Cloud Computing
News Analysis
NetSuite refines focus on SMBs facing growth challenges
Cloud technology and the increasing pace of globalization allow small and medium-size businesses to scale up faster than ever, but also puts them in a bind. How do they take advantage of opportunities to grow when they have limited resources?
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FinOps: Best practices for cloud cost optimization
Cloud consumption is growing rapidly, but tracking spending can be a bear. Enter FinOps, a financial discipline and tech solution intended to optimize how enterprise spend on cloud.
The Digital Enterprise
Is all-in on the cloud a real strategy?
Capital One has committed to moving everything to the cloud. But is it even possible to go all-in on the cloud, and, in the end, is it worth the trouble?
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7 cloud myths debunked
Don't let misconceptions cast a shadow over your organization's ability to get the most out of the cloud. Here are 7 cloud myths that should be relegated to history.
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Caesars plays the high-stakes game of digital transformation
Caesars CIO Les Ottolenghi replatformed the gaming and entertainment company on the cloud to facilitate personalization. The goal? Better guest experiences that translate to greater revenues.
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7 steps to a well-architected cloud
Efficient cloud architectures don't emerge out of thin air. The best environments are constructed piece-by-piece from the ground up.The Adaptive CIO
Managing multi cloud
Is multi-cloud a business risk or just a new way of doing business?
Enterprise Architecture in the Digital Age
PaaS, part one: The BLT
Since the term "platform" can have many interpretations, enterprise architects and business strategy leaders must provide clarity to help organizations hone their platform ambitions.
The Digital CIO
Practical AI in the contact center starts with agent assistance
Many businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer experience. CIOs should be careful with the emerging technology, however, and use it as an assistive tool first to reduce risk.rn
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St. Jude turns to the cloud to battle childhood cancer
By moving its library of genomic data to the cloud, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has provided a platform for scientists around the world to collaborate.
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Moving ERP to the cloud? Expect delays
Businesses are attracted to cloud ERP systems by their scalability and security patch automation, but compliance challenges and difficulties in moving sensitive data to the cloud are still a concern, a study by the Cloud Security Alliance reveals.
High Tech in the Hub
IT forecast: Cloudy with a chance of digital transformation
Like the weather, the accuracy of technology predictions can change with the wind. I’m looking forward to seeing how the industry will continue to challenge one another and how business demands will force continuous innovation.
The Business of Data
5 reasons why your business model may need an API
APIs offer businesses more than just an efficient way to get data to end users. They can also be used to generate new revenue streams and extend your market reach.
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Serverless: The future of cloud computing?
Serverless marks the next leg of the cloud journey as CIOs further abstract infrastructure and operations in pursuit of greater business agility.
Digitally Uncensored
How to recover from SaaS stack bloat in the enterprise
Enterprises are seeing massive growth of SaaS adoption within their organizations. However, tech officers need to get organized and address issues with license management, redundancies, governance and compliance. Here are 5 steps to take to prevent IT bloat due to decentralized SaaS use.
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Winter 2019: State of the CIO
With digital transformation well under way, IT leaders are expanding their roles to take on business strategy responsibilities, identifying new areas of growth and opportunities for competitive differentiation, according to our 2019 State of the CIO research.
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UCSD shifts from Cobol to real-time data streaming
At the University of California San Diego, CIO Vince Kellen is taking a modular, incremental approach to replacing Cobol applications with modern ERP systems in a quest to give analysts real-time access to data.
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on the rebellion against complexity
As enterprises transition from on-premises IT, Oracle is positioning itself as the premier provider for cloud computing. You may think this is a stretch, but the company has steadily revamped its vast software portfolio to the point where all of its applications are available, imbued their full feature sets as well as new AI technology, on the cloud.
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TBM success stories: Improving the value of IT
CIOs are turning to financial analytics to automate technology business management (TBM), a framework for aligning the value of IT services with the cost to produce them.
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Wyndham Hotels checks into the cloud
Modernizing core reservation and property management systems by moving to the cloud sets Wyndham up for more innovative franchisee and guest experience, says CIO Scott Strickland.
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7 key IT investments for 2019 (and 3 going cold)
Technology investments are both soaring and falling as digital transformation grips enterprises of all types and sizes. Here's a look at 2019's likely tech hot and cold spots.
Digitally Uncensored
3 ways Amazon can address its web service data risk – and what others can learn from it
Amazon may be facing a potentially data risk as third-party payment processors have been cited to be suspiciously getting sellers' Marketplace Web Service secret keys in the guise of integration.
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15 IT resolutions for 2019
Tech teams need to lose the grunt work, go on a dev diet, and exercise more strategic thinking.
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Magellan Health goes cloud-first to modernize IT
Magellan Health CIO Srini Koushik is embracing SaaS for identity management and other functions as part of a digital transformation aimed at improving the way the company leverages data.
