eWEEK EDITORS

The pandemic has forever changed the way we work. As the world prepares for a “new normal” – driven by digital transformation – companies are preparing for yet another workplace transformation. The physical workplace has a big role to play, and it’s radically changing in response to employees’ needs and wants. A recent survey of […]

When the telecom giant Vodafone decided to shift its entire global enterprise to a single digital environment, it clearly had its 300 million customers — and its future profitability — in mind. The move to an enterprise-wide digital core standardized more than 80% of Vodafone’s core business processes and boosted automation levels to over 60% […]

In 2017, The Economist published an oft-quoted article claiming that “Data is the new Oil.” The article pointed out that the world’s five most valuable companies deal in, and extract value from data. The companies named are Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon and Facebook. Four years later, these five companies are still in the top […]

Database migrations are some of the most dreaded initiatives in IT. Bring up the subject of migrations with any IT executive and one gets a strong visceral reaction. Too many careers have been wrecked by failed migrations. Clearly, conventional techniques using code conversion just don’t work. Especially when it comes to migrating an enterprise data […]

FinOps practitioners and technical teams must begin working more closely together to factor financial reporting into their architectural designs, tagging and labelling taxonomies, and other configurations. When they do, there can be significant upside to a company. When they don’t, the consequences can be damaging. Here’s a case study that illustrates the need perfectly: Recently, […]

In recent years, DataOps has emerged as a discipline to describe tools, processes, and the right organizational structure to support a data-focused enterprise. While Google presents a plethora of different definitions for the practice itself, one thing cuts across them all: the importance of collaboration to succeed. DataOps is not a product for purchase today. […]

It’s not a sexy, cutting-edge algorithm, but research shows comprehensive asset management is your best tool to mitigate the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities. A Joint Cybersecurity Advisory, authored by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the U.S. Federal […]

As organizations embrace cloud and digital transformation initiatives – a trend that’s been accelerated by the recent pandemic – they’re coming to grips with the fact that traditional networks weren’t architected to handle the resulting complexities and workloads. This in turn is driving growth in flexible and robust software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) deployments, a market which […]

A software engineer receives an alert that a customer is experiencing a critical incident. If the engineer is lucky, this alert hits during normal work hours, so the incident is only interrupting regular tasks. If not, the engineer is most likely sacrificing a meal, personal time, or sleep. Unfortunately for employees of just about any […]

As companies gather more data and seek to use it in meaningful ways, accessing that data and getting the most value from it can be a challenge. In addition to the sheer volume of data, many of the decision makers and teams that need insights aren’t trained in analytics. To remain agile, a company’s business […]

Also see: What is AIOps: Definition, Use Cases, and Future Trends One of the questions I get asked a lot by customers, prospects, and partners is, “Will AIOps make them irrelevant?” To them, AIOps is often equivalent to automated remediation; an AIOps system automatically detects an incident and kicks off a remediation process in response […]

Against the backdrop of escalating cybercrime and data breaches throughout 2020 and 2021, state legislators in over 29 US states have thrown the spotlight on data privacy this year, putting it high on the agenda in legislative sessions. Among other things, the rights of consumers to opt out of data collection on websites, providing watertight […]