The shift to remote and hybrid work was a sudden change brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with this change also came a rapid surge to move applications to the cloud. Although the shift to the cloud was in process before the pandemic, businesses had to shift to a higher gear quickly to access ...

Data center outages are expensive. Many organizations actually rush to migrate to the cloud, in part, to obtain the 99.9% or more availability that public cloud providers promise them. In their haste, those same organizations often fail to guard against the potential cost of “unexpected uptime” in the cloud. Because leaders of infrastructure and operations, or ...

Cybersecurity, once strictly a function of the information technology department, is turning into a business concept with societal implications. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives for organizations to track and report cybersecurity goals and metrics as a business requirement. As a result, the role of the cybersecurity leader ...

Data and analytics leaders, including chief data officers, are facing an increasingly challenging business landscape. As the volume and velocity of data rises and CDOs are under pressure to support digital business outcomes, data and analytics governance is no longer just a matter of remaining compliant with regulations – it is a critical business capability. ...

Despite the irrational exuberance around questionable innovations such as nonfungible tokens and the metaverse, there remain areas of steady innovation in enterprise information technology. I’ve beaten the bushes for some intriguing vendors and came up with seven startups with real stories to tell. Unsurprisingly, a few common themes emerged in my discussions. Observability – especially based ...

The pandemic has changed the way we think about and predict the future. As we enter the third year of COVID, we see the significant impact it has had on technology strategies, spending patterns and company fortunes. Much has changed, and although many of these changes were forced reactions to a new abnormal, the trends ...

As the calendar turns to 2022, businesses worldwide are preparing for another year of economic uncertainty, anxiety and threat. Those that seize the opportunities created by this shifting landscape will be more successful, and their flexibility and adaptability might even determine whether they survive. Not surprisingly, then, cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses seek ...

The cybersecurity risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions and ever-growing network complexity have certainly not gone unnoticed by executives. In a recent Deloitte survey of C-suite executives, 72% said their organizations experienced between one and 10 cyber incidents and breaches in the last year alone. This type of persistent threat – and the inability ...

It hasn’t always been easy to get employees excited about how artificial intelligence will one day transform their day-to-day work tasks. Despite all the well-deserved excitement amongst technology evangelists like me, the technology is still in the early phases of the diffusion curve as many are still wrapping their heads around its potential. For more ...

The expansion of digital services and solutions continues to put pressure on information technology departments to deliver more reliable, scalable platforms. “Resilience” has been the buzzword for how to thrive amidst changing environments, and organizations that fail to incorporate it into their operating environments are seeing the effect in key business measures such as customer ...