The coronavirus pandemic has spurred a proliferation of rapid-fire transformations, with IT leaders working through punch lists of priorities aimed at preserving business continuity. But with work from home (WFH) decrees eliminating workplace tête-à-têtes, CIOs are wondering what will happen to serendipitous innovation. As much as CIOs like to boast about IT staff productivity since…
In biology, an ecosystem is a system of biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) elements coexisting in equilibrium. If some elements increase, others decrease to keep the overall energy of the system at some nominal level. For example, plant-eating animals multiplying in an ecosystem will deplete the vegetation, thereby reducing the capacity of that ecosystem to…
There’s no other season quite like tax season, the period between January and the mid-April deadline in which millions of Americans file financial documents related to their income. Citizens who are due financial returns tend file early, while those owing money tend to file at the 11th hour. That sharp, seasonal spike in traffic is…
As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 crisis in Australia, businesses are continuing to manage through the tough rules impacting the economy with so much uncertainty hanging over their heads. While the economy and business environment have made some structural shifts in the way organisations operate, what will be the new reality moving…
Microsoft previewed Project Cortex, a suite of cloud-based AI-powered services designed to understand content and help users automate processes with it, at its Ignite developer conference in Orlando last year. The first of those services to go on sale, SharePoint Syntex, will be revealed at this year’s Ignite, a virtual event taking place in your…
Even prior to the pandemic, improving customer experience was becoming a major priority for IT. COVID-19 and the resulting shift in business models have only accelerated that strategic directive. Delivering a positive customer experience is even more important now, as businesses prepare for a post-pandemic world that will still involve lots of home-based workers, rising…
No IT leadership job is quite like leading IT at a major university, which must accommodate the technology needs of thousands of new students each fall. The cornonavirus pandemic has compounded the challenges for this fall semester, as collegiate IT departments must support students who elect to attend classes physically and those who choose to…
DreamWorks Animation is in many ways a manufacturer of digital data. The films it produces comprise multiple terabytes of data, created by teams of artists working together with sophisticated digital animation tools in a complex data pipeline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and that animation factory floor had to close, DreamWorks production was able to…
Enterprises worldwide spent a record $34.6 billion on cloud services in 2020’s second quarter, up roughly 11 percent from the previous quarter and 30 percent from the same period last year, according to research firm Canalys. What isn’t known is how much of that money was wasted due to poor planning, faulty execution, inadequate oversight…
A survey of people of color shows a mix of good and bad news on racial inequality, and a disturbing lower concern within Silicon Valley and by executives compared to IT at large.
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