Mary Jane, meet blockchain: IBM touts tech for pot market

Blockchain will offer Canada a transparent view of the supply chain "from seed to sale," which will facilitate regulation and quality checks, reduce fraud, and support consumers' health and safety.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 10, 2017

Global tech economy is now the third largest in the world

Spending exceeded $6.3 trillion in 2016, making tech one of the largest economies, behind only the U.S. and China. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 9, 2017

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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.

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The 10 best zingers from the Congressional watchdog

Although the GAO's authority is respected and needed, sometimes those in the IT industry can get a kick out of its wholesome bluntness.  

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 9, 2017

Technology disTrumption: How 45 has impacted the tech sector

One year after Donald Trump won the election, the technology enterprise has not significantly changed under his hands-off approach. AI may change that.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 8, 2017

AI implementation on the rise, CIOs to dictate its direction

Companies late to implement AI risk becoming passé. Both tech giants and smaller companies need to incorporate the technology into long-term strategy.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 8, 2017

Digital 'laggards' struggling to modernize have to pay more for talent

Laggards find themselves in a perpetuating circle of stalled digital transformation due to a lack of talent and inability to attract the talent required to move forward. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 8, 2017

How to create a 2018 SaaS budget with confidence

IT may not care about every single SaaS application, but understanding the entire enterprise software spend is valuable to help justify the overarching budgets and identify cost savings.

By Eric Christopher • Nov. 7, 2017

Hilton to pay $700K in data breach fines, but it could be much worse

The company is paying roughly $2 for every compromised record, but under the EU's looming GDPR regulations, it would be paying $1,200 per record, Digital Guardian reports.  

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 6, 2017

The great hunt for Amazon HQ2: 3 cities on our short list

While Amazon is sifting through its several hundred proposals, with a result expected in 2018, the CIO Dive Editorial Team predicts three contenders. 

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Nov. 3, 2017

Digital transformation isn't cheap: Here's how to fund it

CIOs have to think creatively about how to drive funding for digital efforts, looking at short- and long-term funding streams.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 2, 2017

Fintech needs to keep AI and ML risks in mind, board warns

Though the Financial Stability Board recognized the benefits of the advanced technology, risks and potential dependencies on third-parties could persist. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 2, 2017

Though some sectors operate as half digital, disruption looms

Companies with only average or bottom-performing digital upgrades are expected to see at least a 6% decrease in revenue annually.

By Naomi Eide • Nov. 1, 2017

5 fresh business technology startups making a splash

With so many startups crowding the enterprise technology space, it can be difficult to tell the promising from the not. Sometimes $100 million in funding is seen as a metric of success, but other times success is filling a niche role for a critical technology.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 1, 2017

The near future belongs to the cloud and AI

Spending on cloud services will reach more than $530 billion by 2021 as 90% of enterprises turn to dependence on cloud-based services and storage, IDC reports.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 1, 2017

As email hinders productivity, automation helps enterprise workers

Email has potentially hit the ceiling of its productivity as a work management tool and now gets in the way of primary job functions.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 31, 2017

A new imperative in disaster recovery

There is only one thing worse than not having a disaster recovery plan and that's having an ineffective and outdated plan that leads to a false sense of security.

By Cindy LaChapelle • Oct. 31, 2017

Merck still reeling from Nyetya cyberattack, also expects Q4 impacts

Were it not for the June cyberattack, Merck & Co. would have had quarterly growth.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 31, 2017

NVIDIA and HPE hop on board the AI accessibility train

New tools that ease development and deployment are key to spreading advanced technology solutions among companies without the resources for a comprehensive in-house AI team.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2017

Prepare for 'Y2Q' as quantum computing looms, Rep. Hurd says

"Y2Q," or "years to quantum," is the next frontier federal cyber specialists should explore to avoid complete security disruption. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 30, 2017

Domestic outsourcing on the rise

Questions and qualms about outsourcing today come amid a period of introspection, largely driven by politics, about American companies' relation to domestic and international workers.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 27, 2017

The quantum revolution: Who, what, when, where, why and how?

Quantum computing will annihilate modern encryption schemes, and the race to reach the technology first is heating up worldwide — a race the enterprise is staking a claim in.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2017

Crawl, walk, run: How global companies can shift to the cloud

By using a crawl, walk, run approach, companies can ease the digital transformation process and make sure all participants are on board with changes and challenges.

By Akhilesh Tiwari • Oct. 24, 2017

Security, breaches and threats, oh my! 5 takeaways from CyberTalks 2017

Data security sounds like an easy end, but tech leaders acknowledge front and backend factors at play in today's dangerous cybersecurity environment.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 24, 2017

Reuters: Silicon Valley takes on Congress to protect Dreamers

The Coalition for the American Dream, a collection of companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel and IBM, is reportedly asking for bipartisan legislation to provide Dreamers a path to permanent residency.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 23, 2017

One year after the Dyn DDoS attack broke the internet, what's changed?

In response to the attack, security experts were quick to extol the virtues of redundancy measures — a best practice that experts have recommended for nearly two decades. But a year later, not much has changed.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 20, 2017