Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2025, innovation teams, CIOs, and leaders should prioritize short-term value, focusing on AI to enhance customer impact. Key areas include developing generative AI agents, optimizing data governance, and managing knowledge debt. Emphasis on cost-efficiency via Green FinOps and sustainable practices is essential for aligning with digital transformation goals amidst rapid economic changes.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a short 18 months 89% of B2B buyers report they are using genAI in their purchase process. Providers haven't yet seen a large impact on their revenue engine but should expect to see smarter buyers making more considered decisions faster.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

New shopping "holidays," including Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, have added to the Black Friday craze. That's why ensuring your IT infrastructure is ready for the holiday onslaught is so important. Experts weigh in on how you can prevent a tech blackout and keep your holidays happy. The post How to Avoid a Tech Blackout on Black Friday appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

IBM launched its most advanced quantum computer yet last week at its inaugural quantum developer conference. It features nearly twice the gates of last year’s quantum utility demonstration – and a 50-fold speed increase. Last year, in a paper published in Nature, IBM announced a breakthrough demonstration of quantum computing that can produce accurate results beyond those of classical computers.

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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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Information Week

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The traditional tech job interview process is undergoing a significant shift as companies increasingly focus on skills-based hiring and move away from the traditional emphasis of academic degrees.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Security-conscious Mac users may need more protection than their built-in tools provide. Learn about the extra features and functionality offered by the best free antivirus software providers for Mac in 2024.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Microsoft in recent months has committed to significantly enhancing security across the Windows ecosystem. The company is reportedly working to ensure that even a non-bootable OS can be updated and repaired, a promising step forward in its efforts to bolster reliability and protection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Meta has hired the former CEO of Salesforce AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new “Business AI” group. Salesforce has still not publicly acknowledged Shih’s departure , but it will be hard to ignore now that she’s announced her new role on her LinkedIn profile. Shih is now a vice president at Meta and the head of a new business AI group, she said in a post there.

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Anoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Workaround to FIX SSO Issue with Citrix and Windows 11 24H2 appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it. Some 8,000 global companies were surveyed for the AI Readiness Index, which aims to measure how prepared organizations are to invest in, deploy and use AI.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

As businesses increasingly lean on Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) to innovate customer experience and streamline operations, they encounter a critical challenge: the limitations foundation models (FMs). These models often fall short in delivering accuracy and relevance, primarily due to insufficient or narrow training data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. But the challenge many executives face is that they tend to focus on how their particular area aligns with overall goals, to the exclusion of other facets of the organization.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Plastic waste is one of today’s most complex environmental challenges, and people are putting AI to work to understand it and solve it.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs is expanding its network management platform this week with a pair of new products designed to tackle the growing challenges of infrastructure documentation and configuration management. NetBox Labs is the lead commercial sponsor behind the widely deployed open source NetBox technology, which is used for modeling and documenting networks.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Coca-Cola Company released three new AI-generated Holiday ads inspired by the beverage giant’s classic 1995 “The Holidays Are Coming” commercial. Produced entirely with AI video models like Runway and Luma Dream Machine, this represents a step forward in photorealism for AI-generated video.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The road ahead for IT leaders in turning the promise of generative AI into business value remains steep and daunting, but the key components of the gen AI roadmap — data, platform, and skills — are evolving and becoming better defined. That was the key takeaway from the “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Cloud strategies continue to shift as organizations utilize more services. AI is one of the biggest drivers.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. Legacy issues around performance, speed, availability and latency still cause headaches, and outages risk financial and reputational damage — just look at the CrowdStrike outage ramifications , which will no doubt continue for years to come. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Threat actors exploited two vulnerabilities in Intel-based machines. Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the flaws.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. But with the advent of GPT-3 in 2020, LLMs exploded onto the scene, captivating the world’s attention and forever altering the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), and in the process, becoming an essential part of our everyday computing lives.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A commission says China is catching up with US in AI capabilities and recommends a public-private partnership to develop artificial general intelligence as a national security priority.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The five fastest-growing hubs for data center expansion include an interesting mix of urban areas that have one thing in common: lots of available power. Based on projected data-center capacity growth, Las Vegas/Reno is the No. 1 fastest growing data center site in the US, followed by Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas-Fort Worth, according to a new report from cloud security vendor Upwind.

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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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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Vendor messaging of “The Composable DXP” is not resonating, especially when the portfolio of capabilities varies widely across vendors. Turns out that securing credibility as a provider of a DXP requires more than appending the word “composable” to their name.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our fast-changing digital world, it’s essential to sync IT strategies with business objectives for lasting success. Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Regardless of whether or not Peter Drucker actually said , “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” the sentiment still is particularly relevant in IT, where the constructive collaboration between business goals and technology initiatives often determines

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The SEC isn’t messing around when it comes to cybersecurity breach reporting. Be honest or be fined.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data center processors have significant problems with overheating when installed in high-capacity server racks, forcing redesigns of the racks themselves, according to a report by The Information. These issues have reportedly led to design changes, meaning delays in shipping product and raising concern that its biggest customers, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, will be able to deploy Blackwell servers according to their schedules.

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Anoop

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Analytics Capabilities for Querying Multiple Devices and Taking Remote Actions on Results in Microsoft Intune appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. But Florida-based Brown & Brown Insurance put old-school conventions to the test when it joined a growing cadre of leading organizations remodeling IT to reflect the pervasive role of technology in business transformation. Under Executive Vice President and CIO Gray Nester, BBIN traded up the legacy IT moniker for the modern-day Technology Solutions Group brand.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI is changing the way people take and view photographs. The results, so far, have been both positive and negative.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. Aviz Networks provides support and services to enable organizations to adopt the open source SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) network operating system.

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