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Automation Is Vital for IT Transformation
A significant percent of CIOs and other IT decision-makers consider digital transformation "Topic A" on their technology agenda, according to a recent survey from BMC. Successful transformations are currently creating new sources ...read more

Why CIOs Struggle to Drive Business Innovation
While the majority of CIOs and other technology leaders believe they should be leading innovation efforts throughout their organization's business efforts, relatively few are actually doing this, according to the recent CIO survey fr...read more

Companies Worldwide Fear the Impact of the EU GDPR
Companies face steep and annually rising noncompliance fines, and they fear that noncompliance could cause their businesses to close, according to a new study. The study, which was conducted by Vanson Bourne for Veritas Technologies, examin...read more

How to Gain Control of Your Company's Content
With the volume of unstructured data growing by the day, an increasing number of organizations are assessing their current enterprise content management (ECM) strategies and practices to overcome multiple challenges, according to a recent survey ...read more

CIOs Must Deal With Staff Stress and Burnout
A majority of employees said they have reached the point of job burnout, with a significant number experiencing high or extremely high stress levels at work, according to a recent survey from CareerBuilder. The situation is leading to tro...read more

Automation Can Help IT With Security Breaches
Most enterprises are not responding effectively to security breaches and, as a result, they face a rising risk to their financial performance, operational continuity and reputation, according to a recent study, "The Global CISO Study: How Leading Org...read more

Wringing Productivity From Mobile Apps
As the app market matures, a majority of businesses are seeking increased productivity from mobile apps, rather than just using them to mobilize the workforce, according to a new study. The report, "2017 Executive Enterprise Mobility," wa...read more

How Downtime Impedes Digital Transformations
The majority of organizations experience unplanned IT systems outages, which can stall their digital transformation efforts, according to a recent survey from Veeam Software. The resulting report, "Why Organizations Still Struggle to Digitally Tr...read more

Why Are Companies Moving IT Back in House?
While a majority of organizations employ third-party service providers for some IT needs, a significant number of them plan to increase their use of in-house IT services in 2017, according to a recent survey from Clutch. The accompanying report, "IT...read more

Secure Your Data, Not Just the Perimeter
Last year, hackers shifted their focus from targeting financial institutions to infiltrating the large databases of social media and entertainment sites, according to a new study. Hackers also used encryption for 4 percent of breaches to render that data u...read more

How Digital Transformations Make IT Profitable
Digital transformations are about more than innovation for its own sake: They are turning IT departments into profit centers, according to a recent survey from Dell EMC. The report, "How IT Transformation Maturity Drives IT Agility, ...read more

Why Mobile and IoT Apps Are at Risk
A new study reports that companies are "unprepared for risks created by vulnerabilities in internet of things applications." The report, "2017 Study on Mobile and IoT Application Security," was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsore...read more

Why Data Centers Still Dominate Tech Deployments
Despite the growing presence of the cloud, the majority of IT assets are still deployed at enterprise-owned data centers, according to the Uptime Institute's seventh annual "Data Center Industry Survey." The findings reveal that ...read more

Wanted: Big Data and Big Data Experts
Big data initiatives are in vogue, but adoption and deployment are in the early stages, according to a new study. Less than one in 10 companies surveyed has mature big data processes and infrastructures in place, according to "The State of Data Op...read more

What Companies Seek From the Industrial IoT
A clear majority of organizations have a growing or high interest in the industrial internet of things (IIoT), according to a recent survey from the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network. The resulting report, "The Impact of Con...read more

Companies Grow More Vulnerable to Insider Threats
An increasing majority of managers feel their company is more vulnerable to insider threats compared to last year, according to a new survey. Seventy-four percent of respondents to Haystax Technology's "Insider Attacks Industry Survey" feel expos...read more

IT Transformations Revamp Operations, Create Jobs
For CIOs and business leaders, digital transformation is about far more than "new tech toys." It's about overhauling the way organizations execute their core operational strategies and create jobs, according to "Digital Transformation Expecte...read more

IT Modernizations Are Delayed by Security Issues
While the vast majority of IT decision-makers believe that modernized technology systems have become critical, what are considered conventional or legacy technologies account for most of today's apps, infrastructure and workplace tools, accor...read more

Prepare for Disruption, Distortion, Deterioration
A recent report predicts that traditional business models will be disrupted over the next two years, and it advocates "unprecedented levels of collaboration" within enterprises and among external partners, manufacturers, vendors and regulators to s...read more

Why So Much of a CIO's Day Is Devoted to Security
A growing number of CIOs, other technology leaders and IT professionals are spending a considerable amount of their time troubleshooting security-related issues, according to a recent survey from Viavi Solutions. The resulting report, "State of th...read more