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Making Hybrid Work: Best Practices for Return to Office

Hybrid work is the plan of choice for organizations that have had remote workers during the pandemic. But how do you ensure your hybrid program is successful and avoid employee blowback?

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How to Tell the Difference Between IT Fads and Trends

Before committing your organization to an emerging technology or methodology, you should first determine its staying power.

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Prepared for Ransomware and Other Data Risks? Think Again

Over 90% of businesses think they’re safe from ransomware, but research says otherwise. With data under constant stress, now is the time for a modern approach.

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3 Lessons in Creating an ‘Antifragile’ Business Strategy

Here’s how to thrive, not just survive, in a future recession.

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CIO Roles Disrupted Amid Enterprise Changes

With remote and hybrid workforces, accelerated digital transformation and cloud migration, and the increasing security issues from the other changes, CIOs are facing more complexity and change.

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Capital One’s Marty Andolino Discusses Tech Productivity

The bank’s vice president of engineering spoke with the That DOS Won’t Hunt podcast about leveraging technology and updating infrastructure to help balance productivity.

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Why SaaS Management Is a Must-Have for Digital Transformation

With the explosion of SaaS, IT leaders can either get apps under control or get lost in the chaos. Here's what IT leaders need to know about SaaS management.

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September 2022 Global Tech Policy Bulletin: From Turmoil in Iran to Biden’s...

Last month in global tech policy: GOP cries censorship to Biden’s tech regulation plans; Iran cuts off its internet; the European Parliament turns against facial recognition technology; Ethereum...

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Avoiding the Top Mistakes Made by Tech Startups

Most startups fail. Don't let your new venture become one of them. Building a successful business requires an idea, detailed planning, and a healthy dose of perseverance.

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Cloud Outages: Causes, Consequences, Prevention, Recovery

Despite best efforts by CIOs to avoid cloud outages, the inevitable happens. Safe recovery is possible, and efforts are less stressful with proper planning.

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Sam Rad Talks Tech’s Social Impact at the Women in IT Summit

Futurist discussed making society part of technology development and breaking through fears of change to explore new possibilities.

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LAUSD Ransomware Attack: Understanding Cybersecurity Risks in Education

The Vice Society ransomware group targeted the Los Angeles Unified School District, ultimately leaking stolen data. How can the education sector address common cybersecurity vulnerabilities and prevent...

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FinovateFall: Innovation, Partnerships and Community Banking 2.0

FinovateFall’s key themes included financial wellness, bank/fintech partnerships, and the evolution of community banking.

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Could Subscription Models Work for Cloud Services?

Here's how the benefits of subscription cloud services outweigh the challenges as it gains traction across industries.

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How to Budget Effectively for Multi-Cloud

Leveraging multiple clouds can lead to greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost savings, but only if you support the effort with a well-planned budget.

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Looking to Insulate Growth? Leverage an Outside-In Perspective

Tech enterprises must understand industry evolution to avert setbacks amid market volatility.

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How IT Leaders Can Survive While Helping Mergers Succeed

Corporate mergers have become a way of life, and maybe no department is more stressed by them than IT.

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What to Expect in 2023: IT Spending, Recession, Talent Crisis, Privacy

A talent-constrained recession? Hybrid or a full return to office? What about IT spending? There are plenty of opposing forces as we hurtle toward 2023, and Forrester made its predictions for what's to...

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Back to the Future: The Rise of Edge Computing

Explosion of sensor and IoT data at the edge is driving the need for a new kind of edge compute platform that can accommodate a diverse set of workloads in a small form factor in harsh environments.

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Uniting Technology and Sustainability to Drive Value

The three key aspects of a sustainable technology strategy include sustainability by tech, sustainability in tech and sustainability at scale.

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Quiet Quitting in the IT Department Impacts the Entire Enterprise

There are several ways to get a handle on the quiet quitting phenomenon, so it does not have a lasting effect on current or future business operations.

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Jobs Are Getting in the Way of Work (Here’s What’s Coming Next)

The days of good old-fashioned job roles are beginning to give way to skills-based workforce models. Here is how that works and what it means to employers, universities, and workers.

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Can Your Company Justify an IT R&D Department?

Most CIOs would welcome a dedicated R&D function to vet and try new technologies, but few have them. When can you justify one?

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IBM Invests in Emerging Digital Product Engineering Market

IBM has acquired Dialexa, a digital product engineering consultancy, to expand into that emerging market.

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Data Storage IT Careers Evolve with the Cloud

Here’s what data storage pros need to know in a hybrid cloud environment and why a business perspective is more important than ever.

