Cloud adoption accelerates as companies plan for 2nd coronavirus wave

The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have a long tail, MariaDB found. While 99% of respondents report a current business impact from COVID-19, 84% expect effects to continue into next year.

By Naomi Eide • June 2, 2020

Tips for managing enterprise security at home, from patches to reboots

Troubleshooting takes place at a distance. Adequately managing infrastructure requires simplicity. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 29, 2020

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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

Distributed software engineering teams lean on classic tools: collaboration and agile

Building software in quick bursts with constant communication, leaders help their teams sustain their pace of work.

By Roberto Torres • May 29, 2020

Guardian Life steers tech transformation with microservices

Moving off mainframes was not the priority — legacy modernization was a byproduct of larger business transformation goals. 

By Naomi Eide • May 28, 2020

CCPA enforcement is coming. Where are the rules?

Entire industries might be facing privacy implications given the climate created by the coronavirus.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 28, 2020

For 95% of companies, COVID-19 changed tech priorities

Organizations are pressing forward on long-term transformation goals in a matter of weeks, leaving three-quarters of IT workers concerned about the consequences of rushed projects.

By Roberto Torres • May 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic IaaS priorities: Public cloud reigns, usage to grow

Reflection on 2020 will highlight how companies treated cloud portfolios and adoption. Current indicators do not tell whether optimistic portfolio intentions will play out. 

By Naomi Eide • May 26, 2020

The Remote Playbook: How managers can keep burnout from upending IT teams

Failure to spot stress could result in health risks and waning levels of productivity and quality as stressed-out teams buckle under pressure.

By Roberto Torres • May 26, 2020

How CIOs can support a gradual return to the office

In partnership with the C-suite, CIOs are gearing up to support office safety and critical processes through digital products.

By Roberto Torres • May 22, 2020

Gartner: Half of healthcare CIOs will use RPA by 2023

The effects of the pandemic are pressuring healthcare decision-makers to optimize costs, making RPA's promises attractive.

By Roberto Torres • May 21, 2020

Ancient routers, IoT fridges: Security experts confront the threat landscape at home

"Our perimeter has moved to a teenager on TikTok," said Jeff Greene, director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at NIST.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2020

58% of tech firms had customers cancel, postpone projects in April, CompTIA says

By August, almost two-thirds of respondents expect business "may start to get back on track," as lockdowns ease. 

By Roberto Torres • May 20, 2020

CCPA enforcement straining manual privacy request processes

"Do not sell" requests are expected to eventually outpace consumers' demand for data deletion.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 20, 2020

CIO case study: A virtualization pivot 4 years ago made way for rapid remote transition

The coronavirus tested Nebraska Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center​'s cloud- and mobile-first strategy.

By Naomi Eide • May 20, 2020

UnitedHealth, Microsoft launch COVID-19 screening app for employers

UnitedHealth will control employees' medical data and manage opt-in and consent requirements for users, the healthcare behemoth said Friday. The app will not provide tracking or contact tracing information.

By Rebecca Pifer • May 18, 2020

Employers often forget to source employee input as they adopt new tech

Employees are often wary of new technology, even tools purported to help them do their jobs, studies show.

By Kathryn Moody • May 18, 2020

Report: 4 in 10 employees are using personal apps to share company data

Most respondents say they understand cyber risk, but there's room for improvement when it comes to mitigation.

By Roberto Torres • May 18, 2020

Enterprise agility in the time of COVID-19

Tips for shaping IT strategy for the Agile Enterprise.  

May 18, 2020

RPA projects fail because of complexity, misunderstanding

Automation will play a starring role in how businesses deal with the effects of the pandemic. But automation for automation's sake means sinking resources into failed projects.

By Roberto Torres • May 14, 2020

Coronavirus fast-forwarded tech plans, business leaders expect long-term benefit

"Many companies' futures just got accelerated. They're not different; they just got accelerated," said Tim Ryan, U.S. chair and senior partner of PwC.

By Naomi Eide • May 14, 2020

Lead with innovation in uncertain times

The importance of strategy for businesses as they face disruption from COVID-19.

By Aater Suleman, Flux7 co-founder and vice president of Cloud and Application Transformation at NTT DATA Services • May 13, 2020

Gartner: IT spend to shrink 8% in 2020, expect a slow recovery

The impact of public health interventions will crimp CIOs' ability to spend, while expectations of IT organizations remain unchanged — or even rise.

By Roberto Torres • May 13, 2020

Microsoft creates way out of reply-all black hole

An Office 365 filter will kick in once it detects 10 reply-all emails hitting 5,000 or more inboxes within an hour. After the threshold is met, it will block the thread for the next four hours. 

By Roberto Torres • May 12, 2020

3 tech leaders on using tools to support pivot to remote

Managers relied on overcommunication and planning to adapt to the new normal, using tech platforms like videoconferencing tools to support their operations and staff.

By Roberto Torres • May 11, 2020

Smaller audiences, virtual venues: Changes coming to tech conferences

Businesses turn to blended event models to replace the customer touchpoints the pandemic took away.

By Roberto Torres • May 11, 2020