With the economy cooling, many companies have slowed their hiring or are reducing their headcount. The efficient management of budget, resources, and time is replacing dealing with growing pains in many IT departments. That is the goal, but how can companies address those challenges? It turns out that the trifecta of open interfaces, integration, and…
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Protecting The Moat: Why User IDs Should Be A Top Concern For Management
Identity and intellectual property theft are rising globally, and many companies are taking new steps to mitigate the problem. With state and criminal actors pushing the issue to new heights, it’s time to move digital identity and access from something the IT department deals with to an urgent topic that belongs on the agenda of…
All Together Now: Why We Need To Create Cooperation, Not Dependencies, In IT
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, his idea was to share documentation across systems and, thus, share knowledge. As the famous dictum goes, information wants to be free, as in openly shared, not necessarily free of charge. Today, the web as we know it has developed into a fantastic tool that lets us…
A Life In Full: Five Tech Areas Where IT In Education Should Take A Step Back
The past decade, and the last two years, have brought many changes to our IT landscape in general and to the IT we use in schools and businesses. To be sure, many of those changes have been for better and improved education. Yet, some are threatening our very fabric of teaching and learning for life….
Five IT Lessons Schools (And Businesses) Have To Learn Quickly
Major universities have long had a dedicated department focusing on services for off-campus students, but that’s not true for primary and secondary schools. Until recently, only a few countries operated remote public schools—think of kids in the Australian outback. They are used to logging in without giving tech a second thought. The pandemic has provided…
Making The Grade: Five Things IT In Schools Can Teach Us
Working with schools and school districts is one of the perks of my job. I’ve seen firsthand that it takes extraordinary individuals who are passionate about teaching to engage and motivate a room full of 30 children. At the same time, the situations often found in classrooms, schools and school districts can teach essential lessons…
Why You Should Approach IT Like Rocket Science: Five Things To Learn From Satellite Companies
It’s getting crowded in the skies. Companies are busy launching small satellites into low-earth orbit on a weekly schedule. SpaceX alone had more than 1,800 birds in low Earth orbit at the end of November 2021, and experts from Euroconsult estimate that nearly 17,000 satellites will be launched over the coming decade. Most of them…
On The Road Again: Six Ways IT Can Support Remote Team Members
The last two years have drastically diminished the amount of business travel most of us do. Trip expenditures for the fourth quarter of 2021 are projected to be between 25% to 35% below 2019 levels, according to one estimate. Yet, as the pandemic slowly winds down, the first conferences and face-to-face meetings are making their…
How To Design An IT Network For The New Normal
What a difference a year in lockdown limbo makes. The pandemic forced large and small companies alike to become masters of improvisation, develop WFH routines, set up VPNs, come up with ways to authenticate and patch in team members by the hundreds or thousands. The pandemic, though, didn’t help enterprises get closer to IT infrastructure…
Four Ways IT Can Solve The WFH Puzzle
The pandemic keeps throwing curveballs when it comes to returning to the office. Several large companies, including tech powerhouses like Amazon, Apple and Google, have been forced to readjust their cautious reopening plans yet again to cope with new variants, new surges and general uncertainty. No matter whether we’ll have a quarter or half of…