March 20, 2024

We know them as friends, colleagues, acquaintances, work wives or husbands, and sometimes, the competition. They are the people we spend more time with than our own families. They are our co-workers and employees. They are also our greatest cybersecurity […]

March 19, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) seem ideal for creating natural language interfaces, but the rise of ChatGPT and other similar tools has raised a question: Are LLMs right for optimizing business processes? In short, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Of […]

March 19, 2024

Efficiency leads to increased productivity and cost savings. Here are seven ways you can boost IT efficiency for lasting impact. No CIO wants to lead an inefficient IT organization. That’s a given. Yet due to inattention or by sticking to […]

March 18, 2024

Extreme weather events and warnings from experts that keeping temperature rises below the 1.5°C limit is becoming increasingly difficult have raised public awareness of the impact of global warming. Businesses and consumers alike are thinking more about climate change, the […]

March 18, 2024

The world has become “sensor-fied.” Sensors on everything, including cars, factory machinery, turbine engines, and spacecraft, continuously collect data that developers leverage to optimize efficiency and power AI systems. So, it’s no surprise that time series—the type of data these […]

March 15, 2024

Falco, the open-source, cloud-native, runtime security tool, recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program. That means it’s considered stable and ready for use in production environments, including Azure. It joins many of the key components of a […]

March 15, 2024

Consider these statistics: 75% of IT decision-makers have reported gaps in the skill sets of their IT staff – and this is a 145% increase over the past seven years, reported Skillsoft. Six in 10 large enterprises reported a skills […]

March 14, 2024

With greater technical expertise and business knowledge comes more wide-ranging responsibilities for CIOs. AI is increasingly underpinning IT teams, but utilizing it as a check against high-value tasks must still be a priority to drive business performance. As businesses digitally […]

March 14, 2024

Will earning an MBA give you the key to IT career success, or is it simply a costly waste of time? Here’s what you need to know. Does it make sense for an IT leader to seek an MBA? Ben […]

March 13, 2024

Major oil company TotalEnergies has upgraded its operational technology (OT) network with infrastructure from connectivity services and intelligent networking tools provider Allied Telesis, as part of its plan to ensure legacy OT in its North Sea oil platforms is replaced […]

March 13, 2024

A data dictionary describes data in business terms, including information about the data. It includes elements like data types, structure details, and security restrictions. Unlike business glossaries, which focus on data across the organization, data dictionaries support data architectures – […]

March 12, 2024

While early science fiction shows like “Buck Rogers” (1939) and “The Fly” (1950) depicted teleportation technology, it was Star Trek’s transporter room that made real-time living matter transfer a classical sci-fi trope. While we haven’t built technology that enables real-time […]

March 12, 2024

Data integration tools are used to collect data from external (and internal) sources, and to reformat, cleanse, and organize the collected data. The ultimate goal of data integration tools is to combine data from a variety of different sources, and […]

March 11, 2024

Businesses continue to invest in data analytics, despite a growing emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Business intelligence and data analytics projects continue to offer the prospect of more efficient and effective operations in both the commercial and public service sectors, […]

March 11, 2024

The existence of backup copies or replicas isn’t enough if you don’t understand how to efficiently restore data and systems at scale. Ransomware has moved disaster recovery planning from the back room to the front table. It’s understandable to think […]

March 8, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature in the object […]

March 7, 2024

Passwords are a problem. While they remain the main way we secure applications, services, and systems, they’re increasingly vulnerable. Cloud compute makes it economical to brute-force valuable passwords, while poorly-thought-out password policies drive users to inherently risky behaviors. And while […]

March 6, 2024

The work of data engineers is extremely technical. They are responsible for designing and maintaining the architecture of data systems, which incorporates concepts ranging from analytic infrastructures to data warehouses. A data engineer needs to have a solid understanding of […]

March 5, 2024

Generative AI is estimated to add between $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion in economic benefits to the global economy annually, according to McKinsey. This forecast is based on 63 new use cases that could deliver improvements, efficiencies, and new products […]

March 5, 2024

GitHub first launched its copilot in 2021, and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. These AI assistants often use the term copilot to indicate how generative AI capabilities embedded in workflow tools can augment and assist […]