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- August 28, 2017
28 Aug'17
Forrester: Go multicloud, ditch public cloud platform lock-in
A small public cloud platform market means low prices and innovation -- but going all-in with one vendor invites considerable risk, a report shows.
- August 25, 2017
25 Aug'17
Information security market to grow; Walmart finds an ally in Google
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 ...
- August 25, 2017
25 Aug'17
A call for democratizing AI from IBM Watson's chief architect
IBM Watson's Ruchir Puri highlights the need for democratizing AI and explains how the Watson platform is evolving in this SearchCIO video interview.
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- August 23, 2017
23 Aug'17
A CIO vision of 'indiscriminate computing'
In the future, IT infrastructure will be so seamless, the business won't even know it's there. That's the CIO vision of David Giambruno.
- August 22, 2017
22 Aug'17
AWS, Azure tie for top spot in 2017 Gartner ranking
The stellar scores of the top two cloud providers in this year's Gartner ranking reflect tremendous innovation, says analyst Elias Khnaser.
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Three Tenets of Security Protection for State and Local Government and Education (SLED)
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Microapps Empower the Modern Workforce
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Exploring AI Use Cases Across Education and Government
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- August 18, 2017
18 Aug'17
Oligopoly forms amid SaaS market consolidation
Large application vendors have essentially cornered the cloud CRM market, Forrester says, bringing more risks than rewards. But that doesn't mean CIOs should keep from the cloud.
- August 18, 2017
18 Aug'17
It's time for the DevOps organization to stop ignoring security
How do you make developers, who sometimes operate at breakneck speeds, care about security? Why not gamify it, Lev Lesokhin of CAST said in this SearchCIO video interview.
- August 08, 2017
08 Aug'17
Monsanto CIO ties AI investments to business outcomes
The 'decision science' center of excellence at Monsanto is outfitted and overseen by IT. It's also the heart of the company's data culture. CIO Jim Swanson explains.
- August 07, 2017
07 Aug'17
Monsanto IT turns data into 'decision science,' CIO says
Machine learning helped Monsanto slash carbon emissions; 'decision science' is disrupting its business processes: CIO Jim Swanson talks digital upheaval with SearchCIO.
- August 02, 2017
02 Aug'17
How to harness the collective intelligence of the enterprise
What is the collective intelligence of the enterprise and how can CIOs help their companies make it greater? MIT's Tom Malone has some suggestions.
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- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Unpakt's platform business model offers a moving experience
Unpakt overcame an early chicken-and-egg challenge to create an online marketplace that let users view price quotes from multiple moving companies when planning a move.
- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Ship data to provider, switch on machine learning capabilities
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.
- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Aflac CIO seized a CEO imperative to create an agile IT organization
Aflac's One Day Pay wasn't just about making it easier to pay out claims. It was also an opportunity to transform IT. Julia Davis explains in this SearchCIO video interview.
- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Aflac CIO: IT flexibility enables enterprise innovation
When Julia Davis joined Aflac, she was faced with a significant challenge: How could she shed traditional IT for Agile?
- July 31, 2017
31 Jul'17
Cyber resilience weaves cybersecurity into dev process
Lev Lesokhin encourages CIOs to shift cyber security efforts left -- to the development process. He explains what he means in this SearchCIO video interview.