Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Discussions with leaders from vtech companies focused on CIO's gen AI expectations for 2025, highlighting the shift towards pragmatic AI applications amidst fading LLM hype. Key predictions include the rise of agentic AI, increased focus on data privacy, and the need for effective change management to support innovation and employee engagement.
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search, an AI-powered competitor to Google, Bing, and Perplexity. Initially announced as SearchGPT in July, it now integrates visual graphics and sources for queries on topics like weather, news, and stocks. Powered by GPT-4o, it partners with leading news organizations. Currently available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users, it offers conversational responses, citing sources for deeper exploration.
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Hacker Earth
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A high-performance team thrives by fostering trust, encouraging open communication, and setting clear goals for all members to work towards. By focusing on these elements, you can promote a culture of collaboration and innovation. Effective team performance is further enhanced when you align team members’ roles with their strengths and foster a prosocial purpose.
Forrester IT
AUGUST 15, 2024
For a time, it appeared that the reach of serverless platforms had exceeded their grasp. After some notable success stories like the high-profile “serverless-first” Capital One strategy, hype appeared to be dying down.
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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.
Forrester IT
OCTOBER 29, 2024
AI and, most recently, generative AI (genAI) have uncovered the true power of automating tasks that previously were tedious to complete or difficult to improve the efficiency of the work within a singular domain of the business.
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence. It’s everywhere today. Big companies are throwing millions at it, tech giants are duking it out to be the AI leader, and every other news article, LinkedIn post, and blog post seems to be about some groundbreaking AI application. But where does that leave the small to medium enterprises (SMEs)? If you’re running an SME, you might feel left out of the AI conversation, wondering if this technology is just for the big players with deep pockets.
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Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Apple is making its first foray into the smart home camera market, with plans to release a security camera in 2026. This upcoming launch aims to reshape home security by offering seamless integration with Apple’s ecosystem, bringing privacy and advanced connectivity into focus. Apple’s smart home camera could profoundly impact the current $7 billion home security camera industry, as Kuo notes , by delivering a device that works flawlessly with Apple devices like the iPhone, Apple Watch, and Appl
Hacker Earth
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Struggling to find the perfect candidate when a position opens up? Build a strong talent pipeline to streamline your hiring process and have qualified candidates ready when you need them! Think of a talent pool like a well of qualified candidates you can tap into whenever you need to fill a role. It’s a proactive approach to recruitment, ensuring you have a steady stream of top talent ready to jump on board.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 15, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. The IDC IT Strategy Framework provides a structured approach for CIOs to align IT initiatives with business goals, ensuring that technology investments drive organizational success.
Go Hire- IT
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Virtual Recruitment: Ensuring Inclusivity in a Remote World In today’s evolving job market, virtual recruitment has emerged as a crucial strategy for organizations aiming to attract a diverse talent pool. With the rise of remote work, companies are now presented with unprecedented opportunities to engage candidates from various backgrounds. Image Source This article explores the best practices for fostering inclusivity during the recruitment process, ensuring that every potential employee feels
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“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.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue. Unsurprisingly, more than 90% of respondents said their organization needs to shift to an AI-first operating model by the end of this year to stay competitive — and time to do so is running out.
Eric D. Brown
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
A recent Harvard Business Review article about AI expertise in business strategy got me thinking. While everyone’s talking about AI replacing jobs or automating tasks, a more fundamental shift is happening: AI is completely changing how companies develop and maintain strategic expertise. Traditionally, companies succeed by having better expertise than their competitors in key areas.
Network World
OCTOBER 11, 2024
In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. “This ‘toxic cloud triad’ creates a high-risk attack path that makes these workloads prime targets for bad actors,” the study said.
Network World
DECEMBER 10, 2024
China has initiated an investigation into Nvidia over alleged violations of the countrys anti-monopoly laws, signaling a potential escalation in the ongoing tech and trade tensions between Beijing and Washington. The probe, announced by Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation ( SAMR ), aims to assess whether the US chipmaker breached conditions tied to its 2019 acquisition of Israeli chip designer Mellanox Technologies.
