Tag: featured

September 21, 2023

Keeping the enterprise running has never been an easy task. The rise of software tools have made many parts of the workflow faster, smoother, and more consistent for everyone but those who have to keep the software running. It’s like […]

September 21, 2023

The advent of gen AI changed everything, and the pace of that change is like nothing we’ve seen before. The potential impacts are reminiscent of the dawn of the Internet, and are likely to be just as transformative for businesses. […]

September 21, 2023

New technologies often engender fear and foreboding among people outside tech industries. The latest example of this trend is artificial intelligence (AI), which is a topic of much concern and misunderstanding among the public. It’s easy to dismiss these qualms […]

September 20, 2023

The role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) have become increasingly important in recent years as organizations place more emphasis on digital transformation and information security. While both positions are crucial in their own […]

September 20, 2023

As data environments continue to grow in complexity, the ways to govern and secure that data do as well. Cyberthreats evolve just as rapidly as technology does, requiring innovators to stay ahead of the next attack while ensuring data is […]

September 14, 2023

Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects […]

September 13, 2023

Years into digital transformation, and decades into the IT function itself, many CIOs still fall short when it comes to innovation. Tech debt, budget constraints, and overloaded staff schedules are among the top reasons IT leaders cite for scuttled innovation […]

September 12, 2023

Cisco is adding a security module to its observability platform that promises to help enterprises assess threat risks and protect cloud-based resources. The Cisco Secure Application module, available now, is part of the vendor’s Full Stack Observability (FSO) platform, which […]

September 12, 2023

The concept of observability traces back to the 1960s, with Rudolf E. Kalman’s canonical work around decomposing complex systems for human understanding. It was a heady time for new compute systems in aerospace and navigation. The advances in these systems […]

September 11, 2023

Organizations have become highly data-centric in the past years, increasing complications and costs as the volume of data rose. However, data integrity issues alone cost organizations $12.9 million annually, on average, according to Gartner. Because of this, data professionals have […]

September 7, 2023

When I joined Discover Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. The vision was to enable a digital transformation by building a highly skilled engineering workforce, […]

September 6, 2023

Generative AI (GenAI) is all the rage in the world today, thanks to the advent of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E. To their credit, these innovations are extraordinary. They’ve put the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into […]

September 5, 2023

I still remember the days when writing tests wasn’t a common practice. Untested code used to work in production, until something went wrong. Eventually, the idea that code should be tested to ensure that changes didn’t break anything became widespread. […]

September 5, 2023

IT managers increasingly find themselves oversubscribed, challenged, and in many cases floundering, and it’s little wonder why. Pressured to do more with less, faster, in flatter organizational structures, IT middle managers serve as a company catchall, with too much time […]

August 31, 2023

Because our APIs handle private and sensitive data, it is imperative that we adopt proven strategies to secure them. We have many ways to secure APIs, starting with firewalling them behind an API gateway and accessing them over secure connections. […]

August 31, 2023

In 2023, machine learning (ML) is a powerful enabler for Data Management, revolutionizing the way organizations handle and analyze vast amounts of data. ML, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), offers various approaches to tackle Data Management challenges. With the […]

August 30, 2023

Inspired by the world of finance, the idea of managing digital projects as a portfolio of IT investments is gaining acceptance among CIOs as it enables them to place several tech bets at once, allowing some bold, disruptive ideas to […]

August 30, 2023

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, is announcing the expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to use the full Lacework platform—designed to offer data-driven protection from code to cloud from a single location—on Google Cloud. The partnership […]

August 28, 2023

There’s no doubt AI customer service tools have transformed the capabilities of customer service, especially in consumer-focused companies. These days, customers want to find that answer they are looking for quickly with a satisfactory resolution to their issue — not […]

August 24, 2023

The energy around AI is nothing short of electrifying. It’s not just a buzzword or part of a science fiction storyline. It’s our new reality and will be the most important and disruptive innovation of our lifetime. The market and […]