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 ...

Nearly one year into the largest remote-working experiment in history, it’s become clear that we can be productive from anywhere. As employees continue to work from anywhere, another key area of experimentation – and one that companies need to continue to perfect – is fostering creativity and innovation within the distributed workforce. At the onset ...

In the fall of 2019, the information technology industry analysis firm Gartner announced its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020. At the top of the list: hyperautomation. Now that it’s 2021, has hyperautomation lived up to its hype? Gartner defines hyperautomation as “an effective combination of complementary sets of tools that can integrate functional ...

The most disruptive force in tech history happened because a company discovered one day that compute infrastructure development was its biggest pain point. The executive who solved that problem by igniting the public cloud market now finds himself stepping into the top job for the most valuable retailer in the world. Amazon Web Services Inc. ...

Today, most organizations think of the cloud as merely a technology platform. This perspective will shift markedly by 2025. Cloud will not only be a technological approach for delivering applications but will also serve as the key driver of business innovation. The increasingly digital enterprise depends on technology to deliver competitive services and strong customer ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of many leading technologies, and not only for those with direct connection to mitigating the virus. Long an amorphous buzzword, digital transformation has taken shape  recently, with many industry luminaries noting that projects expected to take years have suddenly been implemented in months. Although not every advanced technology initiative is ...

Not since the commercialization of the internet in 1994 have we seen a maelstrom of disruptive innovation like the one pounding on our shores today. And yet, in contrast to the mid-1990s rise of the internet that led to the singular dot-com boom, today’s disruption comes in diverse forms. The rise of cloud-native computing promises ...

The rise of edge computing will come as no surprise to anyone following computing architectures during the past 40-plus years. Although the topological concept of edge computing is decades old, it was only recently pushed into the limelight because of the limitations imposed by the centralized implementation of hyperscale cloud and the growing investment in ...

There has always been a strong need to support distributed workforces in an agile and cost-effective way, and 2020 has proved this to be truer than ever. The rising remote workforce has been a tremendous accelerant to digital transformation and we are witnessing a tectonic shift in which organizations are transitioning users, applications and data ...