Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives – September 27, 2024
Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for midmarket IT executives on the go. This edition covers September 23 -27.
The sentiment around AI seems much more negative this year than this time last year. People are a little less amazed and a little more suspicious. There are signs that generative AI has surmounted Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations and is beginning the inevitable descent towards the trough of disillusion.
AI Adoption Begins With Regulation
Panelists at Computing’s IT Leaders Summit last week argued that managing risk is the key to innovation.
A CIO's 20-Year Journey Of Success Amid Painful Loss
Jay Ferro has experienced a lot. Not only has he been an IT leader across midmarket and Fortune 500 companies in various industries, but he's also a widower who lost his beloved wife to cervical cancer. He shared his career journey and lessons learned as an IT leaders with the audience at the MES Fall Summit.
What To Know About The ROUTERS Act, Now Awaiting US Senate Action
The proposed legislation, which stands for “Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security Act” and now is in the hands of the U.S. Senate, would "conduct a study of the national security risks posed by consumer routers, modems, and devices that combine a modem and router, and for other purposes," according to the language of the bill.
The bill, sponsored by Ohio Rep. Bob Latta, a Republican, does not specify any particular technology company.
But criticism of one particular company has been bubbling up
Making Sense Out Of A Converged IT World
Several technology vendors focused on the midmarket spoke about converged IT and what their products and services deliver.