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Agile Is King, But Continuous Integration Is An Elusive Goal
A Dimension Data survey of development professionals found most enterprises have adopted agile methods, but only 14% can update hourly.
What 2017 Will Bring for the Analytics Field
Enterprises have plenty of data; now it's time to put that data to work, answering questions such as "why" and "what's next".
Expert: Threats To Secure Cloud Operations Are Evolving
John Howie, former COO of the Cloud Security Alliance, says secure providers aren't enough; threats to users are evolving fast.
Target CIO Transforms Retailer With In-house Talent, Agile
Target hired Tesco veteran Mike McNamara 18 months ago as CIO and Chief Digital Officer to transform the company's IT and software development organization. Here's what he did.
5 Security Considerations For The Hybrid Cloud
Even though your infrastructure, applications, and data are off in the cloud, don't assume that you are off the hook when it comes to compliance. You are still responsible for that data.
IT Service Management In Disruption, Moving Toward Automation
A wave of change is sweeping through the suppliers of ITSM, reflecting the enhanced ability to add analytics and automation to the field.
Harnessing Analytics' Disruptive Power
For a company, product, or service to be disruptive, it takes more than technology. Analytics can point you to your opportunities.
Maintaining Team Focus In The Digital Maelstrom
For all of the devices and applications that are designed to make workers more efficient, factors such as regular interruptions translate into lost productivity.
Nokia: Don't Be Too Quick To Dismiss Private Cloud Savings
Nokia's total cost of ownership study finds most enterprises can save 25% of data center costs by converting it to private cloud.
Future Software-Defined Datacenters Defined by Abstraction and Hardware Commoditization
IT decision makers need to understand the use cases and risks associated with software-defined datacenters and the role hyperconvergence plays in an SDDC.
The Strategy Of Speed In IT
Speed in developing and delivering applications has obvious benefits, but IT leaders have to know when to move fast and when to proceed with care.
What Happens When a Customer of IT Becomes an IT Leader
When an executive shifts from being supported by IT to leading IT, one opportunity is to become a more customer-centric IT organization.
Achieve Application And Data Visibility In The Cloud
IT organizations need visibility into the cloud when their applications and infrastructure are out there. Without such visibility, well, you are flying blind.
How Kubernetes Came To Lead The Container Management Pack
Kubernetes advocate points to software's roots inside Google, its self-healing features and its container cluster know-how.
What To Consider When Moving To Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Scalability, data availability, and agility are three reasons enterprises are making the move to HCI.
Deep-Seated Container Vulnerability Found, Corrected
Researchers at SUSE and Docker turned up a previously unknown vulnerability in container operations and issued a patch.
5 Ways to Be Successful with Open Source Software in 2017
Open source software has matured over the years, often serving as the primary piece of a corporation's software strategy. But questions remain in the minds of many managers. Doug Cutting of the Apache Software Foundation, and known for creating Hadoop, shares his thoughts on how to achieve success with for open source.
5 Business Cases For Containers
While containers offer an organization technical benefits, don't overlook their business benefits, such as cost savings and flexibility.
Private Cloud In Retreat, Public Cloud To Fore: Report
Our '2017 State of Cloud' report finds private cloud losing its viability and hybrid cloud operations too complex; public cloud use advancing.
How Can The CIO Drive RPA As A Strategic Imperative?
The use of Robotic Process Automation, using concepts such as software bots, is emerging, but its use can't succeed in isolation. The CIO needs to get involved to implement an enterprise strategy.
Bain: Is Container Use Optional? Probably Not
Containers are less an option and more an essential technology for achieving the agile company needed to survive in the digital economy.
Software Chooses Consumer Over Engineering
There's a new emphasis in the software world with a focus on ease of use and more standardized platforms that support speed to market and innovation by makers.
Digital Workspaces Winning Acceptance Through Flexibility, Security
VMware survey shows digital workspace users gaining enterprise agility through greater mobile workforce activity, added business initiative.
3 Ways Shadow Analytics May Be Working Against You
Analytics is popping up in more functional areas of businesses, outside of IT's control. Like BYOB, the trend is inevitable. How will your organization manage it?
Why You Need To Embrace DevOps Differently
Before you jump into DevOps understand what problems you are trying to solve, and whether you need to make a complete commitment to all of the elements or just specific aspects.
Enel Moves Onto Amazon To Implement New Utility Strategy
The giant Italian utility, Enel, is moving to the cloud to support it's Open Power strategy around the world, adding green power sources.
Be Recognized For IT Excellence
Organizations of all sizes and from all sectors are invited to apply for the 2017 InformationWeek IT Excellence Awards.
Addressing The Runaway Demand For Information Security
With organizations going through digital transformation,IT leaders must fundamentally change how information security services are delivered, and make security part of everyone's job.
451 Research: Containers A $2.7 Billion Market By 2020
451 Research sees containers filling a more prominent role in the cloud technologies market by 2020; the container ecosystem growing fast.
3 No-brainer Uses for the Public Cloud
While many enterprise needs will require the use of a private or hybrid cloud architecture, there are some uses that truly take advantage of the benefits that only the public cloud can deliver.
Measuring the Performance of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture teams often struggle with measuring and communicating the value of their function. We have implemented a set of simple and straight-forward performance indicators to address this problem.
Global Survey: Innovation, Movement Of Data Get More Restrictions
Foundation finds more countries passing restrictions on use of intellectual property within their borders, export of data out.
Business Transformation: Go Digital Or Go Home
The evidence is clear, digital transformation is the biggest driver in business today. Businesses that don't embrace the journey will be left behind by competitors and customers.
4 Ways Data-First Competitors Are Killing You
Data is the new oil. Those that figure out how to use it more effectively than their competitors are realizing significant, strategic benefits. But what's so unique about data-first companies? Technology? People? Culture? It turns out, there's more than meets the eye.
Supplying The Supply Chain
The supply chain is changing rapidly, often outside of the traditional IT structure. IT needs to get involved, bringing its skills and experience to the table.
Amazon: The Self-Fueling, Perpetual Motion Machine
Amazon's retail operation is now paired with what's known to be a highly successful cloud business: Are the two accelerating each other?
5 Things That Will Keep IT Execs Up At Night In 2017
The dawn of a new year brings hope of great things to come. But there also are challenges that are sure to keep IT executives awake with worry.
The Battle Over Analytics: Who Should Lead The Charge?
The IT organization has to carve out its role in a company's analytics strategy. What works? Either of two approaches.
'Snowmobile' Shows AWS At Its Blue-Collar Best
The surprise appearance of a tractor-trailer rig on stage at AWS ReInvent in Las Vegas illustrated a new way to move a petabyte of data into AWS data centers.
GoDaddy Revamps BI Tools To Enable Self-Service
Domain registrar and web hosting provider GoDaddy generates a lot of data, and it wanted to help its internal users get better insights without requiring intervention from the technical staff.
IT Products Go from Big Noise to Big Business
There's been a positive change in the enterprise computing business of late; more product announcements truly are focused on how technology can help a company do business.
Server Survey: Footprint Can Be Cut 54% Via Upgrades, Cloud
TSO Logic examined data from 10,000 customer servers and found how much upgrades can save in server count; right-sizing saves VM resources.
What the Last 10 Years Have Taught Us About Millennials
Yes, the millennial generation is different, but no more so than the generations that went before it.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
Download this report to compare how cloud usage and spending patterns have changed in 2020, and how respondents think they'll evolve over the next two years.
Successful Strategies for Digital TransformationDownload this report to learn about the latest technologies and best practices or ensuring a successful transition from outdated business transformation tactics.
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