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- November 16, 2017
16 Nov'17
Push for public, private sector cybersecurity cooperation continues
Efforts to establish public and private sector cybersecurity cooperation have stalled in recent years, but high-profile incidents could be turning the tide.
- November 16, 2017
16 Nov'17
The uphill battle of beating back weaponized AI
AI experts at the recent EmTech conference in Cambridge, Mass., painted a frightening picture of weaponized AI.
- November 14, 2017
14 Nov'17
Free course targets candidates for network engineering jobs
NexGenT is new to the IT boot camp field, so it's promoting itself, offering up a course that helps people prepare for IT careers. The fee? A $5 charity donation.
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- November 03, 2017
03 Nov'17
AI future is nigh, but enterprises are unready
The AI future is terrifying, terrific -- and companies are unprepared to exploit it. Also: Big tech testifies on 2016 election meddling; iPhone X privacy concerns.
- November 03, 2017
03 Nov'17
Tim O'Reilly: The flawed genie behind algorithmic systems
The founder of O'Reilly Media explains how the algorithmic systems that power the world's most customer-pleasing companies reflect our humanity back to us -- for better or worse.
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Sponsored News
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Why the Citrix-Microsoft Relationship Will Enhance Digital Workspace Solutions for Customers
Sponsored by Citrix - One of the most important megatrends impacting IT organizations is the move to fewer, more comprehensive technology platforms for delivering critical components of IT infrastructure. This makes perfect sense, as it frees IT from having to work across multiple vendors and their unique technology silos simply to deploy a key platform or service―saving innumerable hours and resources. Some vendors have finally recognized this demand and are now working more closely together to enable greatly improved efficiency for the IT teams deploying, managing and enhancing these platforms. See More
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5 ways to accelerate time-to-value with data
Sponsored by DellEMC - Organizations that embrace IT Transformation are 18x more likely to make faster, data-driven decisions—while also being more innovative, competitive and cost-efficient. With fast, automated access to real-world data from current workloads, you can expedite development cycles, eliminate silos and accelerate access to innovation. Here’s how. See More
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End-User Service Delivery: Why IT Must Move Up the Stack to Deliver Real Value
Sponsored by Citrix - Within many IT organizations, system admins and managers have always focused fairly low in the software stack, dealing with the minutiae of delivering individual services or apps to each user. This low-level focus has been driven by the design of many legacy software products, which prioritize creating individual implementations of complex software over leveraging standardization and automation. In digital workspaces, however, the huge number of unique devices and employees makes working at low levels of the stack especially resource-intensive. Delivering high-value services or game-breaking and transformational apps becomes quite difficult, as IT resources are being overloaded with the details. See More
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4 steps to making better-informed IT investments
Sponsored by DellEMC - IT teams are under the gun to make data-based, future-oriented infrastructure investments to support IT transformation and cloud computing. Here’s how your organization can easily and efficiently collect, visualize, model and share real-world data from existing workloads to make faster and smarter decisions. See More
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- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
Machine learning's training data is a security vulnerability
Microsoft's Danah Boyd has a sobering message for CIOs: The data used to train machine learning algorithms is at risk.
- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
2017 Gartner Symposium: A SearchCIO photo roundup
In this photo roundup, we chronicle the SearchCIO team's experience at the 2017 Gartner Symposium and highlight some key sessions and themes from the event.
- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
Xerox CISO: Cybersecurity is 'enabler' for innovative tech
New data-driven technologies hold a lot of promise, Alissa Johnson says in this video. But the data needs to be protected so the tech works for us, not against us.
- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
Main cybersecurity management challenge? People, but simple tech can help
How do you solve a problem like your risky-email-clicking employees? Train them, and make software easier, Xerox CISO Alissa Johnson says in this video.
- October 27, 2017
27 Oct'17
Top technology trends will put CIOs, companies in warp-speed mode
Don't get too attached to those predictive models you've been churning out. In a few years, software will be calling the shots. Also: CIO salaries surging; first robot citizen.
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- October 27, 2017
27 Oct'17
Companies want explainable AI, vendors respond
Dispatch from the Strata Data Conference: The push for explainable AI is on, and companies like H2O.ai and Microsoft are looking to deliver.
- October 26, 2017
26 Oct'17
Finding AI talent is almost impossible, so cultivate it
Let me guess. You want to find AI talent to build a self-thinking artificial intelligence platform that will revolutionize your business and catapult your organization to the forefront of your ...
- October 20, 2017
20 Oct'17
Google Glass device finally finds a use case -- in the enterprise
Understand the problem first, then invent the technology -- unless you're Google and the technology is its Google Glass device. Also: KRACK attack, AlphaGo Zero, IoT security strategies on the rise.
- October 20, 2017
20 Oct'17
On cloud-first policy, not all companies are equal
At Symposium 2017, Gartner contemplated IT's 'cloud-only' future, but an informal survey of attendees revealed that many enterprises have yet to adopt a cloud-first policy.
- October 17, 2017
17 Oct'17
CIOs should lean on AI 'giants' for machine learning strategy
Components of AI, such as machine and deep learning, will be part and parcel of every enterprise. When devising a machine learning strategy, CIOs should think of it as the next wave of analytics.