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CIOs are Stepping on the Gas, With Global IT Spend Forecast to Hit $4.2T This Year (Forbes)

A new forecast from Gartner predicts that global tech spending will hit $4.2 trillion by the end of 2021, an annual increase of almost 9%. The rise mainly reflects a rapid switch f... More

Wasabi’s Chelsea Rodgers Honored on the 2021 CRN Rising Female Stars List

Wasabi Technologies announced that CRN has named Chelsea Rodgers, Senior Manager of Partner Marketing, to its 2021 list of Rising Female Stars. This list honors up-and-coming, tale... More

Your Company Needs a Digital Nomad Policy (HBR)

Unlike regular remote workers, who tend to stay in one place or shuttle back and forth between their home and a vacation retreat or a relative’s house, digital nomads travel and ... More

U.S. IT Job Growth Continues (Computerworld)

With the IT pro jobs market doing well, competition for some candidates is pushing up salaries, with IT execs seeing the largest gains and staff members seeing the least.... More

EU Postpones Digital Tax (Next TV)

The EU has postponed a new digital tax, much to the relief of tech companies. The digital tax was part of a larger plan to fund recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and with the jus... More

Palo Alto Networks Supports Nvidia BlueField DPUs (SDxCentral)

Palo Alto Networks announced a virtual next-generation firewall designed specifically for use with Nvidia’s BlueField line of data processing units (DPUs).... More

Microsoft, NEC Expand Partnership to Support Digital Transformation (The Record)

Microsoft and NEC have expanded their four-decades-long partnership to use Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s 5G expertise and both firm’s AI and IoT solutions to help enter... More

Equinix Sees 5G as a Chance to ‘Seed’ a New Interconnection Ecosystem (DCK)

Blurring of the boundaries between 5G and cloud infrastructure may be an opportunity for the colocation giant. ... More

The CIO’s Shifting IT Leadership Role in Modern Enterprise (Tech HQ)

The value of a dynamic and skilled CIO cannot be measured in purely technical terms. Business leaders should instead consider how strong IT expertise and management directly adds t... More

The Risk of Disconnect Between CIOs and CISOs (CIO Dive)

Supporting an organization is the relationship between CIOs and CISOs or other similar figures within IT and security. A healthy connection starts with a focus on priority business... More

Research: Why Observability is Fundamental to Digital Success (Forbes)

Observability is fast becoming a recognized baseline capability in every digital organization. It’s easy to recognize that as we adopt new technologies, from multiple public clou... More

Alibaba Cloud, Sarawak Partner to Bolster Digitization of SMEs (MI)

With experience in digital transformation and expertise in different industries, Alibaba Cloud will also help SDEC in terms of enhancing its impact and the reach of the corporation... More

The AI Evolution: From Transforming Businesses to Overhauling the Social Order (TCS Blog)

As the global economy recuperates from the initial impact of the pandemic, a shortage of desk workforce and other physical restrictions have forced businesses to seek alternatives ... More

Meeting the Challenges, Opportunities of NaaS, PaaS and IaaS (Equinix Blog)

3 NaaS use cases for interconnecting digital infrastructures.... More

What’s Next for Customer Experience Tech (CIO Dive)

Businesses responded to the customer experience (CX) demands that arose in the pandemic — but the biggest changes are still ahead. From deploying automation in the customer servi... More

How 10 Execs Got Their Start in Tech (CIO Dive)

Molly Brown, VP of engineering at Qumulo: "I was in 7th grade, and it was still the age of the floppy disk. It was a small company that did software training, and I had to do data ... More

The War for Crypto Talent (Raconteur)

From start-ups to major organisations, the prospects for crypto talent have never been so good.... More

Study: AI Spend Rises as Enterprises Solve for Scale, Adoption (CIO Dive)

Scaling AI technology is a bigger priority for enterprise businesses when compared to their smaller counterparts. By contrast, diversity of the data powering AI is a higher priorit... More

Building Games in the Cloud, Microsoft Azure Developers Level Up (Forbes)

Software engineers building games applications must now embrace a more virtualised cloud-centric existence. Explaining how his team uses Azure services for everything from virtual ... More

AWS, Venture Capital Firm Finalize Selections for Space Startup Accelerator (WT)

Amazon Web Services and its venture capital partner have selected 10 startup space companies to participate in a four-week accelerator program focused on cloud computing and analyt... More

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