Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, the reality is unlikely to be so simple. It’s been estimated that about half of…
Companies face various cyber risks, ranging from ransomware to data theft. Cyber threat actors gain access to an organization’s systems in various ways. However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Passwords are known to be a weak form of authentication, and the…
App modernization platform provider vFunction has released a new tool dubbed vFunction Assessment Hub, to help CIOs and other IT decision makers understand the complexity and risk of their existing legacy applications before deciding to modernize them — a process that typically involves taking on technical debt. Market demand for faster and better services along…
There comes a time in the professional life of most CIOs when they — you — need to bring in a consultant. Not a contractor. That’s someone with a defined set of skills you bring in to help with day-to-day tasks. We’re talking about someone with broad expertise and experience-based judgment you pay for good…
The boom in data science continues unabated. The work of gathering and analyzing data was once just for a few scientists back in the lab. Now every enterprise wants to use the power of data science to streamline their organizations and make customers happy. The world of data science tools is growing to support this…