David Linthicum

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Do you have good cloud security? If you said yes, I bet it’s just around a small group of applications that were built during a short sprint. The group quickly picked and installed a cloud security solution that worked well for those applications and data stores, or that they considered best of breed. Now add other sprints, other workloads and data stores, along with best-of-breed security solutions, all seemingly effective. Repeat 20 to 50 more times.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Security 91

Security Data 91

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For better or for worse, my family is a customer of a large bank near my home. Once in a while I step in to the branch to update documents for my mother (she still likes to see her account balance in print), or some other such need. Here’s the kicker though: Every time I […].

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Policies Banking 104

CEB IT

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) has seen significant disruption in recent years, spurred by the rapid growth of the cloud and the shift to hybrid IT. A business located in the U.S. might host its website on public cloud infrastructure while storing customer information and backups across private cloud infrastructure in data centers in India and in the U.K.

Trends 100

Trends Disaster Recovery Devops Data Center 100

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, he’ll speak to organizing for effectiveness, productivity and joy.

Architecture

Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

When your business is small or growing slowly, you can get away with a mix of disparate SaaS tools, spreadsheets, and collaboration over email to manage the business while leaders and employees focus on serving customers. One of those tools is likely an ERP, financial, or accounting system.

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Financial Tools System Big Data 130

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Research 104

Research 104

CEB IT

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I t’s often said that “you can’t cut your way to growth,” but you can cut your way to survival. From natural disasters and terrorist attacks to a tanking economy or an aggressive new competitor, there are many reasons why an organization may need to make immediate cost savings simply to stay in business. Gartner recommends taking a structured and ongoing approach to cost optimization.

Telecommunications 100

Telecommunications Licensing Examples Budget 100

CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2019

All the world’s tech giants from Alibaba to Amazon are in a race to become the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are AI trailblazers and embrace AI to provide next-level products and services.

Artificial Intelligence 91

Artificial Intelligence Examples Company 91

Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Global population growth reached its peak of 2.09% in 1968 and has steadily declined since then to its current levels of 1.08%. The United Nations forecasts that in 2050 the growth rate will have slowed further to around 0.3% to give a global population of 9.7

Social 52

Social Course Development Examples 52

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.

How To

David Linthicum

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Cloud migration projects have two dimensions. First, they are short-term sprints where a project team migrates a handful of application workloads and data stores to a single or multicloud. They act independently, with little architectural oversite or governance, and last between two to six months. [ Also on InfoWorld: Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters ]. Second, is the longer-term architecture including security, governance, management, and monitoring.

Architecture 100

Architecture Linux Government Applications 100

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Shifting Gender Norms Threaten Brands With Cultural Irrelevance Gender is squarely in our cultural spotlight.

Construction 104

Construction Healthcare B2B B2C 104

Flexagon

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Gartner has predicted[1] that by 2020 that over 50% of global enterprises will have implemented application release automation, up from less than 15% in 2017.

Devops 52

Devops Enterprise Enterprise Applications 52

CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of British artificial-intelligence firm DeepMind, has announced that he is joining Google. He had previously said he was taking time off from DeepMind.

Artificial Intelligence 91

Artificial Intelligence Google Development Data 91

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result. We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. Our “good idea” is simply the beginning. An idea must be communicated; a case must be made; and ultimately other people must be persuaded to get onboard. Michael Carducci brings a fascinating background to this webinar. He’s a technologist and regularly works to help senior leaders improve their results. He’s also a professional mentalist and has been a student of psychology, human behavior and the principles of influence for nearly two decades.

Strategy

Perficient - Digital Transformation

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Previously I reviewed post-digital transformation in banking. This blog analyzes the current themes in banking according to executives. In recent years, several themes (and rightly so) generally dominated what bank executives paid attention to and invested in: Generational Relevance.

Banking 52

Banking SOA Industry Mobile 52

Datacponomy

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The year 2019 will be remembered in the software world as the year when containerization, cloud native architectures, and Machine Learning broke out into the mainstream. As we approach the end of the decade, it’s time to look forward to the year 2020 and make some predictions about where these.

Architecture 52

Architecture Software Software Cloud 52

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Recently I wrote a post arguing that $ is the one CX metric that matters to executives. The obvious conclusion: You need to design your CX measurement program to track and report $. If you haven’t done that already you should jump on it today.

Programming 104

Programming Report 104

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The requirements of a higher education institution such as a college or a university are quite different from that of a K-12 institution. There are more subjects for students to choose from, subjects that involve a range of complex topics.

Education 52

Education eBook Licensing Course 52

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles. His talk will examine database schema changes and API versioning as two instances of schema evolution: how your systems respond when the structure of your structured data changes.

Development