6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

Do you wish business executives and IT could work together better, collaborating on projects and fully sharing information? If you’re like most IT leaders, the answer is very much yes. The benefits of improved business-IT collaboration include things such as projects that better fit business goals, improved change management, and better buy-in for new initiatives.…

Daphne Jones: Envision a new career destiny

To this day, Daphne Jones remembers the high school guidance counselor who told her she would never get into college—or if she did, would never graduate. ”Black girls just don’t make it in college, he told me,” says this renowned C-suite technology leader and board director. “He had my destiny all locked up.” If only…

Drivers of IT transformation and the role of multi-cloud

Multi-cloud expansion is essential for many organizations that are scripting strategic initiatives for future growth and success. But excitement over the advantages of multi-cloud—including modernization of cloud infrastructure, operations, and applications—needs to be balanced with caution. Managing and operating multiple applications and workloads across multiple clouds can create increased complexity and additional silos if not…

Safeguard Your Network Investment With Assessment Services

No one is safe from cybersecurity threats. Even the most sophisticated networks are vulnerable. Hackers, viruses, and cybercriminals are continually looking for ways to exploit weaknesses in your system. The data tells us that cyberattacks occur every 39 seconds.  Cisco Customer Experience Business Critical Services provides a solution that organizations can leverage immediately. It offers…

The Benefits of Best-of-Breed SASE

By: Nav Chander, Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing When shopping at the grocery store before hosting a party, we often select different brands for beverages, be it soda, juice, or sparkling water, to offer a full complement of drink brands we think guests will value. We rarely select a single brand for all…

The Future is Being Written in Real-time

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax Today is all about real-time. Winning enterprises take data, process it, and use it to deliver an instantaneous experience to the customer. Think about an organization where, at each moment, a recommendation engine is talking to every part of the business – sharing immediate data on live sales…

Top 15 project management certifications

Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of…