As profitability is more difficult to find than prior to the financial crisis, 2014 will be a year of foundational investment for the financial markets, with the primary focus on investment in IT infrastructure, according to new research ...
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An Accenture survey of 252 CIOs and 405 CMOs shows that, despite IT’s years of work toward business alignment, it remains far removed from marketing. Apparently, more IT executives care about the IT-marketing relationship than ...
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Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network – and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks. A phishing attack ...
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About half of the world's companies will adopt bring-your-own-device programs by 2017 and will stop providing computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. Ultimately, only 15% of companies will never move to a BYOD ...
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The role of IT in setting strategic priorities and achieving business success is growing for companies throughout the world, according to new research published by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry. The International ...
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Economic woes in recent years have spurred companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, training, development and other processes to better align IT and business operations -- and boost the bottom line. Many companies now look ...
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About half of the world's companies will enact BYOD (bring your own device) programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. Ultimately, only 15% of companies will never move to a ...
Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata CIOs in the Middle East need to start to learn what Apache Hadoop is in order to understand the true value of big data, according to Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata. Brobst was speaking to CNME at Teradata ...
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Teradata today became the first company to offer business analysts streamlined and self-service access to Apache Hadoop. Teredata Enterprise Access for Hadoop allows organisations to reach directly into Hadoop to find new value from data ...
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More IT leaders plan to invest more in technology this year than they did in 2012, according to a recent Tech Poll/Tech Priorities survey conducted by CIO Research. But, before you get too excited, it's only a few more IT executives ...
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The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health ...
Part of what Microsoft hopes customers will understand about Windows Phone 8 smartphones is that they are linked to an ecosystem that includes Excel, PowerPoint and Word. That ecosystem concept should intrigue IT managers, even though ...
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Under pressure from federal regulators to implement electronic health systems, healthcare providers are struggling to find and keep a technology staff in what is the fastest growing IT sector in the U.S. A Healthcare Information and ...
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Gas prices may be rising, federal sequestration looming, and perhaps another meteor will strike. Bad things are happening, but not so much to Software as a Service providers. A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest ...
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A recent Gartner report showed that even in the poorest segments of the SaaS market, the annual growth rate is at 11 percent. The reasons IT executives are turning to the cloud-based technologies can be seen in the decisions being made at ...
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