Key Considerations When Managing a Multivendor IT Environment

Multivendor enterprise IT environments don’t spring up overnight. They tend to evolve over time. Organizations cobble them together by combining sequences of usually unrelated events – everything from acquisitions to investments in best-of-breed components to leadership changes that shift tactics regarding vendor preferences. Where does this leave IT leaders? At times overwhelmed. As IT environments…

Deliver Better Digital Experiences with Observability

Today, the stakes are undeniably high for exceptional digital experiences. With 80 percent of customer interactions being digital, organizations aiming for success must prioritize technologies that foster premium speed, convenience, and service – what 70 percent of consumers say matters the most. And remarkably there’s a great reward for making the effort, as consumers will…

Transitioning to Hybrid Work with Smarter Workspaces

As highlighted in Fortune Magazine’s recent article Best Companies to Work for 2022, “coming out of the pandemic, workers want the ability to choose where, when, and how they work.” Many companies are offering employees what they want. In fact, the article states that “58% of knowledge workers have hybrid work arrangements as of January…

CIO Leadership Live with Abhishek Singh of Royal Golden Eagle

Abhishek Singh, Chief Digital Officer of Royal Golden Eagle, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Abhishek details the process of assessing the promise of new technologies, documenting a step-by-step approach from securing boardroom buy-in to company-wide deployment and usage. Watch this episode: #id625dc79c3ab11 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important;…

RBI and the Importance of Integrated Threat Protection

By Paul Gillin It sounds like a nearly perfect cybersecurity solution: Intercept incoming data before it reaches the user’s web browser; isolate it in a secure sandbox; and send only the screen images—or pixels—to the browser. The ephemeral server is fully isolated from the organization’s IT assets and data, and its browser sessions are destroyed…

7 secrets of successful digital transformations

Organizations that continued full speed ahead with their digital transformation initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic are able to ruminate on what went right and what they would have done differently, with the benefit of hindsight. Some of what they’ve gleaned comes as no surprise: A successful digital transformation requires executive buy-in, constant communication with business…

7 famous analytics and AI disasters

In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. The refrain has been repeated ever since. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the…