Technology of the future has CIOs and data scientists concerned

As January wound down, we had one heck of an exciting week on SearchCIO. For starters, Wednesday marked our first #CIOChat of the new year, and the wearable-tech theme attracted a huge (virtual) crowd. Expert Simon Jones, managing director at OnPR, a technology public relations and analyst firm,...
Stealing digital strategy ideas from the game Go

The digital business seems to have cast aside strategy models and governance -- those old IT mainstays -- in favor of experimentation and agility. And for good reason. "Old strategy models don't capture new realities," said Dave Aron, an analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Research Inc., at...
Data security risk: What to do when the enemy is you

When it comes to cybersecurity breaches, we have seen the enemy, and the enemy is you. More specifically, it's your fellow members of senior management. In three separate midmarket studies released this month, the majority of participants pointed the finger of blame squarely at themselves when...
Hadoop 2.0, 2014 IT master plan, NSA data collection and more

This week, SearchCIO and SearchCompliance shared a slew of content covering a wide variety of IT hot-button issues. On Monday, the Data Mill was all about Hadoop – Hadoop 2.0, to be specific. In her weekly column, Senior News Writer Nicole Laskowski talked to Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker, both...
Fraudulent activity at major retailers: Credit card scams abound

In light of the recent data breaches at a major retailer (cough, cough, Target), credit card anti-fraud efforts are taking the data-privacy spotlight. Fraud...
CIO news from CES 2014, cloud news from Cloud Pulse and more

Alongside our New Year's coverage of TechTarget's 2013 IT Salary and Careers Survey, SearchCIO, SearchCIO-Midmarket and SearchCompliance have been pouncing on the hot...
IT professional salary info and career aspirations: An executive view

Every fall, TechTarget polls the IT masses to find out which technology professionals have enough dough in which to roll. In addition to learning who the high earners are, TechTarget's 2013 Annual Salary and Careers Survey asked participants (1,711 IT professionals in North America) about bonuses,...