Global server revenue rises in Q4, 2018; Dell EMC leads the pack: Gartner
The worldwide server market continued to grow through 2018 as worldwide server revenue increased 17.8% in the fourth quarter of 2018, while shipments grew 8.5% year over year, according to Gartner. In all of 2018, worldwide server shipments grew 13.1% and server revenue increased 30.1% compared with full-year 2017. “Hyperscale and service providers continued to increase their investments in... By CIO&Leader
Retail, Banking will lead AI investment, but with different applications: IDC
Global spending on AI systems will be led by the retail industry where companies will invest USD 5.9 billion this year on solutions such as automated customer service agents and expert shopping advisors & product recommendations. Banking will be the second largest industry with USD 5.6 billion going toward AI-enabled solutions including automated threat intelligence & prevention systems... By CIO&Leader
Druva introduces enhancements to its Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering for enterprise workloads
Druva, the leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced enhancements to its Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering for enterprise workloads. As the only SaaS-based disaster recovery solution built on AWS, Druva can now help improve business continuity with features including automated runbook execution, tighter AWS integration, and simplified orchestration and testing... By CIO&Leader
Human touch in the age of automation
Brands are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation tools to enhance customer experience and bringing trust and transparency. But concerns have been raised over the possible loss of human touch, as level of automation increases. The human-robot war Gartner has estimated that by 2020, as much as 85% of the customer interactions by business organizations will be handled... By Sohini Bagchi
Akamai introduces edge platform enhancements
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announced enhancements designed to help businesses accelerate their cloud migration strategy. The new features protect content, apps, and APIs, accelerate web and mobile experiences, and help make development teams more agile as they move to the cloud. “85% of companies today have a hybrid cloud strategy... By CIO&Leader
NEXT100 Women Winners
NEXT100 is an annual awards program instituted by ITNEXT magazine and the 9.9 Group that aims to identify 100 experienced IT managers who have the skills, talent and spirit to become CIOs. For the past 9 years, although the awards have been mainly won by men, women are not far behind. Presenting to you an exclusive list of women winners from 2010 to 2018: 2010 Winners ... By ITNEXT
Women @ NEXT100: The Trendsetters
For the last one decade, NEXT100 awards by ITNEXT, has served as a good reference list for hunting the future CIOs. The awards—decided through a combination of achievements, psychometric tests, case study solving and in-depth interviews by senior CIOs—have also been a good indicator of where things are going when it comes to IT leadership talent. It is, therefore, a good place to look for... By ITNEXT
By 2023, over half of government IT leaders will oversee roles that are non-existent today: Gartner
By 2023, 50% of the roles that government CIOs will oversee do not exist in government IT today, according to Gartner. The recent Gartner CIO survey shows that the transition to digital government is gaining momentum. It found that 53% of digital initiatives in government organizations have moved from the design stage to early stages of delivering digitally driven outcomes.... By CIO&Leader
RSA announces new enhancements to its risk management portfolio
RSA, a global cybersecurity leader delivering Business-Driven Security solutions to help organizations manage digital risk, announced new enhancements to its award-winning Integrated Risk Management platform, RSA Archer, to help customers fundamentally transform their risk management function. As organizations rapidly evolve and embrace digital technologies to provide their organizations a... By CIO&Leader
Ability to link security risks to business goals key for security leaders: Gartner
As IT strategies become more closely aligned with business goals, the ability for security and risk management (SRM) leaders to effectively present security matters to key business decision makers gains importance, reiterates Gartner. The research firm has identified seven emerging security and risk management trends for 2019 that will impact security, privacy and risk leaders in the... By CIO&Leader
Dell EMC launches new storage solutions to help Indian organizations organize unstructured data
The explosion of unstructured data is demanding new approaches and capabilities for organizations to unlock their data capital and enable digital transformation. To tackle these challenges, Dell EMC today announced a new addition to its flagship Isilon All-Flash storage system, along with the release of new Dell EMC ClarityNow software to give organizations visibility, control and mobility of... By CIO&Leader