A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate. Many organisations are migrating applications back from the public cloud to on-premise datacentres, a study from Vanson Bourne for Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Index 2019 report has found. According to the survey of 2,650 IT decision-makers, … Read more
While true artificial intelligence is some way off, businesses are taking advantage of intelligent automation, like machine learning, to improve business operations, drive innovation and improve the customer experience. AI and automation is changing the business environment across industries, delivering new opportunities through intelligent, automated products. Some companies are ahead of the curve, and others … Read more
Once considered a competitive differentiator, digital transformation is now table stakes, according to Gartner, which offers tips for surviving disruption scenarios businesses may face in 2020. The honeymoon for digital transformation is over. Forty percent of 1,070 CIOs claim to have reached scale for digital initiatives that leverage technology to drive business change, a hefty … Read more
Organizations see a future in which IT security is deeply woven into their overall IT strategy. Here’s how they plan to get there. Information security has become such an integral part of IT that at a growing number of organizations, the two are virtually indistinguishable — from an organizational standpoint. Many companies are attempting to … Read more
Enterprises are investing in digital solutions that help them save on infrastructure and other costs while enabling them to transform the business. Experts from Deloitte and Gartner explain why. Spend money to save money is an age-old aphorism. No statement may ring more true today for IT leaders hungry to disrupt, as CIOs are investing … Read more
The unveiling of Google Cloud’s Anthos multi-cloud management tool dominated many of the discussions at the firm’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, amid claims that it could change the face of enterprise IT for decades to come. A noticeable difference in how Google positions its public cloud proposition – compared with Amazon Web Services … Read more
Leaders championing AI/ML initiatives need viable use cases and compelling metrics to advance their cause. Here’s how to approach cost justification, identify ROI, and avoid implementation missteps. A recent analysis of web topic popularity by web content evaluator MarketMuse revealed that 80 percent of IT and corporate business leaders want to learn more about the … Read more
MongoDB’s efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment. After all the drama around MongoDB’s change of license from the open source Affero General Public License (AGPL) to the hopefully-but-not-yet-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL), the company has now decided to retire the effort. No, … Read more
From data analytics to cybersecurity to customer experience, here’s where CIOs will direct their IT budgets this year. The CIO role continues to grow, thanks in large part to digital transformation, with IT executives adding new responsibilities, ranging from data analytics to product development, according to our 2019 State of the CIO. To meet these goals … Read more
We look at why hybrid cloud can create a tricky infrastructure to manage. It is a universally accepted axiom that the world is moving towards cloud. Even the most hardened skeptics have been converted and are taking their first steps on a cloud journey. The figures back this up. IDC has reported that quarterly spending on … Read more
