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Ministry of Defence CIO Mike Stone interview – Delivering ‘Defence as a Platform’

7 cloud services that make great gifts

Not every great present comes wrapped in a box. These cloud-based gift ideas for the digital denizen in your life will add a little premium-level pizzazz to the party.

Why social media could swing the 2016 presidential election

Candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential election use more social networks than politicians of the past, in hopes of tapping the millennial market. However, it's difficult to measure real ROI, and the social trail is fraught with political peril

This CEO fosters a data-oriented company culture

BNY Mellon Investment Services uses a data dashboard, analytics, APIs and a social network to enhance the customer and employee experience, says CEO Brian Shea

Traction Watch: StayMobile to grow 161% in next 12 months using multi-pronged business model

StayMobile's core mission is to focus on the ecosystem around phones. To do this, they cover three main areas, in addition to Protection Plan offerings for your mobile device, they offer same day repair for your damaged mobile device as well as

Traction Watch: CartoDB jumps 300 percent in revenue this year, attracting 100,000 users

By offering a cutting edge map analytics engine, and offering it up as open source, the Madrid based SaaS solution provider, CartoDB is striking gold in the location-based services market.

How Georgia successfully overhauled IT

COO of Georgia Technology Authority discusses the sweeping enterprise-driven privatization push that's improved security, cut costs and upended the state's IT culture.

Traction Watch: Cybrary helps fill gap of 1 million unoccupied cybersecurity jobs

Cybrary is closing the gap in unfilled cybersecurity jobs around the world through open-sourcing training. Putting the information in the hands of everyone from entry-level professionals all the way up to business leaders has helped them gain major t

As CMOs start to outspend CIOs, collaboration remains key

CIOs were traditionally at the helm of technology adoption, but as more marketing departments use their budget on technology spending, the role of the CMO in IT is rising.

Hortonworks looks to ‘Internet of Anything’ with acquisition

The open source Hadoop distribution vendor aims to bring together streaming analytics and rich historical analytics with the acquisition of the key contributor to the Apache NiFi project and the creation of Hortonworks DataFlow.