The AI Sustainability Paradox – And How to Solve It

Sustainability now challenges executives on several immediate fronts—as concerns from investors, consumers, and employees, and as a regulatory issue. Sustainable practices have also become integral to both efficiency gains and long-term business value. But achieving sustainability requires more than a shift in mindset. It also takes a lot of work. Perhaps that’s why, as part…

AT&T embraces intelligent automation at scale

For CIOs riding today’s rising wave of robotic process automation (RPA), leading-edge adopters whose mature implementations have paid off can provide invaluable lessons about how to make the best of the technology and where its use can lead. Telecom titan AT&T is one such enterprise, having began RPA trials in 2015 to reduce repetitive tasks…

Bringing the power: Generac CIO Tim Dickson says IT leaders need to start innovating today

This article was co-authored by Duke Dyksterhouse, an Associate at Metis Strategy. A lobby television isn’t all that uncommon or remarkable for a $4.5-billion-dollar company, but what’s on the 85-inch screen in the lobby of Generac’s headquarters certainly is. Rather than the predictable advertisements or staged photos featuring happy employees, it’s a demo of the…

Modern cloud-based networks: the key to high-level commercial performance?

Here’s a proposition to consider: among the ranks of large enterprises, commercial success increasingly relies on digital transformation. In turn, digital transformation relies on modernized enterprise networks that deliver flexibility, performance and availability from the edge to the cloud. Intuitively, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense. In many enterprises, it’s also increasingly becoming the…

Ransomware Warranties: Gimmick or Guarantee?

Warranties inspire confidence. If something goes wrong with a purchase, you’ll be made whole. That’s the idea anyway. Now consider ransomware. It’s not a “something.” It’s a “when thing.” So ransomware warranties hold understandable appeal. Here’s why: By 2031, ransomware is expected to attack a business, customer, or device every two seconds, costing victims around…

Verticalization, managed services and sustainability to drive cloud trends in 2023

No matter how reliable their sources, IT analysts’ technology adoption forecasts are fundamentally interpretive – opinions based on received data. This is particularly true when predicting deployment trends in tomorrow’s cloud market. Predictive viewpoints from cloud service providers, meanwhile, are informed by direct interactions with client IT teams experienced in projecting their organizations’ technology needs.…

How security fears are driving network modernization

The negative impact of legacy networks can be substantial: increased operational costs, restricted potential for digital transformation and difficulty responding to the demands of the business. NTT’s research finds that two in three organizations confirm their technical debt has accumulated, with 71% saying that low network maturity levels are negatively impacting their operational delivery and…