FedEx to shut down its last mainframes within 2 years

Sunsetting the final 20% of its mainframes will save the company $400 million per year, CIO Rob Carter said.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 30, 2022

CIOs called to quickly show return on technology investment

Modernization is a messy business, characterized by friction and disruption. But CIOs can show value in the chaos, highlighting the end goal amid the fray.

By Lindsey Wilkinson • June 6, 2022

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Communication and collaboration software

To compete in their industries, businesses rely on a growing set of digital tools that bring workers together, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. But the balance is delicate. 

By CIO Dive staff

Forget technology: Talent is the key to modernization

Competition for digital skills remains a major headache — and the solution may be an HR rethink.

By Matt Ashare • June 2, 2022

The State of Digital Leadership

Gartner Peer Insights data and opinion explores: 'Are you a good digital leader?'

May 31, 2022

Can your tech stack improve your employee retention?

Investing in technology that makes collaboration visual, fun, and human can boost engagement and help stave off the worst effects of the great resignation in your workforce.

By Varun Parmar, CPO at Miro • April 11, 2022

The do's and don'ts of a successful employee onboarding strategy

Make a great first impression and increase employee retention with an exceptional employee onboarding process.

By Fernando Santos, Tech Product Marketer with OutSystems • Feb. 7, 2022

How IT leaders can support a productive hybrid workplace

Hybrid work can generate employee happiness and efficiency—but only with the right technology.

By Helen Irias, Product Marketing Manager at Envoy • July 26, 2021

Tech M&A is skyrocketing, fueling vendor consolidation fears

The value of tech M&A deals has grown, compensating for a decline in deal volume, according to a report from PwC.

By Katie Malone • July 14, 2021

Tech M&A growth spurt leaves IT execs less market choice

Gartner recorded 1,264 mergers and acquisitions in the tech and service provider space in the fourth quarter of 2020.

By Roberto Torres • May 25, 2021

Employers prioritize security, gear and Wi-Fi in remote work spend

Businesses estimate they've spent an average of $400 per employee on workstations, a Plugable survey found.

By Roberto Torres • May 13, 2021

Tech jobs hold up 'remarkably well' as US hiring lulls

The April jobs report showed slower than expected growth, while tech added more than 16,000 jobs last month.

By Roberto Torres • May 7, 2021

Tech jobs remain clustered in major hubs — for now

The share of tech jobs in eight U.S. metro areas — including San Francisco, Seattle and Boston — inched up, according to Indeed data.

By Roberto Torres • May 6, 2021

Culture, tech woes await executives building long-term work models: report

Nearly half of executives say their companies will have established norms and policies by this summer, according to a West Monroe report.

By Roberto Torres • April 6, 2021

Then and now: How the CIO role has evolved

Technological innovation transforms the technical requirements for CIOs, but expectations for professional competencies and soft skills have changed, too.

By Katie Malone • March 29, 2021

Walmart saves millions with cloud and ML upgrades

The company's fiscal year 2022 guidance includes $14 billion in capital expenditures focused on technology, automation, supply chain and customer-facing initiatives.

By Katie Malone • Feb. 25, 2021

Why Global Payments went multicloud

Large companies venture down the multicloud path to support different business arms.

By Katie Malone • Feb. 11, 2021

Growing pains: Google Cloud reports net loss despite revenue growth

The hyperscaler's cloud arm earned over $13 billion in revenue last year — and losses are a part of the plan.

By Katie Malone • Feb. 3, 2021

PwC: Remote work 'an overwhelming success' for employers, employees

Most executives surveyed still said employees need to work in the office to maintain a strong culture, however.

By Ryan Golden • Jan. 21, 2021

In tech, acquisitions predicted to boom with strong market for cloud

A majority of technology buyers and firms are planning to close a deal in the next two years.

By Katie Malone • Dec. 22, 2020

Supreme Court pushes Google, Oracle to defend right to Java

Apple uses a different approach to declaring functions on its mobile platform, and it spent billions of dollars to do so. "Presumably you could have," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, to Google's counsel.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 7, 2020

Slack picks Reddit alum as chief security officer

The company named its first CSO Geoff Belknap in 2016, but Larkin Ryder has been serving as Slack's interim CSO since Belknap departed in 2019. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 1, 2020

Zoom adapts to pandemic challenges, remote work with internal processes revamp, CIO says

The growth the platform experienced in the spring amplified the platform's "responsibility" to global enterprises, said Harry Moseley, during a virtual event.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 24, 2020

Microsoft Teams scales to 20K meeting participants

The company is capping interactive meetings at 1,000 participants, adding a "view only" option for large calls. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 3, 2020

Slack's EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft exposes market wounds

Slack is asking European Union authorities for a "level playing field" and to "referee" Microsoft's return to "past behavior," Slack's general counsel says.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 23, 2020

Whiteboard tests eliminate qualified applicants, research suggests

Technical interviews are more fit to assess a candidate's performance anxiety levels rather than their coding chops, new research from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds.

By Roberto Torres • July 16, 2020