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Close the IT skills gap by improving gender equality

CIOs need to develop a future workforce now. The key to that is digital fluency, it empowers women, and it empowers CIOs with a robust source of talent.

By Diana Bersohn

IT Jobs IT Strategy Technology Industry

Despite the clickbait headlines, a recent ruling in U.S. federal court isn't meant to crackdown on consumers who share their Netflix passwords. In fact, some of the largest streaming providers say they're OK with password sharing.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics Internet Video

Will macOS Sierra get a true dark mode?

A Mac developer has discovered an improved dark mode hidden in the first macOS Sierra betas. Will it be available when macOS Sierra is released?

Consumer Electronics MacOS Operating Systems

Taking a closer look at bots from Apple, Facebook and Google

'Bots' are hot today, and popular tech companies including Apple, Facebook and Google all take dramatically different approaches to bot technology. Here's what bots from these consumer giants could mean to enterprises.

By Matt Kapko

Jul 13, 2016 4 mins

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Dispelling 5 IT outsourcing myths

Executives at many high-growth organizations are hesitant to outsource IT, given the relative unknowns in the IT world. Those unknowns are found in five myths we commonly hear regarding IT outsourcing.

By Peter Purcell

Outsourcing Technology Industry

IT career roadmap: Research scientist

Amanda Stent's interest in music has helped advance her career as a research scientist as much as her mathematics and computer science background has.

By Sharon Florentine

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Microsoft expands its Surface Enterprise Initiative

Microsoft wants businesses to adopt the Surface lineup, and itu2019s adding new incentives to its enterprise program to make the hybrid devices even more appealing.

By Sarah K. White

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The value of human failure

Robotics and automation are helping us minimize failure and increase productivity. But failure may be a key to success.

By Frank Wammes

IT Leadership Productivity Software Startups

Built for winning innovation

Speed and agility canu2019t happen without efficient core processes

By Greg Simpson

IT Leadership

Why being open source is not killing Android

In fact, nothing is killing Android, because it continues to eat the iOS and Windows market share.rn

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Jul 12, 2016 7 mins

Malware strategy: Prevent, Contain, Recover

Your environment is only as strong as its weakest link. You are going to be attacked, and someone will eventually succeed in getting through your defenses.

By Paul T. Cottey

Cyberattacks Risk Management Security

The role of the BHAG

In previous posts, we discussed the importance of balancing the current capabilities of cloud-based finance and accounting systems against future requirements. In this post, we will explore the role 'big hairy audacious goals' should play i

By John Hoebler

C-Suite Financial Services Industry Foundry Events

Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 improves post-deployment support, private cloud operations

Mirantis emerges as one of the leading contributors to OpenStack.

Cloud Computing Linux Open Source

How companies limit project success

Companies want projects to succeed and realize the planned benefits. It takes time and effort to set a project up for success. Oftentimes crucial steps are being missed, causing trouble further down the road. What are those steps and how should you t

By Bas de Baat

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Offshore and cloud service providers upset IT outsourcing’s top tier

While IBM and Accenture still command a majority of the IT services markets, the combination of offshore-centric and as-a-service competition has proven to be an u2018all-out assaultu2019 on traditional providers.

By Stephanie Overby

Cloud Computing Outsourcing Technology Industry

4 security practices mobile and remote workforce must follow

To ensure that the information shared between your in-house and remote employees doesnu2019t make you vulnerable to security attacks, you need to establish some solid security practices. Here are four best practices that will help you promote mobile

By Dipti Parmar

Cloud Computing

Lack of VC funding forces startups to think lean

A steady drop in venture capitalist funding has forced startups to develop new strategies to evolve their workforce — that includes layoffs, budget cuts and a new definition of growth.rn

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs Startups Technology Industry

iOS 10: Did Apple make Messages too complicated?

Apple did a big upgrade to Messages in iOS 10. But did the company overload Messages with too many new features?

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How one CIO is migrating 18,000 users to Office 365

Multinational engineering company Atkins is in the midst of transitioning its 18,000 employees to Microsoft's cloud suite. The companyu2019s CIO Richard Cross shares some tips he is learning along the way.

By Paul Rubens

Collaboration Software Office Suites Small and Medium Business

Cisco aims to simplify security

By combining its network visibility and breadth of integrated products, Cisco aims to make it simple for distributed and mobile businesses to deploy effective security while reducing the complexity required to manage it.

By Thor Olavsrud

Cloud Security IT Strategy Technology Industry

Open source speeds innovation, plays major role in NASA’s mission

A close encounter with the IT chief technology officer of NASA JPL.

Linux Open Source Science Industry

Jul 11, 2016 9 mins

Losing is good

Losing is the basis of winning. It just doesn't feel like it. But all great leaders benefit from losing. Here's why.

By Ray Zinn

IT Leadership

Questions after your presentation signal success

Many presenters are relieved when there are no questions at the end of their presentation. But no questions is rarely a good sign.

By Theodore May

C-Suite IT Leadership

Digital health: Just what are we talking about?

Getting under the covers on digital health

By Tom Barnett

Mobile Small and Medium Business

New Relic adds support for Golang, SPA monitoring

The software-as-a-service application performance monitoring provider is adding support for a popular programming language used in microservices, and also offering greater visibility into single-page applications.

