Microservice architectures are a common model for modern applications and systems. They have a specific characteristic of splitting the business responsibility of a large application into distinct, ...

Fulfilling the risk management and regulatory compliance obligations with consistency in today’s vastly disparate and complex IT enterprise environments has challenged CIO’s to rethink the approach to ...

In a previous column, I took a shot at the strategy of centralizing purchasing. I received various feedback on this column, as well as a question. Namely, “Should supply management employees—and ...

Centralizing Information Security operations in the large, complex and diverse Enterprise can be a contentious process. Just when you think you’ve got your all the stakeholders on board – a mutiny ...

If you haven’t already centralized your IT team and infrastructure, the time is nigh. Experts say a combination of factors are making this the right time to consolidate your human and technology ...

The need to centralize stand-alone systems is becoming more urgent as automation hardware and software increase in complexity and functionality. This is especially apparent as certain regulatory ...

A quiet paradox is unfolding in health care. Around the world, governments are centralizing health systems—consolidating hospitals, budgets, data and decision-making—at the very moment when the most ...

Historically, cybersecurity in higher education has been highly decentralized, with individual departments maintaining their own IT and security tools. But this fragmented approach impedes visibility ...

If it stands, Superior Court judge David Ruoff’s decision that New Hampshire’s school finance system is unconstitutional threatens to make our housing crisis worse and to undermine the quality of ...