IT professionals have plenty of reasons to be thankful these days: rising budgets, salaries and job tenures among them. But when it comes to IT management and spending priorities, they often don’t see eye-to-eye with their organisations.
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Only 1% of global CIOs have deployed blockchain technology: study
Only one percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, according to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey. The study also found that only eight percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain.0 3116
A third of CIOs target CEO or COO as next move
Almost a third of CIOs in the UK are considering the role of COO or CEO as their next career step according to Deloitte’s first international CIO survey, which also suggested pressure is being lifted on the budget constraints of IT departments.
Chief digital officer role growing, but confusion remains: CA Technologies
According to a study by IT management solutions provider, CA Technologies, 47 percent of senior leaders agree that the role of …
Cloud-based DR: Recovery for all?
The rise of cloud is providing a good fit for disaster recovery, but is it ultimately changing the way organisations …
EMC takes on Amazon, Microsoft with public-cloud alternative
EMC today unveiled a new product initiative called Project Nile, which it expects will be the world’s first commercially available, complete …
CIO Spotlight: Blessing in disguise
When fate stepped in the way of Fady Sleiman’s dream of becoming a pilot, it opened up an entirely new road – one that would eventually bring him to the position of corporate CIO for the Middle East and Africa at General Electric.
CIOs Need to Push BYOD Policies to Lure Millennials
CIOs who think they can abandon BYOD risk upsetting an important and growing constituency of their workforce: millennials, also known as Generation Y.
CIOs say mobilising enterprise apps is not that easy
Mobilising apps for employees to use on their iPhones and Android devices sure sounds like a fun idea. Employees would …
Man of the world
They say nothing broadens the mind like travel — if this is true, then the mind of Dr. Hazem Turki El Khatib should be fairly well-stretched.
Possibility in the privacy pitfalls?
Last month, a former CIA technician leaked information on the National Security Agency’s data gathering surveillance programme dubbed PRISM. Joe Lipscombe investigates what relevance this holds for the Middle East.