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Forrester: Go multicloud, ditch public cloud platform lock-in
- TechTarget 28 Aug 2017 -
Information security market to grow; Walmart finds an ally in Google
- Former News and Features Writer 25 Aug 2017 -
Deploying a multicloud management platform: What to consider
- TechTarget 10 Aug 2017
A small public cloud platform market means low prices and innovation -- but going all-in with one vendor invites considerable risk, a report shows.
With cyberattacks increasing in sophistication and data privacy laws such as the European General Data Protection Regulation set to go into effect in 2018, organizations should expect to see ...
Organizations have a lot to think about when installing a multicloud management platform. The Cloud Standards Customer Council shares its deployment tips.
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Out of many, one hybrid cloud management platform
- TechTarget 31 Jul 2017 -
Ship data to provider, switch on machine learning capabilities
- TechTarget 31 Jul 2017 -
Four pointers on managing a hybrid IT environment
- TechTarget 07 Jul 2017 -
To defend against today's threat environment, look to human immune system
- Former News and Features Writer 30 Jun 2017 -
Wyndham, Omnicom CIOs improve business operations with tech finesse, people skills
- TechTarget 07 Jun 2017 -
MIT CIO Symposium: Future-proof your organization from a hack attack
- Former News and Features Writer 02 Jun 2017 -
Scripps Networks goes for the gold with digital content strategy for Millennials
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 30 May 2017
A hybrid cloud management platform must mix well with business systems, give financial guidance and make security a priority, industry experts say.
CIOs who want machine learning capabilities first need to get oodles of data to the algorithms. Not to worry -- they can mail or truck it in.
A hybrid IT environment -- public cloud and private cloud, a data center -- is what many companies have today. Here's an expert's take on how to manage one.
Just as a healthy body can't dodge every bacterial infection that comes its way, so should a sound organization realize it cannot avoid getting hacked. That's how Michael Chertoff, former secretary ...
IT chiefs discuss working to improve business operations -- one handed employees collaboration tools; another gave them control over their applications.
When Andrew Stanley received the email from PayPal, he knew immediately that something was amiss. There in the PayPal domain name, "under one of the a's" was a Turkish accent mark called a cedilla. ...
Scripps Lifestyle Studios invents a digital content strategy for the Millennial crowd -- with "crowd" being the operative word.
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CISO, CFO need to connect for solid cyber-risk management
- TechTarget 30 May 2017 -
MIT researchers: Universal basic income premature and arguably counterproductive
- News Director 30 May 2017 -
CIO doesn't play chief digital officer role at GE
- TechTarget 26 May 2017 -
'Proof of value' -- not proof of concept -- key to RPA technology
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 18 May 2017 -
Cozmo the robot doubles as a study in robot-human interaction
- News Director 12 May 2017 -
IT security chief adds business aptitude to CISO skills
- TechTarget 30 Apr 2017 -
ModelDB aims to keep track of machine learning modeling process
- News Director 29 Apr 2017 -
Google, Facebook just fell victim to a phishing scam: The takeaway for CIOs
- Site Editor 28 Apr 2017 -
Nestlé builds 'digital ecosystems' to transform its massive bottled water biz
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 28 Apr 2017 -
Business of Blockchain event warns big money to play the long game
- News Director 28 Apr 2017 -
A new IT security role, a tested reporting structure
- TechTarget 24 Apr 2017 -
Level 5 autonomous cars: Mobile offices of the future?
- Former News and Features Writer 30 Mar 2017 -
Google applies gamification technique to neural nets -- and optimizes its data center
- News Director 17 Mar 2017 -
MIT Tech Conference: Programming robots for the real world
- News Director 10 Mar 2017 -
Tapping Facebook's Terragraph to erase the digital divide in San Jose
- News Director 10 Mar 2017 -
Shutterstock CIO plays 'varsity' defense against public cloud outages
- TechTarget 10 Mar 2017 -
PwC: Don't just invest in digital -- invest in human experience
- TechTarget 28 Feb 2017 -
Smart city tech needs a strong data architecture
- News Director 28 Feb 2017 -
CERN offers path to rare OpenStack skills -- and it's smashing
- TechTarget 22 Feb 2017 -
IBM's Rossi on AI ethics: 'Start small and widen the scope'
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 21 Feb 2017 -
Smart city platform: A work in progress
- News Director 20 Feb 2017 -
New security threat: Custom applications in the cloud
- TechTarget 17 Feb 2017 -
Accenture: AI is the new UI
- News Director 10 Feb 2017 -
Reporting lines for the CDO role: Context counts
- News Director 06 Feb 2017 -
City CIOs gather to swap smart city experiences
- News Director 31 Jan 2017 -
Net neutrality law: Much ado about nothing?
