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Machine Learning, Analytics Offer Untapped Potential, McKinsey Says
Incorporating data analytics' value into corporate culture is essential to competing against digital disruptors. InformationWeek interviewed McKinsey partner and lead researcher Michael Chui about a new report addressing competition in a data-driven era.
Killing 'Zombies' Achieves Greatest Gain In Data Center Efficiency
The Uptime Institute has estimated the gains from eliminating 'zombie' servers and implementing a data center management system versus doing nothing.
eBay Container Management Tool Works With Kubernetes
eBay wants to expand its use of Docker containers and has composed a tool, TessMaster, to help them run on Kubernetes cluster management.
Why Recommendation Engines Still Aren't Accurate
Those website recommendations engines sometimes can be just what the consumer needs to make a decision. Then again, sometimes those recommendations are way off base.
Why Recommendation Engines Still Aren't Accurate
Ever noticed that some recommendations from consumer websites tend to be a bit off base? Lisa Morgan takes a look at why those engines get confused.
Will Cloud Service Prices Go Up in 2017?
Competition and price cutting might be good for cloud customers, but the glory days of low prices might not make it into 2017.
Mind The Gap: Minting New Data Science and Analytics Professionals
Supply is not meeting the demand for analytics and data science professionals. Here's how one boot camp is looking to fill that gap.
There’s No 'Thing' You Can Do to Be Agile
The Agile concept isn't just about IT and development, but about a mindset that has to extend throughout the business.
The Unblinking Eye: Employee Monitoring in the IoT Era
Monitoring machines in the Internet of Things can provide valuable data, but there could be privacy issues when employees are using those machines.
At AWS, 'Enterprise Strategy' Consists Of Helping Migrations
Head of Enterprise Strategy Stephen Orban describes how AWS will try to assist more enterprise workloads in a move to the cloud.
The Cloud May Finally be Ready for Your Legacy Apps
If you've been holding off your legacy application migration to the cloud over fear of support and migration issues, 2017 may very well be the time to look at your options.
GPU Hardware Powers MapD Big Data Management
When it comes to clickstream data, server log analysis or machine learning, there's a likely GPU-based system in IT's future.
In Search Of: Unicorns, Big Foot, and Data Privacy
Monster hunters may have spent years hunting for Big Foot, and unicorns may be popular ideas in fairy tales. But like data privacy, they don't really exist. Data protection is what we have instead.
Innovation Is a Team Sport
Lessons in teamwork, innovation and leadership learned in sports carry through in the business world, according to the CTO of Ultimate Software.
Self-Service Access, Cloud Drive Big Data Value
Data governance has emerged as a top concern, and business intelligence remains the top workload for big data technology Hadoop, according to the third edition of the Big Data Maturity Survey.
AI Is Late: 3 Things To Accelerate It
Artificial intelligence applications haven't advanced the way you might hope. However, rather than waiting for AI to happen, you and your peers have to take action.
Docker Move Brings Universal Container Operations A Step Closer
Docker has contributed a component of Docker Engine, Containerd, to the community; it will provide a key element of a universal runtime.
The Amorphous CDO Role Takes Shape
After being largely undefined for a few years the role of Chief Data Officer may finally be taking shape, as illustrated in a survey of federal agencies.
Why Embedded Analytics Will Change Everything
Analytics is being embedded in all kinds of software which suggests a major shift is on the horizon. How we think about analytics will change and so will our use of analytics. We explain why.
Four Keys to Thriving in STEM and IT as a Woman
It isn't fair that women have to put in extra effort to succeed in male-dominated STEM fields, but MarkLogic's Sheila Stewart shares four great tips.
10 Tech Companies That Stole the Spotlight In 2016
A look back how companies like Google and newer players on the scene like Docker changed the IT landscape this year.
Leveraging Open Source Reference Architectures Allows You To Give And Take From Broader Expertise
Many standard storage server manufacturers have participated in the development of reference architectures, providing great insight into how to best deploy their servers for each of your company's use cases.
EBay, Challenged To Personalize Email Marketing, Customizes CRM
EBay put custom CRM on top of its SendGrid email system to be able to address millions of customers with an individual message.
Multi-Cloud Management: What to Realistically Expect in 2017
Learn what you should realistically expect from your multi-cloud management solution in 2017 -- and what you may have to wait for until 2018 and beyond.
IT Spending Expected to Pick Up in 2017
TEKsystems research finds many IT leaders have a positive outlook on next year with a focus on cloud and security.
Most Analytics Opportunities Untapped, McKinsey
Revisiting the research that highlighted future analytics talent shortages back in 2011, McKinsey Global Institute says that we're barely scratching the surface in making good use of data.
