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IT Operations

Mitigating downtime risks: Strategies for ensuring uptime in critical IT systems

Consistent uptime is table stakes for most organizations—here’s how to achieve it.

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IT Operations

What happened to Boole & Babbage, favorite IT company of ‘Star Trek’?

Boole went where no software company had gone before—until it got outrun.

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Cybersecurity

DOGE is a cybersecurity catastrophe waiting to happen, experts say

“This is not a technology problem,” says former federal CIO Scott Cory.

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IT Strategy

Three big IT stories around the world you might have missed

A roundup of some of the biggest IT-related news stories internationally.

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Software

How automakers are using AI in their tech stacks

With cars running millions of lines of code, automakers face opportunities and risk using tools like AI code assistants, says BCG’s Vanessa Lyon.

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Software

Want extended security updates for Windows 10? It’ll cost you

Receiving security updates past Windows 10’s end-of-life date isn’t cheap.

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Cloud

Amazon and Microsoft have stranglehold on the UK cloud market, regulators conclude

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimated Brits might pay over half a billion more per year on public cloud than they would in a “well-functioning market.”

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IT Strategy

The federal government’s new CIO is a Palantir alum

Gregory Barbaccia will helm federal IT modernization efforts under the Trump admin.

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Hardware

Why hardware is suddenly important again, according to Deloitte’s Deborah Golden

Enterprises will increasingly have to compete for hardware in an AI-enabled world, according to the Tech Trends 2025 report.

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Software

IEEE’s 2025 president Kathleen Kramer talks AI

AI has “genuine products” but can teach bad engineering lessons, Kramer said.