Data and analytics is shifting to become a core business function, placing it among this year’s top trends according to Gartner.    As organizations accelerate their digital business transformation efforts, business-domain-led D&A, data literacy, smarter data sharing and adaptive governance increasingly play key business roles. D&A has become core to how they serve their customers and ...

Why are “shift-right” practices of monitoring, testing and remediation of software and system issues starting to appear? Because they’re the next stage in the ongoing quest to improve software — not just before deployment but after it’s in production. Shift-right is a byproduct of the DevOps movement, in which software developers and information technology staff ...

Moore’s Law is dead, right? Think again. Although the historical annual improvement of about 40% in central processing unit performance is slowing, the combination of CPUs packaged with alternative processors is improving at a rate of more than 100% per annum. These unprecedented and massive improvements in processing power combined with data and artificial intelligence ...

Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing for banks and other large enterprises. Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see the mainframe is an active platform for innovation, ...

Exactly one week after new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger unveiled plans to reinvent Intel Corp., Arm Ltd. announced version 9 of its architecture and put forth its vision for the next decade. We believe Arm’s direction is strong and compelling as it combines an end-to-end capability, from edge to cloud to the data center to the home and everything ...

More than anything, Intel Corp.’s big announcement this week that it will shift its strategic direction underscores the threat that the United States faces from China. The U.S. needs to lead in semiconductor design and manufacturing, and that lead is slipping because Intel has been fumbling the ball over the past several years. A mere ...

Amazon.com Inc. has appointed former Tableau Software Inc. Chief Executive Officer Adam Selipsky to lead Amazon Web Services Inc., the online retail giant and cloud computing giant announced today.  Selipsky, the first vice president at AWS, who spent 11 years there, will take over the role from current AWS CEO Andy Jassy, who is set ...

The silver lining of 2020 is the way it has encouraged all organizations to undergo digital transformation. This transformation allowed businesses to survive a turbulent year, but as we move forward in 2021, it is also far from over. Too many organizations are reliant on quick-fix digital solutions that are ultimately unsustainable. A global study from ...

No business problem is so hard that artificial intelligence won’t be suggested as a way to solve it. And it’s the job of chief information officers and information technology leaders to figure out if it can. That’s what it’s like in the technology world: Every generation of technology results in hype, and AI is no ...

Some information technology leaders have grown concerned that the multiprovider deplatforming of Parler represents a new cloud computing risk that organizations may not have previously been aware of. However, the reality is that for most businesses, there is a very low probability of sudden suspension or termination by a cloud provider. Still, because organizations often ...