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Cybercrime is always a hot-button issue, and last year was no different. What lessons can we learn from some of the more insidious trends and events to better prepare ourselves for the year ahead?
Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works.
Employee engagement will remain a top organizational concern this year. These 16 predictions for 2016 will help you better gauge the tech worker landscape.
Office 2016 starts to unify the Exchange experience on the desktop, but native apps do better on mobile clients
Forget OpenStack and Cloud Foundry: Microsoft says its Azure Stack private and hybrid cloud platform is what enterprises are asking for.
The percentage of encrypted Internet traffic continues to grow creating a space where not only private information but also criminals can travel about undetected.
In the IT industry, change is the only constant. So how can IT professionals best prepare themselves for the future? Follow these steps.
The potential business benefits of data analytics are great, but the predictive models can also “go awry” and produce unintended consequences if underlying assumptions are faulty or outdated. Companies need a governance strategy to check their analyt
Network pros know that SDN promises to rock their world. But those who prepare for the change will find new opportunities. Here’s how to help your staffers keep their skills ahead of the curve.
Businesses are increasingly relying on data, but they're overlooking another key aspect of data: privacy. In order to keep up with the growing regulations surrounding data privacy, it may be time to hire a Chief Privacy Officer.
ATS get a bad rap for a reason -- many are clunky, hard to use and difficult to calibrate. But that doesn't mean you should ditch them entirely. Here’s how to improve your ATS.
CIO.com’s Paul Mah debunks three of the biggest myths about cloud adoption at small-and-midsize-businesses.
If you’re not testing the performance of the mobile apps your company is deploying, you may be driving your employees into the shadows.
DevOps, microservices, and the shift to containers and lightweight computing environments explain a lot about Microsoft’s position on .NET, open source and Nano Server.
Any kind of organization can fall victim to a leak of personal healthcare records. Read on for best practices on determining what encompasses PHI - and how to keep that information under wraps
Businesses and technology leaders have learned a lot about the importance of data and the need for data scientists, but do they understand what the role of a data scientist should entail?
Smart management tactics and agile processes give IT staffers the strength and stamina to support mushrooming business needs.
An increasing number of experts are urging companies to stop having the CSOs and CISOs report to the CIO in order to reduce conflict of interest, risk, even downtime and financial losses, but there hasn't yet been much evidence of progress.
Finding cybersecurity talent isn't easy, but it's even harder if you use the same methods that work for other IT talent specialties. Here's how to get it right.
Data quality is improving, personalization capabilities are emerging, and the pace of innovation is on the rise
Deloitte identifies six major trends and market disruptions that will drive C-suite technology investments in 2016.
The secret to devops success begins with an open, flexible, and lazy approach to systems and code
Security awareness training is pivotal to your organization’s information security posture, and, now, it’s more important than ever before.
So much technology, so little time ... but we're here to help you catch up
While they can’t necessarily replace a college degree, MOOCs are playing a key role in addressing the software development skills gap.
Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, shares with CIO.com his thoughts on where artificial intelligence and cognitive computing research is heading.
The U.S. intelligence community is well aware that hostile hackers – some from nation states – have gained access to portions of the nation’s critical infrastructure. There is wide agreement that this is not a good thing. But the debate about how big
Bringing Macs into your existing business environment is a snap, with a few caveats and twists
The battle to hire IT professionals is only going to get more brutal in 2016. Even IT heavyweights are struggling to find IT talent and are exploring unorthodox methods for sourcing and screening.
When writing your resume, make sure you sell yourself, rather than present a long list of job responsibilities. Read how career expert Andrew Ysasi helped this month’s resume makeover candidate overcome the job description issue.
In the next 10 years, companies will regularly tap into a vast pool of independent contractors on a pay-as-you-go basis, but CIOs need to get much more involved in setting up the secure IT connections to make it work, researchers say.
A new study shows that, on average, each computer in every office around the world has about $259 of unnecessary, unwanted or unused software on it. That’s a lot of shelfware – and it’s costing companies big-time.
2016 is the year of talent -- how to find it, retain it, engage it and motivate it are at the top of organizations' to-do-lists. Here, workforce management experts share their predictions for the coming year.
In-depth product reviews that will help any SMB make critical strategic technology decisions.
Five industry insiders predict the trends that will shape the big data and analytics market in 2016.
Many IT professionals say they would go all-out to land the best jobs, with the best benefits at the best companies. All it takes is up-to-the-minute skills and a whole lot of drive.
Trust, communication and transparency are key for IT organizations to maintain a healthy and productive workforce. But how do you get there?
Most of the literature on scaling addresses overcoming objections and how best to do it. Matthew Heusser posits that ‘Does agile scale?’ is simply asking the wrong question.
Our coding crystal ball offers developers meaningful bets for the next five years -- but few guarantees given the rate of change for tech
Big data has reshaped businesses in many ways, and now it's even changing the way HR monitors employee engagement to improve both retention and customer satisfaction.
The latest containerization technologies enable IT to create separate, protected areas for work apps and data on employees’ personal devices. The challenge is to maintain security.
Cloud computing and mobile applications have expanded the boundaries of the enterprise network, but those applications must also be secured.
Carl Leonard, a principal security analyst for Raytheon's Websense cybersecurity software unit, offers insight into the most serious threats CIOs and CISOs are likely to grapple with this year
Some 80 percent of companies are building hybrid clouds, according to a survey of 3,000 architects and engineers conducted by F5 Networks. Many respondents are also considering building software-defined networks and implementing DevOps over the next
The controversial Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now law. But opponents, who say it will function mainly as a government surveillance tool, are not standing down
When planning an attack, criminals study their target victims looking for the weakest links.
