1. New requirements for multicloud, hybrid cloud, and the edge will drive buying decisions

2. Platform architectures will evolve past x86

3. Organizations' IT spend will focus on technologies that are essential to their business

4. The next era of automation will prioritize control

5. Artificial intelligence will play a major role in IT security more

As distributed energy resources (DERs) surge, distribution utilities need new tools to modernize the grid and safely integrate and manage the influx of new energy sources and devices. Recognizing Oracle's ability to deliver the holistic enterprise-wide platform and data intelligence utilities need to navigate this transition, Guidehouse Insights again named Oracle Energy and Water a leader in its ADMS Vendors report. more

Hibbett Retail, Inc. delivers cutting-edge footwear and fashion to consumers across 1,133 stores in 36 states. To provide its customers with a winning in-store shopping experience, the retailer has drafted the latest Oracle retail cloud platform technology. By upgrading its mobile Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service systems and adding Oracle Retail Store Inventory Operations Cloud Service, associates will always have an accurate view of available merchandise across channels and be able to serve customers from anywhere in the store to increase loyalty. more

JVCKENWOOD Corporation (JVCKENWOOD), a leading video, audio and telecommunications manufacturer in Japan, has implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), including Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), to help simplify and standardize financial planning and analysis, increase productivity, reduce costs and improve controls.

Founded in 2008 after the merger between two leading electronics brands, JVCKENWOOD aims to provide audio visual products, services, and solutions that provide excitement and peace of mind to customers. The merger resulted in multiple legacy business systems with manual processes and complicated interfaces, which made it increasingly difficult for the management team to gain fast and accurate insights. To improve business visibility and enhance decision-making, JVCKENWOOD decided to consolidate financial processes by modernizing on Oracle Cloud ERP. more

To help customers optimize NetSuite for specific business needs and quickly and easily learn about and apply the latest in cloud technology, Oracle NetSuite today announced NetSuite MyLearn. NetSuite MyLearn is a new digital learning platform that provides access to live training and on-demand modules in a personalized and engaging environment. Available to NetSuite Learning Cloud Support customers, NetSuite MyLearn helps users accelerate NetSuite implementations, simplify employee training, and identify new features and use cases to optimize NetSuite. An introductory version is also available at no cost. more

CIOs are often teetering between striving for innovation and maintaining operational excellence. With a potential recession on the horizon and lingering complications from the pandemic, what is the best way to strike a balance between the two? 'CIOs are empowering everyone to challenge the status quo daily and providing the digital acumen and psychological safety required for teams to thrive in a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and rapid innovation,' according to Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo in our latest report in partnership with HBR Analytic Services. more

CISO Nicole Darden Ford has become accustomed to doing more with less since the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly upended her company's workforce. 'I got off a plane from India and saw all these people with masks at the airport in Washington, DC, and I wondered what was going on. I went straight to the office where my CEO and CIO explained our new reality: We were going into quarantine and we had less than a week to come up with a way for people to work remotely.' more

In his book, The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton Christensen writes that big companies fail to innovate not because of a lack of resources but because the processes and values that helped them scale are not designed for disruptive innovation.

Lately, I've been noticing a trend I call "the implementer's dilemma," which follows similar logic to explain why leading companies find themselves woefully stuck in outdated implementations of their software. Like the innovator's dilemma, the implementer's dilemma is a product of how enterprises function: Enterprises tend to approach software implementation with how to fix today's problems, not weighing the future needs of the business. more

Schneider Electric, a Fortune Global 500 company that specializes in digital automation and energy management, has the same challenges other enterprises face today - namely, finding new IT talent or reskilling employees to build talent pools from within.

The company recruits new IT talent from multiple backgrounds, and not specifically computer science graduates. Across the tech industry, more companies are dropping college degree requirements in favor of talent with soft skills, such as the ability to learn, lead, and work as part of a team. more

ChatGPT may be in its fledgling stage of development, but we are already seeing promise in its capacity to transform how we perform tasks, maintain various roles, and even operate in different industries.

In September 2022, Forrester reported that Artificial Intelligence (AI) software expenditure is projected to reach an annual growth rate of 18 percent, doubling by 2025 and growing 50 percent faster than the global software market. Given the popularity of ChatGPT, it is not farfetched to imagine that a large part of that market will be chatbot technology, which combines AI and language to serve users with a human-like quality to its responses.

So, what does this mean for a CIO? more

More than three quarters of the survey respondents (77%) said that despite an uncertain economy, their organization continues to invest in digital business transformation initiatives. Well over half the CIOs surveyed (57%) said that building and operating new digital platforms is a core part of their job.

