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Can AI Help Ease WFH Anxiety? The Remote Work Question - Artificial intelligence has become so pervasive in today’s business climate that the rarer species is a technology that doesn’t utilize some form of AI. Indeed, AI itself is no longer a differentiating feature for new and existing applications and technologies, which is now leading organizations to focus their messaging on the user, not on the […]
6 Things You Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024 - If you don’t think ransomware is one of the most serious criminal threats to your organization in 2024, you haven’t been paying attention. Ransomware was a $1.1 billion industry in 2023, and successful attacks inflicted brand, financial, and operational damage to nearly every type of organization, large, small, and middling. Just ask MGM Resorts, which […]
More on IT Spending: A Rosy Second Half? - Analyses show a slow but steady increase in IT spending in 2024. However, how the money is being spent is the subject of debate. Following on our last blog, which noted research firm Forrester predicted a 5.5% increase in IT spending in 2024, data from Gartner and Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) also show single-digit increases. […]
The Next Big Thing: Machine Customers - Today, generative AI is all the rage. In the news, it’s everywhere. As a result, the emergence of machine customers has probably not grabbed your attention as generative AI has. Machine customers are connected, increasingly smart devices that possess the ability to purchase goods and services for your organization. While “machine customers” is the most […]
Tech Spending: Will We See a Rise in 2024? - After a few years of “growth at all costs” and the purchase of systems and services to accommodate such growth, the tech sector saw a slowdown in 2022 and 2023. That’s not news to anyone who makes a living building, buying, or selling technology—in other words, pretty much everyone. Recent numbers from Forrester, however, foretell […]
Industry Clouds Are Rolling In - The swift and steady adoption of cloud technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations interact with data. It’s also led to data overload, as individuals and organizations alike have become less selective in what data they delete and what they hold on to (after all, cloud storage is infinite, right?). You know that old adage […]
It’s Time to Get Proactive About Security - It’s a new year, which means many of us have made our New Year’s resolutions. And while our intentions are worthy—lose weight, stop smoking, eat less junk food—many times we unintentionally fall back into our familiar patterns, giving up on our resolutions because they’re too difficult, uncomfortable, or otherwise don’t fit into our lifestyle. Changing […]
2024 Trends: Better Business Through Generative AI - The new year is upon us, and for many, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Outdated, inflexible systems and processes will be shown the door, ushering in a new way of working smarter, not harder. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, including generative AI, will continue to drive many technology conversations in 2024. […]
Cloud-Native Comes Down to Earth - If there is one given in technology, it’s that everything follows a similar life cycle – a path of adoption, if you will. Research firm Gartner calls it the “Hype Cycle,” with five phases to track a technology’s maturity and future potential (my favorite phase name is the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’), and whether we’re discussing […]
Generative AI: Well Beyond Science Fiction - Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of discussion since the late 1960s when HAL first told Dave he was “unable to” open the pod bay doors because “the mission is too important for me (HAL) to allow you (Dave) to jeopardize it.” Although the concept of AI had been around well before “2001: A […]
Security Threats Continue to Weigh Heavy on Tech Buyers’ Minds - Despite best efforts, security remains a tough nut to crack for many organizations. Security spending is at an all-time high, estimated to top $76 billion worldwide in 2023, according to Statista. And yet, the bad guys continue to infiltrate networks, steal data, and hold information hostage or worse. No industry, company size, or location is […]
Storage and Sustainability: Strange Bedfellows - When you think of storage, do you think of sustainability? Unfortunately for many IT leaders, the answer to this question is a disappointing “No.” That’s the finding of a recent survey conducted by Pure Storage. The company polled 1,000 sustainability program managers in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany about the importance of sustainability in […]
How Trustworthy Is Your Use of AI? - When you lose other people’s trust, it’s often difficult to regain it. Or impossible. As CIOs and other IT decision-makers orchestrate their companies’ use of ChatGPT and other generative AI programs, they need to ensure their AI initiatives don’t suddenly implode. A poorly managed generative AI effort could lead a company leadership to halt all […]
Cybersecurity and AI: Better Together? - These days, it seems as though everyone is talking about AI and its various flavors (think: ChatGPT). The number of headlines about the technology has renewed the conversations regarding its impact on everything from planning vacations to designing next-generation IT infrastructures. There’s still a lot of speculation, as AI is just now coming into its […]
Application Modernization: Digital Transformation, Within Budget - Much has been stated about the importance of digital transformation to survive and thrive in today’s digital economy. Digital transformation means something different to every organization. Whether it’s improving operational agility, supporting the increasing volumes of data, improving security, or something different, each organization is banking on the value of digital transformation. But even the […]
Why Sustainable Technology Should Be a Priority for Tech Marketers in 2023 - Sustainable technology is being lauded as a leading strategic technology trend for 2023. Are you ready? Sustainable technology is a hot trend. How hot? Gartner recognized sustainable technology as one of the must-know trends in its “10 Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023” report, which is intended for an enterprise audience of business and IT leaders. […]
The Future of B2B Buying? Avatars in the Metaverse - Recently we looked at the opportunities possible with the Metaverse, noting that despite its relative infancy, savvy companies are already gearing up to go virtual. As it turns out, buyers are ready to hit the Metaverse as well. According to a report by Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology, more than two-thirds of B2B buyers—67%—are ready […]
Acid Supprt in Aerospike Downlad Whitepaper - The CAP Theorem postulates that only two of the three properties of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance can be guaranteed in a distributed system at a specific time. Since availability is paramount in most deployments, the system can either provide consistency or partition tolerance.
Mobilizing and Enabling the Delivery of Higher Education - The need to replace aging infrastructure and inefficient IT practices and move forward with mobile and digital content initiatives hasbecome crucial to meeting student and faculty needs. Download this Whitepaper to discover how Higher Education is utilizing technologies to create flexible learning environments that drive innovation, improve digital literacy and enable existing services.
How Higher Education Uses BYOD to Attract Top Talent - Throughout campuses today, students and faculty are increasingly studying, researching and working outside of traditional classroom walls and require computing resources that are flexible. Meeting this need can help institutions attract outstanding talent, yet computing devices must continue to meet campus IT security policies.