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Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. “This is obviously a fluid situation. The stated goal of the [US] administration is to bring more development into the US,” said Forrester Senior Analyst Alvin Nguyen. “But with some of these activities, there is the potential that it draws some manufacturing and other capabilities of the data center away from the US.” Nguyen, who advises enterprises on data center strategies, said the tariffs are [...]
Microsoft is urging Office 2016 and 2019 customers to upgrade to Microsoft 365 before support ends Oct. 14, but analysts said viable alternatives are available outside Microsoft’s walled garden. “Continuing to use unsupported software can expose your organization to security vulnerabilities, compliance risks, and operational disruptions,” the company warned in a blog post. Microsoft 365 is the cloud-based version of Microsoft Office, which also includes Teams, Copilot and web-based collaborative features. It is available only by subscription, with prices starting at $9.99 a month, or $99.99 a year for the Personal edition. The alternative, a standalone desktop version of Microsoft Office, doesn’t have the AI and collaboration features, nor [...]
Your weekly round-up of the questions asked by readers of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World sees us learn how culture impacts digital transformation, the rise of cloud-based ERP, and desktop-based office software. Transform Faster Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. This week we reported 12 ways in which IT leaders are overhauling strategies and processes to streamline IT for quicker success. We explained how to transform: faster. Transformation is not only a question of technology, of course. And the readers of CIO were keen to understand how big a [...]
Apple’s leadership is no doubt scrambling to identify a silver lining (if there is one) as the storm of US President Donald J. Trump’s punishing range of global tariffs rains heavily across the company’s supply chain. Even Apple’s attempt to mitigate the impact of anticipated tariffs on Chinese goods with big investments in manufacturing in India, Thailand, and elsewhere wasn’t enough. Most of the world will be affected by Trump’s tariffs, which the company is unlikely to be able to swallow whole without raising product prices. The scale is huge — 54% (the 34% hike announced last night in addition to an existing 20% tariff) on [...]
When Google unveiled a new neural network design in 2017 called the Transformer architecture, it probably had no idea this would threaten Google Search’s dominance within seven years. When OpenAI applied Google’s Transformer architecture to generative language models, the GPT was born. (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer.”) OpenAI then took the GPT concept and created a chatbot by incorporating reinforcement learning from human feedback, ranked responses, dialogue optimizations, and safety measures. The result was ChatGPT, which OpenAI made public on Nov. 30, 2022. ChatGPT changed the world. Now, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta’s Meta AI, Microsoft’s Copilot, Anthropic’s Claude AI, [...]
Generative AI (genAI) is quickly transforming healthcare, according to a survey by consultancy McKinsey & Co. released today. The survey of 150 healthcare industry organizations found 85% are exploring or had already adopted genAI. The organizations, which included insurers, health systems, and health services and technology (HST) groups, found that 40% or more from each group had already implemented genAI. Not surprisingly, HST organizations have the highest rate of genAI implementations at 57%. The least? Healthcare providers with a 40% implementation rate. GenAI has already been proven in studies using historical patient data to be more accurate at diagnosing illnesses [...]
US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order this week creating the US Investment Accelerator office to oversee the CHIPS and Science Act, a Biden-era program to re-shore semiconductor production. According to a White House statement, the new entity’s mission will be to speed up corporate investments domestically by reducing government regulations and coordinating with federal agencies. Trump has criticized the bipartisan CHIPS Act, signed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2022, and said he wants to negotiate better deals. The office will also work to make it easier for companies to invest in US semiconductor manufacturing. In [...]
Mozilla has decided to launch a challenger to Gmail called Thundermail. The upstart is a web-based email service based on the open-source project Stalwart, according to technology site Thurrott. The plan is to eventually add support for calendar and contacts to Thundermail, but when that would happen remains to be seen. Alongside the new email service, Mozilla is also launching Thunderbird Pro. It offers, among other things, an AI assistant, a file-sharing tool and a planning tool and can be seen as a complement to Thundermail. Users interested in trying the new services, can sign up for a waiting list [...]
Apple is a hot property, and the big banks all want a chance to grab a piece of the action now that Goldman Sachs has decided to leave retail banking behind. We’ve entered the “breaking it down for parts” stage of deal-making now, with banks bidding for both financial network access provision and to be the partner of note for the card. Apple Card was the future of banking when it launched six years ago. It immediately generated noteworthy public interest, people liked the software that supported it, and the interest rates (which have changed over time) were seen as super-attractive. Apple’s Daily Cash [...]
Google has introduced a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature in Gmail, enabling organizations to send encrypted emails that even Google cannot read to other Gmail users. Later this year, the feature will be expanded to allow the sending of encrypted emails to any email users, including those from other providers. E2EE differs from encrypting email communication in transit between email servers, which is already achieved with TLS (transport layer security), or at rest when stored in Google’s data centers. E2EE allows users to encrypt sent messages in a way that only the intended recipients can decrypt and read them. Continue [...]