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Management Matters

Discussing the IT strategy and management issues facing CIOs, CTOs and CDOs.

August 2014

Government needs to play the Game of Thrones
Caroline Baldwin - Business Editor 13 Aug 2014

Game of Thrones (soundtrack) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Government is dependent on the big IT players, but they need to stand up for their share of power. Speaking to Duncan Jones principal analyst ...

Information sharing in government - stop scaremongering and let it happen
Caroline Baldwin - Business Editor 04 Aug 2014

The Telegraph has reported that the government is considering implementing an information sharing system across Whitehall. An information system similar to customer databases used by Amazon and ...

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Gartner Symposium 2018: Digital business models shift IT priorities

With digital business models maturing, CIOs have shifted their IT and business priorities to make digitization projects ...

Gartner Symposium 2018: 10 culture hacks for CIOs to spur DX

Culture is a barrier to digital transformation, and it's the CIO's job to help change it, said analyst Kristin Moyer at Gartner ...

Step-by-step guide to a blockchain implementation

If you're not experimenting with blockchain, you're behind the curve. Our step-by-step guide on implementing blockchain dissects ...

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Facebook breach affected 20 million fewer than thought

The recent Facebook breach affected 20 million fewer accounts than was previously thought. The company now says 29 million ...

Mozilla delays distrust of Symantec TLS certificates, Google doesn't

Mozilla delays plans to distrust Symantec TLS certificates in Firefox because despite more than one year's notice, approximately ...

Industroyer, NotPetya linked to TeleBots group by ESET researchers

News roundup: An APT group called TeleBots group was linked to Industroyer malware and NotPetya ransomware, according to ...

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What you need to know about SD-branch before diving in

The branch office is getting software-defined, and that is a good thing. But first, explore the benefits, and drawbacks, before ...

How to get your branch network up and running

Setting up the branch office network can feel overwhelming, but you need only to ask the right questions to be able to evaluate ...

Riverbed tailors SteelCentral AppResponse for the cloud

Riverbed has launched SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud. The latest version of the application monitor troubleshoots problems found ...

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Minimize downtime during a data center upgrade

End users don't want their productivity interrupted by IT maintenance. With the right technology, testing and planning, you can ...

Navigate data center management software selection

Software evaluation can be a lengthy process, especially with both open source and commercial options. Functionality and support ...

How data lineage tools boost data governance policies

Enterprises can bolster data governance efforts by tracking how and when changes are made to data. Expert David Loshin offers ...

MarkLogic Data Hub Service aims to ease cloud use of NoSQL DBMS

MarkLogic rolled out a cloud-service version of its NoSQL database management system, a move designed to make the technology more...

Cloud buoys data microservices -- for on-premises systems, too

Data in a microservices architecture is percolating anew. This news analysis looks at IBM Cloud Private for Data and other means ...