• BrandPost: If data’s the fuel, is your IT engine ready?

    What fuels the ‘always on,’ personalized experience today’s consumers expect? It’s data. Data fuels digital business, so IT systems must be resilient, being able to effectively collect, efficiently retain and easily access that data to gain insights, make performance improvements and gain a competitive edge. Yet, in a recent IDC study commissioned by Zerto, a shocking 90% of businesses don’t see themselves as IT resilient.Why? Perhaps it’s because budgets to
  • You Can Now Get This Award-Winning VPN For Just $1/month

    If you use the internet (which you clearly do), you likely know how important it is to protect your data in an increasingly dangerous cyber environment. But like other essential tasks that tend to be tedious (like filing taxes early and brushing your teeth for the full two minutes), most installing and running a VPN can sound unappealing to many: sure, they encrypt your internet traffic and hide your location — but they can also run frustratingly slowly, delaying the way you’d usual
  • BrandPost: Rooting Out the Digital Skills Crisis

    The U.S. job market is a paradox. More and more jobs are being lost to intelligent automation, but digital technologies are also creating new roles that are going unfilled because of a digital skills shortage. Since those jobs originate in technology, it’s easy to assume STEM talent must fill them. This rather myopic thinking is aggravating a shortage of STEM skills into what two in five Americans term a crisis.It’s true that technology skills of the past were primarily programming-
  • BrandPost: Moving Windows into the modern world… successfully!

    There is no question that Windows needed a refresh. With the explosion of mobile device platforms like iOS and Android, organizations are changing the way they interact with their customers to deliver products and services in new ways.Despite this growing mobile device trend, most organizations continue to have a strong investment in the Windows platform. Windows is the backbone of their desktop computing operating system and the framework for their line-of-business applications. Windows is a w
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  • IDG Contributor Network: How healthcare can overcome the risk and costs of harnessing digital health innovation

    Digital health funding reports from venture capital (VC) firm Rock Health released recently indicate that funding levels in Q1 2019 are down from the previous quarter. At $916 million, U.S. digital health funding in Q1 was half of what it was for the same period in 2018. Considering that 2018 saw $8.1 billion in digital health funding, the annualized funding numbers based on Q1 may fall well short of the blistering growth rates we have seen for the past two years. The numbers, when ad
  • 11 business intelligence certifications to advance your BI career

    With data increasingly vital to business success, business intelligence (BI) continues to grow in importance. With a strong BI strategy and team, organizations can perform the kinds of analysis of business information necessary to help users make data-driven business decisions.BI encompasses numerous roles. BI analysts, with an average salary of $66,791 per year according to PayScale, provide application analysis and data modeling design for centralized data warehouses and extract data from dat
  • 10 IT automation mistakes to avoid

    From a practical standpoint, it’s hard to argue against automation. Enterprises can gain all kinds of efficiencies, save time and money, improve quality, and ultimately boost their financial results by automating processes that have previously been handled manually.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  • BrandPost: Enabling a Multi-Cloud Future Down Under

    Enterprises throughout Australia are familiar with Macquarie Cloud Services. Part of the Macquarie Telecom Group, it provides datacenter, cloud, cyber security, and telecommunications services to companies and government agencies throughout Australia.We recently connected with James Mystakidis, group executive for Macquarie Cloud Services, about the nuances associated with multi-cloud deployments, the customer experience, what organizations should look for when choosing datacenter services, and
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