Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

When Tom Peck joined Sysco during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, his major goal was ensuring the survival of the world’s largest food service delivery company and helping its thousands of customers stay afloat. The Houston-based multinational was still delivering food supplies to sparsely populated buildings, cafeterias, airports, and nursing homes across the US—and…

How Data is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry

In the media and entertainment business, success is engaging viewers and creating “stickiness.”  That happens when you understand viewer preferences and understand how audiences interact or consume content.  It’s key to make informed decisions from what can be massive amounts of data you manage effectively.            Nearly every business in this industry collects massive amounts…

iomart: Making the cloud straightforward

Founded in 1998, iomart began providing cloud services as the new millennium arrived. In the quarter of a century since, the company has grown into one of the U.K.’s most successful and trusted providers of cloud services and solutions. Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in…

Enabling a sovereign cloud using a multicloud foundation: Technology executive considerations

The adoption of multiple clouds by European business and public agencies continues to increase due to the need for competitive differentiation and growth through speed, quality, and the delivery of great customer experiences. To achieve these goals, IT and business executives must manage challenges across data governance, security, and compliance to protect sensitive customer, citizen,…

3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

Finding the answer to the world’s most pressing issues rests on one crucial capability: high performance computing (HPC). With HPC, complex questions that have puzzled humankind for centuries are being unraveled at record speeds–such as unlocking mysteries of the universe, finding cures for diseases, sequencing DNA, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.  The supercomputers…