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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders are placing faith in AI. Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword. While poised to fortify the security posture of organizations, it has also changed the nature of cyberattacks.

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Manage Amazon OpenSearch Service Visualizations, Alerts, and More with GitHub and Jenkins

AWS Big Data

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service for search and analytics. It allows organizations to secure data, perform searches, analyze logs, monitor applications in real time, and explore interactive log analytics. With its scalability, reliability, and ease of use, Amazon OpenSearch Service helps businesses optimize data-driven decisions and improve operational efficiency.

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner is projecting worldwide IT spending to jump by 9.3% in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. Gartner’s new 2025 IT spending projection , of $5.75 trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2% growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs.

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5 Free Courses to Understand Machine Learning Algorithms

KDnuggets

To help you navigate this complex subject, we’ve compiled five free online courses that will give you a solid foundation in machine learning algorithms.

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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.

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How AI can alleviate help desk workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

The rising flood of trouble tickets is straining help desk operations. Yet many still rely on phone calls, outdated knowledge bases, and manual processes. Unsurprisingly, this is leading to staff frustration and burnout, dissatisfied end users and persistent security vulnerabilities. As many as 56% of IT workers 1 say the help desk ticket volume is up, according to a recent survey by software vendor Ivanti.

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Denodo Provides a Logical Approach to Data Management

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Although the terms data fabric and data mesh are often used interchangeably, I previously explained that they are distinct but complementary. Data fabric refers to technology products that can be used to integrate, manage and govern data across distributed environments, supporting the cultural and organizational data ownership and access goals of data mesh.

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How to Use Hugging Face Transformers for Text-to-Speech Applications

KDnuggets

To use Hugging Face Transformers for Text-to-Speech, load a pre-trained TTS model and input the text you want to convert to speech. The model will generate audio, which you can save or play directly.

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Marc Benioff rails against Microsoft’s copilot

CIO Business Intelligence

After lashing out against Microsoft at the Dreamforce customer conference, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has taken another swipe at his competitor. “When you look at how Copilot has been delivered to customers, it’s disappointing,” Benioff wrote in a post on Twitter/X. “It just doesn’t work, and it doesn’t deliver any level of accuracy. Gartner says it’s spilling data everywhere, and customers are left cleaning up the mess,” he said.

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Fine-tuning Llama 3.2 Using Unsloth

KDnuggets

Unsloth is a user-friendly framework, offering fast inference and fine-tuning for large language models. It also supports saving models in multiple formats, including vLLM and GGUF.

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How the EU is getting the most out of emerging tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The IT world is witnessing an ever closer convergence of cloud, edge, and AI. Collecting and processing data at the edge via connected objects is an integral part of applications for Industry 4.0, but also for things like precision agriculture, smart cities and logistics. The vast world of IIoT is closely linked to connectivity, processing data locally using AI, and then sending the information to the cloud for further analysis.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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Free AI-Powered Interview Preparation Tool by 365 Data Science

KDnuggets

InterviewAce is now available for free to all 365 Data Science users, marking a significant addition to the platform's suite of career development tools.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

CIO Business Intelligence

It was a typical conversation with a client when the question came up: “What’s the average security spend for organizations like ours?” I’ve heard variations of this query countless times. Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” “Great, we’re at 3%,” the client replied, satisfied with their position.

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How to Put Numbers AND Percentages in Graph Labels in Excel

Depict Data Studio

Want to put both the numbers and the percentages inside your Excel graph’s labels, like this? Text boxes are clunky and time-consuming. Instead, we’ll create Helper Cells with concatenated values. What’s Inside 0:00 Intro 0:33 Dataviz On The Go 0:42 Why not text boxes?? 1:42 Pie example 5:42 Donut example 7:42 Bar example 12:28 Advanced: Nested IF with left, mid, right 14:42 Your turn Materials Download the Excel file: [link] Transcript Ann K.

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Companies to shift AI goals in 2025 — with setbacks inevitable, Forrester predicts

CIO Business Intelligence

Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025. Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. “2025 will be about the pursuit of near-term, bottom-line gains while competing for declining consumer loyalty and digital-first business buyers,” Sharyn Leaver, Forrester chief research officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Give Business Users NLP Search Analytics and Get Results!

Smarten

NLP Search Analytics Ensures User Adoption! These days, most people understand the term Natural Language Processing (NLP). It has been around a while, and represents perhaps the most significant information tool in the past century. Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) have unlocked a vast library of knowledge, making it accessible to the average person, requiring no significant technical skills, and leveling the playing field for millions of people, seeking to learn and unders

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Not your father’s avatar: The real future of artificial intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is the latest milestone in the “AAA” journey, which began with the automation of the mundane, lead to augmentation — mostly machine-driven but lately also expanding into human augmentation — and has built up to artificial intelligence. Artificial? What if business users started developing alter-ego avatars that performed real business functions?

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How to implement access control and auditing on Amazon Redshift using Immuta

AWS Big Data

This post is co-written with Matt Vogt from Immuta. Organizations are looking for products that let them spend less time managing data and more time on core business functions. Data security is one of the key functions in managing a data warehouse. With Immuta integration with Amazon Redshift , user and data security operations are managed using an intuitive user interface.

