IT Strategy

Opinion

Disrupting from within: 3 ways to reinvent business through the workforce

Digital disruptions are inevitable, but many companies fail to understand they have freedom to affect change on their terms — starting with human capital. 

By Randy Mysliviec

DevOps praised, but divisions between development, operations hold fast

Technologists may evangelize the merits of DevOps, but without enterprise process changes, companies will remain slow to adopt the methodology.

By Naomi Eide • June 15, 2018

Morgan Stanley dwarfs average businesses with $4B annual IT budget

The banking company overcame the cost center stigma of IT, but other organizations are still struggling.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 13, 2018

How Spotify is migrating from an in-house Docker orchestration platform to Kubernetes

The company started small, experimenting with a few services on Kubernetes clusters then moving up to more complex workloads and self-service migration.

By Alex Hickey • June 12, 2018

Fail fast, iterate faster: To survive, IT leaders push agile businesswide

How do you convince business stakeholders to adopt agile? Ask, "do you want to be relevant tomorrow or not?"

By Naomi Eide • June 12, 2018

Opinion

Evolution of RPA: From rule-based to intelligent cognitive automation

Buoyed by RPA enthusiasm, automation tools and platform vendors offering automation capabilities have mushroomed, pushing the adoption rate further.

By Sathish PV

How GDPR regulators will identify noncompliers and levy fines

When big fines are imposed, companies with the means will likely hire outside counsel and challenge the fines in member state and EU courts.

By Alex Hickey • June 08, 2018

7 ways Walmart is innovating with technology

From new mobile apps for both customers and employees to robots on the store floor, Walmart is using tech to best the competition.

By Laura Heller • June 08, 2018

CIO board membership down, but success found in IT revenue generation focus

Technology leaders need a seat at the table, or at least frequent access to it, but the number of CIOs on boards or executive teams is decreasing. 

By Alex Hickey • June 08, 2018

'Cattle-not-pet' system management could have prevented Atlanta's ransomware attack

By managing systems "like cattle, not pets," IT can just eliminate what is threatening the rest of the system or "herd."

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 08, 2018

Why DevOps is the answer to reducing security flaws and risk

Companies inherently reduce risk by making smaller changes at once, said Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of cloud research for Trend Micro.

By Naomi Eide • June 07, 2018

Cloud modernization is confusing, but 'lift and extend' could help

If the cloud migration process is not clearly communicated to business stakeholders, it halts every other hope for digitizing infrastructure.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 07, 2018

Starz and Fox Networks push entertainment tech to the omnichannel age

With so many digital avenues for consumption, boosting omnichannel support allows for smooth integration and transition between mediums.

By Alex Hickey • June 04, 2018

How many CIOs become CEOs? More, with successful digital transformations

CIOs can rewrite their job descriptions and help the business evolve, focusing on external, rather than internal customers. 

By Naomi Eide • May 30, 2018

GDPR is here: What's next?

One of the biggest impacts companies notice may be an influx of data subject access requests by individuals testing out their newfound data rights. 

By Alex Hickey • May 25, 2018

Tension between agile, bimodal development as organizations work to become digital at scale

The minute organizations are given the "excuse" bimodal is acceptable, three-fourths of them are going to move slow. 

By Naomi Eide • May 25, 2018

TIL how Reddit transformed its data culture and processes

Underneath the company's UX redesign was a shift in data culture and a back-end transition from legacy systems to leverage advanced technologies.

By Alex Hickey • May 23, 2018

11 technologies set to shape smart manufacturing

Tools like 3D printing and AI have created a paradigm shift in technology and revealed a new world of supply chain efficiencies yet to be unlocked.

By Jordan Branch , Edwin Lopez • May 22, 2018

Microsoft remains top file sharing service, outranking Google Drive, Dropbox

Even with an increase in the adoption of file sharing tools, shadow IT persists, particularly with the unauthorized adoption of Dropbox. 

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 21, 2018

Oracle releasing 'Internet Weather Map' for when the cloud gets gloomy

The company's cloud users can access the map for overseeing and analyzing activities and "paths" on the internet.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 18, 2018

Leadership and longevity, the keys to GDPR compliance

Through the many paths to compliance, a few clear lessons and trends are emerging.

By Alex Hickey • May 18, 2018

Where does GDPR apply? The answer isn't so simple

Attorneys have pinpointed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the ban on national origin discrimination as a source of contention in the U.S. application of GDPR.

By Alex Hickey • May 16, 2018