The High Risk of Third-Party Apps
The cloud, combined with an explosion of third-party cloud apps, is posing major security issues for enterprises, according to a new study. The report, “The Explosion of Apps: 27% Are…
How to Run a Hybrid IT Environment
While the vast majority of CIOs, tech managers and IT professionals said cloud deployment factors greatly into long-term business strategies, most do not expect to migrate all of their company’s…
The Heavy Cost of System Downtime
IT system outages have emerged as fairly routine issues for companies today—and the resulting downtime amounts to a five-figure financial hit every day, according to recent research from CloudEndure. The…
Document Overload Is Taking Over Organizations
With industry research revealing that there are more than 2.5 trillion PDFs created every year, organizations are drowning in docs. In fact, the majority of professionals indicate that the current,…
Does Data Collection Waste Time and Resources?
While IT and many organizations are in the midst of an unprecedented explosion in data-gathering, a new study finds that only 15 percent of all stored data contains business-critical information.…
The Emergence of the Citizen Data Scientist
By George Whitby Business Intelligence is changing. It used to be enough to deliver information in the form of reports, dashboards and visualizations. However, over the last few years a…
Nine Tips for Agile DDoS Protection
DDoS is a disruption that plagues digital businesses. Unfortunately, it is growing and evolving rapidly. First-generation DDoS detection techniques were limited by scale-up computing models. Now, new, scale-out, big data…
Why Cloud Deployment Is at a Crossroads
Despite all the talk about the advantages of the cloud, most organizations have only progressed toward migration on a limited or experimental basis, according to a recent survey from Softchoice.…
The Rise of Cyber-Crime as a Service
This year began with explosive growth in ransomware domains, according to a DNS threat index, driving an all-time high in new malicious domains. The threat index, which measures the creation…
Data Integration Is Vital to Customer Experience
Most organizations are now using analytics and metrics in a broad range of ways to measure the impact of customer engagement, according to a recent survey from Forbes Insights and…
How IT Enhances the Customer Experience
Organizations are reaping huge ROI from their investments in the customer experience, especially if they fund for new marketing technologies or upgrades, according to a recent survey from Avanade and…
How Tech Takes the Fear Out of Change
Most executives consider disruption as a constant—and likely lasting—dynamic within their industries, according to a recent survey from KPMG LLP. The accompanying report, titled “Succeed in Constant Change,” indicates that…
How Custom Tech Boosts Sales Team Performance
While companies are spending trillions on digital sales tools, the vast majority of sales teams aren’t taking full advantage of these investments, according to a recent survey from Accenture Interactive.…
Keep It Simple, SMBs
Overly complicated rarely ends well. Yet for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) trying to see their way through the digital labyrinth of vendors, social media gurus, mobile musts and dozens…
Innovation Drives Internet of Things Deployments
By gathering data from a broad range of devices and sensors located throughout the world, the Internet of things has the potential to redefine how business decisions are made, how…
How CIOs Shape a Digital Transformation Strategy
By D.P. Morrissey When IT takes the role of a partner to the business, rather than as a technology consultant or supplier of IT services, the benefits are remarkable. According…
Tech Leaders Struggle in an Agile vs. Legacy World
Very few project management offices (PMOs) command enough agility to readily “pivot” whenever there’s a business change—an increasingly essential quality among today’s organizations, according to a recent survey from Changepoint.…
How to Win Over Digital Customers
While the majority of companies are out-performing their competitors in delivering a digital customer experience, very few are exceeding customer expectations, according to a June 2016 commissioned study conducted by…
Flaws Found In 'Right To Be Forgotten' Data Privacy Laws
A study by privacy researchers finds that attempts to obscure online information can be defeated with a bit of effort. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) The “right to…
Facebook Tests High-Speed Laser Internet Access
Facebook wants to beam you onto the web, using laser light to carry information from point to point. However, the social networking company warns that the technology is still in…