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IT pros: One-third of AI projects just for show

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations rush to spin up AI projects, many IT professionals aren’t sold on the value of these early efforts. A substantial 36% of IT professionals surveyed by Dice.com believe that the primary purpose of many AI projects they’ve worked on is to show investors, board members, or outside stakeholders that the company is doing something with AI.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Chart Snapshot: Genealogy Fan Charts

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

A Genealogy Fan Chart is a diagram that visualises a hierarchical tree structure using a semi-circle format, radiating outward from the central root node. Essentially, this chart is a Sunburst Diagram cut in half and used typically to display a person’s or couple’s family tree in an easily digestible and visually appealing format. When constructing a Genealogy Fan Chart, the individual or couple whose genealogy is being visualised is placed in the central root node.

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Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

CIO Business Intelligence

Just a day after announcing his departure from Google to his LinkedIn followers, Amit Zavery said that he is joining ServiceNow as COO. ServiceNow said that Zavery will serve as “president, chief product officer (CPO), and chief operating officer (COO) to lead product and engineering, effective October 28, 2024.” “In his role as president, CPO, and COO, Zavery’s responsibilities include ServiceNow’s platform, products, engineering, cloud infrastructure, and user experience.

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Key Scenarios for Leveraging Agora, Denodo’s Cloud Service

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many organizations struggle to unlock the full potential of their modern data platforms, particularly when dealing with legacy systems, SaaS services, or multi-cloud environments. That’s where the Denodo Platform shines. It uses AI and GenAI to automate routine tasks for. The post Key Scenarios for Leveraging Agora, Denodo’s Cloud Service appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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A medida que se escala la IA surgen retos de infraestructura

CIO Business Intelligence

Las organizaciones que experimentan con la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa suelen crear cuentas de nivel empresarial con servicios basados en la nube como ChatGPT de OpenAI o Claude de Anthropic, y las primeras pruebas de campo y los beneficios en productividad pueden inspirarles a buscar más oportunidades para desplegar la tecnología. Nick Kramer, responsable de Soluciones Aplicadas de SSA & Company, una consultora global, afirma: “Las empresas utilizan la IA generativa para produci

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Overcome Tool Sprawl With Dataiku, a 3x Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader

Dataiku

As a data or IT executive, navigating the era of GenAI requires a strategic approach to technology and tools. The infographic below sheds light on the growing complexities many organizations face simplifying their technology stack in an ever-changing analytics and AI landscape — a complexity that can stifle innovation and slow down the integration of emerging technologies like GenAI.

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Avoiding ‘The Overlap Trap’: Poor org structure can sabotage results

CIO Business Intelligence

Janet Sherlock is a digital and retail executive with a long track record of modernizing organizations, processes, and solutions. She has held various P&L and technology leadership roles at companies such as British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Guess, and Carters. Most recently she was the chief digital and technology officer at Ralph Lauren, where she was responsible for the global e-commerce strategy and revenue as well as driving digital transformation.

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Why your IT team needs to upgrade its digital employee experience (DEX)

CIO Business Intelligence

Business and IT leaders agree that improving the “digital employee experience” (DEX) results in better productivity and workplace morale. But recent research by Ivanti reveals an important reason why many organizations fail to achieve those benefits: rank-and-file IT workers lack the funding and the operational know-how to get it done. They don’t prioritize DEX for others because the organization hasn’t prioritized improving DEX for the IT team.

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Sólo el 48% de las iniciativas digitales cumplen o superan los objetivos empresariales

CIO Business Intelligence

De media, únicamente el 48% de las iniciativas digitales en toda la empresa cumplen o superan los objetivos de resultados de negocio. Así se desprende de la última encuesta global anual de Gartner, un estudio que radiografía la opinión de más de 3.100 CIO y ejecutivos de tecnología, y más de 1.100 líderes ejecutivos fuera de TI (CxOs). Según el informe presentado por la firma de análisis e investigación, una pequeña cohorte de CIO y CxOs conocida como ‘la vanguardia digital’ ostenta la tasa de l

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Luz verde al Sistema de Inteligencia Turística de La Rioja

CIO Business Intelligence

Cada vez más administraciones públicas apuestan por la digitalización en aras de mejorar los servicios que brindan al ciudadano. Este es el caso del Ejecutivo riojano que, tras la celebración del último Consejo de Gobierno, ha dado luz verde a la licitación del nuevo Sistema de Inteligencia Turística de La Rioja (SITR). Así, la prestación de los servicios de consultoría, diseño, desarrollo e implantación del nuevo modelo turístico de la región ha quedado aprobado por procedimiento abierto y urge

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How IT leaders can assess “secure-by-design” software claims

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no secret cyberthreats are increasing. The cost of reported cybercrime in the US jumped 22% last year to more than $12.5 billion, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. 1 One issue is weaknesses that have been preserved in software by traditional approaches to coding and security. To combat these risks, there is now a concerted effort to create software that is secure by design.

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El Principado de Asturias apuesta por la gestión inteligente del agua mediante un ‘data lake’

CIO Business Intelligence

Asturias apuesta por la tecnología de vanguardia en la gestión y mantenimiento de sus recursos hídricos. En este sentido, Telefónica Tech, en colaboración con Xylem e Ídrica, está desarrollando la infraestructura tecnológica para la creación del data lake que permitirá al Principado de Asturias optimizar la gestión, el análisis avanzado y la visualización de sus recursos hídricos, así como aplicar algoritmia para poder prevenir diferentes escenarios.

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ServiceNow, Rimini Street partner for a new ERP cost-saving model

CIO Business Intelligence

ServiceNow and end‑to‑end enterprise software support provider Rimini Street have jointly developed a new enterprise software model, designed to reduce costs for enterprises by providing an alternative to digitally transforming existing ERP software. The new enterprise model ensures that enterprises don’t have to “rip and replace” or “lift and shift” their ERP software, which could lead to delayed or often unrealized return on investment, the companies said.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.