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IT groups will recognize that their struggle to meet the speed and functionality of the public providers is fruitless. More important, they will recognize that their major task is to deliver applications, and spending time agonizing over what infrastructure to use is useless

Infosys and IBM doing away with the so-called bell curve system of employee appraisal, more companies are likely to follow suit and find new methods.

A blog about fighting spam and malware by a member of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection anti-spam team

"They want to stop messages from arriving into a customer’s organization that look like it’s an internal message, but really aren’t internal messages. Instead, they are phishing messages from an outside attacker that is spoofing the domain tomake it look like a regular internal message."

Ada LovelaceIgen, az első programozó nem csak, hogy nő volt, illetőleg hát ember, de nem is akármilyen ember volt, illetőleg hát nem is akármilyen nő.Azért lehet ma fontos kiemelni ezt az amúgy nem túl lényeges körülményt, mert bár szerencsére az IT szektorban, ahogy más területeken is csökken a…

There is little agreement among companies about which management approaches are most effective; more empirical evidence is required. A McKinsey & Company article.

By Marissa Tejada Cloud computing-based strategies are in demand, with a new survey reporting more IT leaders plan to use cloud computing for their enterprise applications next year. With this shift, managed service providers (MSPs) need to be ready to face the challenges that go along with cloud-first strategies as they help their clients grow. …

Get the latest World Quality Report highlighting quality assurance (QA) and testing trends and practices, based on research study of 1,543 IT executives.

How these companies buy their hardware influences IT buyers in surprising ways.

IBM is benefiting hugely from its internal Mac adoption program, saving about $270 per Mac versus Windows PCs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a Tuesday fiscal results call.

“What’s your IT strategy?”

“I don’t have one.”

Data protection authorities consider that Standard Contractual Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules can still be used. In any case, this will not prevent data protection authorities to investigate particular cases, for instance on the basis of complaints, and to exercise their powers in order to protect individuals.
In any case, transfers that are still taking place under the Safe Harbour decision after the CJEU judgment are unlawful.

large public cloud providers will be the location of external workloads, but that many workloads will remain on-premise. This is labelled hybrid cloud, and is assumed to represent the future of enterprise workload management.

In January 2016, just 18 percent of websites in the Alexa Top 10,000 used Flash, down from almost 50 percent four years earlier.

"Anyone on the internet can steal all of your passwords completely silently, as well as execute arbitrary code with zero user interaction".

"how do you get from point A (lots of data) to point B (amazing business insights that give your organization a competitive advantage)? Will we get any closer to realizing that in 2016?"

This chart shows which technologies C-level executives from 70 countries expect to be particularly important in the next 3-5 years.

Brazilian researcher discovers double security threat in Arris cable modems which allows an attacker to rewrite the firmware without owners knowledge.

The technology research firm IDC predicts the pace of digital transformation of business is going to accelerate and increasingly hit every industry.

Many CIOs find it exhilarating to responsibility for business functions outside of IT. But CIO-plus roles require a new mindset and trusted deputies.

Most people don’t want to think about breaches, identity theft, or hackers. As UC San Diego physician-scientist Ajit Varki argues in his 2013 book Denial, avoiding the negative is a natural human tendency. The risks we encounter every time we log on are very real, but our users don’t want to be reminded of that. Taking a cue from other professions, can we consider our customers’ convenience and even their delight while keeping their information safe? How can we sugarcoat the security pill to sweeten the user experience?

"The conclusion for me is that the CIO role is so different according to the organisation and that innovation is a moving target too – not just innovate and become more complex but innovate to simplify too. The question is therefore only something that can be answered according to the CIO and organisation involved – its a big ocean and everyone has a different experience on it!"