IT Innovation

IT strategy, leadership in digital organisations, and talent and capability management – curated from analysts, CIOs and technology leaders, with a link to every original source.

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  • How AI and Data Can Help Retail’s Ongoing Pandemic Challenges

    Successful retailers have pivoted to meet the challenge of hybrid orders, but there are still many pain points, according to Rob Saker, global head of retail and manufacturing at Databricks, a cloud-based data, AI, and analytics platform.

    A challenge in leveraging all this data can be the lack of a that single source of truth, said Katy Campbell, senior manager for analytics delivery at the air mattress manufacturer and retailer Sleep Number, during a virtual session at NRF.

  • Integrating IoT in Your Business

    From challenges to solutions to embedded hardware, Wienke talks about topics businesses commonly encounter when a company is looking to integrate IoT.

  • 10 IoT technology trends to watch in 2022

    At IoT Analytics, our market analyses rely on the findings from our analyst team but also on the input from experts and advisors. We gathered our advisor’s opinions on the most important IoT technology trends to watch in 2022:

  • Automated API deployments using APIOps -Edition 1

    APIOps places the Azure API Management infrastructure under version control to achieve these goals. Rather than making changes directly in API Management, most operations happen through code changes that can be reviewed and audited. This approach supports the security principle of least-privilege access.

    APIOps not only enforces policies within API Management, but also helps support security by providing feedback for proposed policy changes.

  • DevOps with Azure Stack Hub

    Code comes from a single location and deploys to multiple targets in development, test, and production environments in your local datacenter, private clouds, or the public cloud.

  • Best ITSM Tools & Software for MSPs 2022

    They are most heavily used by IT service desks and IT service delivery functions to support the tasks and workflows for processes, including incident, request, problem, change, knowledge, and configuration management.

  • Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

    In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps), targeting an Azure customer in Asia.

    Attack vectors were UDP reflection on port 80 using Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP) comprising one single peak, and the overall attack lasted approximately 15 minutes.

  • Azure databases architecture design

    This article provides resources to learn about Azure databases. It outlines paths to implement the architectures that meet your needs, and best practices to keep in mind as you design your solutions.