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Not A Typical CIO: Lessons Learned as Chief Insights Officer

In today’s customer-driven economy, the role of chief insights officer is one designed to help organizations practice customer-centric thinking.

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DC Fintech Week Explores Risks and Opportunity in Crypto Winter

With the cryptocurrency market chilled by troubles this year, stakeholders offer perspectives on possibilities.

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Understanding DDoS Attacks on US Airport Websites and Escalating Critical...

Pro-Russian hacker collective Killnet disrupted the websites of several US airports via DDoS attacks, and critical infrastructure will likely continue to face escalating cyber threats.

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How CIOs Can Prepare the Enterprise for the Metaverse

The metaverse does not yet fully exist but it is beginning to emerge, creating an opportunity for CIOs to prepare the enterprise now through exploring immersive experiences in the workplace.

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Digital Transformation and the Virtualization of the Workplace

The future of work may include physical and digital changes to the space that employees operate from, according to a panel at RTE2022.

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10 Actionable Tips for Managing/Governing Data

Here is a quick look at things you can do to help govern and manage your data in the most practical sense.

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Helping CIOs Close Skills Gaps Amid Digital Transformation in Financial Services

Here are four key dimensions that need to be addressed to build organizational digital capabilities, providing a solid foundation for long-term readiness and innovation.

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How to Tackle Cyberthreats in the Metaverse

With the development in the metaverse still in early stages, security concerns need to place consumer protections front and center if adoption is to thrive.

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How the European Energy Crisis Could Impact IT

European IT organizations face a long, cold winter as they struggle to cope with dwindling energy resources and soaring prices.

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Cracking the Code for Skills-Based Hiring

One reason skills-based hiring has been slow to take hold is that employers, particularly in tech, don’t always understand how to put it into practice. Here are three ways to get started.

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Services You Should Expect From Your Cyber Insurance Provider

Cyber insurance is a novel service -- and clients still don’t know what they should expect. Experts tell us what premium cyber insurance firms are offering and what you should plan on securing for...

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Quick Study: IT Budgets and Cost Management

IT leaders face a bigger challenge than they have encountered in recent years regarding cost management and IT budgeting. We've collected a variety of InformationWeek articles that offer advice on...

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How to Break Bad News to Your IT Team Without Killing Morale

Bad news travels fast and hard. Here’s advice on how you can soften the blow.

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Where is Blockchain Headed?

DC Fintech Week: Technology development, energy consumption, and regulatory scrutiny put blockchain in the spotlight as the sector scales up.

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How CFOs Will Tackle Challenges Heading into 2023

Chief financial officers need to focus on several key areas, including where the business risks and opportunities lie, prioritizing talent recruitment and retention, and digitizing operations. They’re...

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Your Apple Watch Might Save Your Life

Digital enablement introduces some important considerations, namely the need for a strategy around data interpretation. But it also unlocks untold possibilities, among them an answer to healthcare’s...

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Why Your IT Organization Needs to Embrace Continuous Improvement

Getting better all the time is the goal of continuous improvement. Here's what you need to know to bring this powerful concept to your organization.

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Buttoning Up Cybersecurity to Avoid Fashion Retailer's Fate

The New York Attorney General’s Office fined Zoetop $1.9 million for its failure to protect consumer data and properly disclose the scope of a 2018 data breach. How could a fine like this be avoided?

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Tips to Achieve Enterprise ML Success

Operationalizing an ML ecosystem can help make business data a predictive engine for the business. Learn how to achieve enterprise ML success from Capital One.

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Cloud Certifications: A Differentiating Factor in the Tech Industry

Accelerating your cloud computing career? Consider cloud certifications. Here’s how to choose a certification best suited for you and what to do to prepare.

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CIOs Face IT Spending Squeeze, Security Woes, Higher Expectations in 2023

CIOs are headed into a perfect storm in 2023 as top execs want to see accelerated time to value from tech investments. That's according to survey results presented at the recent Gartner IT Symposium.

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BaaS, Social Payment Apps Gain Traction

For banks, adding BaaS is the modern-day equivalent of adding branch locations -- without much of the capital expenditure.

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How Organizations Can Engage Tech Talent in Today’s Labor Market

In today's job market, talented tech candidates hold the cards, meaning that tech companies must improve their candidate experience to hire great employees.

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IT and Finance/Marketing/Engineering: Let's Just Get Along

What are the issues with these three departments that have the potential to complicate IT-user relationships, and how should IT leaders deal with them?

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Spotting DevSecOps Warning Signs and Responding to Failures

A pair of keynote presentations at ONUG Fall 2022 examined issues in the DevSecOps dynamic and how organizations can address such problems.

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