Popular Articles Posted Week of Feb. 14th

Popular Articles Posted Week of Feb. 14th

Volume 287, Issue 2: Feb 7th, 2022 — Feb 13th, 2022

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Networks

Compare smartNIC Products And Use Cases

Not all smartNIC use cases are the same, and not all products offer the same functionality and features. Compare offerings from three of the main smartNIC market segments.

What's The Best Wi-Fi Encryption To Use In 2022?

Wi-Fi encryption standards change over time as new ones are developed and older ones become insecure and obsolete. Here's a look at the best encryption you should be using to secure your Wi-Fi router in 2022.

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CxO

CIOs Make The Leap To Business Leadership

As lines between business and IT blur, IT leaders are contemplating careers beyond IT, taking on hybrid business-IT roles or making the full-on move to business leader.

CTO Interview: Milena Nikolic, CTO, Trainline

Computer Weekly speaks to Trainline's new chief technology officer, Milena Nikolic, about building and inspiring a post-pandemic tech team

Creating A More Sustainable IT Department

Technology leaders share some of the ways they're focused on lowering their carbon footprint and helping their companies advance sustainability goals.

What Is Digital Transformation? (With Ingram Micro)

Digital transformation is a defining trend for businesses today.

How CIOs Can Align Enterprise Change With Cloud Strategy

Cloud enables organizations to add capabilities - and extend existing ones.

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Why Data Integration Is A Business And CIO Opportunity

With a focus an agile approach and continuous learning and improvement, data integration has proven integral to end-to-end digital transformation

Five Key Tech Trends For Digital Leaders In 2022

The past two years have seen a surge in investment that will bring new challenges to digital leaders over the next year

CIO Interview: Brian Roche, director of IT, George Best Belfast City Airport

Data analytics, the internet of things and open source software are central to the Northern Irish airport's aim to create a seamless, tech-enabled journey for passengers

Why CIOs Should Rethink Their COVID-19 Digital Strategy

Many organizations moved quickly to invest in business technology that helped them deal with the pandemic. Now it's time to review whether those decisions were strategic.

The CIO's No-bull Guide To Effective IT

Building effective IT 101: Looking to run a successful 21st century, digital-ready IT organization? Here's an overview on how to pull it all together.

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Security

What CISOs Should Tell The Board About Log4j

It's time for a reset with the board of directors. Very few have a dedicated, board-level cybersecurity committee, which means cybersecurity isn't viewed as a critical executive function.

3 Key Elements Of A Strong Cybersecurity Program

The world relies on technology. So, a strong cybersecurity program is more important than ever.

Five Essential Features Of Password Managers

These features separate good password managers from great ones

Prioritizing The Right Vulnerabilities To Reduce Risk

Prioritization needs to be part of vulnerability management if security teams are to keep up and mitigate issues in a timely manner.

Seven Key Ingredients To Effective Incident Response

With ransomware attacks on the rise, organizations need to upgrade their incident response processes to improve speed and precision.

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The Cyber Security Landscape In 2022 And Why A Zero Trust Approach Is Critical

The pandemic has continued to present cybercriminals with the perfect opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities in networks and unprotected devices.

Emerging Cybersecurity Challenges To Get Ready In 2022

The advancement of technology has gradually increased the volume and range of cyberattacks, requiring new strategies and initiatives to fight them.

MFA Still Offers The Best Chance Of Keeping Data Secure

Keyavi Data issued a set of best practices for keeping personal and business data out of criminal hands using multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Denial Of Service Attacks Expected To Get Bigger, Nastier

And we thought 2021 was bad enough.

Vulnerabilities Don't Count

No one outside the IT department cares about your vulnerability metrics (or they shouldn't, anyway). They care about efficacy. And traditional stats don't show that.

7 Top Challenges Of Security Tool Integration

With organizations using as many as 100 security tools, getting them to work well together is an ongoing battle. These are the most common pitfalls of security tool integration.

Best SIEM Tools For 2022: Compare Top Vendors

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly prevalent and severe. Internet security professionals must have the right tools and resources to maintain a strong defense against intruders and respond quickly to potential threats.

