Securing the cloud now a top priority
Gartner has just released its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), which predicts that by 2022 60 per cent of large enterprises will use a CASB to govern cloud services, up...
View ArticleCIO50 deadline extended until Dec 17
Recognising New Zealand’s most innovative and effective CIOs, CTOs and CDOs
View ArticleAugmented analytics: The future of data and analytics
As the core of any digital business, analytics is at a critical inflection point. Data complexity is increasing and business people across the enterprise are drowning in data. They’re struggling to...
View ArticleBusiness leaders don’t care about the cost of downtime
Infrastructure and operations leaders (I&O) leaders are often on a misguided mission to find mythical “cost of downtime” numbers to build justifications for project investments in availability and...
View ArticleStandardising applications: When it works … and when it doesn’t
Minimising IT costs, streamlining processes and bringing together business units are just some of the reasons organisations want to standardise applications throughout their business. But many are...
View ArticleThe path to microservices
Applications professionals face increasing pressure to deliver applications quickly and support rapid scaling. Microservices appear to be the shining light, promising development agility, deployment...
View ArticleAWS generated almost half of all IaaS revenue in 2018
The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.
View ArticleThe impact of machine learning on security
Machine learning (ML) is changing security in much the same way that it’s changing other fields. Although many tools are immature or overhyped, vendors are starting to offer legitimately effective...
View ArticleGartner sees blockchain as ‘transformational’ across industries, in 5-10 years
CIOs must educate leaders about blockchain opportunities and challenges and continue to develop proofs of concept to test business worthiness.
View ArticleMake an innovation lab the centre of your transformation
Nearly every tech giant today boasts their own innovation lab – Google X, Amazon Lab126, Microsoft Research, IBM Garage and Facebook Reality Labs – where ideas blossom and new products are born....
View ArticleWhat is employee experience? The key to talent retention and recruitment
A strong employee experience can be a differentiator in talent markets and essential to success as digital transformation takes hold.
View ArticleLooking beyond 2020 at the top IT-changing technologies
Forecasting long-range IT technology trends is a little herding cats – things can get a little crazy.
View ArticleThree CEO concerns that CIOs must address - Gartner
Ensure you understand and address these issues in your strategic planning over the next 12 to 18 months, advises Kristian Steenstrup of Gartner
View ArticleThe CIO’s critical balancing act in the next five years
CIOs have to make many hard choices as their organisations navigate geopolitics, economic shifts, and the ascendance of digital giants
View ArticleGetting started with master data management: Think big, start small
Poor data quality is the unintended consequence of data silos and a lack of data and analytics governance. It results in suboptimal decision making and poor organisational performance.
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