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2025 State of the Data Center Executive Summary

Preparing for an AI-Driven Future: A Look at the Evolution of Our Industry AFCOM’s 2025 State of the Data Center Report, now in its ninth edition, succinctly captures the key trends impacting the industry and what data center managers should do about them. It lays out the extreme magnitude of a transformation that we’re currently undergoing: It concludes that every data center is becoming an AI data center. Download this executive summary to get the key research you need in 2025!

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Trends to Watch: Data Center Compute

Hyper heterogeneous computing will explode this year and beyond The era of general-purpose servers is fading as data centers embrace hyper-heterogeneous computing to optimize performance, efficiency, and sustainability. Last year, the surge in custom CPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, and ASICs redefined server architectures, tailoring hardware to specific workloads like AI, video processing, and analytics. The demand for higher performance per watt and technology sovereignty will further accelerate silicon diversity, making custom server silicon a dominant force. As a result, silicon costs (excluding memory and storage) will climb toward 70% of total compute costs by 2026, reshaping the economics of data center infrastructure. Download the full report to explore how hyper-heterogeneous computing is transforming data center architecture today and beyond.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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2025 State of the Data Center Report

Everything you need to know to prepare for an AI driven future This report explores some of the most influential trends shaping our industry, offering fresh insights into the rapidly evolving digital landscape through all-new sections and findings.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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The State of Healthcare Security & Privacy 2021 Annual Report

Measuring progress alongside overall NIST conformance with a complete picture of the healthcare industry’s current state of security. Our fourth annual report combs through data of nearly 100 risk assessments.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Steering Between Hype and Hopelessness

AI is affecting security in every part of the communications infrastructure. Research and advisory firm Metrigy found that collaboration security incidents are up 300% since 2021, while a report from TransUnion finds that 70% of telecom fraud incidents are now occurring through online channels. Rounding out the picture is a report from security vendor Pindrop, which found that fraud in contact centers now occurs in one of every 599 incoming calls, representing a 26% increase year over year and a 100% increase when compared to 2021. Here are four ways that AI is weaponizing vulnerabilities in communications infrastructures today. Download Now!

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Essential News & Insights from Black Hat USA 2025

Couldn't make it to Las Vegas for Black Hat USA 2025? Experience the conference as if you were there with this comprehensive roundup from Dark Reading's on-the-ground editorial team. This one-stop resource delivers all the critical highlights cybersecurity leaders need: emerging AI-driven threats, critical zero-day vulnerabilities, ransomware alliance developments, and government zero-trust strategies. Get expert perspectives from the year's most important security conference, all in one place.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Community Services Organization Reduces I/O to Storage by 50% with V-locity I/O Reduction Software

Slow-running applications on SQL were causing user productivity issues and infrastructure performance needed to be optimized before implementing VDI. As Victor Community Support Services readied themselves for a virtual desktop deployment, they needed to optimize their infrastructure performance to avoid unnecessary slowdowns that would impact user productivity. Little did they know, V-locity would optimize their environment so significantly that they were able to reduce the I/O requirement from virtual server to storage by nearly 50% on their heaviest workloads. “Even when we added what equates to three times the workload with our new VDI implementation, the IOPS demand from storage didn’t increase three-fold because of what V-locity is doing to reduce write I/O and read I/O at the VM layer. It’s been truly impressive. We call it the ‘V-locity effect.’” “With V-locity and Nimble Storage together, it’s like having lightning performance at both ends of the spectrum,” commented Jamie Rabenstein, Information Technology Manager. “Our financial team used to spend 30 minutes running a report in Great Plains sitting on SQL,” said Rabenstein. “The very next time they ran it after implementing V-locity, it only took 10 minutes. Every time after that, it has only taken 3 minutes due to V-locity’s self-learning algorithms. It’s been a lifesaver for them.” "Now we roll out the V-locity red carpet for all of our systems,” added Rabenstein. “To not do that would be too painful for me to imagine. It truly can milk the hardware for everything it has. Anyone that needs low latency and high throughput loads should be using it.”

