Month: March 2022

With today’s online capabilities enabling information to spread like wildfire, one minor slip-up can cause extreme reputational damage. For corporations and organizations, maintaining a clean and professional reputation is essential to conducting successful business operations.  Marketing teams strive to achieve positive brand awareness, and corporations of higher stature are more likely to land partnerships. Security…

Full-stack developers and software engineers are two job titles that are often used interchangeably, making it difficult to know the difference between them. These two types of roles can be found on the same team or in the same company, but they each specialize in different aspects of development and might require different skill sets…

The question of whether an individual enterprise should go with a multi-cloud or sole-provider strategy seems to be largely settled. While some are happy having a single cloud service provider, surveys show that as many as 90% of large organizations are opting for a multi-cloud approach. Now, they just have to make that multi-cloud strategy…

Data and analytics have entered the era of the cloud with two-thirds of analytics for both development and production expected to be performed in the cloud If your organization is taking your analytics environment to the cloud or planning to, you are in the majority. A full 75% of organizations say that they are planning…

While businesses are still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, signs of economic recovery are slowly beginning to return. Today, organizations are anxious to recover lost revenue, but many are at risk of being lured into a false belief that pre-pandemic sales and marketing tactics will again be effective. The pandemic ushered in…

Expanded use of satellites may offer another acceleration catalyst to digital transformation, edge computing, and other evolving aspects of enterprise technology. That was a key takeaway from a panel of experts and industry stakeholders at last week’s Satellite 2022 conference, held in-person and via livestream. During the discussion, those panelists hashed out some of the…

(SPONSORED ARTICLE) The field of data science is exploding, and the variety of roles for up-and-coming data scientists has expanded right along with it. Known in the 1990s as data mining, the term actually dates to the early 1970s, when it was first introduced as an alternative to computer science. These days, the process of…

Wi-Fi users are demanding more efficient, reliable, and secure connectivity in 2022. The reason: Internet of Things (IoT) environments, including homes with dozens or more connected devices and industrial settings, continue to drive demand for high capacity, low latency Wi-Fi. This is pushing the Wi-Fi community to adopt new features and add capabilities to their…

Whether motivated For executive teams, there’s an impulse to make splashy diversity hires in prominent positions. Unfortunately, these hires rarely work in the long-term. Onboarding a Black woman or Latino/x male looks good, but without support, these folks will move on because they lacked decision-making power, were given unrealistically high expectations, or figured out they…

Few IT professionals would deny that having a college degree is very useful when searching for an IT job. But should completing four years of college be a mandatory hiring requirement? Like a growing number of IT hiring market participants and observers, Dan Kirsch, managing director and co-founder of research and consulting firm Techstrong Research,…

As CIOs and other executives look for ways to expand sustainability initiatives, there’s a growing awareness that initiatives can’t stop at the four walls of the data center or office building. Today’s structures can contain hundreds of thousands of components that consume energy and add to an organization’s carbon footprint. In fact, buildings consume one-third…

“Over the coming decades, the metaverse has the potential to become a multi-trillion-dollar part of the world economy,” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently said. We’ve all read a dozen similar statements on the massive future of the metaverse, but Sweeney has more insight than most. Epic is the gaming company behind the Unreal Engine,…