7 tips for modernizing data management

Data is an enterprise’s most valuable and enduring asset, serving as the foundation for both digital strategy and transformation. Yet maintaining a strong grip on rapidly spiraling amounts of data scattered across public and private clouds, as well as in on-premises environments, requires a new and innovative management approach. Modernizing data management to keep pace…

5 ways to accelerate digital business in 2021

Gartner research finds that a majority (69%) of boards of directors have accelerated digital business as a response to COVID-19. CEOs, too, are looking to prioritize digital investments going into 2021 as they plan for growth and recovery in a post-pandemic world. To keep up this pace, IT leaders must be aggressive in taking things…

7 ways to sabotage your shift to agile

Agile should be yesterday’s news. Really, yester-decade’s news. The Agile Manifesto appeared nearly twenty years ago, and unlike Athena, who sprang fully grown and armored from Zeus’s head, many of us had practiced or encouraged agile-ish techniques long before the manifesto made them official. And yet, some fearless holdouts have managed to keep agile, with…

15 SLA mistakes IT leaders still make

Being diligent about service-level agreements (SLAs) has always been important for IT organizations working with IT service and cloud providers. But understanding how to negotiate, structure, manage, measure, and report on these metrics is more crucial than ever. “Given digital transformation and the spending cuts across IT and business lines, it is critical to confirm…

Cloud, telco providers show the promise of 5G edge

Businesses are intrigued by the convergence of 5G wireless networking and edge computing to fuel their enterprise applications. And while the market for such capabilities remains nascent, IT leaders should prepare for the arrival of these technologies, which are maturing rapidly thanks to telco operators and cloud software makers, experts say. 5G comprises next-generation wireless…