Cybersecurity, once strictly a function of the information technology department, is turning into a business concept with societal implications. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives for organizations to track and report cybersecurity goals and metrics as a business requirement. As a result, the role of the cybersecurity leader ...

Data and analytics leaders, including chief data officers, are facing an increasingly challenging business landscape. As the volume and velocity of data rises and CDOs are under pressure to support digital business outcomes, data and analytics governance is no longer just a matter of remaining compliant with regulations – it is a critical business capability. ...

Despite the irrational exuberance around questionable innovations such as nonfungible tokens and the metaverse, there remain areas of steady innovation in enterprise information technology. I’ve beaten the bushes for some intriguing vendors and came up with seven startups with real stories to tell. Unsurprisingly, a few common themes emerged in my discussions. Observability – especially based ...

The pandemic has changed the way we think about and predict the future. As we enter the third year of COVID, we see the significant impact it has had on technology strategies, spending patterns and company fortunes. Much has changed, and although many of these changes were forced reactions to a new abnormal, the trends ...

As the calendar turns to 2022, businesses worldwide are preparing for another year of economic uncertainty, anxiety and threat. Those that seize the opportunities created by this shifting landscape will be more successful, and their flexibility and adaptability might even determine whether they survive. Not surprisingly, then, cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses seek ...

The cybersecurity risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions and ever-growing network complexity have certainly not gone unnoticed by executives. In a recent Deloitte survey of C-suite executives, 72% said their organizations experienced between one and 10 cyber incidents and breaches in the last year alone. This type of persistent threat – and the inability ...

It hasn’t always been easy to get employees excited about how artificial intelligence will one day transform their day-to-day work tasks. Despite all the well-deserved excitement amongst technology evangelists like me, the technology is still in the early phases of the diffusion curve as many are still wrapping their heads around its potential. For more ...

The expansion of digital services and solutions continues to put pressure on information technology departments to deliver more reliable, scalable platforms. “Resilience” has been the buzzword for how to thrive amidst changing environments, and organizations that fail to incorporate it into their operating environments are seeing the effect in key business measures such as customer ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has blossomed into a $60 billion-plus annual revenue company by persuading thousands of businesses that running their information technology operations in its cloud makes much more sense than running their own data centers. But now, a lot of processing is moving to the edge of networks as more workloads such as ...

One reason Adam Selipsky was appointed chief executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. earlier this year was his extensive experience at AWS — but it’s a good bet that his tenure heading Tableau Software Inc. before and after its acquisition by Salesforce.com Inc. was a key factor as well. After all, in some ways the ...