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Feed: CIO. Author: . The growing numbers of European businesses leveraging hybrid multicloud environments are often watching costs spiral beyond expectations and sooner rather than later must face the reality that they are spawning new types of data silos.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations were focused foremost on enabling remote workers and quickly spinning up services in the cloud to ensure continuing operations. Now, planning for a post-pandemic world, they are struggling to come to grips with the inefficiencies that can accompany use of multiple public clouds.Public cloud providers tend to have specific strengths for particular workloads, ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . If you asked IT and business executives to name some of the items on their lists of priorities for this year, there's a good chance "add more automation" would be one of them. Automating processes to complete tasks more quickly and accurately and at the same time reduce costs, has taken on even greater significance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Technologies such as robotic process engineering (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and others are gaining traction in many enterprises as they look to achieve their automation goals. An emerging concept that combines these tools to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . COVID-19 struck IT like a tsunami in early 2020, sweeping away long-established operations and processes, forcing CIOs to quickly identify and deploy acceptable alternatives. Now, as the virus threat appears to be gradually receding, IT leaders are viewing a radically transformed landscape, wondering how essential operations and practices will fit into a “new normal” business world.The pandemic reshaped enterprises in an almost endless number of ways. IT, too, has felt the impact, leaving CIOs to wonder how their departments will cope with and function in a post-virus world. With basic changes already appearing, here’s a look ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Open source has been a perennial hot topic for well over 20 years, ever since the Linux penguin sought to befriend everyone from the enterprise, SMEs and the media, with its happy story of data democratisation and an end to expensive and difficult to bend proprietary systems.No doubt captivated by this long-held dream, analysts report many more organisations moved to embrace open source last year in response to the sudden explosion of unique digital problems which they hoped to solve using broader communities of developers, ideally for less cost.But just like the conversation as to whether ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The Insider Pro and Computerworld survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals reveals salary trends for a wide range of tech job titles from CIO and other leadership roles to middle management to non-management roles.We share how your job title, experience, and gender affect your compensation plan. And reveal whether having certifications will help you land a job, pay rise or promotion.We also asked the 503 respondents who identified themselves as managers about their hiring plans in terms of budget and most-in-demand skillsets. Unsurprisingly, the top IT skills in demand this year will be application development, ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . “COVID-19 has escalated digital initiatives into digital imperatives,” analyst firm, Gartner, noted in describing how leaders need to rethink how an organisation approaches the years ahead.It’s true that enterprises are having to rapidly grapple with this issue; KPMG has noted that by 2022, 80 per cent of revenue growth will depend on digital offerings and operations. For CIOs, the need to undertake digital transformation is a challenge that they face in the immediate term; not just for “keeping the lights on” and allowing work to continue through the pandemic, but rather to also drive competitive advantage ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Investing time, effort and money in technology certifications to improve understanding and competency across a range of technical skills certainly adds value from a personal development perspective but what does it actually mean in terms of job prospects and salary increases? Are all certifications equal or are some more valuable than others? The 2021 IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld IT Salary Survey of 1,172 IT professionals tried to understand current thinking on certifications and to garner some real-world experiences on how they are viewed by employers. With IT skills shortages rife – recruiter Hays claims that ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Security team members are the principal defenders of enterprise cyber assets. It makes sense, then, to verify that current staffers and potential new hires aren't hiding secrets that could place essential systems and data at risk.Unfortunately, conducting thorough and meaningful background checks isn't easy or straightforward. Even if an individual consents to a background investigation, regulations designed to protect staff and applicants from unwarranted snooping and employment practices can make it challenging to delve into an individual's personal, academic and professional history. Still, by asking the right questions and using just a few available tools, it's ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a mixture of blessings and curses to the tech world. Some companies such as those specializing in videoconferencing turned out to be saviors, making it possible for society to function — and occasionally thrive — while working at a distance. Others, however, like dev shops that build theatrical lighting control systems, have faced a world where demand for their services have dropped precipitously, sometimes to zero.While it’s a bit early to know which shifts in usage and IT tactics will remain permanent, we can glean which companies are thriving now and ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The H-1B visa program is probably the most well-known US federal employment visas, and arguably the most controversial. Businesses say it’s too restrictive. Labor organizations complain that it displaces US workers and lowers their wages. Some politicians use it to appeal to their base with scant ability to fix the process to the benefit of all. But the truth lies somewhere in between these extremes.The following overview of the H-1B visa is accurate as of the publication date. Be aware that the rules and internal business processes of the H-1B visa are complex. Either could be ... Read More