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Coca-Cola building CIO role with more power, influence
With the CEO's ear, and more control over enabling services, Barry Simpson is up against few leadership roadblocks to transform Coca-Cola.
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Sponsored'Culture hacks' can improve company culture
IT teams can change culture and enlighten workflows.
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Organizations need to care and tend to SaaS apps 'like a puppy'
When SaaS is not trained appropriately, it can get unruly and expose a company to a range of implications.
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OpinionHow to combat departing employee-induced data loss
The unfortunate reality is that employee-induced data loss can never be entirely prevented, so it's imperative that organizations backup their data and recover it quickly.
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Can CIOs solve the technical vacuum on many boards of directors?
CIOs, CTOs and directors with other IT backgrounds constitute a very slim piece of board leadership pies around the world. And no one likes a small piece of pie.
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Raytheon CIO championed as business — not just tech — leader
Kevin Neifert wants to embolden employees to express ideas so he implements innovation advocates across organizations.
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Nike CIO departs to join pharma giant Merck
While retail and pharma have a lot in common, Jim Scholefield will be moving into a company where supply chain discipline is tighter.
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Down the rabbit hole: A tour of the dark web
The deep web is the middle ground, partially hidden and unindexed by search engines. True mayhem lurks beneath that.
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Microsoft had to 'eat its own dog food' to modernize its portfolio
The company had to adopt at scale the technologies, software and services it sold its customers.
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7 'scary' and disruptive technologies to watch out for
Companies that don't prepare "will be pushed aside," said Daryl Plummer, distinguished VP analyst and fellow at Gartner.
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Silicon Valley's next dynamic duo: Edge computing and cloud
Edge computing needs the centralization and scale of cloud, and cloud needs the physical touchpoint of edge, according to Ed Anderson, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
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For The New York Times, a shifting model redefines the CIO role
The 'Gray Lady' reshaped its technical paradigm when it moved to a digital operation. That process is continuing.
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How Ginni Rometty is positioning IBM to play a role in customers' future
There's a lot to be learned from a company in transition. After almost seven years at the helm of IBM, Rometty shared takeaways at the Gartner Symposium.
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Bridging the gap between DevOps and IT Infrastructure Library
With the emergence of DevOps and after eight years without an update, some think ITIL has finally outlived its value.
IT Strategy -
6 charts take the confusion out of Kubernetes
Containers are an increasingly popular tool for businesses to provision workloads on the cloud and maximize resources.
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Why security teams are last to adopt the cloud
"Perimeters are dissolving," and people are beginning to ask why they need firewall on their network when it can be in the cloud.
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Digital tech was a 'shiny object' — now it enables IT value creation, Kimberly-Clark CIO says
To help execute change and spark ideas, Suja Chandrasekaran whiteboards with her presidents, involving them in creative processes rather than presenting ideas to them.
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'Welcome to what's next': Intrigue and anxiety await business tech
Business technology relies on more than digital transformation, a phrase that is ubiquitous and does little to define what organizations are trying to accomplish.
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MIT plans $1B computing college, AI research effort
A $350 million gift from private equity firm Blackstone's CEO kicks off the effort as more colleges look to the private sector for research support.
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Deep DiveModern-day bank robbing: How hackers are becoming public enemy No. 1
The internet is the getaway car and malware is the firearm.
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Facebook attackers accessed personal data of 29M users in breach
The breach of tens of millions of users' personal information is a huge bump in the road for a company that has been grappling with user trust and privacy issues this year.
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OpinionCorporate culture: The unexpected component for digital transformation
A year in, some companies find digital transformation projects are stalled or scaled back; over budget and behind schedule; or canceled all together. Was the corporate culture ready?
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Google: Powering data centers with clean energy 24/7 'no easy feat'
The company is already the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, but a new white paper shows how difficult it will be to eliminate all emissions from its footprint.
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Online cybersecurity training propels students into industry jobs
More affordable for students, online training programs like Cybrary focus on real-world applications and can help workers expand their existing knowledge base or pivot careers entirely.
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The delicate art of the data lake
In an ideal world, a data lake should keep data in a way that makes it readily available. That's why the tools put into the lake are so important. Otherwise, it's just a blob.
Big Data