• How Hybrid Multi-Cloud Can Mitigate Current Supply Chain Woes

    Enabling applications, including the most business-critical ones, to run in public cloud when they were not built to do so requires a costly and time-consuming refactoring process.

    Hybrid multi-cloud, or an IT environment providing unified infrastructure operations and management across private and public clouds, is perfectly poised to help bridge the gap businesses face due to supply chain issues.

  • Gartner, McKinsey, IDC, ZDNet & EY – Everyone – Wants To Give CIOs Advice. It’s Old, The Same & Not That Good.

    Everyone likes to give New Year’s advice to CIOs. But why does it all sound the same, so academic and so old? Are Gartner, McKinsey, IDC, ZDNet, & EY academics, practitioners, mimics or lost time travelers? And why are they missing the point entirely? CIOs should tend to the fields, not the skies – unless they’re extraordinarily bored, talented or about to get fired, which makes them ready for retirement or another assignment altogether.

  • Falling Flat: Why Startups Need Hierarchical Structure

    Saerom Lee, a Wharton professor, warns aspiring entrepreneurs about the pitfalls of flat organizational structures, which often lead to failure. His research shows that as startups grow, they need hierarchical management to maintain order and productivity. Balancing creativity with effective management is crucial for long-term success and employee diversity.

  • The Journey From Product Management To Portfolio Management

    Managing a portfolio of products is more than managing the sum of its parts. For most of us as product managers, as we gain experience and responsibility, we do start owning a portfolio of products. This is a step in one’s career that often comes without training.

  • AI and Data This Year: Bigger, Bolder, and Business-Focused

    Consumers are increasingly comfortable and confident with AI-enabled interactions, enterprises are pushing through common barriers to scale their AI programs, and companies are shifting away from gut-feel and intuition to relying squarely on data-driven decision making.

  • Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all

    An on-prem environment can, with a lot of effort, have the same default level of security as a reputable cloud provider’s infrastructure. Conversely, a weak cloud configuration can give rise to many security issues. But in general, the base security of the cloud coupled with a suitably protected customer configuration is stronger than most on-prem environments.

  • Does Data Monetization Seem Daunting? Here’s How to Start

    Selling the data requires a developer or a data scientist to do something with it, such as building an application or analytic model, to deliver business value. However, if the data product or service is an application or an analytic model, delivering insights directly to customers within a business workflow, a decision or action can be taken immediately.

  • Enterprise Data: Prepare for More Change in This Hot Area of Tech

    Enterprises using IoT can use embedded databases at the edge to copy aggregated sensor data to a back-end database when online. This brings the value of data directly to operations. At the same time, data from all the devices is being managed in the back-end database to develop analytics to advance the business.