Business continuity means ensuring that employees have everything they need from the IT organization to stay productive and support the company’s partners and customers. It requires assessing and mitigating risks to websites, databases, financial systems, email servers, business processes, and more. Business continuity also requires capacity planning, especially if the company is experiencing growth. This,…
By Liam O’Murchu, Director, Security Technology and Response The last few years have been anything but normal for everyone. As we know at Broadcom Software, even as enterprises try to put a couple of abnormal years in their rear-view mirror, the rampage of ransomware continues to wreak havoc and requires continued focus and diligence. The…
Managing risk is one of the top responsibilities of any leadership team. However, leaders can manage only the risks they know about. Effective leadership, it turns out, depends on risk reporting. This article focuses on the reporting of risk itself. That means finding the right information to share with your company’s leadership team and sharing…
Westpac decided to increase its investment in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services platform earlier in 2022, to underpin the wholesale modernisation of the bank’s technology environment in a five-year deal to help drive the bank’s digital and hybrid multicloud strategy. The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank,…
Customer loyalty has always started with a positive experience as evidenced by the old saying, “the customer is always right.” Increasingly, customers want digital omnichannel experiences and companies are providing them. According to Omnisend[1] marketing campaigns using three or more channels increased order rates by 494% over those using a single channel. With a thoughtful,…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software Agile development has served its purpose over the years, but many forward-thinking companies believe its value in their businesses is lessening. Why? It stresses speed, which can be a downfall when it comes to quality. As an alternative, many organizations are adopting continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), which entails…
It’s more difficult than ever to protect our infrastructure, government, and businesses from becoming victims of well-funded, skilled adversaries. From the Log4j vulnerability to the SolarWinds hack to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, organizations are more vulnerable to cyberattacks than ever before. In fact, 87% of enterprises across 11 countries have fallen victim to cyberattacks in…
By David Andrzejek, head of Financial Services, DataStax Capital One might be the sixth-largest bank in the United States, but it’s working hard to harness its data and the cloud to execute much more like a fintech. The company is on a mission to revolutionize the banking industry through technology and data and serves as…
Over the past year, more and more American workers have quit their jobs. Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment rates decreased while number of job openings rose. Suddenly, employees found themselves with a plethora of job options, leading to the nation’s highest “quit-rate” in 20 years. But why did so many employees…
Tableau wants to make it easier for enterprise users to tell stories using their data with a set of new capabilities being added to Tableau Cloud, the new name for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics platform. The new features include simplified self-service tools like Data Stories, smart suggestions through Einstein Discovery, and collaboration tools to work…