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67% of digital transformations delayed due to skill shortages

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Businesses have always struggled with IT skills shortages, but the accelerating arrival of new technologies such as AI has widened the shortage gap even further, resulting in business delays, lower customer satisfaction, and loss of revenue, according to a recent report from research firm IDC.

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IBM and Hispanic Heritage Foundation partner to upskill Latinos for IT careers

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Creating opportunity is key to fostering diversity in the tech industry — and that’s what IBM is aiming to do in partnership with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. IBM’s aim is to ensure content on the platform is engaging, interesting, and relevant to each user.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

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Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisory firm ISG. Is your organization overdue for an IT systems update?

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

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Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges. They complicate attribution due to the often short-lived nature of the IP addresses of the nodes being used.

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7 signs you may not be a transformational CIO

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Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

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We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.” Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

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What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.