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 […]
Jack Rosenberger
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
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
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
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
When you think of storage, do you think of sustainability? Unfortunately for many IT leaders, the answer to this question is a disappointing “No.” That’s the finding of a recent survey conducted by Pure Storage. The company polled 1,000 sustainability program managers in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany about […]
Storage and Sustainability: Strange Bedfellows
When you lose other people’s trust, it’s often difficult to regain it. Or impossible. As CIOs and other IT decision-makers orchestrate their companies’ use of ChatGPT and other generative AI programs, they need to ensure their AI initiatives don’t suddenly implode. A poorly managed generative AI effort could lead a […]
How Trustworthy Is Your Use of AI?
Sustainable technology is being lauded as a leading strategic technology trend for 2023. Are you ready? Sustainable technology is a hot trend. How hot? Gartner recognized sustainable technology as one of the must-know trends in its “10 Top Strategic Technology Trends 2023” report, which is intended for an enterprise audience […]