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.
Network World
OCTOBER 10, 2024
AI is reinvigorating the mainframe and causing enterprises to rethink their plans for mainframe modernization. New research from IBM finds that enterprises are further along in deploying AI applications on the big iron than might be expected: 78% of IT executives surveyed said their organizations are either piloting projects or operationalizing initiatives that incorporate AI technology.
Network World
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
AI and cybersecurity are driving enterprise tech investments and at the same time exposing the talent gaps that IT teams face. According to Skillsoft’s 2024 IT Skills and Salary Report , IT leaders are planning to invest in AI and machine learning in 2025 while also aiming to bring more AI/ML skills in house and recruit hard-to-find cybersecurity talent.
Network World
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Even as demand for data infrastructure surges to an all-time high, Equinix is planning to lay off 3% of its workforce, suggesting a growing skills mismatch in the industry. The data center provider, whose major competitors according to IDC are Digital Reality, NTT Communications, and QTS, operates more than 260 data centers in 33 global markets, and expects revenues of roughly $8.7 billion this year , up around 7% over 2023.
Network World
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Two of six critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition Migration tool, which the company patched in October, are being actively exploited according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA has now added the two vulnerabilities — CVE-2024-9463 and CVE-2024-9465 — to its known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, putting CISOs who ignored last month’s warnings to patch the Palo Alto flaws on notice that their systems are now under threat.
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.
Network World
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. In a blog post, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to source nuclear energy, aiming to bring the first SMR online by 2030, with more reactors planned by 2035.
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.
Network World
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. Identified as CVE-2024-20418 , Cisco said the issue affects three products : the Catalyst IW9165D Heavy Duty Access Points, the Catalyst IW9165E Rugged Access Points and Wireless Clients, and the Catalyst IW9167E Heavy Duty Access Points.
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. The new access points, the CW 9176 and 9178, incorporate a blend of Cisco and Meraki management and security features that previously required significant integration work from the customer or a third party.
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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.
Network World
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Despite some recent positive news for tech hiring , a growing cybersecurity talent shortage threatens to hamstring businesses. Data from CyberSeek shows that in the U.S., some 265,000 more cybersecurity workers are needed to solve current staffing needs. CyberSeek is a data analysis and aggregation tool powered by a collaboration among Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data and analytics; NICE, a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology focused on advancing cyber
Network World
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Fortinet has expanded the reach of its AI-powered security assistant that uses genAI techniques to simplify and automate security analyses. The company is adding new components to Fortinet Advisor (FortiAI), its natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. The FortiAI assistant initially was part of Fortinet’s FortiSIEM security information and event management platform and FortiSOAR security orchestration
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.
Network World
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Technology jobs will contribute to significant job growth in the coming years across the U.S., and recent research from online learning provider Pearson finds that high-tech skills will infiltrate many professions in the future. Pearson recently released its Skills Map—United States , a report that examines trends in job growth and skills demand to uncover how technology is changing existing roles and creating new opportunities.
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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.
Network World
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
As network environments become more complex, network teams struggle to gain visibility across internet and cloud components, citing blind spots and a lack of skilled workers as contributing factors to slow problem resolution, according to a Broadcom report. Broadcom’s research found that 98% of companies use or plan to use cloud infrastructure and 95% support remote workers—two factors that contribute to network complexity.
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. The new service, FortiAppSec Cloud, brings web and API security, server load balancing, and threat analytics under a single console that enterprise customers can use to more efficiently manage their distributed application environments, according to Vincent Hwang, vice president of cloud security at Fortinet.
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.
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. According to a recent InformaTech survey , 77% of data center professionals say they saw salary increases last year, with a median compensation now at $130,000. But its not all smooth sailing.
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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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