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In today’s ever-increasing digital world, the speed at which technology is changing and updating is significant. From cloud computing and AI to automation and data-driven decision-making, enterprises ...

As the Trump administration pushes agencies to break down data silos, the IT officials leading the charge are grappling with a problem that has occasionally complicated matters: figuring out how to ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the recent midyear conference of the National Association of ...

Like student loans and credit card balances, technical debt is holding you back or even killing your business. Unfortunately, the cloud can't always save you. You’re working for a company that has ...

Back in January, I took to LinkedIn to highlight a now-famous example of technical debt: Over the holidays, record-breaking storms posed a host of logistical challenges for the airline industry. No ...

Most organizations think of their technical debt as a burden to be managed. Others are finding more success by making it an important part of the day-to-day job of a developer. “Debt is like any other ...

Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

Everyone worries too much about “technical debt.” It’s not real. It’s just a slate of software projects that would have happened anyway. CIOs use debt use to protect budgets with categories everyone ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. As organizations raise the maturity level of their IT ...