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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list a few tips to explore these trends. This week, we’ll discuss how we can make data centers more energy efficient. Who knew that AI could cut energy costs? AI is everywhere, and rightfully so—with applications ranging from everyday life to IT, AI has embedded itself into our culture. Now, it can be an integral part of our data centers, too!

For any digital business today, keeping applications running smoothly and efficiently is a no-brainer. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is an invaluable process in that regard, helping teams track the performance and health of their software applications. APM involves the use of tools and practices to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues in real-time, thereby ensuring optimal user experiences.

It's the little things in life that seem to have the greatest impact on our well-being and happiness. The same is true in business, especially when it comes to technology. For example, many retail, healthcare, and hospitality leaders have been telling me they would be so much happier if devices like barcode scanners were physically smaller and easier to install and manage.

The robots.txt file is a time-honored point of control for website publishers to assert whether or not their websites should be crawled by bots of various kinds. However, it turns out that AI crawlers from large language model (LLM) companies often ignore the contents of robots.txt and crawl your site regardless.

Continuously building upon the industry-leading Nexthink DEX Score and Experience Central, we are pleased to announce an extensive set of new, high-value features to amplify Senior IT Leader’s ability to manage all aspects of their employees' digital experience proactively and strategically. Building upon the capabilities described in Strategic DEX Management earlier this summer, the following capabilities have been added.

At Cox Enterprises, employee experience has a direct connection to productivity. Technology errors, hiccups, and poor performance aren’t just frustrating, they can cause employees to disengage from their top priority work, slowing down crucial business projects. These problems impact employee satisfaction, retention, and turnover, creating reputational and financial risks that can hinder long-term success.

In today's fast-paced digital economy, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations, enhance agility, and drive growth. As enterprise IT infrastructure environments get more distributed and complicated to meet evolving demands, the need for robust IT monitoring, management and automation becomes even more important.

Schematic reviews are a part of the hardware development cycle in many if not most, hardware development companies. Typically led by the electrical engineering team, it is easy to overlook design issues that will be important to the firmware team. This post tells of a few stories of design misses that I have made and puts some common lessons learned into a checklist for other firmware engineers.