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Articles Posted Week of Aug 25th, 2025 — Aug 31st, 2025 (329/4/2)
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CxO
3 Smart Ways Business Leaders Can Build Successful AI Strategies - Before It's Too Late
Shadow AI is Surging - Getting AI Adoption Right Is Your Best Defense
How CISOs Are Balancing Risk, Pressure and Board Expectations
AI
AI Hype Cycle: Gartner Charts the Rise of Agents, ModelOps, Synthetic Data, and AI Engineering
Predictive vs. Generative AI: Which One Is Right For Your Business?
Data Velocity: The Key To Turning AI Hype Into Enterprise Advantage
Developer
Choosing the Right Technology Stack for Your Web Application
Kill the Password: A Developer's Guide to Passwordless Authentication Nirvana
AWS News
Citrix News
CyberArk News
CxO
3 Smart Ways Business Leaders Can Build Successful AI Strategies - Before It's Too Late
Many companies are struggling to exploit AI. Thomson Reuters' tech chief explains her strategy for success....more
6 Courses For IT Leaders Navigating AI Change Management
Considering what's at stake, heads of tech facing AI adoption need to get up to speed fast on the best practices around AI change management. These courses are designed to help navigate the ever-shifting terrain with confidence....more
What CIOs Must Do Before The Next Cyberattack
Think your tech's ready? Cybersecurity pro Dan Lohrmann says CIOs need sharper defenses and leadership prep before hackers hit....more
Shadow AI is Surging - Getting AI Adoption Right Is Your Best Defense
Restricting access only compounds AI's risks. Establishing a foundation for general-purpose AI experimentation will instead set your organization on a secure journey to business-driven process enhancement....more
How CISOs Are Balancing Risk, Pressure and Board Expectations
AI has moved to the top of the CISO agenda. Three in five CISOs see generative AI as a security risk, with many worried about sensitive data leaking through public tools....more
AI
AI Hype Cycle: Gartner Charts the Rise of Agents, ModelOps, Synthetic Data, and AI Engineering
Gartner says the average company spent around $1.9 million on GenAI last year, yet fewer than 30% of AI leaders think their CEOs are satisfied with the results. That gap between spending and satisfaction is concerning....more
Predictive vs. Generative AI: Which One Is Right For Your Business?
Generative AI may dazzle, but predictive AI is the real game-changer for hiring, promotions and workforce planning....more
Data Velocity: The Key To Turning AI Hype Into Enterprise Advantage
The outlook for digital transformation appears bleak, and there's no indication it's improving. While 90% of C-level leaders surveyed by McKinsey say their companies have undergone a digital transformation in the last two years, the risk of failure falls as high as 95%, according to Bain & Company. For most organizations, becoming truly data-driven remains an aspiration rather than a reality....more
Enterprise Essentials For Generative AI
Having a 'vision' is not enough. Enterprises need clear objectives, solid data, and a design plan with built-in evaluations and humans in the loop....more
Shadow AI: Resistance is Futile
A couple of days ago, I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed and a post by my friend and fellow tech-watcher Dion Hinchcliffe caught my eye....more
Developer
Choosing the Right Technology Stack for Your Web Application
Developing a web application goes beyond coding-it involves decisions that can shape the success and growth of your project for years. One of the first and most important decisions is selecting the right technology stack....more
Kill the Password: A Developer's Guide to Passwordless Authentication Nirvana
The Password Problem: Why Now is the Time to Ditch Them...more
The pressure is on for enterprise communications/CX tech organizations when it comes to AI Register
AWS News
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)
For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it's a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to the AWS community. These Heroes share their deep AWS knowledge through content creation, speaking at events, organizing community gatherings, and contributing to open-source projects....more
More Efficient, Smarter, More Resilient: Volkswagen Group Collaborates with AWS to Help Transform Production For the Age of AI.
Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) are extending their collaboration on the Digital Production Platform (DPP) - Volkswagen's 'factory cloud' designed to support automotive manufacturing - for another five years. Volkswagen uses the DPP to deploy AI and cutting-edge IT systems across its global production sites....more
Citrix News
Citi Rolls Out a Pair of AI-Powered Banking Platforms
The financial firm's data, analytics and innovation team deployed two client-communication assistants for its wealth advisory division Monday....more
Everyone's Wrong About Why Enterprise AI is Failing
The internet is on fire discussing some recent stories about how the vast majority of enterprise generative AI pilots fail and/or don't produce measurable value....more
CyberArk News
CyberArk Helps Optiv Transform Workforce Access, Applying Privilege Controls to Every Identity
Replaces legacy SSO with CyberArk to enable secure, frictionless workforce access...more
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