Leadership
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Employers face ‘skills mismatch’ between job seekers and company needs, LinkedIn finds
Companies can close the gap by upskilling and reskilling, according to LinkedIn’s head of global talent acquisition.
By Laurel Kalser • Jan. 17, 2025 -
Citi deploys AI coding tools to 30K developers in modernization push
The bank poured nearly $12 billion into technology in 2024, executives said Wednesday.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 16, 2025 -
What CIOs should know as DORA regulations kick in
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act requires banks and insurance companies to restore critical IT systems within two hours, starting Friday.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 15, 2025 -
Advance Auto Parts taps former Dollar General exec as CTO
EVP and CTO Shweta Bhatia brings 20 years of retail technology experience to the auto parts provider.
By Roberto Torres • Jan. 14, 2025 -
Tech talent market wraps 2024 on a high note
IT unemployment slid to 2023 levels in December as employers added 7,000 net new IT jobs, according to a CompTIA report.
By Roberto Torres • Jan. 10, 2025 -
How Akamai regained control of its runaway cloud bills
“What started organically had ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars in spend,” Akamai CIO Kate Prouty said.
By Matt Ashare • Updated Jan. 7, 2025 -
How CIOs encourage tech adoption across generations
Boomers and Gen Z face different challenges adopting workplace tools, but collaborative training can bridge the gap, CIOs say.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • Dec. 20, 2024 -
MetLife picks Citi exec as global CIO
Nick Nadgauda will join the company in March to oversee application development, infrastructure, enterprise platforms and architecture teams.
By Roberto Torres • Dec. 18, 2024 -
Top 10 enterprise technology appointments of 2024
Large organizations from Wells Fargo to Procter & Gamble and Northwestern Mutual picked executives capable of guiding IT strategy.
By Roberto Torres • Dec. 16, 2024 -
FTC plots new course on antitrust, Big Tech under Trump nominees
Current commissioner Andrew Ferguson will become chair under the president-elect. Mark Meador, a former Senate counsel, will join the commission.
By Justin Bachman • Dec. 16, 2024 -
Executives see another CrowdStrike-level IT outage on the horizon
IT and business leaders admit to prioritizing security at the expense of service disruption readiness, a PagerDuty report found.
By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2024 -
6 enterprise technology predictions to watch in 2025
Executives and analysts expect businesses to reassess their AI priorities next year, grappling with vendor and workforce shifts along the way.
By Roberto Torres , Matt Ashare , Lindsey Wilkinson • Dec. 11, 2024 -
How CIOs can prepare for Trump’s tariffs plan
The president-elect has proposed tariffs on imported goods, stoking concerns about higher costs for electronics.
By Jen A. Miller • Dec. 10, 2024 -
AWS takes a swing at Microsoft, aims Q at Windows workloads
“Customers would love an ‘easy button’ to get off of Windows,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said Tuesday.
By Matt Ashare • Dec. 4, 2024 -
Opinion
3 ways to beat technical debt through talent strategies
Organizations bogged down by outdated technology have a lifeline hiding in plain sight.
By Mike Baker • Dec. 4, 2024 -
Deep Dive
VMware’s first contentious year under Broadcom drives customers to weigh other options
The chipmaker consolidated the ubiquitous virtualization product suite into one big private cloud platform, leaving customers with a difficult business decision.
By Matt Ashare • Nov. 26, 2024 -
McCormick appoints chief information and digital officer
Guy Peri comes to the food company after nearly three decades at Procter & Gamble.
By Roberto Torres • Nov. 19, 2024 -
Johnson & Johnson appoints CIO to lead business technology strategy
Chris Della Rocca will oversee J&J's corporate business technology strategy, which includes finance and legal, and report to CIO Jim Swanson.
By Roberto Torres • Updated Nov. 19, 2024 -
European tech alliance rolls out switching specs to ease multicloud adoption
The lobbying group released a framework to help standardize EU Data Act compliance ahead of the 2025 enforcement deadline.
By Matt Ashare • Nov. 11, 2024 -
Tech executives reassess IT resilience in CrowdStrike outage aftermath
Nearly all organizations have known operational weaknesses that leave IT systems vulnerable to service interruptions, according to Cockroach Labs.
By Matt Ashare • Nov. 7, 2024 -
How one CIO navigated the aftermath of a scrapped ERP overhaul
Quitting an initiative two years in and restarting from scratch is never easy, but sometimes it is necessary, according to Michael Eubanks, goeasy EVP and CIO.
By Lindsey Wilkinson • Nov. 7, 2024 -
4 tech issues to watch in Trump’s second term
AI, cloud and cybersecurity policies are in the spotlight ahead of the forthcoming Trump administration.
By Roberto Torres • Nov. 6, 2024 -
AIG leans on generative AI to speed underwriting
The insurance company is using large language model technologies to drive digital transformation as part of a broader enterprise simplification push, Chairman and CEO Peter Zaffino said Tuesday.
By Matt Ashare • Nov. 6, 2024 -
As presidential election looms, disparate approaches to cyber policy come into focus
Government officials and security leaders hope the nation’s need for cyber resilience will transcend partisan politics regardless of the election results.
By David Jones • Nov. 4, 2024 -
Tech jobs, unemployment each rose slightly in October
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics flagged adverse weather events in the Southwest as a factor in tamer economic growth nationally.
By Roberto Torres • Nov. 1, 2024