. Informatica fuels Salesforces hard pivot to reinvent itself as an AI-first company and away from its CRM roots.

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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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Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

Network World

Enterprise cloud spending is spiraling out of control, with over half of organizations estimating that more than 40% of their cloud budget is wasted on preventable mistakes and inefficient processes. And the accelerating growth in AI adoption isnt helping. Cloud networking is often an overlooked area, and the growing demands of AI-driven data movement are compounding the challenge.

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Avery Dennison takes culture-first approach to AI transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Avery Dennisons culture-first approach to AI adoption has paid off considerably in productivity and financial gains for the global labeling and RFID solutions manufacturer. The companys program to drive AI use throughout the enterprise, emphasizing humans in the loop, engaged more than 250 company executives and 1,000 employees in over 20 AI pilot projects in 2024.

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New ChatGPT Scam Infects Users With Ransomware: ‘Exercise Extreme Caution’

Tech Republic Security

Cisco Talos identified three strains of malware that spoof AI tools, including ChatGPT.

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Don’t Overlook Consumers’ Preferences in the Whirlwind of AI

Forrester IT

AI disrupts marketing norms and changes so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up. Just last week, Google announced its newest push to incorporate AI in search with AI modeand Microsoft introduced the Agent Store, a catalog of AI agents.

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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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Many ways to use the date command on Linux

Network World

Theres a lot more to the date command than having it report the current date and time. You can change the commands output format in many ways report dates in the past and future, convert Unix and Linux timestamps into readable dates, display dates in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), display dates in different time zones, rearrange the order of the date command output and do quite a bit more.

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Barb Wixom and MIT CISR on managing data like a product

CIO Business Intelligence

If data is the new oil, too many CIOs are still stuck building barrels instead of businesses. Despite steady investment in data platforms and governance, many organizations still struggle to extract lasting value from their data. According to Barb Wixom, principal research scientist at MIT Sloans Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and co-author of Data Is Everybodys Business , the answer isnt more tools or talent.

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GitLab ‘Vulnerability Highlights the Double-Edged Nature of AI Assistants’

Tech Republic Security

A remote prompt injection flaw in GitLab Duo allowed attackers to steal private source code and inject malicious HTML. GitLab has since patched the issue.

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NCSU CIO Marc Hoit Talks Fed Funding Limbo, AI’s Role in Shrinking Talent Pool

Information Week

North Carolina State Universitys vice chancellor for information technology and CIO says the school is poised to continue its IT mission, despite uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape.

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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.

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Platform approach gains steam among network teams

Network World

The PGA European Tour hosts 40 professional golf tournaments annually in more than 30 countries. Stops include Australia, South Africa, China and Dubai. For everything to run smoothly, IT staffers need to set up a new network in an entirely new location on a nearly weekly basis. The PGA European Tour faced increasing vulnerability from an expanding threat landscape, said CTO Michael Cole.

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The agentic AI assist Stanford University cancer care staff needed

CIO Business Intelligence

Every day, thousands of people are diagnosed with cancer around the world. Each case is unique, with hundreds of distinct tumor subtypes that require treatment protocols involving new drugs, clinical trials, and device-based therapies.Leading cancer centers, therefore, rely heavily on multidisciplinary tumor boards, or specialized sessions where radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, oncologists, genetic counselors, and other specialists perform sophisticated analyses of vast amounts of patient d

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Public Sector IT Leaders: It’s Time to Prioritize the Right Emerging Technologies  

Forrester IT

In our latest research, The Top Emerging Technologies for Public Sector and Government, 2025, we identify eleven technologies that will shape the next decade of government transformation.

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Securing Data Centers Against Cyber Risks

Information Week

In the face of new challenges, here's how IT and business leaders can evaluate and improve facility resilience.

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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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Extreme Networks wants your complicated Wi-Fi environments

Network World

Its event season, and this week Extreme Networks held its Connect user event in Paris, where it unveiled Platform ONE , Extremes revamped connectivity platform that brings together networking, security and AI. The company also announced some new hardware, including Wi-Fi 7 access points as well as core and campus switches. While new products tend to steal the headlines, I attend IT events for the conversations, meet-ups and keynotes to better understand networking trends.

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9 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs today are looking to drive a new wave of transformation armed with artificial intelligence, generative AI, and now AI agents, too. If I had to name the top projects CIOs are driving today, its clear the agenda is shaped by one word: reinvention, says Tejas Patel, leader of tech strategy and advisory for APAC at professional services firm Accenture.

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CIOs: Embrace A Modern Network for Transformation Success

Forrester IT

In an era of rapid technological change (hello AI), CIOs must cultivate relationships that inspire new behaviors and promote technological innovation and transparency. Gone are the days of technology being a function operating in the background of an organization. Technology is now fully in the spotlight as central to most business strategies.

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Retiring CIOs: Did You Achieve What You Wanted?

Information Week

When CIOs retire from their careers, there is a mix of feelings about their lifes work. But wanting to walk away with a sense of purposefulness and impact comes up most often.

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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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Rebooting Redmond: Microsoft’s new campus reflects ongoing transformation, uncertain future

GeekWire

[ Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.] REDMOND, Wash. In 1986, when Microsoft moved here just ahead of its IPO, the design of its new headquarters said a lot about its culture. The Redmond campus, tucked into the trees east of Seattle, offered enough distance from distractions to keep everyone focused, while being close enough to the freeway to save valuable minutes of productivity.

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Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce ( NYSE:CRM )has agreed to buy Informatica ( Nasdaq:INFA ) in an $8 billion deal as a way to quickly access far more data for its AI efforts, it said Tuesday. Steve Fisher, President and CTO of Salesforce, made the argument for how this acquisition helps customers of both companies: Truly autonomous, trustworthy AI agents need the most comprehensive understanding of their data.

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MIT’s CIO Symposium 2025: For AI Success, Follow Path Two

Forrester IT

At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week, MIT Nobel Prize winning economist, Daron Acemoglu, painted it black and white. He said, technology can take two paths. Path one is using technology to automate tasks that people once did. We’ve been doing that for centuries. Silicon Valley loves it.

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Juniper Networks CIO Analyzes Career Options for Leaders at the Top

Information Week

What are your choices when you've already climbed to the summit?

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.