Pandemic increased automation appetite, but adoption hurdles await

For its next act, automation technology needs to prove it can help businesses quickly and sustainably adapt to sudden market changes.

By Roberto Torres • June 10, 2020

How productivity monitoring tools impact compliance and culture

Despite the popularity of remote work, some employers aren't sold on the idea, worried that employees will slack off. Enter: productivity monitoring.

By Pamela DeLoatch • June 9, 2020

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CIO Priorities

Companies task their CIOs with balancing the company’s economic and operational needs as they enable technology throughout the business.

By CIO Dive staff

IT hiring rose in May, but tech sector bled 34K jobs

The unemployment rates for tech occupations showed signs of improvement in May, dropping to 3.7% from 4.3% in April, according to CompTIA data. 

By Roberto Torres • June 8, 2020

Developers are working at 4 a.m. — what could go wrong?

Off-hour development could result in misconfigurations, especially if developers are trying to balance watching their children and constant instant messaging alerts.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 8, 2020

In remote onboarding push, companies automate IT and launch chatbots

Remotely onboarding staff means companies welcome new staffers with savvy chatbots and powerful equipment as they navigate complexity.

By Roberto Torres • June 8, 2020

Amid layoffs, companies track down and repossess remote employees' data access, devices

HR, accounting and IT systems all intersect when workers are laid off. Physical offices made retrieval less complicated — "hand me your badge, hand me your laptop."

By Samantha Schwartz • June 5, 2020

What to know about the proposed CCPA rules

Lingering ambiguities could create loopholes.

By Samantha Schwartz • Updated July 1, 2020

1 in 4 e-commerce stores lost company data. Some never got it back

A lackluster data strategy can mean companies miss out on data's potential to boost profits.

By Roberto Torres • June 4, 2020

Increasing agility and efficiency with IT Process Automation

Automation helps drive efficiency, deliver value faster, and solve IT and business workflow challenges. Here are four core areas to automate your IT processes.

June 4, 2020

Cloud adoption accelerates as companies plan for 2nd coronavirus wave

The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have a long tail, MariaDB found. While 99% of respondents report a current business impact from COVID-19, 84% expect effects to continue into next year.

By Naomi Eide • June 2, 2020

Tips for managing enterprise security at home, from patches to reboots

Troubleshooting takes place at a distance. Adequately managing infrastructure requires simplicity. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 29, 2020

Distributed software engineering teams lean on classic tools: collaboration and agile

Building software in quick bursts with constant communication, leaders help their teams sustain their pace of work.

By Roberto Torres • May 29, 2020

Guardian Life steers tech transformation with microservices

Moving off mainframes was not the priority — legacy modernization was a byproduct of larger business transformation goals. 

By Naomi Eide • May 28, 2020

CCPA enforcement is coming. Where are the rules?

Entire industries might be facing privacy implications given the climate created by the coronavirus.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 28, 2020

For 95% of companies, COVID-19 changed tech priorities

Organizations are pressing forward on long-term transformation goals in a matter of weeks, leaving three-quarters of IT workers concerned about the consequences of rushed projects.

By Roberto Torres • May 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic IaaS priorities: Public cloud reigns, usage to grow

Reflection on 2020 will highlight how companies treated cloud portfolios and adoption. Current indicators do not tell whether optimistic portfolio intentions will play out. 

By Naomi Eide • May 26, 2020

The Remote Playbook: How managers can keep burnout from upending IT teams

Failure to spot stress could result in health risks and waning levels of productivity and quality as stressed-out teams buckle under pressure.

By Roberto Torres • May 26, 2020

How CIOs can support a gradual return to the office

In partnership with the C-suite, CIOs are gearing up to support office safety and critical processes through digital products.

By Roberto Torres • May 22, 2020

Gartner: Half of healthcare CIOs will use RPA by 2023

The effects of the pandemic are pressuring healthcare decision-makers to optimize costs, making RPA's promises attractive.

By Roberto Torres • May 21, 2020

Ancient routers, IoT fridges: Security experts confront the threat landscape at home

"Our perimeter has moved to a teenager on TikTok," said Jeff Greene, director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at NIST.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2020

58% of tech firms had customers cancel, postpone projects in April, CompTIA says

By August, almost two-thirds of respondents expect business "may start to get back on track," as lockdowns ease. 

By Roberto Torres • May 20, 2020

CIO case study: A virtualization pivot 4 years ago made way for rapid remote transition

The coronavirus tested Nebraska Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center​'s cloud- and mobile-first strategy.

By Naomi Eide • May 20, 2020

CCPA enforcement straining manual privacy request processes

"Do not sell" requests are expected to eventually outpace consumers' demand for data deletion.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 20, 2020

Employers often forget to source employee input as they adopt new tech

Employees are often wary of new technology, even tools purported to help them do their jobs, studies show.

By Kathryn Moody • May 18, 2020

Report: 4 in 10 employees are using personal apps to share company data

Most respondents say they understand cyber risk, but there's room for improvement when it comes to mitigation.

By Roberto Torres • May 18, 2020