12 IT budget tricks to reduce costs post-COVID
If we cross our fingers, it’s possible to imagine a world with the COVID-19 pandemic receding behind us. While some parts of life may return to the way they were before the pandemic hit, the world of...
View Article16 technology winners and losers, post-COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a mixture of blessings and curses to the tech world. Some companies such as those specializing in videoconferencing turned out to be saviors, making it possible for...
View Article6 hot infrastructure and operations trends — and 5 going cold
The COVID-19 has significantly stressed the IT world, but it has also vindicated a range of infrastructure choices made by those who have been paying attention to emerging trends. The cloud for one has...
View Article6 reasons to invest in enterprise architecture tools
Enterprise architecture is designed to bring order to the vast realm of corporate IT and its burgeoning collection of machines and software, a cornucopia unimaginable just a few decades ago. Desktops,...
View Article11 dark secrets of multicloud
Cloud computing is a digital cornucopia of choices to dazzle the eyes of everyone from the spreadsheet-addled CIO to the container-slinging intern. Those servers with 24GB of RAM look nice and so does...
View Article6 'crackpot' technologies that might transform IT
Famous mock musician David St. Hubbins once said, “There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.” On one side of the line is an endless celebration of genius. On the other: failure and ignominy.To...
View Article10 dark secrets of the cloud
No one may be able to define exactly what the term cloud means in business technology today. Is it a rack of machines paid for by the second? A set of powerful APIs? A set of extensive services — all...
View ArticleWhat is iPaaS? Integrating data flows to create new services
What is iPaaS? An integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a cloud-based software package used to create new applications or to orchestrate data flows by linking together existing services and...
View ArticleTop 10 AIops platforms
Artificial intelligence was once a magical concept, the stuff of science fiction. Now, after decades of research and commercialization, it’s just another foundational tool to keep the enterprise stack...
View ArticleTop 18 enterprise architecture tools for 2021
Enterprise architecture systems haven’t always been essential. In the 1940s, Thomas Watson Jr., one of the leaders of International Business Machines, supposedly said, “I think there is a world market...
View ArticleTop 21 RPA tools today
A magic button to automate away the tedium of workplace tasks is the promise of robotic process automation, a smart set of tools that deploys AI and low-code options to simplify workflows and save...
View ArticleTop 11 agile tools for project management
When the Agile Manifesto first appeared in 2001, it was a set of radical ideas set down by a small group of programmers who thought there was a better way to create code. They had a plan to work faster...
View Article11 technologies for supporting the hybrid office
Among the biggest challenges IT leaders face right now is supporting shifting strategies around where the enterprise does its work. Prior to the pandemic, remote work was a facet of most...
View Article9 emerging innovations that could redefine IT
Emerging technology has greatly elevated the role of CIOs in the past several years, as previously far-out innovations such as machine learning and natural language processing have taken center stage...
View ArticleTop 13 cloud management tools
Not too long ago, no one needed cloud management software. Web applications were small and functionally very basic. They could run on a few servers, as long as you didn’t fret when loads peaked and...
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