Bob Violino

More than 60 percent of respondents to a new survey said that their data currently exists in organizational silos, with more than half reporting difficulty sharing, linking and using data to drive their risk management strategies.

The increasing need for advanced solutions for real-time decisions on dynamic business events is accelerating the deployment of streaming analytics, a new report says.

Organizations risk wasting millions of dollars in the next 12 months, as they rush into flawed digital projects, according to a new study.

Enterprises are facing a number of difficulties as they attempt to integrate data into their real-time security, operations, and business decision making.

IT organizations' expanding role includes both innovation initiatives and keeping core systems running effectively.

Organizations are facing a number of challenges in managing legacy data warehouses, even as the market undergoes significant changes such as the advent of real-time analytics; the emergence of autonomous platforms that automate backup, recovery, administration and security; and an ongoing move to cloud-based services.

Nearly half plan to grow their workforce in response to new and emerging technologies.

Nearly three in four companies still rely on batch processing, slowing the flow of insights.

The market for enterprise storage is on the rise, bolstered by the impact of data analytics.

A large majority of CIOs expect cyber security threats to increase over the next three years, but many say their organization does not have a cyber security expert, according to Gartner.

In finance, manufacturing and healthcare, decision makers are mainly motivated for digital transformation by the need to increase operational efficiency, Fujitsu finds.

Investments in cloud computing continue to grow at a strong pace, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

Open-source products are increasingly important for data management, although not all offerings are growing at the same rate.

Cybersecurity professionals reporting that cryptocurrency mining is on the rise.

While the Internet of Things will improve industrial efficiencies, organizations also expect it to increase cyber threats.

Nearly half of firms recently surveyed struggle to identify between data truths and manipulations. This indicates an urgent need to upskill and support workers, the report said.

Those organizations that have been unable to build scalable systems need governance the most, and are the least able to achieve it, says William McKnight.

Traditional tools must be supported by techniques such as machine learning to increase the reach and productivity of these initiatives, says Protiviti

More than 90 percent of organizations now have some percentage of their systems and applications invested in cloud computing, says CompTIA's Seth Robinson.

The storage option provides attractive benefits such as scalability, speed, advanced analysis, centralization and integration of data under one system, says a new study.