Red Hat’s new vice president and general manager of its RHEL Business Unit, Stefanie Chiras, enthusiastically embraces the growing importance of Linux. While you may not spend a lot of time thinking about this, the role Linux plays in the technology that we all use everyday is growing quite significantly. In an effort to more … Read more
Gartner says IT services will be a key driver for IT spending in 2019, as the market is forecast to hit $1 trillion in 2019. Enterprise software and IT services lead the way as overall IT spending will hit $3.8 trillion in 2019, according to Gartner analysts. The numbers mean a shift from ownership to … Read more
AI, augmented analytics, quantum computing, and blockchain are among technologies that soon could dominate the IT landscape, according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends. A mashup of technologies including artificial intelligence and automation will begin to make a significant impact on businesses and IT organizations in 2019 according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 … Read more
Migration watch: Windows 10 in August continued to gain ground in user share and should supplant Windows 7 as the most popular version of Windows in October. Windows 10 last month recorded its strongest growth since January, accelerating the timeline when the newer operating system will overtake the venerable Windows 7. According to analytics company … Read more
As IT departments prepare their 2019 budgets, we assess how to avoid paying too much for cloud services. Infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) free business users from the constraints of IT, but without suitable oversight, costs can quickly get out of control. As initial costs are relatively low, business managers can sometimes … Read more
The controversial European Copyright Directive has gone back to the drawing board, but it raises important questions about the use of artificial intelligence in protecting individual rights. These questions affect everyone, even if they are not in the EU. The European Parliament’s rejection of the controversial Copyright Directive has highlighted the tensions in the evolving relationship between … Read more
The government must fully implement its artificial intelligence (AI) sectordeal to ensure that the number of jobs created by AI and automation balance the number of jobs lost, PwC has stated in its latest report. The £1bn deal is intended to put the UK at the forefront of the AI industry. PwC’s UK Economic Outlook reported that many middle … Read more
Artificial intelligence poses a wide range of hidden and unknown dangers for enterprises deploying the technology. Here’s how to guard against the legal and compliance risks of AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is cropping up everywhere in business, as organizations deploy the technology to gain insights into customers, markets and competitors, and to automate processes in … Read more
