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Ansible bridges traditional networking teams and DevOps

Red Hat has added agentless networking automation capabilities to Ansiblern

iPad Pro: Apple’s dumb decision to cripple the Pencil in iOS 9.3

What on earth was Apple thinking when it removed the Pencil's navigation functionality in the iOS 9.3 beta? Many Apple Pencil owners are not happy with the company at all.

Photos: Apple’s bandwidth hog from hell!

Photos is an out of control bandwidth hog. When is Apple going to add a tool to let users throttle Photos uploads to iCloud?

4 ways good project leaders create cultures of success

Recognizing why or how people impact overall project success is important, but determining what you can do to unlock your teamu2019s full potential is the tricky part.

FHIR blazes new (and needed) path in healthcare

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources would allow developers to write apps that would extend the capabilities of Electronic Health Records, give patients direct access to their own records and create a more solid basis for interoperability. Itu2

10 signs you need to update your resume

In a perfect world, you'd treat your resume like a living document and update it continuously throughout your career. In the real world, family, home and professional responsibilities can get in the way. Here are 10 events that call for a resume

How job hopping can actually help your career

Job hopping is no longer taboo. Many job-seekers are finding they can achieve a higher salary, learn new skills and expand their expertise by changing jobs every few years.

Samsung targets businesses with Enterprise Device Program

Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and GS7 edge smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2016 yesterday. Along with the devices, it also announced new enterprise programs designed to encourage businesses to adopt Samsung's latest Android device.

Time Warner Cable CIO transforms IT as Charter merger looms

Seeking better alignment with the business side, Time Warner Cableu2019s CIO Sven Gerjets is rethinking IT processes and systems.

How CIO-enabled innovation can shape the digital business

The CIO can be at the heart of business innovation by formalizing four different roles: originator, facilitator, deliverer and navigator, writes Accentureu2019s Strategyu2019s David Quinney.

9 Linux desktop environments to watch in 2016

A lot can happen in a year.

How captive centers can drive digital transformations

The majority of global in-house centers are in the early stages of digital service delivery maturity, but theyu2019re poised to bring greater value to enterprise transformation.

How Kronos’ cloud migration makes for a better business

Kronos CEO Aron Ain discusses how the company is successfully moving to the cloud. Ain talks about how the migration has led to new analytics capabilities, is improving profits, helps customers run their businesses better and more.

5 key steps to take before you sell an old smartphone

Selling a used phone is a great way to make some extra cash, but it's important to delete all of your personal or corporate data before you do. These five tips from an IBM security pro can ensure you know how to remove sensitive information.

Selligent closes merger with StrongView

The combination of omnichannel marketing automation software provider Selligent and contextual email marketing technology specialist StrongView creates what the companies describe as the world's 'largest independent provider of orchestratio

Enterprise use of hybrid tablets growing fast

Detachable tablets are gaining traction in the enterprise as traditional slate tablets and PCs dip in popularity.

Top 10 metro areas for STEM jobs

Looking for a job in the technology field? Well, you don't have to move to Silicon Valley to get a job in tech. STEM jobs are booming all across America. Here the 10 metro best areas for finding a STEM job. Some may surprise you.

How to market your business on Instagram

Social media, marketing and business experts share their tips on how brands can get the most out of the photo- and video-sharing site.

How long does it take to build a custom app?

Thanks to advances in app-building technology and a changing mindset, the answer may surprise you.

iPad Pro: The best comic book reader ever created

The iPad Pro's large screen makes reading digital comics a real joy in a way that has never been possible with smaller iPads or other devices.

7 things to love about the Galaxy S7 and GS7 edge (and 3 to hate)

CIO.com's Al Sacco goes hands-on with Samsung's new Galaxy S7 smartphones and spotlights the most notable new features, along with a few of the GS7 phones' potential shortcomings.

Ads in Messenger could be Facebook’s next big thing

Facebook is reportedly readying a new user-initiated advertising medium within its popular Messenger app that could reshape the ad industry.rn rn

openSUSE announces two new, always-updated KDE distributions

For those who want to get it while itu2019s freshrn

Why Apple is right to fight FBI over iPhone access

Columnist Rob Enderle is not an Apple fan, however, he backs Tim Cooku2019s efforts to prevent the FBI from creating a security key that could access all iPhones. Hereu2019s why such a key could potentially do billions of dollars of damage.

