Conference Notebook

IT Vendor Selection and Management

Conversational AI: Start by enlisting the big vendors

It's time to develop a conversational AI strategy, according to Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular. Her advice: Stay focused on the business case and lean on the AI platform vendors. Continue Reading
Former GM CIO says BPO/ITO mega-deals wrong for current IT climate

This year's World BPO/ITO Forum will focus on how the cloud is shaking up IT outsourcing. Conference chairman Jim Noble talks to SearchCIO about why mega-deals are a losing proposition for CIOs. Continue Reading

Lack of U.S. cryptocurrency regulation invites risk

Daniel Allen explains how a lack of U.S. cryptocurrency regulation increases exploitation vulnerabilities, and shares his ideas ...

SEC's iXBRL requirements met with optimism -- and trepidation

Compliance with the SEC's new Inline XBRL requirements will change financial reporting processes. The benefits are there, but not...

7 free GRC tools every compliance professional should know about

All organizations need to meet a variety of regulatory compliance requirements, but they don't all have the budget for GRC ...

SearchHealthIT

5G impact on healthcare a ways off, but CIOs shouldn't sit idle

5G could benefit areas of healthcare like telehealth and remote patient monitoring. That reality is still a few years out, but ...

Do benefits of remote patient monitoring outweigh challenges?

Remote patient monitoring keeps healthcare providers informed about their patients' health between visits, and can warn them if ...

Intraprise Health platform strengthens healthcare security

Intraprise Health introduced new software designed to prevent healthcare security breaches by monitoring third-party risks across...

SearchCloudComputing

Use modern cloud security best practices

Enterprises still worry about the security of cloud and if migrating will put data at risk. Explore modern methods, technologies ...

VMware acquisition of Intrinsic denotes bigger strategic plan

VMware has acquired Intrinsic, a maker of virtualization technology that secures Node.js applications on serverless environments ...

Oracle's IaaS, cloud database in the spotlight at OpenWorld

This year's Oracle OpenWorld should provide answers for customers eager to understand its plans for IaaS, cloud databases, AI and...

SearchMobileComputing

Enterprise mobility management software offerings and use cases

IT professionals can use enterprise mobility management software to deploy mobile policies across a fleet of endpoints, so they ...

Samsung-Microsoft partnership will benefit end users

The capabilities that come with connecting your smartphone to your PC can have substantial benefits for end users, according to ...

Clear up the confusion about end-user computing

Today's end-user computing industry is the culmination of a decade of changes in mobility, desktops, virtualization and more. ...

SearchDataCenter

IBM Power chip instruction set now open source

IBM opened up its Power server Instruction Set Architecture allowing the open source community to develop more innovative ...

Big Switch updates its Cloud-First Networking portfolio

Big Switch Networks' new products and features aim to help solve issues such as lack of operational consistency, visibility and ...

How to get out of a bad colocation contract

Renegotiation, legal action and cancellation are all options if your colocation service agreement isn't up to par. But each ...