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Ahead in the Clouds

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

November 2017

Cloud AI in the enterprise: Making the security case
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 17 Nov 2017

In this guest post, Ross Brewer, managing director and vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at cybersecurity software supplier LogRhythm, makes the enterprise case for using artificial ...

Cloud in healthcare: What is holding up adoption?
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 13 Nov 2017

In this guest post, Darren Turner, general manager at healthcare-focused hosting provider Carelink, takes a look at why the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt cloud, and how NHS Digital’s ...

SearchCIO

Successful digital ecosystems depend on cloud services

Business models are changing in the digital age, requiring companies to create sometimes unexpected partnerships, enabled by the ...

Contract risk management: Focus on these 6 areas

Inspecting vendor contracts for risk is increasingly important as CIOs scramble to stay nimble in a volatile economy. ClearEdge ...

How to write an RFP and statement of work for an IT services contract

Master how to write an RFP and statement of work to get the IT services you need using these best practices from consulting firm ...

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Cyberinsurance carrier Chubb investigating possible data breach

Insurance giant Chubb confirmed it is investigating an incident that may involve the Maze ransomware group, which claims to have ...

AI Security Alliance urges clarity for buying AI security tools

Vendors and customers must be aware of potential gaps between expectations and reality in the sale or purchase of AI ...

Risk & Repeat: COVID-19 boosting social engineering attacks

This episode of the Risk & Repeat podcast looks at how social engineering attacks have become more successful by taking advantage...

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U-turn in network market forecast amid coronavirus pandemic

IDC predicts the global market for switches and wireless LAN products will fall in 2020, with revenues from switches below last ...

802.3cg standard extends single-pair Ethernet range and speed

IEEE 802.3cg is a single-pair Ethernet standard that aims to support speeds up to 10 Mbps, extend Ethernet range up to 1,000 ...

4 lasting effects of growing remote workforces on networks

In this roundup of network blogs, explore expert advice on increasing remote workers' efficiency, potential lasting effects of ...

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Tech giants aim supercomputers, clouds at finding a COVID-19 cure

The new COVID-19 HPC consortium comprised of tech giants, national labs and academia are using supercomputers and clouds to speed...

Top vendor SDDC certification programs for admins

If you decide to grow your knowledge of software-defined data center technologies, VMware, Nuage Networks and Microsoft offer ...

Build up your knowledge of leaf-spine network technology

As organizations deal with challenges of single tree path networks, many admins are considering leaf-spine architectures. Learn ...

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Ascend boosts enterprise data governance with data lineage

The new capabilities of Ascend Govern bring data lineage and enterprise data governance as well as the ability to try and figure ...

The business benefits of enterprise data governance and MDM

Data leaders from prominent large organizations provide insights into data governance best practices and benefits, at ...

How data governance and data management work together

Data governance is an important part of data management. These recommendations will help build a strong complementary ...