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AI

Deepfakes, Voice Commerce And The Future Of AI In Business

A deepfake uses technology to generate audio (or video) of a person saying or doing things they've never actually said or done.

7 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About AI

Here are some remarkable tidbits about AI technology that you probably never knew!

How CXOs Can Navigate This Roadmap For Responsible AI

This is Forrester's take on each principle for tech and business leaders interested in learning more. The Business Roundtable's Roadmap

Conversational AI: How It Works And Where It's Headed

The next person you speak with may not be a person at all. Welcome to the uncanny valley of conversational AI.

7 Reasons For Bias In AI And What To Do About It

Back in 2015, Google was called out for its photo app that mistakenly labeled pictures of people with darker skin as gorillas.

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Cloud

Banks, Late To The Game, Double Down On The Cloud

Top bank CEOs migrate faster to stay agile, competitive, secure and relevant.

The Top 5 Cloud Security Predictions For 2022

New threats, new apps, new players - but data plays the biggest role in shaping the future.

Why Businesses Require Fluid Cloud Strategies

Mono, multi or hybrid? Flexibility is crucial, as vendor lock-in or challenges from data center migrations can hold companies back.

Gartner Says More Than Half Of Enterprise IT Spending In Key Market Segments Will Shift To The Cloud By 2025

Accelerating Shift to the Cloud Means the Market Opportunity for Providers Is Narrowing

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Storage

How Open Source Is Shaping Data Storage Management

Open source data storage offers a great deal of flexibility, but unlocking its benefits will require strong technical resources to meet requirements such as stability, high availability and security

2022 Data Storage Conference List Reflects Cloud, Flash Trends

In 2022, storage vendors plan to return to in-person shows. This data storage conference list will continue to update as vendors add events and provide more detail on current ones.

Linux

Best Desktop Linux For Pros 2022: Our Top 5 Choices

Some Linux distributions are easy, but others, they're for the experts. If that's you, read on.

11 Best Tools To Access Remote Linux Desktop

Accessing a remote desktop computer is made possible by the remote desktop protocol (RDP), a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft

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Careers

Tech Job Market Still Smoking Hot, New Labor Report Stats Say

According to new jobs report, tech workers were among the beneficiaries of a hot US job market that saw strong national growth of 467,000 jobs in January and an unemployment rate of just 4%.

Three Ways To Improve Your Programming Skills

The ability to write code is a huge differentiator for every job role in an enterprise Linux environment

DR

Cloud-era Disaster Recovery Planning: Staff Training, Incident And Media Management

In the third in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we set out the key components of DR staff awareness and training programmes, as well as incident management and dealing with the media

What Are Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?

Creating a disaster recovery and business continuity plan is essential - and may be the key to a company's survival when operations are disrupted.

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Operations

Data Center CAPEX On The Rise Despite Cloud Momentum

Enterprise AI and machine-learning projects are contributing to a rise in spending on data center hardware, according to a report from Dell'Oro Group.

Assessing Colocation vs. Cloud For Hybrid IT Infrastructure

When transforming operations to a hybrid IT environment, there's one other option to consider beyond the premises, public cloud and hybrid. Learn the many advantages of colocation.

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Other News

Many Educators Say Video Is More Effective Than Text-Based Content

The State of Video in Education 2022 found that 94 percent of educators agree that video directly contributes to improvement in student performance

SugarCRM vs Salesforce: Which CRM Software Is Better?

Salesforce and SugarCRM are two of the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) software options.

Irreconcilable Differences: DevOps Grapples With Issues

DevOps issues can be a thorny subject

Top 10 Essential Technology Trends You Must Follow In 2022

The best technological advancements in 2022

5G Is Finally Ready For Business

The reality of 5G has never lived up to its promise, until now. 2022 will be different.

Looking Forward To The Future Of Modern Backup Storage

In the last few weeks, three primary storage vendors have released new or improved solutions for data protection, specifically acting as targets for traditional data protection software.

insideBIGDATA Latest News

In this regular column, we'll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning.

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