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Is the business-IT gap intentional?

IT and business executives must decide whether to transform the way their organizations interact. Maintaining the status quo may feel safe, but itu2019s risky.

By Hakan Altintepe

Business IT Alignment C-Suite CIO

From medical records to Merkle trees with IPFS

Be prepared for the blockchain discussion by improving your knowledge of Merkle trees and Merkle-DAGs. Do you know how they relate to healthcare?

By Peter B. Nichol

Healthcare Industry IT Strategy Innovation

Uber scandal highlights what’s wrong with Silicon Valley

Sexual harassment, discrimination, favoritism, nepotism … and you wonder why women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community don't want to work in tech.

Careers IT Leadership

3 ways to gauge employee engagement and satisfaction

If you're trying to find a way to get honest employee feedback — beyond annual reviews and surveys — start by asking your workers these three questions.

Careers IT Leadership Relationship Building

Hopper travel app helps you decipher — or avoid — basic economy airfares

Most business travelers want to avoid basic economy fares at all costs (literally). The Hopper travel search app offers a new feature designed to help you identify the hidden costs of basic economy, or avoid that airfare class altogether.

Android Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Facebook criticizes ad industry’s reliance on ‘proxy metrics’

Facebooku2019s operations and finance chiefs praised third-party measurement tools at a Morgan Stanley conference while criticizing the ad industryu2019s myopic view of what should be measured.

By Matt Kapko

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Trump’s executive order travel ban and IT workers

Is there anything tech employers should keep in (or out of) contracts for third-party service providers or temporary tech workers?

By David Adler

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Edge computing will blow away the cloud

Self-contained devices, such as autonomous vehicles, drones and IoT devices, will push out cloud services as more computing moves to the edge, say venture capitalists.

By Clint Boulton

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

SaaS is eating the infrastructure world

Itu2019s going to be a bumpy road ahead as companies start to adapt to serverless computing. Hereu2019s a look at what will happen when software eats the infrastructure world.

By Chris Stone

Cloud Computing Data Center SaaS

Lesson from AWS outage: stop putting your eggs in the same basket

Itu2019s a dangerous scenario that the internet is becoming so reliant on a single product by a single vendor. It's time to adopt a multi-cloud strategy.

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Mar 1, 2017 3 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Open Source

Follow these career roadmaps to 7 hot IT jobs

What skills, education and experience do you need to land some of todayu2019s hottest IT jobs? Find out in this free report from the editors of CIO.com.

By CIO staff

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Apple: Mac users don’t believe Tim Cook’s hype about pro products

Pipeline Tim is at it again, talking up Apple's pro products. But his words ring hollow to many frustrated Mac users. Will Apple ever release updated desktop Macs? Will there ever be a new Mac Pro?rn

By Jim Lynch

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How Trillium Precise enhances customer interaction and satisfaction

The Trillium Precise data-as-a-service product is a data quality and enrichment offering thatu2019s designed to provide single view of your customers enhancing identification, communication and interaction.

By Thor Olavsrud

Big Data CRM Systems Marketing

How unfilled tech jobs impact the U.S. economy

How much are those open IT roles costing the economy and your company? The answer is probably a lot more that you think.

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4 things you’ll love about Dell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 and 4 you won’t

The Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 offers a fresh design for the enterprise, without sacrificing productivity and functionality. But as a device trying to be two things at once, there are some downsides.

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3 ways to transform a carry-on bag into smart luggage

Smart luggage is cool, but it often costs $300 and up u2014 and why buy it if you love your current bag? Instead, add some tracking smarts to your bag with one of these three products.

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Tired of looking at the same old background when you login on your Mac? Hereu2019s how you can customize it with a new image.

By Jim Lynch

Feb 28, 2017 3 mins

Consumer Electronics Enterprise Applications MacOS

Cisco completes live trials of Narrow Band IoT

The Cisco Jasper IoT connectivity platform now supports a standard for Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) designed to help mobile carriers pave the way for an explosion in internet of things devices in areas like smart meters, smart cities, smart

By Thor Olavsrud

Emerging Technology Internet of Things Technology Industry

A tale of two user experiences

The perception of software quality will be forged in the first 90 seconds. Donu2019t let your users experience what I had to go through.

By David Taber

CRM Systems SaaS Software Development

Apple and SAP to release ‘developer-centric’ tools for iOS

As the fruits of a relationship forged last May, Apple and SAP will offer developer tools and training to build iOS apps for the enterprise.

By Matt Kapko

Apple Mobile Development Small and Medium Business

Unlocking the value in patient-generated health data

Harnessing data from a multitude of sources to develop a comprehensive view of patients to drive health outcomes could be coming of age. Hereu2019s how one health system is approaching it. rn

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Big Data Healthcare Industry Wearables

15 unfilled tech jobs that cost the U.S. billions

What's the overall cost of unfilled technology jobs? New research from Glassdoor shows it's in the billions. rn

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Can you say what strategic outcomes your project is targeting?

