Thriving on (Data) Chaos
Businesses need a better way to face the mountains of data created every day. Depending on the industry, your company possesses between 1 million and 12 million gigabytes of information. Most of that data is unstructured. Of course, this makes document management chaotic. Unstructured data is the information that does not fit into neat rows and columns. It overtook structured data... By Siddhartha Bhattacharya
Coursera, ISB launch Business Technology Management course
Assessing the emerging demand for business technology management professionals, leading online education portal, Coursera, in association with Indian School of Business, has launched a specialized course in Business Technology Management (BTM). As IT gets more and more aligned and technology such as cloud make it possible to push day to day technology operations to specialist services... By CIO&Leader
These are the areas with maximum career growth opportunity, say CIOs
Analytics and security are the areas within enterprise IT that will provide best career growth option to younger IT exectutives, reveal a quick CIO research conducted by CIO&Leader in the weekend. While cloud came up as a distant but clear third, many new areas such as IoT, AI, robotics, blockchain, machine learbing etc were also named by some of the CIOs. A couple of CIOs rejected the idea... By CIO&Leader
“The whole world of ERP will be disassembled”
Bernard Charlès is the CEO of Dassault Systèmes since 1995, and has been instrumental in instilling a culture of ongoing innovation in the company. He passionately believes that 3D technology is all about making possible the impossible--and stretching the limits of science and imagination to drive progress in society. A highly decorated executive, Charlès is a member of the French... By R. Giridhar
Enterprise IT executives expect 60% of workloads will run in the cloud by 2018
A majority of enterprise workloads will run in the cloud in the near term. As per the latest IT executives’ survey by 451 research group, enterprise workload on cloud will rise to 60% by 2018. Currently, 41% of all enterprise workloads are currently running in some type of public or private cloud. Among the various types of cloud deployment models, enterprises are most likely to use on-... By CIO&Leader
Can Predictive Analytics enable healthcare to have 100% accuracy?
Every one of us have been a patient in past, during which, we always demand best possible medical care from healthcare practitioners and providers. While receiving medical assistance, we presume healthcare providers to be experts 100% of the time; assuming them to provide best possible diagnosis without any exception. In reality (and unfortunately), for most of the time, this is not what gets... By Neeraj Pandey
This is how digital is changing the ways CIOs work
Digital is here to stay and it is changing the way IT and people associated to IT - work. CIOs are most affected from this hurricane of ‘digital shift’. So much that, 50% of CIOs will not be there in 5 years and those who will be, will not be in the way they see themselves now. On one hand the organisations are seeing IT as its key driver on the other hand CIOs are continuously being... By CIO&Leader
Seven Steps to Selecting a Rack PDU for Your Data Center
As organizations constantly strive to improve the reliability and the energy efficiency of their data centers, a lot of attention is now being paid to rack power distribution units (PDU). Among the solutions, selecting the correct rack PDU is challenging. Despite being the fundamental building block of any data center that bridges the gap between the power infrastructure and the IT equipment,... By Sanjay Motwani
Existance of India will be at stake if it lags in catching emerging technology: Manoj Sinha
Manoj Sinha, minister of communications, called for holistic planning rather than piecemeal approach to achieve the vision of Digital India. The very existence of the country will be at stake if India lags in catching up with emerging technologies in coming 15 to 20 years, said the minister. He exhorted the officials and other stakeholders to “Walk the Talk” for achieving Prime Minister... By CIO&Leader
Artificial Intelligence to Support Human Intelligence and Industrial Growth
According to Forbes magazine, world’s top 3 brands in 2015 were Apple, Microsoft, and Google. One thing that is common in all the three brands is Artificial Intelligence (AI), it means the success of modern businesses is somehow connected with the AI to a significant extent. The most innovative branch of Computer Science develops machines, gadgets, and robots to facilitate the man... By Nishit Sood
Keep It Simple; Make It Scalable - 6 Characteristics of the Future proof Load Balancer
The Load balancers have come a long way since their introduction in the 1990s. What started as dedicated hardware designed for balancing load requests across servers has morphed into application delivery controllers (ADCs) that integrate core load balancing with an array of advanced application services. This includes everything from application layer security and DDoS protection to web... By Nikhil Taneja