By Paul Gillin Cybersecurity strategies for years have been grounded in protecting the perimeter of the corporate network. Yet, as nearly every organization learned during the COVID-19 crisis, that perimeter no longer exists. Nearly all new software functionality is now deployed as a service (SaaS) that people access from a multitude of locations and devices.…
SAP has offered its customers in Russia the option to move their cloud data out of the country before its data centers there are shut down, according to Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent. In a March 23 letter from SAP’s executive board, the Walldorf-based company gave its Russian clients three options to choose from.…
Now it its 35th year the US CIO 100 awards recognizes 100 organizations for innovative use of technology in projects that further their organizational goals. To win a CIO 100 award is to be acknowledged as a leader in enterprise IT. A world class panel of judges, including renowned former CIOs, selected this year’s winning…
Nearly a decade into his IT career, Brian Mariner started feeling a sense of isolation that many Black IT pros experience at work. He had built up a “reasonable set of professional network opportunities” but felt that he “didn’t have a lot of confidants in the industry either from school or professionally,” he says. “I…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive diaspora from the office, at least for knowledge workers. According to a recent study, a quarter of all high-paying jobs will be remote in the next 12 months. This has the potential to create massive change not only to society, real estate markets, and urban centers but also…
The pandemic may be fanning headwinds against the global economy, but China’s economic resilience has allowed the country to sail into it. We see this in its post-pandemic recovery: with China’s economy projected to grow by 8.5% in 2021—a 73% increase from its GDP growth of 2.3% in 20201. This growth is no stroke of…
CIOs realize data is the new currency. But, if you can’t use your data as a differentiator to gain new insights, develop new products and services, enter new markets, and better meet the needs of existing ones, you’re not fully monetizing your data. That’s why building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)…