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9 Reasons DevOps Is A Dirty Word
Gartner 2017 CIO Agenda: Digital Ecosystems, Interoperability, Bimodal IT
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10 Strategic Tech Trends For 2017: Gartner 
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
News
Gartner has released its annual list of the top 10 strategic trends. Are you planning for the right technology to future-proof your organization? Here's a closer look at each of the trends.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 10/24/2016
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NSA Contractor Over 20 Years Stole More Than 50 Terabytes Of Gov't Data
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer
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Harold Martin, now in custody, is a risk to himself and others if freed from custody, a US prosecutor warns in a detailed filing in the case.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 10/21/2016
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AI Provider Brings IoT Data To Bare Metal Cloud
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Falkonry provides AI services to its industrial customers generating great volumes of IoT data. Here's why this company chose a bare metal cloud implementation for its operations.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 10/21/2016
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7 Imminent IoT Threats
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer
News
Attacks against smart home products, medical devices, SCADA systems, and other newly network-enabled systems signal the beginning of a new wave of attacks against the IoT.
By Jai Vijayan Freelance writer, 10/21/2016
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McDonald's Flips Its Training Game: Podcast
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
Commentary
In this episode of InformationWeek's Expert Voice podcast, McDonald's Jack Sylvester and Inkling's Matt MacInnis talk about the new document infrastructure the fast food giant is using for its training and operations manuals -- and what that infrastructure means for onboarding more than 700,000 new employees a year.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 10/21/2016
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BI On Hadoop Success: 7 Things To Know
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
When enterprises implement Hadoop, their top use-case was found to be business intelligence (BI). Now a new benchmark study shows which Hadoop SQL engines are best for which workloads. Here is a look at 7 key findings from that study.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 10/21/2016
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AWS, VMware Pact Eases Hybrid Cloud Adoption
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
AWS and VMware have struck a deal that improves workload transfers between their environments, which leaves customers in charge of their final configurations.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 10/20/2016
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Aligned Energy Chills Data Centers With Cool Efficiency
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
Aligned Energy's Cactus Cooler unit dispenses with fans and chillers and conducts data center heat outside through a thermal bus.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 10/20/2016
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Gartner: IT Spending Will Hit $3.5 Trillion In 2017
Scott Ferguson, Director of Audience Development, UBM Tech
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At its Symposium/ITxpo show, Gartner released new worldwide IT spending numbers that predict enterprises will spend up to $3.5 trillion on technology in 2017. That's an increase of about 3% over 2016, with much of that money going toward software and services.
By Scott Ferguson Director of Audience Development, UBM Tech, 10/20/2016
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CIO-CISO Relationship Continues To Evolve
Kelly Sheridan, Associate Editor, InformationWeek
News
The CISO has traditionally reported to the CIO, but this is changing as security becomes more important. How will this change their relationship, and how can they better work together?
By Kelly Sheridan Associate Editor, InformationWeek, 10/19/2016
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Gartner 2017 CIO Agenda: Digital Ecosystems, Interoperability, Bimodal IT
Susan Nunziata, Editorial Director
Commentary
Digitization, creating a new level of organizational interoperability, and the practice of bimodal IT are among the priorities for CIOs, according to the Gartner 2017 CIO Agenda. See how your IT priorities stack up.
By Susan Nunziata Editorial Director, 10/19/2016
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Malvertising Trends: Don’t Talk Ad Standards Without Ad Security
Kaiying Fu, Community Manager, Cloudbric
Commentary
How malvertising marries the strengths and weaknesses of the complex digital advertising ecosystem perfectly – and what online publishers and security leaders need to do about it.
By Kaiying Fu Community Manager, Cloudbric, 10/19/2016
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IT In Danger Of Being Marginalized, Accenture Warns 
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
Commentary
Declining confidence in enterprise IT and greater use of external cloud services are among the findings of a recent Accenture survey. The growth of shadow IT comes with risks. Get a closer look with this infographic.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 10/19/2016
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9 Reasons DevOps Is A Dirty Word
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
News
DevOps means a massive change for most organizations and requires serious commitment from management and workers. It isn't for everyone, but is it really for anyone? Here are nine reasons DevOps might not be right for you and your organization.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 10/19/2016
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Hadoop Migration Pays Off For PRGX
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Recovery audit services company PRGX is leveraging the lower storage cost and faster analytics speeds available in a Hadoop and Talend big data stack to realize more cost savings and revenue for customers.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 10/18/2016
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A Job In Security Leads To Job Security
Paul Curran, Application Security Community Specialist, Checkmarx
Commentary
Developers who focus on secure development skills find themselves in high demand.
By Paul Curran Application Security Community Specialist, Checkmarx, 10/18/2016
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Gartner: Digital Business Depends On Core IT, IoT, AI
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
Commentary
The infrastructure for the new digital enterprise rests on five domains. At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2016, Peter Sondergaard and his colleagues explained the importance of those domains.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 10/18/2016
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Millennials A Growing Target Of IT Support Scams
Kelly Sheridan, Associate Editor, InformationWeek
News
New Microsoft-NCSA study finds that two out of three customers have been exposed to tech support scams in the last 12 months.
By Kelly Sheridan Associate Editor, InformationWeek, 10/17/2016
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McDonald's Cooks Up Digital Document Infrastructure
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
Commentary
McDonald's worldwide has to onboard more than 700,000 people a year. A new cloud-based document infrastructure lets the company save money and time while keeping consistency high.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 10/17/2016
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OpenCAPI Opens New Realm Of Data Handling
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
IBM, Google, HPE, Dell, and others have combined resources to promote the OpenCAPI standard, which aims to boost the performance of data center servers tasked with analyzing large amounts of data.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 10/17/2016
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