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The biggest, baddest, billion-dollar tech deals in 2018
Enterprise technology saw not one, not two, but nine multibillion dollar acquisitions take place in the last 12 months, running the gamut from a mere $1.7 billion to a whopping $34 billion.
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SponsoredWhat does service management really cost?
How moving to an Enterprise Service Management (ESM) solution can help integrate business-centric services into a series of streamlined IT service management processes.
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A 'leap of faith': Whirlpool Corp.'s journey to the cloud
What runs on those data centers can be a mystery, tangled in a dark web of application interdependence.
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Digital twins move from manufacturing and IoT into the back office
While most of the uptake of digital twins has been in manufacturing, the idea of creating a second, digital version of something — anything — is catching on across enterprises.
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Deep DiveWhat makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility?
Companies recognize the role technology plays in competition. And every industry wants in.
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2018 racked up nearly 200 years-worth of downtime
The longer an outage, the less patience customers are willing to spare.
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What do Kanye, Nutella and Google have in common? Bad passwords
From celebrities to the national government, poor password hygiene continues to threaten network integrity.
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'Cyber espionage' group targets sensitive telecom, government IT services data
Seedworm — also known as MuddyWater — is the only known hacker group to leverage the Powermud backdoor.
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A quarter of developers are self-taught coders
The study from HackerRank affirms the idea that learning initiatives outside a traditional classroom can help close the skills gap.
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10 key stats illustrating advanced analytics adoption
Data literacy is "information as a second language." But data is still fairly siloed in organizations, making meaningful connections difficult to form.
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Are you smarter than a CIO?
Total Reboot tests the strategic acumen of IT decision-makers. See if you're up to the challenge in this interactive game.
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Big machines in a sensor-filled world: Analytics and data at Caterpillar
Caterpillar has more than 500,000 connected assets in the field, from large mining trucks to smaller pieces of construction equipment. Such an environment is rich for data use.
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More than job displacement: Experts fear AI's effect on humanity
A Pew Research Center survey highlights concerns about AI's impact on job losses that will widen economic divides and cause unrest and mayhem from autonomous weapons, cybercrime and weaponized data.
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Forces and trends shaping the future of enterprise analytics in 2019
Building off of a foundation in cloud and business networks and augmented by AI and ML, analytics is extending out into all areas of the enterprise.
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Equifax's 'aggressive growth strategy' contributed to IT complexity and failure
The U.S. House of Representatives found a combination of legacy systems and integrations increased the likelihood of the firm's data breach.
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Microsoft set to own collab market by 2020. Can Slack's innovation win out?
The difference between the two companies is "safety over sex appeal," said Carrie Basham Young, Talk Social to Me CEO.
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Why tech companies anticipated — and rejoiced in — Amazon's Virginia HQ2
The demand for tech talent already outweighs the supply, but local tech companies are excited Amazon made Washington a national tech hub.
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Digital security takes a backseat to customer experience, Equifax report finds
As digital security becomes a greater business priority, responsibility is shifting away from just the CIO and CISO.
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OpinionDon't let vendors put customers — and a business's reputation — at risk
In addition to security and data protection demands, organizations must be vigilant about how third-party service providers approach these obligations.
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Survey: 48% of procurement leaders invest in tech due to 'FOMO'
Far too often, industry looks at technology as a solution in search of a problem. Procurement leaders jumping into technology because of FOMO are not doing themselves, their companies or their suppliers any favors.
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Dive AwardsThe CIO Dive Awards for 2018
The awards recognize the technology industry's top disruptors, innovators, movers and shakers. These executives and companies are transforming the technology industry and shaping its future.
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UPS unpacks big data to deliver insight
"Data must yield insight. If your data doesn't do that, then it's just trivia," said Jack Levis, senior director of Process Management at UPS.
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Another dismal report on pay equity in technology
Across ethnic categories, women are underpaid anywhere from 6% to 9% compared to their male peers.
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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.
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Dive AwardsDeal of the Year: Microsoft's GitHub acquisition
The developer community aside, Microsoft's acquisition offers a ripe piece of business: GitHub Enterprise.
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