Hardware and software

Infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings give a big boost to carriers' customer portal and analytics initiatives, Novarica survey finds.

The P&C carrier has found that IT infrastructure investments allow it to support new sources of data, like drones and smarthome devices.

The growth in digital transformation efforts is driving the need for more CDOs. Forrester Research looks at how strategy, governance and execution separate the best from the rest.

Software and application developers were cited as the number one most in-demand job role by employers last month, according to the latest BLS numbers.

Insurers including AIG, Travelers, Liberty Mutual and CNA have announced new staff in roles that will drive tech innovation throughout the year.

Worldwide IT spending will reach $3.7 trillion this year, with the primary drivers of growth being projects in digital business, blockchain, the IoT, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Three-fifths of carrier respondents to a survey say that they are increasing use of cloud as part of larger platform modernization.

Software and services will predominate as technology budgets rise almost six percent.

When moving away from familiar systems and deploying something new, a failure to plan properly could be disastrous.

Fewer than half of programmers are confident in the code they write and run, with 60 percent lacking confidence in the security of their applications, says Joe McCann.

A new study out from CareerCast reports that those three job occupations have hiring outlooks of 21 percent, 18 percent and 17 percent respectively.

Some 82 percent of companies have experienced at least one unplanned systems outage over the past three years, which lasted an average of four hours.

Organizations continued to have great need for infosec and DevOps talent, but there was little gain for data processing professionals in September.

Showing only modest gains is the data center systems area. Gartner expects that sector to see a 1.8 percent increase in spending, up from 1.7 estimated growth in 2017.

New Hortonworks DataPlane Service is a cloud-based offering that looks to ease workloads across distributed computing environments.

Prices are also being bolstered as everything from cars to data centers add more computing capabilities, broadening the market for the electronic components.

Carriers are wise to shore up security governance, data protection and incident response strategies, says Novarica's Tom Benton.

Individuals hoping to give themselves the best shot at a new job in information systems should consider specializing in DevOps, says a new study.

Partnerships with drone-as-a-service companies will be put to their first major test by the storm.

The markets are forecast to rise by 100 percent or more over each of the next four years, according to a new report from International Data Corp.