Tag: IT

April 27, 2017

IT security consultants tend to be busy people. Given the widespread shortage of professionals with skills in many different aspects of cyber security, organizations frequently need help from outside experts. Like many others who work in information security, Kevin Beaver, […]

December 6, 2016

Some 81% of Singapore’s affluent middle class use banking and finance apps to engage with financial service organisations, according to a report by Collinson Group. The report said that this presents financial services institutions with an opportunity to engage with […]

October 4, 2016

When IT deals with big data, the primary arena for it is… large servers that are parallel processing in a Hadoop environment. Thankfully for the company at large, IT also focuses on reliability, security, governance, failover, and performance of data […]

September 7, 2016

Within two years, a majority of enterprises expect to be running their workloads in the cloud. After getting past considerable concerns about privacy and security, companies are increasingly placing their faith — and their information and services — in the […]

July 22, 2016

The market watcher coined the phrase “cloud shift” to describe this ongoing change in IT buying behavior, with the rate of change determined by comparing the amount of money spent on cloud services with investments in on-premise technologies that fulfill […]

June 22, 2016

If you’re wondering what IT skill sets to acquire, security and devops are doing well in the job market. Pay for cloud skills, however, is eroding. Research firm Foote Partners’ latest quarterly IT Skills and Certifications Pay Indexdetermined that the market […]

March 7, 2016

The world of IT operations has always had a big data problem. Instrumentation of end users, servers, application components, logs, clickstreams, generated events and incidents, executed notifications and runbooks, CMDBs, Gantt charts—you name it, people in the IT operations area […]

April 27, 2015

Nearly every company in the world has thousands of vulnerabilities that hackers can easily exploit. For anyone working in IT, this is not a bombshell announcement. It’s business as usual. The reality is that IT invulnerability is impossible at any […]

March 20, 2015

Inflection points are thrilling and slightly unnerving to live through. Like, for example, the inflection point the IT world is experiencing now. We’re in a phase where the exponential growth of cloud computing feels unstoppable. Many industry observers are starting […]

March 19, 2015

Guess what? PaaS — the cloud platform to automate dev, test, and deployment of applications — is back. For years, so-called thought leaders including myself have run off at the mouth about how IaaS is more of a stopgap, and eventually […]