Dennis McCafferty

IT Pros to Seek New Jobs in 2018 in Search of Pay Hikes, Training The majority of IT professionals are dissatisfied with their salary—and many will look for a new employer in 2018 as a result, according to a recent survey from Spiceworks. The survey’s findings convey a “state of the tech worker” snapshot as […]

‘Rapid Speed’ of Disruptive Innovation Leads Top 10 Risks for 2018 When asked what concerns them most heading into 2018, corporate board members and executives cite the rapid speed of disruptive innovation, according to a recent survey from Protiviti and North Carolina State University. The accompanying report, titled “Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2018,” […]

Companies Seek Better Products and Decision-Making From Cognitive Tech Intro: A clear majority of organizations are making seven-figure investments into cognitive technology—with most of this budgeting allocated to IT needs and functions, according to a recent survey from Deloitte. In anticipation of a widespread industry transformation, most companies have no less than six cognitive technologies […]

CA Technologies Study Finds Enterprises Unprepared for Emerging Tech IT departments appear unprepared for the emerging technologies that are driving today’s business opportunities, according to a recent survey from CA Technologies. The resulting report, titled “Think Your Organization Is on Top of Your Software Development Game?,” primarily focuses on the struggles that software developers face: […]

Going Outside of IT, ‘Citizen Developers’ Speeding Up App Delivery With frustrations growing over their IT department’s inability to deliver business apps on a timely basis, a significant number of organizations are allowing—if not embracing—app development on the part of non-IT employees, according to a recent survey from Kintone, which markets a cloud-based rapid application […]

CIOs Cite Company Culture as Top Barrier to Technology Innovation Intro: A small minority of CIOs and IT directors perceive their organization as a “digital innovator,” according to a recent survey from Logicalis. The resulting “Global CIO Survey 2017–2018” report reveals that survey respondents are most likely to cite their company’s culture as a major […]

Why IT Remains Unprepared for Digital Transformation, Big Data While a majority of IT executives and tech professionals report that their organization have launched a digital transformation project, few describe their technology stack as “sophisticated,” according to a survey from Commvault. The resulting report, titled “Measuring IT’s Readiness for Digital Business,” reveals that only a […]

McKinsey Predicts Cloud Service Dominance, Greater DevOps Use by 2020 With companies looking to free up capital while increasing operational flexibility, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) are positioned to dominate IT investments in 2018, according to a recent trend report from management consulting company McKinsey & Company. The report, […]

Forrester 2018 Predictions See GDPR, AI, Recruiting as IT Challenges Intro: A recent “predictions” report from Forrester indicates that a significant share of organizations will fail to take full advantage of the latest information technology. The report, titled “Predictions 2018: A Year of Reckoning,” finds that many companies will have to deal with eroding customer […]

10 Things to Know About Amazon’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Here’s a look at the new Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service and how it might stack up against established services from Apple Music and Spotify. A Streaming Service Like Apple Music Amazon isn’t trying to do something new or groundbreaking with Music Unlimited. Instead, the […]