Salesforce Survey: High Performance IT Targets Innovation
State of IT in 2017 shows stresses of expectations of the ‘customer era,’ need for advanced skills sets on beleaguered staffs. In its second annual State of IT report, Salesforce…
Some Things to Leave in Las Vegas
Some of Interop ITX’s awesome advisors and speakers share a peek into what they will do on their Las Vegas journey. There are certain places you go to that any…
3 Things Millennials Want from Employers
Retaining young workers can be challenging – but it’s also essential for organizations looking to train their next generation of leaders. For employers, hiring and retaining young employees has become…
5 Best Practices for Maximizing Health IT Security
Hospitals, their devices, and their data are prime targets for hackers, particularly when the tactic is ransomware. Nearly every industry is susceptible to the dangers of cybercrime, however hospitals and…
Uptime Institute: Enterprise Server Footprint Flat or Shrinking
In its annual survey, the Uptime Institute finds enterprise cloud usage flat, even while the server footprint shrinks. The server footprint inside the enterprise data center is slowly shrinking but…
Data Analytics Thrives with IT Spring Cleaning
Every now and then an organization should do a bit of spring cleaning to keep its analytics team focused on the initiatives that actually help to achieve company goals. It’s…
Firms Have Trouble Keeping Up With Digital Changes
While most business and technology executives feel that their company has a high “digital IQ,” their confidence in their organization’s tech acumen is slipping, according to a recent survey from…
The CIO’s Status Grows as Security Threats Mount
A recent study, “Virtualization Makes CIOs’ Role Key,” revealed that CEOs consider CIOs among the most important C-level executives, and they stressed that these IT leaders are important to decision-making…
Cloud and Mobile Safety Concern IT Security Pros
A recent survey finds that IT security professionals’ security concerns are directly linked to the cloud and mobile devices. Eighty-one percent of the respondents expressed concern over public cloud usage,…
Containers Pays Off for Research Institute
IT organizations that specialize in the management of high-performance computing (HPC) environments have always had little patience for virtualization. Anything that gets between their applications and the server is generally…
Innovation chief taps IFTTT platform to spur ‘citizen scientists’
Start with what you have Simrall, who oversees the city’s IT department, chose the real-time air-quality data set for a couple of reasons: Air quality has a broad impact on…
CASB technology is Rx for cloud opacity at AstraZeneca
Gift of sight A few years ago, the company starting working with CASB vendor Skyhigh Networks, piloting its tools, giving feedback and helping lay out the company’s general roadmap before…
CISO-CIO rapport at AstraZeneca shores up cloud use, security
Old bond, new environment That’s why IT security needs to be woven into the fabric of the company, with cloud services monitored and governed through company policies, Smoley said. It’s…
CISO job requires proven track record in business and security
The CISO job is one of those positions that’s much easier to get once you have a proven track record. However, companies are seeking first-time CISOs and finding candidates externally,…
AI Is Already Entertaining You
Illustration by John Hersey In the fall of 2016, a pop song was released in Japan. “Daddy’s Car,” derivative of a Beatles tune, had a soothing beat and vaguely uplifting lyrics:…
How to Craft Meetings People Love (Really)
We open today on a familiar scene: After a long day of back-to-back meetings, Bob arrives home to find his wife, Jane, who also has just returned from work, starting…
Economic Cycles Cut Both Ways
Life is procyclical. It’s a truism in the laws of physics: An object in motion acquires momentum, and hence becomes increasingly harder to stop — especially when it is going…
You’ve Been Escalated: A Guide to Instigating Change
The road to success is often paved with passion, conviction, and a healthy dose of doing the right thing for your business — even if that means taking some risks.…
Transformational PLM is Hard – It’s Time to Rally the Team
by Dave Hadfield Achieving Long-Term Transformational Success with PLM in Life Sciences In this blog series, I provide insights as to why product lifecycle management (PLM) has true potential to be…
2017 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
by Lou Killeffer Last week I joined hundreds of others at the Tribeca Festival Hub on Varick Street in lower Manhattan for the 8th Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. Co-founded…