From the CIO

Martha Heller, author of Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT, says that IT must be viewed alongside accounting and human resources as a foundation of the enterprise.
How much longer will cloud and on-premise installations continue to coexist? Oracle’s Larry Ellison predicts one decade.
Clint Boulton of CIO.com recounts how Oshkosh Corp, a maker of military vehicles and fire trucks, used ServiceNow to unify its 15 different organizations.

Technology News

With Salesforce and Oracle announcing A.I. features two days apart, 2016 will be remembered as the year that A.I. came into its own for mainstream businesses, writes Quentin Hardy of the New York Times.
U.S. vice president Joe Biden says that better data and computing could be the key to curing cancer.
When they were first introduced in 1999, SD cards could only hold a few megabytes. Yesterday SanDisk unveiled an SD card that holds 1TB.