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Inside Western Digital’s massive cloud ERP migration
A three-company merger has given Western Digital CIO Steve Phillpott a unique lens on moving ERP to the cloud. Here are his key takeaways.
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Workday CIO on tackling SaaS debt and sprawl
Configure your software, don’t customize it — but make sure you have the skills available to do it well: That’s the advice of Workday CIO Diana McKenzie
Healthcare Technology Trends
The battle of the health clouds
Several large tech firms have launched health clouds to tap into the burgeoning digital health ecosystem. However, the health cloud value proposition may not be entirely clear at this time.
News Analysis
Making sense of IBM-Red Hat in the multi-cloud era
IBM’s bid to buy Red Hat will see it integrating rivals’ cloud infrastructures, luring new clients to the cloud, and potentially kicking off an industry-wide series of cloud mergers.
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G6 Hospitality finds room to grow in AWS cloud
The operator of Motel 6 and Studio 6 hotel brands bet on Amazon Web Services and DevOps to run more agile operations, says CIO Jessie Burgess.
Digitally Uncensored
4 areas of SMB operation that benefit the most from SaaS
Small to midsize businesses move towards Software-as-a-Service in a digital-first landscape.
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Sysco modernizes IT and ERP for the cloud
Sysco CTO Wayne Shurts is refactoring ERP and other critical business applications and migrating them to Amazon Web Services. Here’s how he’s doing it.
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5 CRM trends for 2018
Customer relationships are key to a healthy business. Here’s how organizations are making the shift to holistic, data-driven approaches to improving customer experience.
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What is inventory management? A system for streamlining operations
An inventory management system can help streamline your operations by keeping tabs on goods and supplies and by forecasting needs based on a wide array of data.
News Analysis
SAP on Azure vies with Salesforce on AWS to break data out of silos
Data silos are bad, but strategies differ on the best way to break out of them.
Reviews
Asana review: Intelligent, adaptive project management
Asana’s work management and collaboration platform is an impressive tool that enables teams to significantly reduce the time they spend dealing with processes and task management.
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The case for cooperative IT: How it works and who it's for
Both a technology model and a business model, cooperative IT brings companies together to share technology and resources. Where does such an approach pay off — and where should it be avoided?
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What is XaaS? A way to inject agility into your digital business
Everything as a service (XaaS) is emerging as a go-to operating model for delivering IT services. Co-opting the cloud’s rapid deployment model, XaaS may also serve as a revenue engine for innovative enterprises.
Agile Enterprise
5 reasons for containerizing your legacy Windows Server applications
Why leading enterprises across the globe are turning to a container management platform to breathe new life into legacy Windows Server applications.
News Analysis
SAP’s cloud analytics update offers insights in seconds, not months
With a refresh of its cloud analytics tools, SAP hopes to bring users new insights into their data more quickly and take some of the workload off the IT department.
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GM, Synchrony bet big on private clouds
GM's Randall Mott and Synchrony Financial's Carol Juel detail how private clouds enable them to build and scale applications with speed and agility. No public cloud required.
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16 time-saving tips for IT leaders
Want to maximize the time your organization spends on transformational initiatives? Here’s how to eliminate time-wasting practices and streamline how work gets done.
The Digital CIO
Note to CIOs: It’s time to change the network
VMware book gives CIOs a look at how to transform their network to be optimized for the cloud.
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Ebates looks to cloud data lake to resolve ETL dilemma
Several years ago, an on-premises data lake was the answer to Ebates' BI infrastructure woes. Today, spikes in demand from ad hoc queries are interfering with core ETL workloads.
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Re-architecting IT for multicloud: 5 key steps
The task for CIOs is to define an all-inclusive IT architecture for on-premises and private/public cloud computing. Here are 5 steps to stay ahead of the game.
The Digital CIO
Digital transformation drives next wave of application delivery controllers
F5 Networks previews the evolution of application delivery controllers (ADCs) to meet the demands created by digital transformation.
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Mobile-first strategy streamlines AZDCS case work
A mobile-first strategy leveraging cloud-based mobility helps the Arizona Department of Child Safety (AZDCS) better serve families and children.The Digital CIO
Machine learning turns unstructured secondary storage into globally accessible data
Cohesity’s Helios converts the massive amounts of secondary storage from a wasted asset into data capable of creating competitive differentiation.
The Smart Service Desk
Finding the holy grail of centralized employee services
How to deliver operational efficiency, provide a great employee experience, and ubiquitously deploy it via the cloud.
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12 signs your strategic partnership has gone wrong
The most successful IT partnerships are continuously evaluated. Here’s how to tell a strategic IT relationship is on the rocks — and how to get it back on track.
The Digital CIO
CIOs need to consider the human side of digital transformation
As digital transformation happens, it's critical that CIOs focus on transitioning employee skills, as well as deploying new technologies.-
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