- TechTarget 31 Jan 2017 -
AI challenges and why CIOs can't afford to fall behind
- Editorial Director 31 Jan 2017 -
Waking up to benefits of copy data management software
- TechTarget 30 Jan 2017 -
The good and the bad of a multicloud strategy
- TechTarget 24 Jan 2017 -
Digital transformation strategy is common language at Rosetta Stone
- TechTarget 10 Jan 2017 -
AR/VR, AI tech make list of best-read Data Mill columns in 2016
- News Director 29 Dec 2016 -
CIOs take advantage of the digital opportunity
- News Director 21 Dec 2016 -
How two CIOs define digital
- News Director 19 Dec 2016 -
CIOs, beware rising SaaS costs
- TechTarget 13 Dec 2016 -
Gartner: Chief data officer role continues to grow
- News Director 07 Dec 2016 -
Hyper-converged systems: Questions for CIOs
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2016 -
The industrial internet relies on edge computing
- News Director 30 Nov 2016 -
In elections, opinion polls matter less than 'stable' voters
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2016 -
Shopping for survey research services? Look to the election for lessons
- TechTarget 30 Nov 2016 -
Jump on robotics process automation -- before your users do
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 29 Nov 2016 -
Is your potential hire emotionally mature? Use these tactics to find out
- News Director 29 Nov 2016 -
100 technology wins in one year
- News Director 29 Nov 2016 -
Blue Apron, Redfin CFOs explain startup mindset
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 29 Nov 2016 -
Facebook has a new CIO
- News Director 21 Nov 2016 -
Microsoft holds lead on Google in cloud productivity race
- TechTarget 18 Nov 2016 -
Digitalizing business: The difference two letters can make
- TechTarget 31 Oct 2016 -
From old brain to new brain, the evolution of AI
- News Director 31 Oct 2016 -
A step ahead of profs, staff in higher-ed tech
- TechTarget 31 Oct 2016 -
AI vs. BI: How do you sell artificial intelligence to the business?
- News Director 31 Oct 2016 -
Tech talk, hoofing it and diversion at Gartner Symposium 2016
- TechTarget 28 Oct 2016 -
Win 'frenemies,' influence people the Microsoft way
- TechTarget 26 Oct 2016 -
IT talent management systems stuck in the 'Mad Men' era
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 25 Oct 2016 -
Cloud adoption rates down? Yes, but not really
- TechTarget 14 Oct 2016 -
MIT Media Lab uses 'Electome' to track political discourse
- Editorial Assistant 11 Oct 2016 -
Google the underdog in office productivity suite arena
- TechTarget 11 Oct 2016 -
Lyft CTO: Future of transportation is the end of private car ownership
- Editorial Assistant 03 Oct 2016 -
The mobile future of business and Apple
- TechTarget 15 Sep 2016 -
Starting smart city initiatives? Reach out to everyone
- TechTarget 06 Sep 2016 -
Is the CIO next in line to become the chief digital technology officer?
- News Director 30 Aug 2016 -
Emerging tech trends point to new era of digital business
- News Director 22 Aug 2016 -
Robotic process automation software: Find the right target
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 31 Jul 2016 -
Mobile security systems: Most have them; some sort of do
- TechTarget 31 Jul 2016 -
CIO profession: The agony and optimism of the tech-savvy CIO
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 30 Jul 2016 -
JetBlue CIO, digital leader, venture capital investor
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 29 Jul 2016 -
Innovation strategies framework to help businesses thrive in the digital era
- Former News and Features Writer 29 Jul 2016 -
Will Privacy Shield build customer-centric organizations?
