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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.

May 2014

Web-scale IT shows what technology can achieve
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 May 2014

English: A Netflix envelope picture taken by BlueMint. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Looking at web companies such as Amazon, eBay, Facebook or NetFlix, it is hard not to be impressed by the scale of ...

Big data technology has its work cut out to harness web analytics
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 May 2014

English: eBay Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)What can we learn from companies such as eBay and Amazon? These internet businesses are at the cutting edge of technology.The recent Gartner CRM summit ...

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How to become a CIO thought leader

Experts discuss how CIOs and IT leaders can utilize successful thought leadership to distinguish and promote either their ...

Adobe, Uber on the challenges of digital transformation

Digital transformation initiatives may be all the rage in the enterprise, but they also pose significant challenges to CIOs and ...

Cloud migration failures and how to prevent them

Companies are moving more applications than ever to the cloud, but many of these initiatives fail. Learn how to avoid making your...

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Another CCleaner attack hits Avast supply chain

Avast said it stopped an attempted supply chain attack targeting its CCleaner software, but experts say all enterprises should be...

Combat the human aspect of risk with insider threat awareness

When it comes to insider threat awareness and prevention, enterprises would be wise to marry a people-centric approach with a ...

Forcepoint Web Security offering reaches for the edge

Forcepoint has delivered a web-based security tool leveraging elastic cloud gateway technology that allows admins to access ...

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Edge computing use cases and drivers to watch

Edge computing use cases span across multiple industry sectors, including manufacturing, retail and medical. The motives for ...

Discover 5 key cloud networking basics for your organization

Clear away the fog, and explore these five key cloud networking fundamentals -- such as models, challenges and tools -- you need ...

Transform network management with a network automation strategy

Enterprises can employ a network automation strategy to provide some stability for network management and monitoring. Automation,...

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Improve server rack physical security with ISO standards

Safeguarding information access is essential to data center operations. With ISO Standard 27001 and the right locking mechanisms,...

Essential private cloud migration steps

Executive buy-in, application evaluation and tool configuration are all important parts of cloud selection. With these steps, ...

IBM quantum computers' usefulness in sight -- using binoculars

IBM's Bob Sutor discusses Big Blue's new quantum systems and computation center, the realities of quantum computing today and how...

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Open source database use is a growing trend

Study shows that more users are using open source software for data management, with most organizations using more than one ...

Databricks contributes Delta Lake to the Linux Foundation

Databricks has found a new home at the Linux Foundation for its open source Delta Lake data lake project, in a bid to help grow a...

Apache Rya matures open source triple store database

Open source triple store database technology used by the U.S. Navy moves forward as a stable, mature project at the Apache ...