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Louis Columbus

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Marketing and Product Management Leader, Forbes Columnist, Software Expertise in Analytics, Cloud, CPQ & ERP Solutions. Principal at IQMS, formerly with iBASEt, Cincoom, AMR Research.

Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security

Absolute’s CEO Christy Wyatt On The Future Of Endpoint Security

By Louis Columbus on October 26, 2020

Removing any doubt endpoints are resilient, self-healing and secure is what matters most to cybersecurity leaders today. It has become the highest priority across education, enterprise, financial services and government organizations in 2020 and beyond. At the same time, CIOs and CISOs are recognizing that endpoint complexity itself is a vulnerability. Absolute’s 2020 State of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Absolute Persistence, Absolute Resilience, absolute software, Christy Wyatt CEO Absolute, cybersecurity, endpoint security, Louis Columbus' blog

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For AI, 2020

By Louis Columbus on October 25, 2020

47% of artificial intelligence (AI) investments were unchanged since the start of the pandemic and 30% of organizations plan to increase their AI investments, according to a recent Gartner poll. 30% of CEOs own AI initiatives in their organizations and regularly redefine resources, reporting structures and systems to ensure success. AI projects continue to accelerate this year […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, gartner, Gartner's Hype Cycle For AI 2020, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning

How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

How An AI Platform Is Matching Employees And Opportunities

By Louis Columbus on September 13, 2020

Bottom Line: Eightfold.ai’s innovative approach of combining their own AI and virtual hackathons to create and launch new additions to their Project Marketplace rapidly is a model enterprises need to consider emulating. Eightfold.ai was founded with the mission that there is a right career for everyone in the world. Since its founding in 2016, Eightfold.ai’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, AI in HRM, Artificial intelligence, Eightfold, Human resource management, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, talent management

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For Endpoint Security, 2020

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For Endpoint Security, 2020

By Louis Columbus on September 12, 2020

Remote working’s rapid growth is making endpoint security an urgent priority for all organizations today. Cloud-first deployment strategies dominate the innovations on this year’s Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security. Zero Trust Security (ZTNA) is gaining adoption in enterprises who realize identities are the new security perimeter of their business. By 2024, at least 40% of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Absolute, Absolute Resilence, cybersecurity, endpoint security, Enteprise endpoint protection, Louis Columbus' blog, MobileIron, MobileIron UEM

Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First

Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First

By Louis Columbus on September 11, 2020

63% of organizations say delivering an excellent customer experience as measured by customer satisfaction scores defines success as a digital-first business, according to a recent IDG study. 67% of CEOs say acting with agility is “the new currency of business; if we’re too slow, we will be bankrupt,” according to KPMG. 33% of CEOs say […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BMC, BMC's Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE), BMC’s Autonomous Digital Enterprise Framework, Deloitte Insights’, Digital Maturity, Digtial transformation, IDG, KPMG, Louis Columbus' blog

Where AIOps Is Delivering Results Today

Where AIOps Is Delivering Results Today

By Louis Columbus on August 31, 2020

Bottom Line: Capitalizing on AI and machine learning’s inherent strengths to create contextual intelligence in real-time, LogicMonitor’s early warning and failure prevention systems reflect where AIOps is delivering results today. LogicMonitor’s track record of making solid contributions to their customers’ ability to bring greater accuracy, insight, and precision into monitoring all IT assets is emerging […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AIOps. AI, Artificial intelligence, Contextual Intelligence, LogicMonitor, LogicMonitor AIOps, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning

5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks

5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks

By Louis Columbus on August 23, 2020

Global mobile phishing attempts surged by 37% amid shift to work-from-home for the thousands of businesses needing to adhere to shelter-in-place directives. According to Verizon, over 90% of breaches start with a phishing attack and with more than 60% of emails being read on mobile, mobile phishing is one of the fastest-growing threat categories in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CISO, cybersecurity, google, Louis Columbus' blog, Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, microsoft, MobileIron Mobile Threat Defense, phishing, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Verizon’s Mobile Security Index 2020, Zero Trust Security

Answers To Today's Toughest Endpoint Security Questions In The Enterprise

Answers To Today’s Toughest Endpoint Security Questions In The Enterprise

By Louis Columbus on August 14, 2020

Enterprises who are increasing the average number of endpoint security agents from 9.8 last year to 10.2 today aren’t achieving the endpoint resilience they need because more software agents create more conflicts, leaving each endpoint exposed to a potential breach. 1 in 3 enterprise devices is being used with a non-compliant VPN, further increasing the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged absolute software, CIO, CISO, cybersecurity, endpoint security, Louis Columbus' blog

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10 Ways AI Is Accelerating DevOps

By Louis Columbus on August 9, 2020

Startups offering AI-powered software development tools raised $704M over 12 months ending September 2019, according to a Deloitte report published earlier this year. IDC predicts the global market for custom application development services is forecast to grow from $47B in 2018 to more than $61B in 2023, attaining a 5.3% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI for DevOps, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Artificial intelligence, Atlassian, BMC Autonomous Digital Enterprise framework, Jira Software, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, Microsoft Visual Studio Intellicode

Improving Online Learning Experiences One Secured Endpoint At A Time

Improving Online Learning Experiences One Secured Endpoint At A Time

By Louis Columbus on August 2, 2020

Bottom Line: Defining the perfect mix of cloud apps, platforms and secured endpoints to create compelling online learning experiences customizable to students’ learning strengths is how schools are overcoming the challenge of virtual teaching. There are over 56 million students in the U.S. alone who are relying on remote learning apps, platforms and autonomous endpoint […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Absolute Persistence, Absolute Resilience, absolute software, Autonomous Endpoint Security, COVID-19 schools, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity in covid-19, Endpoint Security. Online education, Louis Columbus' blog, Online learning, Online schools, Pandemic education, Secured teaching

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