Tag: IT

September 26, 2022

IT and security are at it again. Both teams are facing difficulties adapting to the recent move to hybrid technology environments. IT is struggling to bring new endpoints under management, while security is struggling to lock down as many of […]

September 22, 2022

Enterprise data storage professionals are increasingly finding themselves at the center of business discussions: finding important files, showing departmental usage, recalling files from archives for an audit or new research, moving distinct data sets into the cloud to import into […]

September 16, 2022

Data is now one of the most valuable enterprise commodities. According to CIO.com’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year, […]

September 16, 2022

Developers are notoriously grumpy and unamenable to disruption. They tend to want to continue working until they arrive at a place of completion and satisfaction. That’s all well and good unless they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. What’s an […]

September 15, 2022

As IT and application environments increasingly move toward complex, cloud-based microservices, technology professionals have bold plans to ramp up observability capabilities to get ahead of network-based issues that could affect customer experience and application security, yet actually doing so across […]

August 23, 2022

Data science involves using scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract insights from structured and unstructured data. As a discipline, data science synthesizes mathematics, statistics, computer science, domain knowledge, and other inputs to analyze events and trends.In a world gone […]

August 10, 2022

A majority of IT leaders said in a recent survey that they struggle with the process of application modernization, according to a report from Asperitas Consulting. Application modernization, according to Gartner, is the process of migrating legacy systems to new […]

August 3, 2022

SaaS platforms exploded in the last few years for excellent reasons: scalability, cost, accessibility, and flexibility. But like any explosion, it left some messes in its wake. For IT and security teams, in particular, the increasing number of solutions in […]

July 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. […]

July 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, […]

July 11, 2022

For most of its existence, IT resilience has focused on uptime, making sure systems don’t go down, and if they do, bringing them back online as quickly as possible. But that is only part of the equation in this modern […]

June 15, 2022

Any enterprise data management strategy has to begin with addressing the 800-pound gorilla in the corner: the “innovation gap” that exists between IT and business teams. It’s a common occurrence in all types of enterprises, and it’s difficult to wrestle […]

June 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. They likely scoped out projects that can […]

June 14, 2022

For years, IT and data leaders have been striving to help their companies become more data driven. By most accounts, companies are making the necessary investments, as evidenced by the majority of heads of IT (52%) saying data analytics and […]

June 6, 2022

Enterprises must build holistic circular economies around their operations to address every source of emissions and waste if the IT sector is to tackle its mounting contribution to ecological collapse. An April 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]

May 2, 2022

Overall IT spending growth will slow slightly in the second quarter of this year, even as tech hiring hits record levels, according to a new survey of IT decision-makers released by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR). The latest iteration of ETR’s […]

April 12, 2022

AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations, may be just what the doctor ordered for beleaguered IT shops. Applying advanced automation to countless rote IT functions will free up IT departments to concentrate on the bigger and more meaningful things, […]

April 6, 2022

The pandemic has given IT workers far more freedom when it comes to working remotely, according to research by Computer Weekly. The annual Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT salary survey asked IT workers how their working arrangements have changed since the start […]

March 8, 2022

Hiring for US IT roles slowed dramatically in February 2022, according to CompTIA, even as US Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showed non-farm employment growing across the rest of the economy. The US non-farm workforce grew by 678,000 in February […]

March 7, 2022

Over the past two years, every IT leader has had to up their change game. But a clear distinction remains between the ability to respond to disruption and the skills that enable the kind of proactive reinvention that defines IT-enabled […]