What’s the Secret to Achieving Operational Resilience?

According to Gartner, operational resilience is defined as “initiatives that expand business continuity management programs to focus on the impacts, connected risk appetite, and tolerance levels for disruption of product or service delivery to internal and external stakeholders.” If the word “disruption” sounds familiar, it’s because we’re living in one of the most volatile times…

Does Workload Placement Define the Cloud Principles? What Do You Think?

By Richard Amos On-demand automated self-service, elasticity, utilization transparency, and resource pooling are all core aspects of workload efficiency. It was the public cloud providers that initially improved upon the. these concepts, propelling a new way of working that enabled organizations to scale. Embed micro-services, containerization, Agile, and DevOps within this transformation and suddenly technology’s…

Banks Are Running Out of Time

By David Andrzejek, head of financial services, DataStax There’s an important and growing trend occurring in financial services business processes and practices that’s upending how banks build applications and manage data. Bank product leaders are demanding instant, responsive, and personalized services, and bank technology leaders need to quickly execute a “real-time data” strategy. Why? Because…

9 ways CIOs will fail to support hybrid work in 2022

Organizations have been talking about the pivot to hybrid work for so long now that the successful shift to a work-from-anywhere environment may seem like a foregone conclusion.   “From an IT perspective, the pandemic has already provided a trial run for many companies to accommodate hybrid workers,” says Robin Hamerlinck, senior vice president of…

7 tips for containing project scope

Project managers know that defining a project’s scope and developing a scope statement is just a starting point. The next part, containing the project’s scope, is much more complicated — and no less crucial. It’s estimated that 52% of all projects face scope creep at some point. Such uncontrolled growth can jeopardize your project’s chances…

Welcome to your new enterprise network: the internet itself

By Joe Vaccaro, VP-Product, ThousandEyes Your enterprise network used to be, well, your enterprise network.  For the most part, all your apps, network hardware, and end-user devices were owned by your organization and under the same roof. Keeping them secure, visible, and optimized was, in hindsight at least, relatively simple.  But the hyper-distributed world of cloud-based apps…