Most Analytics Opportunities Untapped, McKinsey
McKinsey Global Institute has updated its research on data analytics and the opportunity it presents in a new report released this month.
Trulia Pursues Data-Driven Transformation, Cloud Migration
Trulia transformed its data stack to accommodate real-time high-volume data collection, and to provide customers with recommendations. Now, to gain greater reliability and elasticity, the organization plans to migrate its data operations to AWS.
Brooks Brothers In Style As It Moves To Cloud
With operations depending on SAP HANA, Brooks Brothers management wanted a minimum of downtime in its move to AWS cloud.
Market Intelligence: Turn Information into Insights
Think beyond business intelligence; market intelligence helps you to understand your competitors, customers, and overall market trends.
The Non-IT CIO: Information Over Infrastructure
The emergence of CIOs whose backgrounds are outside of IT isn't a fluke. It was inevitable.
Amazon CTO Vogels: 'We're in the pain management business'
At AWS ReInvent, Werner Vogels looks back on how Amazon Web Services got to where it is, and where it's going next.
Analytics Gets Big IT Investment in 2017
The 37th annual SIM IT Trends Study found that analytics continues to be an important strategic investment for organizations.
The Case For OpenStack And Ceph Subscriptions: Supporting The Community In More Ways Than One
As more of the world moves to build data centers with OpenStack as the core, a comprehensive support program for this environment is crucial.
IT Headed For Fundamental Changes, SIM Survey Shows
IT organization budgets look happy and positive on the surface, but there's less money for maintenance and more for cloud and software development. The signs point to tumultuous times ahead.
Amazon Tests New Retail Consumer Checkout System
A store in downtown Seattle lets shoppers pull items off shelves and exit the store, with the cost of the items automatically added to their account.
The DevOps Engineer Is An Optical Illusion
IT pros and developers can't be excellent at everything. Instead, embracing specialization and empowering collaboration in your organization can achieve meaningful and lasting DevOps progress.
A Data Analyst's Best Friend: The Library
Today's data analyst needs to understand the factors that have an impact on their research, and the best way to gain that understanding is the good old library.
Tech Talent Shortage Holding Back Business
An Indeed survey shows hiring managers face challenges in filling IT positions, impacting their bottom lines.
Trainline Tosses Exadata, Takes Oracle Into The Cloud
Trainline migrates to the cloud, takes Oracle database applications with it for performance faster than Exadata's.
How Cloud Is Changing IT Investment Planning
IT roadmaps are shifting as technologies like cloud, containers, and software-defined infrastructure change where and how enterprise resources are consumed and managed.
AWS Smooths Developers' Path To Cloud, Enterprise To Follow?
Amazon Web Services is filling the gaps in its software development/deployment process in a bid to attract enterprise developers.
Shifting Your DevOps Mindset from Tools to Culture
DevOps is based on continuous improvement and development, with employees as active participants in that iterative process. Enabling self-learning and self-improving among employees is central to this school of thought.
Building MySQL DBaaS on OpenStack And Ceph Clouds
A cloud-based database-as-a-service offering can relieve the overwhelming burden of supporting today's scale of computing with yesterday's architectures.
FINRA Commits Mission-Critical App To Amazon Cloud
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority moved its key market surveillance functionality onto EC2 in 2014, and is making plans to migrate the Oracle database it uses for registration from an internal data center to an AWS service.
Digital Transformation: Why Darwin Was Right
While half of surveyed organizations say that digital transformation is a strategic priority, what does that say about the other 50%? If they don't adapt they could face the fate Darwin described in discussing survival of the fittest.
Holiday Shopping Gets Strong Mobile Boost, Data Shows
Early sales show that retailers' investments in analytics paid off during the 2016 holiday shopping season. Here are a few highlights from the beginning of the rush.
CEOs & CIOs Must Work Together For Data Analytics Success
Learn how business and IT executives can forge more fruitful relationships to take advantage of the power of data analytics.
Law Firm Drinker Biddle Leverages Analytics
Law firm Drinker Biddle has set up an information governance and eDiscovery analytics practice, and it's helped clients speed up litigation and regulatory compliance investigations. The firm's chief data scientist shares details about the practice in this interview
Gartner: Enterprise Mobile Devices Yet To Show Their Strength
The Annual Personal Technologies Study finds convertible tablets on the rise with room inside the enterprise for other mobile devices to grow.
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2021 State of ITOps and SecOps Report
This new report from InformationWeek explores what we've learned over the past year, critical trends around ITOps and SecOps, and where leaders are focusing their time and efforts to support a growing digital economy. Download it today!
Monitoring Critical Cloud Workloads ReportIn this report, our experts will discuss how to advance your ability to monitor critical workloads as they move about the various cloud platforms in your company.
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