IT Strategy: Page 41


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    Pentagon greenlights $9B contract pool for military cloud spending

    After a 17-month evaluation process, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all won the battle for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract.

    By Dec. 8, 2022
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    Employees are getting better at remote work

    Remote meetings have evolved since the start of the pandemic, upending conventional wisdom about working from home, according to new research.

    By Dec. 7, 2022
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    Trendline

    CIO Priorities

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

    By CIO Dive staff
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    What does AI without bias look like?

    Inequitable framing, biased data and human prejudice can be augmented by tech. But can AI minimize bias?

    By Caroline Colvin • Dec. 7, 2022
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    Mainframe modernization meets multicloud chaos on the road to IT’s future

    Third-party vendors are creating metacloud capabilities that provide cross-platform observability and governance that sits above the cloud. 

    By Dec. 7, 2022
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    Companies wade through 367 apps to get work done

    The app surplus is eating up time. Workers are spending more than two hours a day sorting through silos, an Airtable report found.

    By Dec. 6, 2022
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    Are you more innovative in the office? Your boss thinks so.

    To many employees’ dismay, business leaders tie innovation to work location. But one Gartner analyst cautions, leaders need to be clear on what they're innovating for.

    By Dec. 6, 2022
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    IBM leans on hybrid to stay competitive in cloud

    Hillery Hunter, CTO of IBM Cloud, shared how the tech company is banking on security, compliance and stability to bolster industry cloud solutions.

    By Dec. 6, 2022
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    OpenAI’s ChatGPT hiccups serve as a fresh reminder of AI flaws

    The AI-generated language model has been banned from Stack Overflow less than a week after its release.

    By Dec. 5, 2022
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    Can you power through forces of nature?

    With hurricane season seeing greater activity than before, now’s the time to revisit your IT strategy.

    Dec. 5, 2022
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    Tech employment grew in November even as layoffs tick up

    The monthly jobs report shows reassuring signs for the technology workforce, according to CompTIA.

    By Dec. 2, 2022
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    How XPO’s new CIO keeps tech on track in trucking

    The logistics company is leveraging data and an engineering culture to optimize the less-than-truckload freight business.

    By Dec. 2, 2022
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    7 must-read business technology stories from 2022

    From UPS CIO’s parting thoughts to long-lived legacy IT, some of this year’s top stories delve into the forces and strategies that shape enterprise tech.

    By Naomi Eide • Dec. 2, 2022
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    Salesforce customers closely scrutinize software spend

    The company also announced Wednesday Bret Taylor will be stepping down, marking Salesforce's second co-CEO departure since 2020. 

    By Dec. 1, 2022
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    Companies are bullish on digital transformation — but where should investment go?

    Choosing the right set of technologies to adopt is a top hurdle for organizations, alongside issues of talent and scale.

    By Dec. 1, 2022
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    Maersk, IBM to shut down blockchain joint venture TradeLens

    The tool was intended to start a supply chain “digital revolution”. But it will shutter in Q1 2023 as it failed to achieve commercial viability. 

    By Edwin Lopez • Nov. 30, 2022
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    Why cyberattackers love IT professionals — and how organizations can keep risk at bay

    Limiting admin access is one step toward strengthening defenses, but there are other ways to reduce vulnerabilities.

    By Brian Eastwood • Nov. 30, 2022
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    Microsoft, PMI partner to train students on low code skills

    Project Management Institute’s new university hub teaches college students how to create business apps using Microsoft Power Platform.

    By Nov. 29, 2022
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    How one company’s ERP adoption boosted efficiency and cut costs

    Goodbye, paper processes and dusty inventory. Adell Group needed a system with proper capabilities and easy end-user experience.

    By Nov. 29, 2022
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    Opinion

    How CIOs can revamp the company SaaS strategy

    Infrastructure and operations leaders should proactively adopt SaaS applications, rather than retrospectively adapting to change.

    By Manjunath Bhat • Nov. 28, 2022
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    As CIOs tighten tech spend, demand for cybersecurity services grows

    Managed service providers can help fill talent needs and tame costs, but that strategy may require additional risk mitigation.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Nov. 28, 2022
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    Companies grapple with SaaS application management

    Many companies struggle to control app redundancy, shadow IT and complexity, Snow Software found.

    By Nov. 23, 2022
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    Opinion

    If young workers see their supervisor quiet quitting, they might do the same

    There’s little info out there about what happens when the boss quiet quits, a Rutgers University faculty member writes.

    By Kyra Leigh Sutton • Nov. 22, 2022
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    It would take a ‘catastrophic recession’ for tech spend to slow, IBM CEO says

    Technology spending will offset inflationary pressures as executives grapple with labor challenges and rising interest rates.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Nov. 22, 2022
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    How Home Depot uses tech to prepare for a holiday surge

    The final stretch of the year, with its back-to-back holidays and spikes in demand, puts supply chains and IT systems to the test.

    By Nov. 22, 2022
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    Enterprise tech’s worst-kept secret: The persistence of mainframe

    The on-prem IT workhorse remains integral as companies move to hybrid cloud. But, it too is modernizing. 

    By Nov. 22, 2022