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Arming Yourself for Application Security

Application security is one of the gaps through which it is most likely your company will be attacked. It’s an area of security that is difficult and is not paid as much attention as it should be. More »

The Case for Building an Open Cloud

Driven by fundamental changes in the economics, scalability, flexibility, and speed of implementation for computing, the cloud has started a transformation that will take place over a decade or more, More »

Growing Your Own Data Scientists

CIOs and CTOs must learn to address a challenge, involving the divide between the people who know about the vast amount of new sources of data emanating from machines and other devices (“big data”) an More »

Designing a Scalable and Agile Big Data Platform

CITOs are now facing an infrastructure build out to support big data. More »

Charting a Path to Energy Management Maturity

The goal of energy management is to make more intelligent use of energy in all its forms. More »

Avoiding the IT Management Crisis

In a series of recent stories, Dan Woods has made the argument that IT is facing a management crisis. More »

Preparing for Big Data

Preparing to take advantage of the business value that big data can provide is going to be a multi-year process that takes place in several stages. More »

How can you accelerate the requirements process?

Less than one-third of all software development projects are delivered on time, on budget, or with the required features and functions. More »

Social Business Process Reengineering Examples

Social media and social networking applied to the world of work, which IBM calls social business, general created a heightened awareness that serves to speed up communication and reduce delays in perf More »

Big Data and Machine Data for CEOs

The idea that the amount of data is rapidly growing has come to be called “Big Data” in journalistic and analyst circles. More »