Talk about the cloud’s benefits with most businesses and you’ll quickly realize there’s a chasm between their reality and today’s hype. “Utilize this new service to scale faster!” “Leverage more microservices!” “Reduce your tech debt by migrating to the cloud!” These are true advantages, but for now, most are unattainable for these businesses. If I…
Movers & Shakers is where you can keep up with new CIO appointments and gain valuable insight into the job market and CIO hiring trends. As every company becomes a technology company, CEOs and corporate boards are seeking multi-dimensional CIOs with superior skills in technology, communications, business strategy and digital innovation. The role is more…
In the past several years, commercially available headsets such as Facebook’s Oculus VR and the HTC Vive have enabled virtual reality (VR) to emerge from the realm of cyberpunk science fiction to become a business opportunity. While VR is often considered through the lens of entertainment and gaming, forward-thinkers in the education sector are focusing…
Companies outsource all kinds of IT and business functions to service providers, including some that are quite strategic. Increasingly, that includes data analytics, one of the more competitively advantageous areas of the technology spectrum. With data analytics outsourcing, organizations hire service providers to perform analytics on the data they provide to the outsourcing company. Industry…
Host Steve Ragan reports from the RSA 2018 conference, talking with Liv Rowley, an intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, about Spanish cybercrime, an underground community that poses persistent security risks.
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Forty-two percent of respondents to CIO’s recent State of the CIO survey say that their marketing department currently has budget specifically earmarked for investments in technology products and services — almost all of them within the next three years. If that figure sounds high to you, it shouldn’t. As David Ginsburg, vice president of marketing…
The newly minted graduates of the class of 2018 are about to enter the workforce, but according to new research from Future Workplace, many will do so without the necessary IT and technology skills employers need. In a new study from The Learning House and Future Workplace titled “Closing the Skills Gap,” of the 600…
There’s no user manual for building a long, successful career in IT, but sometimes there seems to be a secret handshake. It’s not always apparent why certain colleagues always move ahead, with access to the latest technology, the biggest budgets, and best projects — while your career seems to be in a holding pattern. Getting…
Where is CRM going? What needs to change to extend its value proposition? These are the questions that I posed to members of the #CIOChat and some noted CRM industry experts. Their answers should be relevant to CIOs, CRM implementers, software providers, and even marketing leaders. They collectively provide all involved in CRM with views…
When it comes to outsourcing, research shows that the proximity of the talent pool is a critical success factor. In fact, a recent survey of almost 4,000 IT leaders and executives in more than 80 countries showed that 28 percent of IT leaders say they planned to increase their “on-shoring” spending in the next year.…