India’s top IT firms are increasing digital project prices to cover the cost of hiring skilled IT workers in an increasingly competitive market. The competition for digital skills is also resulting in high attrition rates for them — and perhaps also in the enterprise as IT workers are lured elsewhere. Among the largest IT service…
It’s safe to say that we are relieved to put most things COVID in our rearview mirrors when we can. We cheered when fairgrounds went back to being fairgrounds, when cotton candy vendors and Ferris wheels replaced makeshift hospitals and testing sites. And even those who aren’t usually fans of tradeshows may welcome their next…
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…
Your cybersecurity team deserves a belated holiday gift, or maybe a few extra days off. While most of us were enjoying the festive year-end season, many cybersecurity professionals were hard at work trying to fix the Log4j vulnerability that became a major issue starting in late November. Instead of riding out the latter part of…
With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. The increased demand for experienced IT leaders has made the space extremely dynamic. CIO India is here with a regularly updated list of the latest CIO movements across the country. Write to us if you have news…
With supply chain woes center stage around the globe, freight and logistics companies are turning to information technology to improve operations as part of long-term digital transformation. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based US Xpress is one such freight carrier in the midst of overhauling its digital architecture to a flexible multicloud platform in an effort to expand its…
Risk. Do you think of it as something negative, or as an opportunity? What if you could quantify risks in dollar terms, and then manage them precisely? It might make you think about them more opportunistically; as something you had more control over and could leverage strategically. That’s the promise of risk quantification, and today,…
Many organizations are pouring time and money into data and analytics initiatives, only to remain stuck in first gear. Others can’t marshal the entire data estate to generate the insights they need for more intelligent decision-making and positive business outcomes. There are several reasons why data initiatives aren’t living up to their potential business value.…
By Tyler Affolter In the mix of places to store enterprise data, given the non-trivial maintenance costs of on-prem, does on-prem make sense to keep in your mix today? What about in two years? Given that most enterprises have multiple cloud environments, does it make sense to use each of them differently, perhaps one fine-tuned…
Good backups are critical for business continuity. Ninety-four percent of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss do not survive, and without backups, data loss is inevitable. Need more justification for backup? We’re dealing with exponential data growth. From 2010 to 2020, the amount of data in the world increased from 1.2 trillion gigabytes (1,200…