IBM pitches in to ease demand for COBOL skills

The effects of the pandemic put strain on state agencies, which must navigate a scarce and aging workforce to keep systems up and running.

By Roberto Torres • April 13, 2020

Start, stop, defer: How companies are navigating technology spend in a crisis

The pandemic has delineated spending priorities, showing the benefits of cloud and emphasizing the need for a flexible security portfolio.

By Naomi Eide • April 9, 2020

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CIO Priorities

CIOs are tasked with balancing their company’s economic and operational needs as they enable technology throughout the business.

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What enterprise leaders can learn from New Jersey's COBOL woes

The state's unemployment platform struggled to support a 1,600% spike in demand. The chaos highlights risk for the business world.

By Roberto Torres • April 8, 2020

44% of Microsoft Office 365 licenses are 'underutilized or oversized,' research finds

With leaders eyeing budget cuts ahead of the recession looms, adjusting the cost of subscriptions might yield benefits.  

By Roberto Torres • April 7, 2020

Azure tops AWS as preferred IaaS and PaaS vendor, Morgan Stanley says

CIOs are rethinking spending, prioritizing technology that can enable and secure remote work. This is where Microsoft has the advantage.

By Naomi Eide • April 3, 2020

PwC: Companies deferring or canceling investments target facilities and IT

With an eye toward cost containment, companies are starting to put actions in place that are more medium- rather than short-term.

By Naomi Eide • March 31, 2020

ERP confronts a new reality in 2020

How companies handle ERP will depend on their position before the crisis. Some are vaulting ahead because of previous implementations; others will slow down or be ripe for acquisition.

By Jen A. Miller • March 31, 2020

Understanding Google Cloud's recent service hiccups

The interconnectedness of the internet could spell trouble for the new normal, as one service's outage can lead to another site or platform going offline.

By Roberto Torres • March 27, 2020

Coronavirus 2020 technology game plan: Cost-cut to survive but accelerate transformation

In 2020, businesses will execute two distinct technology strategies: during and post-pandemic. The latter will define business success as the economy struggles.

By Naomi Eide • March 27, 2020

Download speeds are dwindling as network capacity shifts home

Connectivity at home is one hurdle of distributed work, as residential speeds are unlikely to match enterprise-grade internet connections.

By Roberto Torres • Updated April 1, 2020

Traffic floods digital services, raising reliability concerns

During the novel coronavirus pandemic, online learning platforms have seen up to 11 times their normal volume of incidents, according to data from PagerDuty.

By Roberto Torres • March 26, 2020

For IT spend, a new coronavirus reality: Delayed projects and hiring freezes

The rosy outlook experts held for 2020 is looking quite different, as CIOs are likely to postpone resource-intensive projects.

By Roberto Torres • March 25, 2020

Why are database migrations so complex?

Four common mistakes made in database migrations —​ and how to avoid them.

By Jen A. Miller • March 24, 2020

Yes, that meeting could have been an email

Many organizations changed where they work, but not how they work. Consider this: Did you really need to meet?

By Naomi Eide • March 20, 2020

How tech managers build data science talent

To meet data science goals, companies whip internal case studies into lessons and create communities for talent development.

By Roberto Torres • March 18, 2020

Demand for augmented, virtual reality engineers skyrocketed in 2019

Businesses are adapting to shifting consumer expectations, an evolution that puts further pressure on the demand for engineers in leading spaces.

By Roberto Torres • March 18, 2020

Companies focused on cost containment as coronavirus brings uncertainty, PwC survey finds

From the technology perspective, companies may need to pause long-term projects as part of cost containment measures.

By Naomi Eide • March 17, 2020

Complications of guaranteeing uptime during a pandemic

Historical data is used for predictive analytics in the cloud, however, the coronavirus pandemic is challenging its reliability. 

By Samantha Schwartz • March 17, 2020

Coronavirus is testing the newfound resilience of the knowledge economy

The goal is to ensure economy can function and continue to flourish in times of uncertainty, where employees globally are preparing to work from home for long periods of time, Avaya's CEO writes. 

By Jim Chirico • March 16, 2020

Assessing the coronavirus impact: What tech leaders need to know

With the coronavirus changing the landscape continuously, CIO Dive will keep you up to date on how it's affecting the technology sector.

March 13, 2020

IT spending to take a hit as coronavirus impacts play out, IDC says

It's not just hardware shipments disrupted by clipped supply chains. Spending on software and services could decline as trade and business planning is interrupted.

By Naomi Eide • March 12, 2020

UX designers moving to file-less collaboration in 2020

Productivity and collaboration apps are blurring the lines of traditional design-sharing processes.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 11, 2020

IT budgets grow for AI, security and cloud but legacy spending sticks around

As budgets steadily increase year-over-year, organizations are maintaining investments in core infrastructure where spending stays relatively stagnant — think databases, storage and network infrastructure.

By Naomi Eide • March 10, 2020

1 in 3 IT workers consider quitting over unplanned work

Dealing with time-sensitive tech issues adds 100 hours of work per IT professional, per year, according to a study from PagerDuty.

By Roberto Torres • March 10, 2020

An unlikely duo: CIO and CFO dynamic driving transformation success ... and failure

Removing friction between the CIO and the CFO, building strong working relationships and avoiding counter-behaviors can unlock a reduced IT cost. A principle roadblock? Establishing trust. 

By Gary O’Brien • March 9, 2020