Companies and rights activists should unite to support data flows

As governments seek to control access to information, companies and human rights advocates should demand the free flow of data across country borders

Essential CRM software features: A savvy buyer’s guide

February 2016: Tech’s New Odd Couple

10 best U.S. regions for social media jobs

The average social media job in 2016 doesn't pay as much as it did just one year ago, according to new salary data, but these 10 metropolitan areas offer the best wages for social media professionals.

5 ways to keep employees in the loop

Business leaders and communications experts discuss how companies can ensure that employees stay informed.

Day One 2 journal developers beg for five star reviews on Twitter

Day One 2 angered many customers by removing iCloud and DropBox syncing. Now the developers are desperately asking Twitter followers to give the app five star reviews.

Avoiding the pain of major software purchases

Major software purchases can cause significant pain to the organization, employees and, of course, the project sponsors. We look at why this happens, and how to avoid that pain in the first place.

Trump vs. Apple: The Donald may have lost millions of votes

Donald Trump stupidly sides with the government against Apple in the controversy over the phone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists. And it may cost him millions of votes.

This free app makes online tax prep much less painful

FileThis is a freemium service that automatically downloads and organizes financial statements, and it can significantly relieve the burden of filing taxes online.

The voice of the customer is dead

How can IT effectively determine customer needs?

CIOs cautiously embrace Windows 10

Major OS upgrades are never easy, but according to CIOs and IT executives, the move to Windows 10 is the smoothest Microsoft OS transition in years, even if most of them are taking their time with the deployments.

How Apple’s consumer software miscues hinder it in the enterprise

Apple faces mounting criticism aimed at the quality of its online service for consumers and the pace of innovation associated with offerings such as iCloud. If the company can't do cloud services right in the consumer market, is it doomed in the

Verizon keeps its crown in latest wireless performance report

All of the Big Four U.S. wireless carriers claim to have the best and fastest networks, based on 'independent testing' from a variety of sources. Verizon Wireless has topped RootMetrics' ranking for some time, and it continues to lead

Guarding against fraud in the age of social sharing

CIOs need to be cognizant of how their executives utilize social media and wearables as bad actors are using the information learned from these channels to create sophisticated fraud schemes.

Beware of the productivity measurement fallacy

The fallacy of productivity measurement is when people try to quantify dollars saved based upon the incremental productivity gains of employees. Overestimated productivity gains can destroy project credibility.

Do hunches beat facts in CIO decision-making?

If you ignore the data and make IT decisions based on intuition, take heart: You are not alone. But is that the best approach?

Ubuntu on mobile: How Shuttleworth & team are forging ahead

I sat down with Canonical engineers to learn what makes Ubuntu a compelling platform.rn

Databricks debuts free community edition of cloud-based platform

The new edition of the cloud-based service is designed to help you learn to use Apache Spark and build prototypes that can be seamlessly transitioned to production applications on the full Databricks platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available on Microsoft Azure

Starting today, customers can get Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Microsoft Azurern

iPad Pro: I bought it and I love it!

I was completely wrong about the iPad Pro, it's simply the best iPad I've ever used. The powerful CPU, tons of RAM and big screen make it the best iPad Apple has ever created.

The CIO’s playbook for managing an SAP relationship

Part 1 of this series, Understanding the Baseline, shows how CIO's are challenging their organization to baseline and assess their SAP relationship well in advance of a negotiation.

Apache Arrow aims to accelerate analytical workloads

Arrow is designed to serve as a common data representation for big data processing and storage systems, allowing data to be shared between systems and processes without the CPU overhead caused by serialization, deserialization or memory copies.

Canonical announces the most powerful Ubuntu phone yet

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will be available in US and globally.rn

Can marketing tech track the entire customer lifecycle?

The capability to follow a customer through all phases of the buying process has long been considered the holy grail of enterprise marketing. Has technology finally evolved to deliver on that process?

3 common cloud pitfalls IT should avoid

As modern businesses flock to the cloud, many fail to perform the necessary due diligence and accordingly fall victim to these common mistakes.

ERP software gets a makeover

Can typically staid ERP software take a page from leading consumer apps when it comes to improving usability?