Watts S. Humphrey penned the simple yet elegant phrase “Every company is a software company” in his 2001 book, “Winning With Software: An Executive Strategy.” During the early days of the catastrophic CrowdStrike outage, I found myself repeating, “Every company is a software company.” The global outage started on July […]
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a significant part of the modern-day internet infrastructure, providing seamless integration of different software applications. However, they have also become a prime target for cybercriminals. A recent Akamai report, “Lurking in the Shadows: Attack Trends Shine Light on API Threats,” reveals that 29% of […]
The Rising Menace of APIs in Cybersecurity
According to one recent survey, cybersecurity is still the top enterprise technology priority for IT decision-makers, ahead of even attention-grabbing artificial intelligence (AI). Considering the amount of coverage AI has been getting over the last year or so, you’d think it would be a top priority for enterprise organizations—especially since […]
Survey: Cybersecurity Tops Enterprise Tech Priority List
Since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, AI has been greeted as a transformational game changer for businesses. However, nearly two years later, organizations’ use of AI is uneven. While some companies have successfully embraced AI, most are taking baby steps with it or still figuring out how to […]
AI Is Impacting Data Centers—and the Earth
What’s the size of your organization’s technical debt? Unfortunately, many IT leaders can’t answer this question accurately. Not only don’t many IT leaders know the gamut of their organization’s technical debt, but they struggle with knowing fully how it impacts their business. In addition, many IT leaders don’t have a […]
Coming to Grips with Technical Debt
Artificial intelligence has become so pervasive in today’s business climate that the rarer species is a technology that doesn’t utilize some form of AI. Indeed, AI itself is no longer a differentiating feature for new and existing applications and technologies, which is now leading organizations to focus their messaging on […]
Can AI Help Ease WFH Anxiety? The Remote Work Question
If you don’t think ransomware is one of the most serious criminal threats to your organization in 2024, you haven’t been paying attention. Ransomware was a $1.1 billion industry in 2023, and successful attacks inflicted brand, financial, and operational damage to nearly every type of organization, large, small, and middling. […]
6 Things You Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024
Analyses show a slow but steady increase in IT spending in 2024. However, how the money is being spent is the subject of debate. Following on our last blog, which noted research firm Forrester predicted a 5.5% increase in IT spending in 2024, data from Gartner and Enterprise Technology Research […]
More on IT Spending: A Rosy Second Half?
Today, generative AI is all the rage. In the news, it’s everywhere. As a result, the emergence of machine customers has probably not grabbed your attention as generative AI has. Machine customers are connected, increasingly smart devices that possess the ability to purchase goods and services for your organization. While […]
The Next Big Thing: Machine Customers
After a few years of “growth at all costs” and the purchase of systems and services to accommodate such growth, the tech sector saw a slowdown in 2022 and 2023. That’s not news to anyone who makes a living building, buying, or selling technology—in other words, pretty much everyone. Recent […]
