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.

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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

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CIO role: Should a CIO manipulate information?

IT experts react to yesterday's report in the Wall Street Journal that a CIO used his private company to manipulate online ...

Ret. Gen. Stan McChrystal on what's wrong with modern leadership

Retired four-star Gen. Stan McChrystal talks about how modern leadership needs to change and what leadership means in the age of ...

Delivering first-class digital user experience a big CIO goal in 2019

In 2019, CIOs should expect to play a major role in delivering a top-notch digital user experience -- for customers, employees ...

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Collective Medical software enables ERs to share patient info

Software from Collective Medical is helping ERs in Oregon share patient data almost immediately. Here's a look at how that kind ...

5 healthcare technology trends CIOs should watch in 2019

Artificial intelligence and blockchain will continue to make a splash in 2019 as top trends for healthcare CIOs to watch. VR, ...

Physicians can reduce medical errors with the help of AI

EHRs on their own don't always have the capabilities needed to detect abnormalities in a patient's chart. Fortunately, AI can ...

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Salesforce Lightning Platform update targets mobile apps

Salesforce targets line-of-business experts and citizen developers with the Lightning Platform Mobile development system to build...

Private cloud platforms step out of the shadows

Enterprises often confront a choice: public or private cloud. Public cloud may be the easy option, but it isn't the right one for...

Cloud disaster recovery services evolve, but gaps remain

A severe outage can cripple a business, which is why a disaster recovery plan is critical. While today's DRaaS offerings make it ...

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Top five data center trends to watch in 2019

In 2019, data center admins should research how technologies such as AIOps, chatbots and GPUs can help them with their management...

Top server maintenance tips to extend hardware lifespan

IT administrators can upgrade CPU, RAM and networking hardware to maintain smooth server operations and to maximize resources.

IBM quantum computing system, apps lab seek commercial users

IBM finally introduced its first integrated quantum computer that is designed for commercial accounts. But the emergence of ...

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Cloudera and Hortonworks combo to push CDP, machine learning

Two wunderkinds of Hadoop have formalized their merger. Cloudera and Hortonworks say they will place special focus on AI as they ...

Why organizations need a solid data governance strategy

Data management has evolved from centralized data accessible by only the IT department to a flood of data stored in data ...

IBM Weather Channel location data use spurs privacy concerns

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pushed real-time weather data mining for travel and other uses, even as the Los Angeles city attorney is ...

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Collection #1 breach data includes 773 million unique emails

Have I Been Pwned added a new trove of 773 million unique emails and 21 million passwords -- known as the Collection #1 breach ...

Experts: A breach response plan is a must in 2019

During an IT GRC Forum webinar, experts explain the need for shedding legacy security approaches and highlight the gravity of ...

Exploring multifactor authentication benefits and technology

Take a look at multifactor authentication benefits and methods, as well as how the technologies have evolved from key fobs to ...