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In March and April 2021, CIO held a series of CIO Think Tank discussions—virtual roundtables that brought together 36 IT leaders to unpack one of the most important issues in the enterprise today: IT reinvention. These discussions aimed to identify key issues in reinventing IT to meet today’s rapidly evolving business requirements, and offer a roadmap for IT leadership to overcome practical obstacles. The roundtables were facilitated by John Gallant, Enterprise Consulting Director for IDG,…

Moving compute and storage resources to edge locations can reduce latency and bandwidth needs, improve performance and save money. At the same time, widespread edge computing deployments can introduce significant management challenges. Servers can be hard enough to maintain when they’re in an on-prem data center. What if they’re deployed in the middle of nowhere? Energy companies know all too well the challenges of remote computing. “When we drill a well, it’s always in the…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Michael Dell, Dell Technologies’ chairman and chief executive officer and Yvonne McGill, corporate controller and chief financial officer of Infrastructure Solutions Group will each present at the following virtual conferences in: 2021 Bernstein Strategic Decisions ConferenceWednesday, June 2, 20211:40 p.m. CT / 2:40 p.m. ET.Speaker: Michael Dell Evercore ISI Inaugural TMT ConferenceMonday, June 7, 20213:15 p.m. CT / 4:15 p.m. ETSpeaker: Yvonne…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Record first quarter revenue of $24.5 billion, up 12%, driven by growth across Infrastructure Solutions, Client Solutions and VMware business units Record first quarter operating income of $1.4 billion, up 96%, and record first quarter non-GAAP operating income of $2.7 billion, up 26% Diluted earnings per share up 495% to $1.13, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share up 59% to $2.13 Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE:…

Steve WhiteProgram Vice President, IDC Guest blogger: Steve White, Program Vice President, Channels & Alliances, IDC Steve White is Program Vice President for the WW Channels and Alliances research team. He manages a group of channels and alliances analysts as well as their related research products, with extended teams in EMEA & APeJ. The Channels and Alliances research team focuses on research around changing partner ecosystem dynamics, following the trends and best practices to allow benchmarking….

The growth in online banking has been – and will continue to be – rapid. From a valuation of $11.43 billion in 2019, the projections are that it will reach $31.81 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 13.6%. For the incumbent banking system, this rapid growth poses a real and ongoing challenge, as it has opened the door to unconventional disruption and new competition. Non-banking companies are now able to bring different business models…

Nothing says summer fun like studying network automation. Am I right!?! Okay, maybe it’s not quite as much fun as amusement parks, beaches, mountain hiking, or camping, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also have fun studying for a DevNet Certification between those other activities.  And I’ll be hosting a series of FOUR webinars in June 2021 focusing on applying the skills of a DevNet Associate to real world tasks, use cases, and problems that…

The pandemic has raised the status and prospects of IT leaders within their organizations. But, what now? How can they capitalize on successes? Which pitfalls should they avoid? These were just some of the questions recently discussed during an IDG TECHTalk Twitter chat, sponsored by Comcast. The robust forum — summarized here — was led by Isaac Sacolick (@nyike), CIO contributing editor and author of Driving Digital. Answers lightly edited for clarity. Q1: What are…

It’s no secret that Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has been a bit of a hot topic recently – and it’s for good reason.  In a recent study by Gartner, it is estimated that by 2024, 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt a SASE approach. As we move towards a more long-term remote, hybrid, “work from anywhere” environment, the need for cloud-delivered secure connectivity is a must.  Our customers are struggling to…

Cisco SecureX has been enabling customers to build more secure, integrated infrastructure for over a year now. Leveraging both Cisco and third-party integrations, you can centralize visibility and aggregate intelligence while conducting incident investigation and response. SecureX orchestration allows you to take these integrations to the next level by creating custom workflows that enable your products to interact with each other in entirely new ways. However, since the SecureX platform is cloud-based, integration with on-premise…