A full 81% of CIOs are spending more time on innovation compared to a year ago with nearly half (46%) reporting that innovation is part of how their job performance is measured. A total of 81% of CIOs said they saw a 'significant increase' in the amount of time they spend on strategic planning in 2022, while 80% noted that business strategy will become a bigger part of their role over the next two years. more

Business leaders who have a complete understanding of where their people and activities are situated in their overall strategy have 'strategic clarity.' These leaders are invaluable - they can fill their team's day with meaningful work, burst through information silos, synergize teams across departments, and articulate every activity's role in achieving their goals.

By connecting every department, goal, person, and task to a shared vision, businesses can unlock their full potential. While establishing strategic clarity might sound complicated, with the right framework, it's quite intuitive. Here's how you can accomplish this using the strategic clarity map. more

In an IT marketplace marked by turbulence, inflation, and economic uncertainty, the process of contracting with vendors for technology products and services has gotten significantly more challenging for CIOs.

IT leaders may find that prices are going up without an accompanying increase in benefits, with technology providers - less dependent on any one industry or geography - taking a harder line on deals, says Achint Arora, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group. more

Global software and cloud services provider SoftwareOne released its "CIO Pulse: 2023 budgets & priorities" report on March 9, revealing that organizations will feel significant pressure to do more with less this year.

The report is based on a survey of 600 IT leaders in the U.S. and U.K. Among the top findings in the report is that although 93% of CIOs anticipate an increase in IT budgets in 2023, 83% feel pressured to maximize their budgets more than ever before. more

Enterprise data storage security has become increasingly complex and challenging in recent years due to the exponential growth of data and the proliferation of cyber threats. While organizations have reaped the benefits of increased efficiency and accessibility of data, they are also faced with the daunting task of safeguarding it. With the growing threat of data breaches and cyber-attacks, there is a growing need for enterprises to implement comprehensive security strategies to protect their data. more

Backblaze stores customers' backup and general storage data in its cloud datacenters. These are composed of disk drive pods and servers that use SSD boot drives. It has published disk drive annual failure rate statistics for some years and has now accumulated enough SSD data to publish SSD AFR numbers for the first time.

The surprise is that SSDs are not much more reliable than disk drives with their mechanical components - the moving read:write heads and spinning platters. more

Kubernetes is the industry standard for container orchestration, and it's being used by born-in-the-cloud startups and cloud-native enterprises alike. It's found in production on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge for many different types of applications, including some that Kubernetes wasn't initially built for. more

While data reduction in storage used to have a backup focus, vendors now commonly include the technologies in their flash-based systems.

The superior performance that SSDs offer over HDDs has made it possible to use data reduction techniques even in primary storage systems that support mission-critical applications. Vendors have also improved their data reduction techniques for better efficiency and to help minimize the impact on performance. more

UNIVERSAL TUTOR, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), is proud to announce the launch of its groundbreaking education technology platform for social & emotional learning. The platform uses an AI avatar-led gamified approach, providing a customized and powerful tool for students, teachers, parents, and administrators. In addition to optimizing the student experience, it connects the stakeholders to provide additional support to students in need, which addresses concerns of bullying, gun violence, and child suicide, all which are at an all-time high.

The Universal Tutor platform is equipped with psychometrics, providing powerful insight into students' mental health and emotional well-being. The platform is unique in providing real time secure data to stakeholders in the education process, offering a collaborative approach to Social & Emotional Learning. This platform is the first to use Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Data to provide visibility, personalized learning, and effective collaboration. more

Artificial intelligence tools offer many potential benefits, but keeping up with AI's rapidly evolving developments can seem like 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' said Victoria Lipnic, head of the Human Capital Group at Resolution Economics, referring to the Oscar-nominated film as she summarized the challenges employers face.

Lipnic, a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, moderated a Feb. 28 panel on AI at the Society for Human Resource Management's Employment Law and Compliance Conference in Washington, D.C. more

Artificial intelligence has become the tech industry's shiny new toy, with expectations it'll revolutionize trillion-dollar industries from retail to medicine. But the creation of every new chatbot and image generator requires a lot of electricity, which means the technology may be responsible for a massive and growing amount of planet-warming carbon emissions. more

The new solution is designed to accelerate the seamless integration of disparate data sources and applications with an AI-enabled solution to generate actionable information for clinical decision-making, population health management, quality-driven health outcomes, and value-based care. ETT's Intelligent Interoperability PaaS provides an affordable and agile solution for providers, health systems, and patients to allow an AI-enabled comprehensive solution for patient-centric clinical care as well as for population health management within a single unified platform. more

