Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

Smaller LLMs and other updates At Cloud Next 2025, Google also introduced specialized LLMs for video, audio, and images in the form of Veo 2, Chirp 3, and Imagen 3. According to analysts, these specialized LLMs might help enterprises achieve more accuracy on video, audio and image generation-related tasks while reducing costs to a certain extent. Specialized LLMs and smaller, faster Gemini variants directly address cost-performance optimization — an unsolved issue in enterprise AI scaling,…

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Unified Endpoint Management: One Tool to Rule All

Unified Endpoint Management: One Tool to Rule All

As the number of endpoint devices increases, managing and securing them becomes complex. The traditional way of using separate security tools for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and other endpoints is starting to fall short of maintaining security. Today, organizations need to smartly manage their devices and security in a centralized manner and leverage benefits such as patch management, software and OS deployment and remote troubleshooting. An AI-powered unified endpoint management solution leverages AI to improve employee experience…

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Move over ChatGPT: This tiny voice recorder is my new favorite AI assistant. Here's why

Move over ChatGPT: This tiny voice recorder is my new favorite AI assistant. Here's why

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Mobvoi TicNote is available now for $159.99, but monthly and annual subscription plans apply to most features. The TicNote’s AI features are impressive, the hardware is small and light, and recordings are accurate, even from across the room. The Pro subscription model appears overwhelming, but TicNote users get 300 credits free per month. If you read my coverage of smartwatches, then you’re likely familiar with past reviews of Mobvoi’s TicWatch models….

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

Every strategic decision, from customer engagement to AI-driven automation, relies on an organization’s ability to manage, process and move vast amounts of information efficiently. However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity. Data gravity is a term coined by Dave McCrory in 2010 to describe the tendency of large datasets to attract applications, services and even more data, making them increasingly difficult…

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From Deployment to Visibility: Cisco Secure Client's Cloud Transformation

From Deployment to Visibility: Cisco Secure Client's Cloud Transformation

It started over 16 years ago. Cisco Secure Client, then known as AnyConnect, quickly rose to prominence as the go-to VPN solution for organizations worldwide. It became synonymous with reliable, secure remote connectivity, helping businesses bridge the gap between their teams and the resources they needed. But technology never stands still. As threats evolved and workforces became more dynamic, so did Cisco Secure Client. Over the years, it transformed from a trusted VPN client into…

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Driving Innovation in Higher Education: UC Riverside's Approach to Strategic Partnerships

Driving Innovation in Higher Education: UC Riverside's Approach to Strategic Partnerships

In the rapidly changing world of higher education, digital transformation is key to staying ahead. A recent conversation with Matthew Gunkel, Chief Information Officer at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), shed light on current challenges and opportunities in higher education. His approach highlights how technology can enhance educational missions and underscores the power of strategic partnerships. Facing Unique Challenges in Higher Education Matthew shared that he sees UCR as equivalent to a city, and…

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Compliance Now Biggest Cyber Challenge for UK Financial Services

Compliance Now Biggest Cyber Challenge for UK Financial Services

Complying with regulations is the biggest cybersecurity challenge for UK financial services firms, according to new research by Bridewell Consulting. Nearly half (44%) of financial services organizations surveyed cited compliance as one of the top five cyber challenges they face at present. This was followed by data protection and privacy (39%), supporting remote and hybrid working (39%), protecting critical assets (37%) and managing cloud cybersecurity (35%). The findings follow the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act…

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AI agents vs. agentic AI: What do enterprises want?

AI agents vs. agentic AI: What do enterprises want?

The cloud-provider technical people I know don’t like this approach; they see it as likely to raise barriers to the use of their online generative AI services. Enterprises see their AI agent vision as facilitating cloud AI services instead. If there’s one massive AI entity doing everything, then data sovereignty almost surely means it has to be run in house. If AI use is decomposed into small steps, surely some of those steps won’t involve…

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Bot Traffic Overtakes Human Activity as Threat Actors Turn to AI

Bot Traffic Overtakes Human Activity as Threat Actors Turn to AI

Automated traffic now accounts for the majority of activity on the web, with the share of bad bot traffic surging from 32% to 37% annually last year, according to Thales. The French defense giant’s 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report is now in its 12th year, and based as always on data collected by Imperva’s global network, which apparently blocked 13 trillion bad bot requests across thousands of domains and industries last year. Bot traffic accounted for…

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Organizations Found to Address Only 21% of GenAI-Related Flaws

Organizations Found to Address Only 21% of GenAI-Related Flaws

Organizations remediate only 48% of all vulnerabilities with detected exploits, according to a new study by Pentesting-as-a-Service (PTaaS) firm Cobalt. This number is even more concerning for generative AI (GenAI) applications and tools, with only 21% of flaws discovered being resolved. These findings come from Cobalt’s latest State of Pentesting Report, published on April 14. However, a silver lining is that the number of vulnerabilities addressed significantly improves, to 69%, for vulnerabilities with severity ratings…

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