How Remote Workers Impact Enterprise Collaboration
This decade has seen the rise of a more open, collaborative workplace—along with a wealth of both personal and company-provided tech tools to enable employees to thrive in these spaces.…
How Business Benefits From Self-Service Analytics
CIOs and their tech teams could better support line-of-business units by enabling what’s called “self-service” data analytics, according to a recent survey from Alteryx and Harvard Business Review. The accompanying…
Outdated Security Creates an IoT Danger
The IT community must immediately address Internet of things security because there is a dire need for advanced security for agentless devices, a study revealed. IoT devices are often not…
How More Cloud Services Put the Business at Risk
By now, CIOs and their IT teams must think that they’ve spent countless hours talking to their organization’s employees about the inherent dangers of the Internet age. But risky user…
Cloud Apps Rise Despite Cloud Security Concerns
Cloud computing spend grew 20 percent last year, but security of critical data and systems remain key issues and barriers to adopting cloud services. As a result, cloud security concerns…
Why Data Pros Have a Need for Speed
As a means of achieving what’s called “fast data/big data,” a majority of organizations are deploying tech tools which enable near real-time data pipelines, according to a recent survey from…
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…
The Long Journey to Digital Initiatives
The call to go digital is a deep one, one that echoes off the heavily lacquered wood of a boardroom table, one that resounds above the hum of a data…
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 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 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 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.…