To make a strategic contribution to the organization, your tech project must be specific about 3 categories of business outcomes.

By Pradeep Henry

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy

Scrum vs. Lean vs. Kanban: Comparing agile project management frameworks

Agile frameworks like Scrum, Lean or Kanban are widely used across many industries. Each has its own focus, features, process, benefits and drawbacks. Here's how to decide which framework work best for your next project.

By Moira Alexander

Agile Development IT Governance Frameworks Technology Industry

How to use your Android device as a mobile hotspot

Turning your Android smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot means you always have a secure, private connection on the go. Hereu2019s how to do it.

Android Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Why Facebook is overhauling video (again)

Facebook wants to become a premier outlet for video and it's making a series of aggressive moves to attract bigger audiences and drive more revenue.

By Matt Kapko

Feb 27, 2017 4 mins

Marketing Social Networking Apps Technology Industry

First impressions of Samsung’s Galaxy Book with Windows 10

Samsungu2019s latest hybrid tablet device promises better performance and design than last year's Galaxy Tab Pro S. We go hands-on with the Galaxy Book for a first look.

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Gnome Foundation executive director wants you to think beyond the desktop

The newly elected executive director of the Gnome Foundation discusses his role and some uncomfortable subjects around desktop Linux.

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Feb 27, 2017 6 mins

Linux Open Source Operating Systems

Digitization inches towards the mainstream

Despite CIOs' claims of embracing digital capabilities, digitization at most organizations remains a slow-moving process, McKinsey says.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Strategy Technology Industry

Into HIIT and don’t mind looking dorky? This activity tracker is for you

Moov HR Sweat puts a 21st-century twist on that staple of 1980s workouts, the headband. If you're into HIIT and want to up your game, though, the $100 device is worth considering.

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5 ecommerce fraud predictions for 2017

Ecommerce fraud is on the rise as more consumers turn to online shopping. Luckily, by being vigilant, merchants can fight fraud and win.

By Ralph Tkatchuk

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How to remain relevant in a changing IT world

Humana CIO Brian LeClaire learned a lesson in relevance early in his career u2014 and heu2019s used it to drive the health insurance giantu2019s innovation roadmap.

By Brian P. Watson

CIO Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry

The power of user adoption

How Earl Newsome, CIO of Praxair, embeds adoption into everything his IT organization does

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Governance IT Jobs

Why aren’t Digital First banks there yet?

Banks and financial organizations are on the verge of a major transformation. Although late to the party, these organizations are more and more embracing digital revolution and drastically transforming user experience.

By Subrata Mukherjee

IT Leadership Innovation

The impact of new digital business models on IT services

Digital models enable moving IT infrastructure from offshore to onshore cost-effectively.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

CIO H-1B Visas Technology Industry

IT project success rates finally improving

After years of stagnating IT project success rates, a new survey from PMI shows that rates are finally on the rise.

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How a bad board of directors could kill HPE

Columnist Rob Enderle writes that the trouble with HPE stems from its board of directors. Just replacing a CEO, if the board lacks core skills, just changes the problem.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership

Former CIO sees digital transformations sprinting through DevOps

Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of software vendor Puppet, says DevOps helped him as CIO of EMC, where he led a tech transformation.

By Clint Boulton

Agile Development CIO Technology Industry

4 ways IT leaders can get each day off to a strategic start

Give yourself a tremendous mental boost and real strategic advantage by starting your day off right. Use these four simple steps. Find inspiration to create your own additional steps.

By Tom Catalini

IT Leadership IT Skills

The permanent web for healthcare with IPFS and blockchain

The internet of data structures (IoDS) has arrived for healthcare. IPFS combined with blockchain creates a new layer of the internet. Is your business exploring it?

By Peter B. Nichol

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Medical professionals provide improved patient care through artificial intelligence

Computer-based systems that incorporate AI techniques are projected to have a dramatic impact in health care, helping physicians better diagnose and treat their patients.

By Larry Stofko

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Industry

10 mobile marketing trends to watch in 2017

Whereu2019s mobile marketing heading? And what do CMOs and marketers need to know to stay ahead or avoid falling behind? We answer these and other mobile marketing questions.

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Healthcare technology experts contemplate the Trump effect

A panel of healthcare technology experts met in San Francisco to explore the new administration's impact on the industry.

By Andre Bourque

Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Project consolidation continues at The Linux Foundation

AT&Tu2019s ECOMP network virtualization project merges with OPEN-O to create ONAP.

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Networking Open Source

RPA proving its transformational value at Deutsche Bank

Robotic process automation has improved productivity and quality at Deutsche Bank. Robots are intended to augment the banku2019s workforce, making employees happier and more efficient.

By Stephanie Overby