By Thor Olavsrud

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

How to marry content, business process management

Alfresco Softwareu2019s CEO Doug Dennerline discusses his companyu2019s open source strategy, the evolution of private clouds for content management and the changing competitive landscape.

By John Gallant

BPM Systems Content Management Systems IT Leadership

SDN providers nibbling away at slow-moving MPLS carriers

Another mid-sized enterprise has dropped an incumbent MPLS provider for a younger, more nimble service provider, in this case choosing a hybrid MPLS/SDN network for speed, flexibility and cost savings.

By Clint Boulton

Carriers IT Strategy Technology Industry

Why you should avoid OS upgrades from Microsoft and Apple (for now)

New OS software can be very buggy, especially if it's still in beta form. Here's how to avoid potential problems with new Windows and iOS updates, as well as how to uninstall the latest test version of Apple's mobile OS.

By Bill Snyder

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Focus Matrix to-do app helps prioritize ‘urgent’ and ‘important’ tasks

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States was apparently an organizational guru, and the new Focus Matrix app for iOS and Mac focuses on the former president's 'urgent/important' matrix for prioritizing to-

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

Why I’ve given up on Pokemon GO for iOS

Pokemon GO has proven to be a very popular game, but its server infrastructure is a real mess. Some players can't login to play, while others can't even register an account.

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Universities must build innovators in new ways

The future doesnu2019t care how you became an expert. The experts of tomorrow will learn differently.

By Peter B. Nichol

CIO Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

How to rebuild your career after a layoff

There is life after the layoff. Take these 6 steps to engineer your own comeback.

By Bruce Harpham

Careers Staff Management

Kubernetes becomes more scalable, gets support for hybrid clouds

Version 1.3 makes it easier for new developers and enterprises to use Kubernetes to manage distributed systems at scale.

Cloud Computing Linux Open Source

Jul 8, 2016 2 mins

A SWOT analysis of Trump vs. Clinton

Competitive assessment takes the publicly known attributes of a product and compares it to its competition. Columnist Rob Enderle uses SWOT to compare and contrast Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

By Rob Enderle

Analytics Government

Businesses struggle to hire workers with cloud skills

As enterprises continue to focus on implementing a cloud infrastructure, many still face roadblocks when it comes to hiring candidates with the right skills.

By Sarah K. White

Hybrid Cloud IT Jobs Technology Industry

4 ways to make agile and waterfall work together

In theory, the two methodologies donu2019t mix. In practice, they almost always have to. Here are four tactics to make these opposites work together.

By David Taber

Agile Development CRM Systems Software Development

Why Snapchat’s Memories broadens snap appeal

A new feature from Snapchat, called Memories, should broaden its appeal by making it easier for you to preserve and curate the content you share, but the company's go-to disappearing 'snaps' live on.

By Matt Kapko

Consumer Electronics Social Networking Apps

To avoid IT project management failure, strip rank of its privileges

How ownership of a Project Management issue should be a shared responsibility, as seniority or rank does not give you exclusivity on solutions.

By David Cotgreave

IT Leadership IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Dropbox for iOS gets barebones scan feature

The Dropbox iOS app recently received an update that lets users scan paper documents into PDFs and then store them in Dropbox folders. The enhancements are useful, but other similar scanning apps have many more features.

By James A. Martin

Cloud Storage Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

A CIO’s guide to understanding analytics

Today's data-driven business runs on the almighty algorithm. Here's how to get the most out of your data analytics.

By CIO staff

Analytics Big Data Business Intelligence

Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) is the version fans wanted all along

iTunes now has the Ultimate Edition of Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. This version has 30 minutes of extra footage, and more than 2 hours of extras.

Consumer Electronics

How IT outsourcing customers should prepare for HPE-CSC merger

The merger between HPEu2019s enterprise services business and CSC may or may not help solve those providersu2019 problems, but there are steps customers can take to make sure the huge u2018spin-mergeru2019 works out in their favor.

By Stephanie Overby

Managed Cloud Services Mergers and Acquisitions Technology Industry

The understated elegance of IT service scope

How having a good, crisp IT service service scope definition is something worth considering.

By Joel Pomales

IT Leadership ITSM

How one nonprofit is making tech education open to everyone

"Just because you didn't learn when you were ten doesn't mean you can't learn now," says Girl Develop It executive director Corinne Warnshuis.rn

Careers Open Source Web Development

Jul 7, 2016 10 mins

Dell’s Precision 5510 mobile workstation combines XPS looks with hard-core business capabilities

After three months, does Dell's workstation live up to its claims?

By Patrick Moorhead

Laptops Small and Medium Business Windows

The truth about those ‘progressive’ parental leave policies

Technology companies love to speak loud and proud about their generous parental leave policies, but what good are they if nobody takes advantage of the benefit?

By Sharon Florentine

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10 ways multichannel companies can build trust with customers

Experts in ecommerce, security, marketing and customer service discuss the best ways to foster trust with your consumers u2013 and build a loyal customer base.

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How virtual reality changes health care

The VR ecosystem is expanding before our eyes.

By Larry Stofko

Facebook Google Health and Fitness Software

Business collaboration a hidden motivation in Microsoft, LinkedIn deal

Enterprise collaboration has never been a strong suit for LinkedIn, but that could change if Microsoft has its way. A combined LinkedIn and Microsoft could help professionals both find jobs and improve workplace productivity.

By Matt Kapko