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A combination of older and newer technologies is making a difference in IT workload management. Here are six areas of IT automation that are delivering results today.

Natural language processing is the subset of AI that powers voice bots and text-based analytics. Heres how its evolving in the enterprise.

Informationweek Key Courses for CIOs in 2021 Even busy CIOs need to make time for continuing education. Here are some key topics and courses that are worth your time in 2021. Credit: peshkov via Adobe Stock Continuing education is a necessity for everyone. But for many of us, especially those of us who head up IT functions, time is a precious commodity. It’s hard to get away from the relentless demands of the business. The continuing education questions that are on many CIOs’ minds are what...

Informationweek IT Automation: Still Room for Improvement in Some Spots Weve come a long way with autonomous computing. Heres a look at whats working in production, and areas that are still considered a work in progress. Image: Egor - stock.adobe.com IT operations was an early focus area for autonomous computing, artificial intelligence, and automation. Now that we have some history, which automation and AI techniques are working in IT, and which have yet to make an impact? Here are four areas...

Informationweek Whats New in IT Security? With new security threats continuously emerging, what can organizations do to harden their security and to better protect themselves from network intrusions and avoid damage? Image: Michael Traitov - stock.adobe.com This past December, news broke about a highly sophisticated cyberattack, allegedly perpetrated by Russian hacker group APT29.  The attack targeted the federal departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security and Commerce. The attack apparen...

Informationweek How to Explain AI, ML, and NLP to Business Leaders in Plain Language Your ability to explain artificial intelligence and its components to business leaders could mean the difference between acceptance and resistance. Heres how to do it. When I visit with non-IT corporate executives and ask them about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), they tell me that they have initiatives underway. But they dont exactly know what AI, ML, ...

Why CIOs Must Set the Rules for No-Code, Low-Code, Full-Code IT leaders must step in with guidelines about when to develop applications using low code and no code, and when its necessary to develop in a full-code mode. Gartner predicts that 65% of all application development will be done with low code by 2024 and that 66% of large companies will use at least four different low-code application building platforms. Faster time to market for applications is one driver of low-code and no-code appl...

Informationweek Entering a New Chapter for Tackling IoT and ‘The Edge’ As more organizations adopt edge computing, they are also confronting new challenges. Among them are IoT and edge integration, security, support, durability and bandwidth. Image: arrow - stock.adobe.com Initially, organizations were just strategizing on how to deploy the Internet of Things to the edge and manage it. Now, edge is here. As more enterprise organizations adopt edge computing, they are also confronting new chal...