- TechTarget 26 Jul 2016 -
Why traditional tools won't protect mobile devices
- TechTarget 22 Jul 2016 -
Technology hub London risks losing its status
- TechTarget 07 Jul 2016 -
Health insurer crowdsources new business model with innovation software
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 30 Jun 2016 -
A tech revolution is coming -- just wait for it
- TechTarget 30 Jun 2016 -
Long-term care firm finds security in cloud computing
- Senior Feature Writer 27 Jun 2016 -
CIO advice: How to build skills for a digital future
- TechTarget 22 Jun 2016 -
Don’t wait for the government to fortify your data governance strategy
- Site Editor 20 Jun 2016 -
Trends, vendors, baristas converge at Cloud Expo 2016
- TechTarget 15 Jun 2016 -
Korn Ferry CIO headhunter outlines qualities of a CIO
- Former News and Features Writer 13 Jun 2016 -
Blockchain tech and the consumer use case
- Editorial Director 07 Jun 2016 -
Making room for the Millennial generation
- TechTarget 07 Jun 2016 -
Working with robots: Get used to it
- TechTarget 31 May 2016 -
MIT CIO: The CISO reporting structure needs to change
- Site Editor 31 May 2016 -
Upside, barriers to a ride on the sharing economy
- Senior Feature Writer 27 May 2016 -
For CIOs, joining corporate boards introduces new challenges
- News Director 16 May 2016 -
Bexar, Mitaka, Newton: Behind OpenStack release names
- TechTarget 10 May 2016 -
OpenStack Mitaka aims to make open source easy-peasy
- TechTarget 10 May 2016 -
VDI helps Australian agency give blood
- Senior Feature Writer 05 May 2016 -
Slower tech market is backdrop for Apple revenue dip
- TechTarget 04 May 2016 -
MIT Sloan research: CISOs enter the boardroom
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 30 Apr 2016 -
'Beach toweling' brings cruise ship policy to IT department
- News Director 28 Apr 2016 -
Building a CIO-CFO partnership that pays dividends
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 14 Apr 2016 -
A blockchain database takes a village
- TechTarget 14 Apr 2016 -
The 'touchability' factor: Why mobile performance should be priority No. 1
- Editor at Large-Strategic Initiatives 14 Apr 2016
IT security chiefs and people who handle risk need to have clear communication if they want effective cyber-risk management, MIT's Michael Siegel says.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Universal basic income, a monthly stipend given out by a government to help cover its citizens' basic needs, is getting a lot of attention as advances in automation exceed what ...
At an event that emphasized the role the CIO plays in digital transformation, the IT chief at General Electric made clear what the CIO doesn't fill there: the chief digital officer role. "If you're ...
Companies interested in robotic process automation (RPA) technology get fixated on proving it works, not its business value. Here's how to fix that.
Eric Daimler, former White House presidential fellow at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, was surprised that no one at the recent MassIntelligence conference in Boston had heard of ...
Jeff Haskill, the IT security chief at AstraZeneca, is, according to his boss, "a very technical CISO." Dave Smoley, CIO at the U.K.-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, praised Haskill for his ...
BOSTON -- Sam Madden, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is hoping to help advance the field of machine learning from dark art to principled science with an open ...
The fact that Google and Facebook are victims of a phishing scam prove that size and money don't matter -- education does.
ReadyRefresh, the name for Nestle S.A's re-imagined bottled water delivery business, will succeed based on its mastery of three digital ecosystems.
If there was one message drilled into the heads of attendees at the Business of Blockchain event co-hosted by the MIT Technology Review and the MIT Media Lab it's this: Blockchain looks like it ...
Startup SessionM is designing a new IT security role modeled on a CISO. The hierarchy it will fit into is one CTO Scott Weller says is good policy.
As self-driving cars become the norm, they could potentially transform into mobile offices in the future, said Mike Ramsey, analyst at Gartner’s CIO research group.
Incorporating game mechanics into daily tasks has proven to be an effective way to motivate workers. As it turns out, gamification techniques don't just work on us. Google DeepMind is applying the ...
Robots are basking in the limelight these days, but the possibility of purchasing a Rosie the robot for the home is still a ways off. In fact, robots are used to solve only a few problems today ...
Smart city technology promises to make city living better on many fronts -- from easing traffic jams to improving air quality. But figuring out how to finance these do-good projects is a conundrum ...
The photo stock company's IT chief discusses how he designs his IT architecture to withstand public cloud outages like February's.
New research shows organizations are less confident in their "digital IQ," or how they adapt to new tech. Highlighting the human experience can help.
Before city CIOs begin to introduce smart city technology to city employees and to their constituents, they should make sure they've got the right data foundation in place. Jennifer Belissent, an ...
The European particle physics lab hires young people, gives them the OpenStack skills they crave to run its cloud environment – and then lets them go.
The rapid evolution of AI systems is prompting calls for a code of AI ethics. But how to make a moral machine is far from settled science.
One of the head scratchers city CIOs are trying to work through is what the smart city platform should look like. To flesh out their requirements for an analytical data platform, 120 members of the ...
New research shows that custom applications in the cloud are running more core business functions today -- without IT security knowing about it.
Artificial intelligence will be the new user interface for internal and customer-facing applications -- not eventually, but soon, according to Accenture. In its flagship technology report ...
