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Feed: CIO. Author: . Digital twin definitionDigital twins are real-time, virtual representations of objects, processes, and systems. While digital twins can represent purely digital things, they most frequently serve as a bridge between the physical and digital domains. For example, a digital twin could provide a digital view of the operations of a factory, communications network, or the flow of packages through a logistics system.“The implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or model that mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person, or other abstraction,” according to Gartner. “Data from multiple digital twins can be aggregated ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Cross-functional teams that blend IT and business professionals are nothing new, but now they have become almost a mandate.At Sun Life, such teams are referred to as “agile teams,’’ and CIO Laura Money believes they are “much more productive and can make things happen faster.” Not only that, but because these teams include consumers of the service being developed, “we notice we get a lot more impact and more value for the client when teams work that way,” she says.The pandemic provided a reality check that the world needed to become more digital and that meant ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . As the broader labor market tightens, workers in the IT sector remain scarce with an unemployment rate of 2.2%.  Along with software developers and security analysts, some of the hardest to find IT workers are QA professionals. Even more scarce is the true unicorn of the IT quality assurance world: the SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test).A recent Jetbrains survey found that 44% of teams had less than one QA tester per 10 developers. This developer-heavy ratio of testers to developers opens the door for small but costly mistakes to slip through.Here are four ways to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: .  A common misconception about tech workers of a certain vintage is that they’re caught in the past and either overqualified or unable to adapt to future technology. As with most conventional wisdom, there’s as much fiction as fact surrounding the supposed work habits and career opportunities for veteran IT pros — even those as young as 40.For seasoned professionals looking for jobs — or looking to shake up their careers — tech leaders say to take heart: Experience, soft skills, and other factors that only come from time on the job mean they’re in demand in one of ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The COVID-19 pandemic has seen businesses accelerating digital transformation strategies faster than originally planned. But the ongoing IT skills gap has complicated progress, with more than half of IT decision-makers reporting that hiring for essential IT positions is “somewhat difficult or extremely difficult,” according to the Global Knowledge 2021 IT Skills and Salary report.To bridge this gap, employers and job seekers alike are leaning on certifications, whether to train up existing staff or to provide evidence of skills in high demand. Ninety-two percent of more than 9,300 IT professionals surveyed by Global Knowledge report holding at ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Now that people are gradually returning to the office, people often describe the quite profound experiences they have in seeing coworkers ‘in 3D’ again after spending two years only seeing everyone as a flat tile in a video conferencing app. The audio never, ever drops out! You can see their full body language. You don’t have to raise a hand to ask a question.Although Google is a tech company building great solutions for people to work anywhere, we also strongly know the value of face-to-face, human communication.Googlers work all over the globe in campuses designed to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Digital Sense is well known among private sector enterprises and government agencies throughout Queensland for its full suite of cloud solutions. The company’s products and services address everything from data sovereignty and data protection to the demand for low-latency, cloud-native applications. We spoke with Digital Sense’s Head of Sales and Commercial Jon Pannell to learn more about the company’s offerings, the demands driving Australia’s enterprises to the cloud and what it means to be VMware Cloud Verified.“Our goal is to make it easy for customers to harness the power of the cloud to grow their businesses,” ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Any misgivings enterprises may have once had about adopting open source software for critical corporate functions is long gone. Studies show that over 90% of IT leaders consider open source software “strategically important” and that more than 87% of enterprises are running applications today that are open source. Enterprises embark on open source journeys – creating data pipelines with Splunk, using MuleSoft to connect applications, orchestrating workloads using containers – because they want to take advantage of open source software’s flexibility, shareability, and portability.Still, open source continues to cause headaches when it comes to support. As ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Kyndryl, the IT services business that IBM spun off in early November, has formed a global strategic partnership with Google to support their joint customers in the cloud.The deal comes a month after Kyndryl struck a similar deal with Microsoft, encompassing Azure cloud hosting and support for products such as Office365 and Teams, and a smaller partnership with VMware, as well as a certification agreement with SAP.Kyndryl, a young company with a long history as IBM’s former managed infrastructure services business, inherited more than 4,000 customers worldwide and is looking to expand its share of those ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Half a decade ago, in the wake of the rise of cloud computing, some IT evangelists, CIOs, and large tech research firms foretold the imminent death of the data center as we know it. My co-columnist at CIO.com Mark Settle at the time advised caution in writing off data centers and envisaged how they  would continue to grow based on the evolution of – you guessed it – data.Today, data centers continue to not just survive but thrive alongside hybrid and multicloud systems in new avatars such as on-prem as a service. Not just that, data ... Read More