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How the IT model impacts realities of changing economic conditions

How CIOs can scale IT costs to fit challenges of oil and gas and other commodity businesses.

Jun 16, 2016

Why you can’t win by focusing on software

Mirantis cofounder Boris Renski has bad news for infrastructure software companies: They need to "change their business model or perish." rn

Jun 15, 2016 4 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source

17 painful ways a major software purchase can go wrong

The pain of a major software purchase going wrong can lead to wishing the project had never been started. However, by then contracts are signed and it is too late to do anything about it. Read and be warned!

Jun 15, 2016

Business IT Alignment ERP Systems IT Governance

How CIOs can take IT to the next level by anticipating industry disruptions

The key actions CIOs must take to anticipate their industry disruption and align their IT organization to the competitive challenges of the digital economy.

Jun 13, 2016

Big Data IT Strategy Technology Industry

Meet Microsoft’s ‘planet scale’ NoSQL database

Forget the name: Microsoft says DocumentDB is more powerful than Cassandra and has more paying users than MongoDB u2013 and itu2019s not actually for documents.

Jun 13, 2016

Cloud Computing Database Administration

PGA Tour bets big on Microsoft mobile, cloud services

Sweeping technology upgrades for fans and employees have the professional golf group building Windows 10 applications and migrating email and other computing tasks to the public cloud.

Jun 10, 2016

IT Strategy Markets Small and Medium Business

Cloud delivers on outsourcing’s promise—but results may vary

Can companies save money by going to the cloud? The unsatisfying answer is: it depends. The success of cloud initiatives has more to do with the art of how an enterprise promotes its adoption than any exact formula.

Jun 7, 2016

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