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A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector.

December 2016

GUEST BLOG: Two women in tech, two diaries, one firm
Clare McDonald - Business Editor 21 Dec 2016

This guest blog features two women in tech from the same firm - product manager Therese Stowell and senior software engineer Maria Ntalla - both explain their career paths and how they became women ...

GUEST BLOG: Gender diversity isn’t just a feel-good initiative
Clare McDonald - Business Editor 21 Dec 2016

In this contributed blog post, Damilola Erinle, area vice-president for UK & Ireland at Salesforce, discusses why businesses should see gender diversity as a way to increase productivity and ...

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Preparing for the new forms of cybersecurity threats in 2020

In the first part of a series on the new forms of cyberthreats in 2020, we're diving into the many infiltration points being ...

What is the state of CIO tenure today?

CIO tenure remains significantly lower than other C-suite positions, and according to experts, it's a result of the age of ...

The evolution of RPA, from macros to process transformation

RPA evolved from technology debuted in the 1950s and '60s and was developed to today's standards by the industry's leading ...

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CyCognito turning tables by using botnets for good

In this Q&A with CyCognito CEO Rob Gurzeev, he discusses what led to his company, how attack simulations work and how he plans to...

Building an effective security operations center framework

An effective security operations center framework includes more than just monitoring and analysis. AI and machine learning can ...

McAfee CEO Chris Young steps down, Peter Leav to take over

Chris Young has stepped down as McAfee CEO, and Peter Leav is taking his place. Young led the company's spin-out from Intel in ...

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Network device discovery best practices -- other than ping sweeps

Traditionally, ping sweeps are the go-to method for network device discovery. But, by creating a network script, you can discover...

5G vs. Wi-Fi: Verizon says cellular will win

In the not-too-distant future, businesses could find themselves weighing 5G vs. Wi-Fi in the campus and office. Verizon has ...

Gartner WAN edge Magic Quadrant offers buying advice

How should businesses buy WAN edge technology? You probably shouldn't rely on vendor name recognition alone. Instead, consider ...

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Organizations try to predict the effect of 5G infrastructure

With more 5G and IoT devices emerging, admins must prepare their data centers to support low-latency apps and edge computing with...

Top infrastructure and operations technology myths of 2019

Admins are consistently evaluating technology to improve I&O efficiency. Cost, integration and business goals are key components ...

Improve efficiency with server energy consumption tools

Deciding what servers are most efficient for your infrastructure requires research. Hardware-level certifications and web-based ...

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Where InfluxDB time series database is going

Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor ...

MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional ...

How data lineage tools boost data governance policies

Organizations can bolster data governance efforts by tracking the lineage of data in their systems. Get advice on how to do so ...