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Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• Mandates create new GDPR roles, processes for compliant companies

  As companies tweak IT processes to maintain General Data Protection Regulation compliance, the regulation raises questions about new, privacy-centric GDPR roles and responsibilities. Continue Reading

• Legal 'gray areas' holding back GDPR compliance program maturity

  The regulation has been in place for months, but many companies are still behind with their GDPR compliance programs. Will it take a major violation to get companies to pay attention? Continue Reading

• How do machine learning algorithms differ from traditional algorithms?

  In this ask the expert, ParallelM CTO Nisha Talagala lays out the similarities and differences between traditional software engineering and machine learning. Continue Reading

• As IT permeates the business, the service desk role expands

  Don't underestimate the IT service desk. Read about how enterprises are using new ITSM platforms to grow the service desk role and improve business processes across the enterprise. Continue Reading

• How to scale security: An inside look at how Facebook does it

  Facebook director of security Aanchal Gupta sounds off on how the social media giant uses automation to scale security and highlights its best practices and key focus areas. Continue Reading

• Digital transformation in the construction industry will rock status quo

  Arcadis CIO Justin Wright talks about digital transformation in the construction industry and what his firm is doing to protect clients from being disrupted.Continue Reading

• MIT CIO 2018 videos: Honing a digital leadership strategy

  In these digital leadership videos from the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, IT execs share their experiences in digital transformation and in driving organizational change.Continue Reading

• Bank opts for AI-infused data storage platform over cloud

  A storage vendor that bills itself as a software company is baking AI management into its all-flash arrays. Read why IT execs like Dan King sees the innovation as a game changer.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity trend watch: The power of data

  It's no secret that data equals power in the digital marketplace, making strategies to protect that data a valuable business asset. The fast pace of IT advancement also makes the cybersecurity ...Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity trend watch: Data protection's business influence

  As business leaders continue to realize the bottom line value of data protection, the cybersecurity market is already ripe for disruption. At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in ...Continue Reading

• New deep learning algorithms could improve robot sight

  Self-driving cars, as brilliant as they are, are not nearly as good as humans at dealing with uncertainty. David Held has an algorithm for that.Continue Reading

• Is consolidating ITSM tools in the best interest of CIOs?

  Gartner's Kenneth Gonzalez says ITSM software tools should be assessed against three metrics -- quality, cost and performance. That will require CIOs to do some major silo-busting.Continue Reading

• SAP chief security officer talks cloud, security trends

  Security issues are still a top concern when moving to the cloud. SAP CSO Justin Somaini highlights the questions to ask cloud providers to make sure company data is protected.Continue Reading

• IT service desk vs. IT help desk: What's the difference?

  One came first and focused on IT fixes. The other got direction from ITIL. Users ask for one over the other. Today, something called ESM might just put both out to pasture.Continue Reading

• Don't get caught up in the neural processing unit hype

  To differentiate new chip technology from existing GPUs, mobile tech companies (along with software titans) are slapping a 'neural' label on their products. Analysts say to be skeptical.Continue Reading