7 ways to win over a new IT team

The first few weeks a CIO spends with a new IT team are both critical and challenging. Recent events haven’t made the job any easier. A pandemic, digital innovation initiatives, and “The Great Resignation” have combined to make it more challenging than ever for an incoming CIO to engage with their new team and set…

Cloud, IoT usher in new era for healthcare

CIO Larry Jones has seen his share of change over more for than 30 years working in healthcare IT. But the group CIO of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC) believes recent IT advances are fueling digital transformations that will open whole new horizons for health care. “We believe we’re taking some early steps…

The Legacy Shift: How to Accelerate Business Value with Mainframe Modernization

Global enterprises use mainframes to run mission-critical applications, especially core workloads and huge data processing tasks. Analysts reveal that up to 70% of Fortune 500 companies use mainframes, including 44 of 50 top banks and top 10 global insurers. These enterprises are now transitioning from mainframes to next-generation technologies for unlocking business value. Digitalization has…

2022 is the Year of the Edge

By Matthew Hausmann In the CIO.com article, Take Your Analytics into Hyperdrive in 2021, I predicted the four big data analytics trends of the year and what enterprises must do to stay competitive in a modern, hybrid world that spans from the edge to the cloud. I explained how Apache Spark would continue to dominate…

Shell sees AI as fuel for its sustainability goals

Energy giants are under significant pressure by governments and consumers to reduce carbon emissions. For multinational oil and gas company Shell, artificial intelligence may be a key catalyst for fulfilling that long-term goal. The London-headquartered energy company’s ongoing digital transformation, fueled by a hybrid cloud platform and Databricks data lake house, includes a mix of…

Succession planning: A CIO imperative

As far as professional development goes, Sarah Naqvi’s meteoric rise to executive vice president and CIO at Maryland-based food service company HMSHost probably didn’t go quite as she had imagined it. “I had a pretty traumatic … stressful experience,” she acknowledges. Naqvi was included in an undocumented succession plan with the company’s then-CIO, but saw…

Stopping ransomware in its tracks

According to the 2021 IDG Security Priorities Study, 44% of security incidents are still caused by employees, despite 53% of IT leaders prioritising security training for employees in the past year. Unpatched software and security lapses follow as the second leading causes of incidents. More concerningly, the sudden shift to hybrid work arrangements due to…