The chief data officer (CDO) role may be gaining influence, but a lingering question that both public and the private sector organizations have yet to answer is: Who should CDOs report to? ...
A select group of city CIOs and other technology policy makers gathered recently at Harvard University to participate in the 2017 Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator. The order of the day? To ...
President Trump's free-market pick for the FCC might dismantle net neutrality law, but some industry watchers say that's not such a big deal.
Companies that wait for AI technology to develop into what Josh Sutton calls "canned solutions" run the risk of forever playing catch-up – or failing completely -- because the rate of change is so ...
Rosetta Stone finds sees benefits in copy data management software, including easier management of hardware resources and disaster recovery in the cloud.
Organizations can expect to see a plurality of pluses from a multicloud strategy, an industry observer says -- but there are minuses that can't be ignored.
IT helps guide the language-learning company's digital transformation strategy, partnering with users and nudging them in the right direction.
CIOs are on to the next new thing. From virtual reality technology to artificial intelligence to digital business, CIOs are educating themselves on all of it, according to this list of the ...
Phil Weinzimer has noticed a trend that will no doubt resonate with CIOs: These days, there are a lot more senior IT leaders out there. As companies realize technology is a core part of the ...
Digital transformation means different things to different departments, according to new research out of Deloitte LLP. Marketing, sales, customer service and even finance often see digital as ...
Forrester expects cloud software sales to rise in 2017 amid uncertainty swirling around President-elect Trump's policies. But SaaS costs could rise, too.
Chief data officers are gaining organizational clout, according to a new report from Gartner. Researchers at the consultancy found that companies are establishing a data office, what they refer to ...
CIOs tempted by acquisition and management benefits of hyper-converged systems need to ask themselves -- and their companies – a set of crucial questions.
Jeffrey Bornstein, SVP and CFO at General Electric Company, took time during his fireside chat at the MIT CFO Summit to make a distinction between what he called the "consumer internet" and the ...
Opinion polls on the 2016 presidential race went up and down with the campaigns. But Harvard's Gary King says voters don't base choices on events.
Organizations that want to outsource survey research can learn something from the signals pollsters missed in the 2016 election, says Harvard's Gary King.
Robotics process automation ranks high on the hype scale these days. It shouldn't. Marc Tanowitz of Pace Harmon explains.
One of the key attributes Curt Carver, vice president and CIO at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, looks for in a candidate is emotional maturity. But for some leaders, determining which ...
Curt Carver promised to the staff, faculty and students that he would improve their lives in at least 100 ways during his first year as vice president and CIO at the University of Alabama at ...
What's it like to be the CFO at an industry-disrupting startup? The CFOs at Blue Apron and Redfin shed light on the startup mindset at the 14th annual MIT Sloan CFO Summit.
Facebook has a new CIO. Atish Banerjea joined the social media company last month. Banerjea comes to the position after CIO stints at NBCUniversal, a news and entertainment company owned by Comcast ...
More organizations use Microsoft's bundle of cloud productivity apps, Office 365, than Google's G Suite, a new report shows.
Digitizing is not digitalizing, says Gartner's Jan-Martin Lowendahl. The "al" means digital info has been used to create "completely new" business models.
Much of the current discussion on the evolution of artificial intelligence -- an umbrella term to mean everything from speech recognition software to robotics -- centers on speed. Machines can ...
Higher-ed tech tools are getting better, and teachers and staffers are noticing. That's an issue, said one IT leader at the recent Gartner CIO convention.
Is artificial intelligence tech quickly becoming enterprise tech? Vendors are betting on it. Last week at IBM World of Watson, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty laid out her vision for the technology: Namely, ...
At Gartner Symposium 2016 in Florida, CIOs and other tech leaders walked and rode carts to talks by guest speakers -- and loosened up at Universal Studios.
Microsoft's CEO speaks about the tech giant's strategy of drawing frenemies -- companies that may also be business rivals -- to its cloud service Azure.
Two veteran CIOs at the recent SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit shed light on the inadequacy of IT talent management systems to accommodate the pace of technology change and escalating ...
Amid escalating predictions about cloud spending, an industry report shows cloud adoption rates have slid. But the numbers can tell a number of stories.
Still looking for a way to make sense of the current political season? MIT's Laboratory for Social Machines has created Electome, an analytics tool that tracks election conversation. Dubbed a ...
Microsoft Office is the reigning office productivity suite, sharing its crown with its cloud version, Office 365. But Google isn't giving up on catching up.
