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2019: The Year IT Makes a Comeback
It's time for IT leaders to recognize that the IT group is crucial to their companies' future growth and success, and to let the business know that IT is there to help.
11 Digital Transformation Hacks That Get Results
Organizations tend to get different results with digital transformation. To realize business value, first realize that transformation isn't just about tech.
IBM Takes Watson AI to AWS, Google, Azure
IBM is leveraging Kubernetes to enable its Watson AI to run on public clouds AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure. The move signals a shift in strategy for IBM.
TaylorMade IT Spin-Off Taps Cloud Database
When TaylorMade Golf spun off from Adidas, it had to separate all its operations, including IT, and used the opportunity to try the Oracle Autonomous Database.
Myth or Matter: Is There a DevOps Talent Shortage?
Enterprises that hold out to hire DevOps unicorns may be overlooking worthwhile workers who are already available.
Are Your Metrics Real?
The Internet is not fake, but protecting the value derived from online activity must account for social engineering. Here's why.
The New Workforce: 3 Tactics to Secure your Digital Future
Both individual employees and their employers need to take action to prepare for a future where people increasingly work alongside machines.
Tightening the Belt on Excess Spending for Cloud
Migration to the cloud is part of many transformation plans but it can spiral into expenses that could be avoided.
Trump White House Launches AI Initiative
Artificial intelligence is the brains behind self-driving cars, cancer research, and more. Now the White House has created an initiative to foster this technology.
Prepare for Fourth Industrial Revolution Tech
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived with the emergence of new technologies. Is your company ready to join in?
Protecting Us from AI’s Dark Side
The promise of AI is real, but the potential dangers are also just as real. In the end countermeasures will alleviate the dangers.
Technology Professionals and the Path of Least Resistance
Take a fresh look at how your organization sources IT equipment, software, and services. Consider partnering with other IT organizations to gain efficiencies in your buying process.
The Problem with AI Facial Recognition
AI facial recognition algorithms are far from perfect. Here's what you should know if your enterprise is considering deploying this technology.
Where Third-Party Vendors Stand in the Wake of AWS Backup
Amazon's offering is meant to deliver convenience-and it may push competing backup services to change tactics.
The Title Machine Learning Engineer Will Start to Disappear
We may be at a point in the evolution of machine learning tools where formal education in the field is no longer necessary.
Now It's Time for the Hybrid IT Worker
In an era when the glasshouse is gone it's time for a new work structure, with IT staff being stationed closer to the business users they support.
Prepping the Enterprise for the AI Apocalypse
Forget the little pilot project. Enterprises that want to survive the disruptions ahead need to get their tech ready today or expect to be gone in two years.
Fighting for Digital Transformation in the Government Sector
DevOps and digital transformation for government entities can mean addressing policy and security-driven roadblocks.
AI-Powered Project Management: The Pros and Cons
Artificial intelligence holds promise as a way to improve IT project management, but there are some hurdles to overcome.
What STEM Leaders can Learn from MLK’s Legacy
Businesses across all sectors have to improve their efforts to drive greater diversity in their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforces.
Enterprises are White Knights in Battle to Avoid AI Winter
It is up to enterprise organizations, not just academia, to maintain artificial intelligence's momentum when it comes to innovation and adoption.
Crawford Takes Insurance Data into the Digital Age
How a service provider to insurance companies modernized its data infrastructure to create products for the modern age.
Don’t Collect Biometric Data Without Providing Notice
An Illinois court ruling underscores the importance of providing notice of biometric data collection and use. Violate the law and your company could be sued.
Digital Transformation Rx: Moving Health Care to the Cloud
Modernizing an industry that is under federal compliance mandates and historically has been slow to embrace new IT can require an extra bit of finesse.
The Bank CEO of 2020: Disposable or Valuable in an AI Era?
Artificial intelligence can accomplish a lot in the banking sector, and the CEO who doesn't embrace AI could be looking at the end of their career.
