The 250 employees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham can’t tackle all the work on the IT docket, so CIO Curtis A. Carver Jr. says he turns to vendors for fill the gap. Those outside workers are important enough, he says, that he occasionally schedules large catered-lunch meetings so he can share with strategic…
The first step in bridging the gap starts with understanding the problem. IT and security operations have worked in silos for decades so one might think “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But it is, in fact, broken, and there is little awareness of the impact caused by the fragmentation. According to a recent…
A long, long time ago, Amazon Web Services was all about hosting computing workloads in data centers far, far away. At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in…
Cloud computing has become the model of choice for modernizing IT portfolios, with companies gaining agility and speed to market by renting public cloud software. But more and more CIOs are standing up so-called hybrid cloud systems in which they shuttle business applications between public clouds from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud…
Cisco Systems offers its customers an array of options for monitoring their networks and IT systems — but how does Cisco’s internal IT team monitor the infrastructure used by its 75,000 employees around the world? The answer to that is changing as the company moves from a homegrown monitoring system to one built on top…
Forget about New Year’s resolutions, which tend to be tossed aside and forgotten as soon as the champagne loses it sparkle. For IT leaders, the new year is a prime time for planning, organizing and launching new strategies and initiatives. Evolving business trends, security issues and increasing government oversight of many IT activities, combined with…
There’s a fine line between AI that interacts for us and AI that interacts AS us. Or is there a line at all? Will anyone care? Questions abound.
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Most enterprises, afraid of losing ground to competitors, are moving at such a rapid pace that they often miss signs that portend disruption. But companies can head off this innovator’s dilemma by capitalizing on emerging trends and anticipating where their respective industries are heading. Futurist and author Daniel Burrus proposed this notion two years ago…
Landing the perfect IT job is never easy, but having the right technical skills can give you an inside track on a new role, especially if your skills are in high demand. Job search platform Indeed has analyzed the most-wanted tech skills appearing in job postings between 2014 and 2019. The results represent what drives…
The shortage of skilled technology professionals is a big challenge for IT. One possible solution: Taking advantage of apprenticeship programs aimed at preparing students and workers from non-IT fields for technology careers. A study by professional services firm Accenture released in October 2019 notes that community college students can help offset the nation’s technology talent…