Joe McKendrick

The tools and methodologies for cloud security are readily available.

Data analytics is a potent tool for bolstering carriers' relationships with agent networks.

Cloud can either divide or unite companies. When united, enterprises achieve great agility and innovation.

Either way, insurers need to ensure that they offer professionals great places to work and learn.

Cloud is cheap up front, but full of hidden costs. Here are eight potential "gotchas"

APIs are the new big thing for technology innovation, and they literally are everywhere.

Mobile and cloud accelerate the evolution of ECM tools.

Cloud may replace many on-premises functions.

Competitive advantage comes from being able to answer any question at any time.

One out of four cloud vendors may not be around a year from now. Will your data be there?

Enough talk about cloud and big data analytics — insurers want to see execution.

For P&C companies, cloud and analytics will define success in the year ahead, says Ernst & Young. But is that all there is?

Let's face it, big data is dumb.

The vendor that once ruled the world opened up computing to the rest of us.

Data centers are changing right in front of our eyes, but who's going to make those changes?

Marketing and IT people actually stand on common ground, looking to support customer data and interactions.

Insurers have always been at the forefront of in-house training and development, but will this carry over to tech and big data skills?

Lessons in agile development and data security were reinforced; mobile and cloud became as commonplace as telephones.

Tablet computers are becoming standard client computers, but there's still work to be done on the back end.

Coming to an insurance business near you: predictive analytics.