Across the Middle East, smart cities and campuses are investing in the future by leveraging IoT at scale. The University of Birmingham’s Dubai and Edgbaston campuses are undergoing a transformation that demonstrates how integrating emerging technologies like IoT sensors and back-end data centres can drive cost optimisation, create a better user experience, and introduce new…
As the tech team at workplace safety goods business Blackwoods steeled themselves against the initial onslaught of COVID-19 in early 2020, little did they know the additional curve ball about to be served to them. The long-established brand, a subsidiary of Wesfarmers, which also owns the Bunnings and Officeworks brands, has more than 50 stores…
One of the ways in which enterprises can maintain better control over how they store, activate, manage, and monetize today’s surge in data is to deploy storage as a service (STaaS) as a central part of their multicloud. Multicloud combines services and resources from multiple cloud providers to increase the flexible use and availability of…
By Hugues Treguier Pre-pandemic, remote work skeptics feared that their workforce would not be able to do all work securely and efficiently. Enterprise IT, security teams, and executives have since learned that – in most use cases – sensitive data can be entrusted to the cloud and that workers are able to function at full…
As the ongoing digital transformation unlocks the potential of industries, the global digital infrastructure is also facing a higher demand. According to Huawei’s Global Industry Vision (GIV), by 2030, there will be 23 times more global data, 10 times more global general computing power, and 500 times the global AI computing power. We will also…
When the pandemic hit in early 2020 and consumers shifted their shopping to digital channels, big-box retailer Target felt the impact. “[We] grew our digital business by about three years in three weeks,” says CIO Mike McNamara. To keep up with demand, “we took our Cyber Monday playbook, and we just turned it on and…
There is a structure and discipline to the art of futuring. Every quarter I conduct a conversational walkabout in the CXO community seeking to understand the mindsets, projects, and priorities defining the IT landscape. In Q1, 2022, I am asking in situ CIOs two questions: What categorical bucket[s] does the organization place you in? How…
Andy Farella spent five years rising up the IT leadership ranks at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) — first as director of business applications and then associate CIO — when he started feeling restless. “I was dealing with multiple aspects of the organization and involved with big projects, issues, and challenges,” Farella says. At the…