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Allen Bernard

Freelance writer

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Now a freelance journalist, copywriter, and editor, Allen Bernard is the former managing editor of CIOUpdate.com, eSecurityPlanet.com, ITSMWatch.com, and EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com. Throughout his 21-year career, Bernard has focused on clarifying the intersection of technology and business for an executive audience. He has written about everything from the earliest days of cloud to the cyber security woes of the current era.

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Forrester combined industry research with insights from analysts and clients to rank these technologies by expected ROI.

10 Emerging Technologies CIOs Are Investing In

Part of the 3%

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How are 3% of companies growing 1.8 times faster than all others? By taking a customer-first approach to digital transformation. Meet the future-fit.

Report: Grow Faster Through Customer-Obsessed Tech Use

Get future-fit

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Struggling to find talent? Try switching from role-based hiring to skills-based hiring, new Forrester report suggests.

Use a Skills-Based Approach to Find the Talent You Need

Role reversal

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For years, tech execs have fought an uphill battle to find and retain qualified employees. A work-from-anywhere strategy may be the answer.

How to Attract and Retain Quality IT Help

Embrace Your EX

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A new Forrester Research report finds IT service management is a must-have for high-performing organizations.

High-Performing Organizations Lean into ITSM

At Your Service

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Shadow IT poses challenges no single technology will effectively mitigate. You need a multilayered defense strategy. You need zero trust.

Securing Shadow IT Takes an Interconnected Approach

Trust No One

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Agile upends the old order. Agile organizations have to let go of top-down leadership, embrace collaboration, learn continuously, and welcome change.

Agile success requires flexibility and collaboration

Welcome change agilely

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DevOps is more than a methodology for managing handoff between developers and IT. Dive into the future of DevOps with Forrester analyst Charles Betz,

The future of DevOps

Success is people, not process

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Measuring public cloud reliability through a single metric such as uptime vs. outages doesn't tell the whole story.

Is cloud getting less reliable? It depends.

Is slow the new down?

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With cyber threats increasing every day, the days of siloed, tools-oriented approaches to combating hackers are coming to an end.

CISOs: Think strategically to beat the bad guys

Relative risk

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Most of the world's daily transactions are still processed on mainframes, but that is changing as businesses adopt a hybrid mainframe/cloud...

Mainframe applications are going hybrid

Reach for the sky

IT operations organizations are doubling down on cloud, AIOps, build/run and automation as they strive towards digital transformation.

The state of IT operations management: 6 trends to watch

Maximize resources for what's next

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