The advent of driverless vehicles -- accompanied by the end of private car ownership by 2025 -- represents the future of transportation, according to ridesharing pioneer Lyft. Pie-in -the-sky ...
What does the corporate mobile future look like? One industry observer says mobile devices will be used for many more tasks. Where does Apple fit in?
What do smart city initiatives look like? Turning streetlamps on and off with Wi-Fi? Analyzing reams of traffic data to reroute how cars flow through city streets? Using video sensors to watch for ...
Talk of the demise of the chief digital officer role -- an executive position designed to help companies drive digital strategy -- is surfacing. And not just in media reports. Ask chief digital ...
Talking SMAC, an acronym for social, mobile, analytics and cloud, is so yesterday. Instead, if CIOs want to be fashion forward -- technologically speaking -- they should start talking artificial ...
The implementation of robotic process automation software is still an art, requiring collaboration with the business and a willingness to dive deep into process minutiae.
Earlier this month, I interviewed Gartner analyst Dionisio Zumerle about the trends influencing the mobile device security market and why traditional endpoint security models "just don’t fit ...
The digitization of businesses is redefining the CIO profession, making it critical to have business smarts. But the fundamentals of technology still apply.
JetBlue CIO Eash Sundaram adds a new twist to the role: venture capital investor. He's representative of the latest iteration of the top IT job, says headhunter Shawn Banjeri: CIOs who take the ...
IDC's innovation strategies framework is designed to help CIOs and IT leaders who are using IDC's Leading in 3D approach in creating multi-tiered innovation strategies within an organization.
Companies may be able to use the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield data transfer laws to become customer-centric organizations.
Tools that protect traditional devices won't protect mobile devices, said analyst Dionisio Zumerle. That's because they just don't fit mobile.
If workers flee after the EU referendum, the U.K. capital may not remain Europe's technology hub, according to one industry observer.
Innovation software from Spigit helped a health insurer awaken its workforce and spawn a new business model.
Cognitive computing will power future software-- but don't expect an overnight change. Tech revolutions are more gradual, says IT consultant Judith Hurwitz.
Creative Solutions in Healthcare, a long-term care provider, adopted a cloud computing strategy to improve security and boost performance.
How can CIOs develop the right skills for the digital future? A panel of experts doles out CIO advice at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
Having a tough time defining an IT security strategy able to take on big data and the Internet of Things? The panelists on the “Big Data 2.0: Next-Gen Privacy, Security and Analytics” session at ...
Cloud Expo 2016, held in New York in June, offered IT professionals a variety of cloud topics to mine. It also boasted IBM cappuccinos and a hot dog stand.
Craig Stephenson, managing director of the CIO practice at Korn Ferry, outlines the qualities of a CIO attuned to the digital age.
Microsoft has been working closely with its large enterprise customers to help them map out blockchain strategies. But, as you might expect, the company is not ignoring blockchain in the consumer ...
The Millennial generation often gets a bad rap in the workforce, but is it deserved? Executives sound off at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
People will be working with robots in the future, said academic Tom Davenport at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. They should start preparing now.
With the explosion of the Internet of Things, it's time to rethink the CISO role -- including who that role reports to. This was the consensus of a panel of security leaders at this month's MIT ...
Uber ranks among the best-known platform business models, Find out what a company manager has to say about the pros and cons of the sharing economy.
Corporate boards are increasingly turning to CIOs to serve as technology experts. Before saying yes, here are three tips from media maven Larry Kramer.
The community that plans and updates the cloud infrastructure service has a creative, democratic process of coming up with OpenStack release names.
OpenStack Mitaka, the newest release of the cloud platform, touts user-friendliness as a key trait. Could that further propel the open source project?
Australia's National Blood Authority deployed VDI to improve its ability to manage blood inventory levels and improve efficiency.
The 13% Apple revenue decline, reported last week, appears to point to a saturated smartphone market -- and to slow tech spending in general.
MIT Sloan research shows that while it is still rare for CISOs to report to the board of directors, board involvement in cybersecurity is on the rise.
Citrix introduces its offices to 'beach toweling,' a workplace redesign policy it borrowed from the hospitality industry.
As companies continue to transform their businesses to meet an ever-changing digital economy, it's crucial to nurture strong CIO-CFO relationships.
Banks and other businesses are coming together to test blockchain database technology. New uses -- and standards for the industry -- could result.
Mobile performance is an element app dev teams often overlook in their race to get mobile apps and websites to market. That's a big mistake, says Forrester Research analyst Michael Facemire.