Essential Guides

TechTarget editors have curated a collection of “essential” articles on key IT topics. These articles have been packaged into guides which offer our readers comprehensive, problem solving content to help inform and guide their research.

Editorial

Enterprise records management strategy guide for GRC professionals

In this guide, find the latest enterprise records management strategies your organization needs to bring information governance into the big data age. Continue Reading

SearchCIO

Preparing for the new forms of cybersecurity threats in 2020

In the first part of a series on the new forms of cyberthreats in 2020, we're diving into the many infiltration points being ...

What is the state of CIO tenure today?

CIO tenure remains significantly lower than other C-suite positions, and according to experts, it's a result of the age of ...

The evolution of RPA, from macros to process transformation

RPA evolved from technology debuted in the 1950s and '60s and was developed to today's standards by the industry's leading ...

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Google Health's AI breast cancer screening tool stirs debate

New research from Google Health shines a light on the controversy for AI in cancer screening within the healthcare community.

ONC's federal health IT strategic plan shows growth -- to a degree

ONC's five-year strategic health IT draft plan lays out comprehensive goals, but, in some instances, how to achieve those goals ...

Healthcare CIOs put on alert for potential Iran cyberattacks

The recent developments between the United States and Iran should put healthcare CIOs on notice. U.S. critical infrastructure ...

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5 cloud database comparison tips to guide your data strategy

Catch up on these tips that compare the strengths, weakness and available integrations of popular public cloud database and ...

Reduce cloud latency for remote employees and offices

Latency remains an issue for cloud users with remote facilities. See how SD-WAN and satellites can improve network performance ...

AWS multi-account management best practices with Control Tower

With the help of AWS Control Tower, organizations who own and operate multiple cloud accounts can manage them all under one roof ...

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Top data center skills admins can use in 2020

The 2019 tech job sector saw consistent growth and job availability. In 2020, admins should develop expertise on cloud ...

Organizations try to predict the effect of 5G infrastructure

With more 5G and IoT devices emerging, admins must prepare their data centers to support low-latency apps and edge computing with...

Top infrastructure and operations technology myths of 2019

Admins are consistently evaluating technology to improve I&O efficiency. Cost, integration and business goals are key components ...

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Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data

With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada ...

New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality

Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet ...

Where InfluxDB time series database is going

Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor ...

SearchSecurity

Citrix patches vulnerability as ransomware attacks emerge

Citrix rolls out more patches ahead of schedule for CVE-2019-19781, a directory traversal vulnerability that affects Citrix ADC, ...

Proofpoint: Ransomware payments made in half of U.S. attacks

According to Proofpoint's 2020 'State of the Phish' report, 51% of U.S. organizations surveyed opted to pay threat actors after ...

AWS leak exposes passwords, private keys on GitHub

UpGuard discovered a public GitHub repository that contained sensitive AWS customer data, including passwords, authentication ...