complexity - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Why the best cybersecurity lessons are from Star Trek

  Brig Gen (Ret) Greg Touhill, former information security chief of President Obama and now Cyxtera Federal Group president, looks at the cult series from a different perspective

• Inside Gartner’s 2017 hype cycle for data management

  Of the 35 technologies featured in the report, four are judged to be ‘transformational’

• The top 7 traits of highly effective CIOs (Part 2)

  The CIO role is complex and difficult, and if you hope to be successful in the long-term you need to look after yourself, writes Owen McCall.

• CX and complexity: ‘Integrate or die’

  Investments in marketing technologies are on the rise, but syncing them with existing systems is another story.

• The seven deadly sins of network security

  Anyone worth their salt in information security will tell you a solid defence is built upon multiple layers of technology, policy and practice. That's defence - in-depth.
  The technology layers are a critical piece of that puzzle -- of course. But companies that suffer a major network breach have frequently failed on a more fundamental level. Here are the deadly network security sins experts say are rampant in the corporate world. Avoid these sins and you will have taken a critical step toward a secure network.

• Warming up to SaaS

  Renting software and accessing it through a website sounds like a good idea and has been pushed endlessly by sections of the IT industry, but the idea has been having trouble gaining traction.
  But analysts now seem to have a better fix on the SaaS (Software as a Service) trend and they say small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are coming on board.

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  SAP Hana is the answer! What’s the question?

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  IDC FutureScape: top CIO decision imperatives for 2015

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  The analytic-transactional data platform: enabling the real-time enterprise