The most frustrating challenge of running an IT shop is people spend more time firefighting than doing all the good stuff, such as trying out new technologies or solving business problems. Recent data bears out this out, with two out of three software …
What effect is the tragic COVID-19 crisis — mandating the current scattering of employees across a corporate diaspora of home-bound workplaces, working from 10,000 home locations instead of one or two — having on collaboration and coordination for in…
Enterprise service management (ESM) emerged from the crowded IT service management (ITSM) market. ESM expands service thinking and the service catalog into domains outside of IT as well as speeding up workflow development. By doing this, it is maturi…
Let’s face it — the pace of software releases is getting more frenzied. Two years ago, 35% of enterprises responding to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation survey were releasing software on a daily or weekly basis. In CNCF’s most recent survey, t…
You can’t get the news anywhere now without hearing about how conferences are being cancelled left and right and companies, like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many others are telling employees in the Seattle area to work from home. Is the cor…
DevOps isn’t just for application deployments, it also applies to database development. DataOps is a variation which encourages automating the flow of data through enterprises, from source to storage. At the same time, DevOps — which focuses on the fl…
DevOps is a team sport, but getting people assembled to think and work as teams — versus separate pools of specialists — can be difficult. DevOps proponents not only need to be adept at the two core aspects of IT management — development and operati…
More than eight percent of corporate revenues (8.2% to be exact) is spent on information technology. The top three items receiving these funds include digital transformation, cybersecurity and cloud first or cloud migrations.
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What’s not to love about shadow IT? It’s been a never-ending worry for IT leaders, especially when it comes to security, control and data formats. End-users subscribe to their own cloud accounts, use their own assortment of devices, and often even hire…
The IT services market in Brazil grew by 6.1 percent in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, according to a new report released by IDC.
According to the data from the analyst firm, the growth seen over the period was mainly drive…