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Generate New Recurring Revenue with Subscription-Based Models like Candela

Generate Recurring Revenue With New Subscription-Based Business Models Candela is a world-leading medical aesthetic device company, with an expansive global footprint in 86 countries. The company’s technologies enable physicians to provide advanced energy-based solutions for a broad range of medical aesthetic applications, including treatments of scars, wrinkle reduction, body shaping, tattoo removal and more. A few years ago, Candela sold their signature body-shaping fat reduction device, the UltraShape Power® system, using a traditional hardware sales model: Physicians’ offices would purchase the machine upfront, for a fixed, one-time cost. The machine came with two hand pieces, or transducers, which were necessary for the procedures. The transducers would need to be replaced every so often, and the replacement sale created an additional revenue stream for the company. Unfortunately, other than that, Candela wasn’t able to maximize the revenue from their own machines. They knew they needed to create a recurring revenue stream.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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[Exclusive ITPro Today Report] 2025 IT Priorities

This report explores current IT focus areas and provides valuable perspective on strategic technology planning trends for the coming year. ITPro Today surveyed IT professionals to better understand the current IT workforce and issues around remote and hybrid work models, reporting structure, IT priorities, budgets, and purchase plans. This report analyzes these trends and presents the data behind them. It also explains what the facts say about how IT organizations are operating in today’s landscape — which types of technology are driving the greatest transformation, which challenges pose the greatest barriers to innovation, and how IT professionals are planning for the future. Download the report today and see how your organization measures up to your peers and your competition.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Forrester TEI Study 2026: The Economic Impact of Cato SASE

Independent analysis revealing $18.9M in quantified benefits and a 235% ROI with Cato SASE. As enterprises grow, fragmented networking and security environments drive higher costs, increased risk, and operational complexity. Disconnected tools slow execution, strain IT and security teams, and make expansion - including M&A - harder to manage. The Total Economic Impact™ of the Cato SASE Platform is a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Based on interviews with six Cato customers, Forrester developed a composite multi-billion-dollar global organization to assess the measurable financial and operational outcomes of consolidating networking and security into a single platform.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Check Please! How Restaurant, Retail and Hospitality Businesses are Managing Cybersecurity Risks

An independent study commissioned by FreedomPay and Cornell reveals unique insights into the management of cybersecurity by small, medium, and large-size enterprises across the hospitality, retail, and food and beverage sectors. Hanover Research recruited a total of 300 respondents through a panel and administered the survey online. Their key questions include: • What cybersecurity systems are merchants currently using? • How optimized are their cybersecurity systems? • What are the factors that are inhibiting them from moving from their current system to the optimal system? • What are the expectations of and reassurances for customers? • What are the underlying issues impacting cybersecurity issues? This report is just a snapshot of views toward cybersecurity in America’s business eco-system. That said, we believe it illustrates the challenges, opinions and actions merchants of all sizes are facing. Download the report now to find out how cybersecurity is being tackled and prioritized as the world shrinks, and hackers and consumers become savvier.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Health of the Contact Center Report

Each day, customer service and contact center agents connect with hundreds (if not thousands) of customers. They are front-line brand ambassadors whose jobs are becoming increasingly more complex and critical as customer expectations and demands rise. A recent Calabrio survey of more than 1,000 agents in the United States and United Kingdom resulted in several key findings on challenges facing contact center teams today. Download this groundbreaking study to learn the major issues facing front-line agents today – and what contact center leaders should do about them.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Cyberthreat Predictions for 2026

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs 2026 Cyberthreat Predictions Report reveals a fundamental shift in the Global Security Landscape: Cybercrime has evolved from opportunistic attacks into an industrialized system operating at machine speed. Threat actors now leverage AI, automation, and specialized Crime-as-a-Service platforms to compress the attack lifecycle from days to hours—or even minutes. This transformation means adversaries can launch multiple sophisticated campaigns simultaneously, using AI to parse stolen data, identify high-value targets, and execute extortion before victims even detect the breach.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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How To Manage Employees With Toxic And Negative Attitudes

Nearly every workplace succeeds in the cooperative and collaborative effort of its team members, with each employee offering their unique strengths and perspectives to the work environment. The detrimental impact of unmanaged negativity can be immense —resulting in lowered employee engagement, plummeting morale, increased conflict, declining motivation, lower productivity, sinking profitability, heightened unsafe working conditions, and a persistent sense of dissatisfaction.  Yet, correcting such bad behavior requires a delicate balance:  How can Managers accurately report and address a toxic attitude without accelerating negativity or being perceived as overly critical?

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Financial health directly affects your employees' well-being

88% of people report feeling stressed about money - wealthy or not. And it has lasting effects on the workplace. Financial worries are one of the biggest stressors across all age groups in the United States. The consequences of financial stress go beyond the office, affecting workplace productivity, physical health, and more.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium