Dennis McCafferty

‘Enough With Help Tickets!’—IT Prefers to Work on Game-Changing Tech With IT Professionals Day falling on Sept. 18, tech department employees said they’re most likely to spend at least part of their day responding to user requests and help desk tickets, according to a recent survey from SolarWinds. But, if they had more time to […]

IT Turning to the Cloud to Handle Growing Big Data Demands Intro: Organizations are drowning in big data, according to a recent survey from Qubole. The resulting report, titled “An In-Depth Look at Big Data Trends and Challenges,” reveals that the number of enterprises with more than 100 terabytes in their data lake is significantly […]

Generation Gap: Millennials Play Larger Role in Enterprises’ Tech Use In the modern age of bring your own device (BYOD) and an overall more tech-sophisticated employee, it’s common for professionals to recommend tech solutions at work. Apparently, though, a certain segment of staffers—specifically Millennials—feel more empowered to do so, according to a recent survey from […]

What’s Driving Companies to Launch Open-Source Programs The majority of organizations—and nearly three-quarters of large enterprises—have either launched a formal open-source program or plan to do so, according to a recent survey from the Linux Foundation. The programs are intended to improve code needed for both internal purposes and for external, commercial products. They also […]

Inefficient Collaboration Tools Hindering Project Management Teams With project management emerging as a common role for professionals these days, better strategies and tech tools are required to enable teams to collaborate more effectively, according to a recent survey from Planview. The resulting report, titled “Everyone Is a Project Manager,” reveals that collaboration inefficiencies are literally […]

Maintenance Burden Keeps IT From Demonstrating Innovation Capabilities All too often skilled IT department professionals are primarily perceived as a “maintenance squad” for critical infrastructure and systems, according to a recent survey from Ivanti. The resulting report, titled “The CIO’s Conundrum,” reveals that relatively few organizations view IT as a go-too resources for high-priority digital […]

Devo Survey Highlights Time, Cost Benefits of Centralized Data Systems With the increasing presence of data throughout the enterprise, many IT and business leaders are recognizing the value of centralized systems to collect, store, access and analyze business data, according to a recent survey from Devo Technology. The resulting report, titled “What’s Data Got to […]

Why Mission Critical Cloud App Breakdowns Require Lengthy Fixes With most enterprises migrating at least one-quarter of their highly available (HA) and mission critical apps to the cloud, organizations are finding that app performance issues have emerged as regular occurrences, according to a recent survey from SIOS Technology. The resulting report, titled “The State of […]

CIOs Focusing on ‘Keeping the Lights On’ Instead of Digital Strategies Nearly all organizational leaders consider digital a top business priority—but few companies actually have an enterprise-wide digital strategy in place, according to a recent survey from Deloitte. It doesn’t help that most CIOs reveal that their main role is to “keep the lights on” […]

DCIM Gains IT Buy-In With Swift, Budget-Friendly Benefits The vast majority of organizations are deploying data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions—and are seeing “significant” benefits within the first year, according to a recent survey from the Uptime Institute. The resulting “Global Data Center Survey” report also reveals that IT is able to adequately staff for […]

Need for Speed: How Rapid Data Processing Benefits Enterprises While virtually all organizations would benefit from processing and acting upon data quickly, few are successful in doing so, according to a recent survey from Streamlio. The resulting report, titled “The Speed of Data,” reveals that only a minority of businesses formally measure how fast they […]

Sales Teams Bemoan Limitations of CRM in Providing Accurate Forecasting Despite the widespread deployment of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, relatively few sales professionals have a high degree of confidence in the data produced by these tools, according to a recent survey from CSO Insights. The resulting “2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study” conveys similarly discouraging […]