Human Centered Transformation: Stay a Step Ahead of Change
The enterprise of the future will win or lose based on the experience they provide their end users and their own employees and partners.
CIO, IT Roles Poised for a Revolution
CIOs and IT organizations will take a more central role in all of business in a few years. Here's what you can expect.
Cloud Migration Opportunities to Be Aware of in 2019
We've reached the stage in cloud's evolution that companies have experience in migrating core enterprise applications such as AS/400-based ERP systems to the cloud.
10 Principles for Optimal Engineering Spend, from a CTO
To set up your engineering team for success make sure you employ the fundamentals that companies too often neglect.
10 Tech Startups to Watch for 2019
These hot startups are finding innovative ways to use technologies such as AI and IoT to help businesses work better, and in addressing the problems of the world.
When Marketers Run Technology, Where Does IT Fit?
Yes, even as CMOs expand their control over marketing technology, there remains a role for IT in the process.
Finding a Balance Between Microservices and Micromanagement
Microservices architecture is seen by some as a more effective way to scale DevOps. However putting the pieces together can require more handholding than anticipated.
Why Google's GDPR Fine and Appeal are Good for Enterprise IT
Google's appeal of its GDPR fine over data privacy and transparency just may illuminate the best way forward for enterprise IT.
Six Tips on How to Lead a Successful Panel Discussion
Your first appearance in the IT spotlight should be a shining success, not a career cremation.
Training AI to Save Lives
If some forms of artificial intelligence may put lives at risk, what are some of the options for safer deployment of the technology.
AI and the Next Recession
The US may be at peak employment now, but there's an uncertain future for jobs.
What Happens When You Add Security to DevOps? DevSecOps
Implementing DevSecOps means taking your existing DevOps initiative to the next level, and getting security teams involved at the start of the Dev process.
Career Advice: Make the Most of Mentors
Executives and entrepreneurs offer advice about finding mentors, creating mentor programs, and giving back.
In an AI World, Drop the Idea that Empathy is Feminine
Empathy makes someone a better employee, and we also need to build empathy into our artificial intelligence applications.
What You Need to Know About Augmented Analytics
As enterprises travel on a digital transformation path, they need to stay current with analytics, but it's not a linear journey.
Embrace Ambiguity, Agreeableness to Build an Agile Team
Enterprises that want to form agile teams to explore new opportunities can build them from within. The key is to nurture the right personality traits.
Q&A: Cloud Services Offer Retailers New Competitive Edge
Incumbent retailers can no longer count on size and scale to fend off startup rivals. Google Cloud's Pravin Pillai discusses how cloud-based solutions can make these enterprises nimbler.
Top 5 Considerations When Hiring a Data Scientist
AI is a hot term in every industry, but don't be a company that just blindly hires a group of data scientists who end up frustrated and unproductive.
How Retail is Advancing AI, IoT
Combining computer vision, IoT, and AI creates a system that delivers more value than those three technologies in isolation, as the retail industry is highlighting.
Where Are Privacy Boundaries in an Age of Government Interception?
A new encryption-focused law in Australia highlights the need for all parties to come together to identify a solution that protects privacy, e-commerce, and people and institutions.
Can a Hybrid Cloud Strategy Boost IT Transformation Adoption?
Breaking out of old perceptions about the role of IT departments be the key to being part of companies' overall digital transformation strategies.
Predictions: 2019 Data Science Jobs Market
Take a look at the forces shaping the job market for data scientists and AI experts, according to a leading quantitative executive recruitment specialist.
10 Career Moves You Can Make in 2019
IT unemployment is very low, but that doesn't mean you should let your skills stagnate.
Voice Assistants Coming to the Enterprise
Virtual employee assistants and voice interfaces to enterprise applications are relatively rare in enterprises today, but Gartner is predicting big growth in the next few years.
A Delicate Balancing Act: Business Needs vs IT Priorities
IT can't be the "bureau of NO" but has to be a partner with the business units.
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