Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond
CIOs share how they are developing digital and data fluency across their organisations to drive better buy-in, more IT funding, and new business opportunities.
Stories by Esther Shein
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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold
IT leaders are looking to leverage technology to fuel innovation and business transformation in 2023, with budget bets built to suit.
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8 reasons why digital transformations fail
Lack of vision, leadership support, and long-term commitment are just a few of the ways that digital transformation journeys take wrong turns or fizzle out.
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CIOs sharpen mainframe exit strategies
With skillsets aging, costs accruing, and ends-of-life looming, CIOs are getting serious about divesting their big iron estates in favour of the cloud.
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7 traits of digital-savvy CIOs
Just as employees are upskilling in the latest tech, so too should CIOs, whose ongoing digital skills acquisition can greatly impact their organisations and their careers.
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7 skills of successful digital leaders
Successful digital transformations don’t happen without organisation-wide effort, mindset and processes changes and the right technologies.
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Macs dent the enterprise, but not by much
PCs are still the preferred platform in many organizations, for cost and integration issues, but Macs have carved out a strong niche.
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Decisions, decisions: Choices abound as data center architecture options expand
When the American Red Cross talks about mission-critical systems, it's referring to the blood supply that helps save lives. The non-profit organization manages 40% of the U.S.'s blood supply, so stability, reliability and tight security are of paramount concern, says DeWayne Bell, vice president of IT infrastructure and engineering.
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What vacation? Expect to work while you're away
In these lean times, backups aren't what they used to be; it's inevitable that IT staffers will be called to help, especially when an important issue is brewing.
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Businesses adopting robots for new tasks
Thanks to better sensors and other tech advances, robots are being used for new applications, including quality control.
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Data center fabrics promise flatter, simpler networks
Early adopters say revamping a data center's switching gear is worth the time and effort required; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility.
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Data center fabrics catching on, slowly
Early adopters say the expense and time spent to revamp a data center's switching gear are well worth it; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility.
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Data analytics driving medical breakthroughs
A hospital is usually a pretty busy place, but the neonatal intensive care unit at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has been buzzing with even more activity than is customary. Thanks to a new technology partnership, the hospital is working to use analytics to predict more accurately than ever before which premature babies are at most risk for disease and infection.
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Guide: How to bulletproof your website
'Tis the season to begin ramping up online shopping activity, and for retailers that means doing all they can to ensure their websites are up, highly available and able to handle peak capacity. Looming in many IT managers' minds is the cautionary tale of Target, whose website crashed twice after it was inundated by an unprecedented number of online shoppers when the retailer began selling clothing and accessories from high-end Italian fashion company Missoni.
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Avatars rising in the enterprise
Avatars aren't just for the movies or for techies with time on their hands. Organizations are using virtual worlds for training, simulation and prototyping, among other things.