With all the hype surrounding ChatGPT, it's no wonder other companies are vying for a piece of the AI-powered chatbot game. Companies are betting that we're at a decisive moment in the artificial intelligence industry, where products that adopt and build upon the budding technology could have the potential to reshape technology as we know it - not to mention shake up the Big Tech hierarchy. more

This article introduces you to generative AI and its uses with popular models like ChatGPT and DALL-E. We'll also consider the limitations of the technology, including why "too many fingers" has become a dead giveaway for artificially generated art. more

Few people get excited about auditing or regulatory requirements. However, given the rapid pace of change within the regulatory and compliance landscape in recent years, there is reason to get excited about data center auditing. The auditing rules that data centers need to meet are changing in some ways, and stakeholders must track and respond to the changes if they want to remain in compliance with the various regulatory and industry auditing standards they need to meet. more

Yet, enterprises were underprepared to deal with the well-known threats. With the rise of new technologies and the increased adoption of remote work, cybercriminals have quickly adapted their tactics. They are now targeting businesses in ways never seen before.

As a result, every organization needs to realign its cybersecurity goals and processes to meet the changing needs of the threat landscape. CISOs must stay ahead of the curve and be prepared for the cybersecurity trends defining 2023. more

Well, enterprise digital transformation has historically placed so much value on speed in development, that cloud security has fallen by the wayside. Many organizations find themselves moving to the cloud once the business discovers it can offer them major cost savings and increased efficiency, but their procedures, tools, dashboards and security strategies are consistent with on-prem days. more

Researchers came to this conclusion based on the 2022 data, specifically these three trends:

Attack growth

In 2022 there was a huge increase in attacks against Wallarm's customers' APIs, which ballooned over 197% from H1 to H2. As API-related breaches influence today's headlines, it's clear that this trend is extrapolating beyond Wallarm customers and will continue to grow in 2023. more

The adoption of a hybrid work environment has reverberated across the technology ecosystem. Employees expect fast, secure, and reliable access to corporate resources from any location, and the traditional walls of centralized security and applications have been dismantled as organizations look to support a geographically distributed workforce. more

This year, we'll see the updated list for 2023 being published, which is currently in Release Candidate status soliciting contributions...

Although 4 years is an extremely long time when it comes to computing, the fact remains that most organizations are still in the process of putting better API security controls in place to protect against the 2019 Top 10. Additionally, remember that the list contains ten categories of vulnerabilities, each category housing multiple vulnerabilities. more

Security leaders are embracing zero trust, with the vast majority of organizations either implementing or planning to adopt the strategy. The 2022 State of Zero-Trust Security report found that 97% of those surveyed either have or plan to have a zero-trust initiative in place within 18 months.

In fact, the percentage of organizations with zero trust already in place more than doubled in just one year, jumping from 24% in 2021 to 55% in the 2022 survey issued by identity and access management technology provider Okta. more

Table of Contents:

1. Complex Access Controls

2. Heightened API Security Risks

3. Multiple Clouds

4. Perimeterless Networks

5. New Types of Cloud Cybersecurity Attacks

6. The Growing Security Cost of the Cloud

Cybersecurity has become tremendously more challenging over the past decade. The number of cyberattacks increased by about 60-fold. The average cost of attacks has also surged, growing from about $3.8 million per incident in 2015 to $4.35 million in 2022. more

Business owners have a lot to consider when it comes to the management of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies - gone are the days of these policies being popular like they were for their first 12 years of their existence, and here are the days of different priorities in 2023.

When BYOD policies were first launched, they became popular and remained mainstream practice for over a decade as they were viewed as being an inexpensive alternative for businesses. Nowadays, though, there is debate over BYOD still being a smart choice for companies as the corporate focus has shifted to the preservation of mobile endpoints and the welfare of employees. more

Over the last two decades, big data has provided benefits in the form of cutting-edge software that made the generation, collection, and amalgamation of data widely available to organizations. These positive impacts are both wide-reaching and apparent from optimal route planning in aviation to fraud detection and risk management in the financial sector and even tracking infectious diseases on a federal level. more

1.What is SSL Decryption and its Business Benefits? Ans: Data can ideally travel over the Net without any security hiccups and clients can receive information they are searching for without any delays or issues, and businesses need not be worried about any malicious traffic entering their network.

Actually, malicious threats pose a real challenge to the privacy of insecure data traveling over the Internet. Therefore, encryption became vital to securing information moving over the Internet. This stopped data from being misused and helped protect its privacy. It also made sure that no one else in between understand it, but the two end communicators. more