Skills shortages have always been a fact of life for CIOs. Today, however, the labour market is tighter than ever, and CIOs face multiple challenges. Yet a recent survey by Pluralsight suggests that IT employers could do more to retain staff by upskilling them so that they can take on bigger and better roles. Here’s…
By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax There is no doubt that this decade will see more data produced than ever before. But what’s truly going to transform our lives, define the trajectory of each of our organizations, and reshape industries is not the massive volume of data. It’s the unmatched degree to which this…
Blockchain is one of the great blindsides in the history of technology. Major trends around cloud technology, virtualization, and mobile you could see coming, but a novel distributed computing model based on public key cryptography? That came almost completely out of the blue. When the Nakamoto whitepaper dropped in 2008 it unceremoniously set off a…
In the 1970s and ’80s, IT was the recognized driver of business change, albeit under the moniker “data processing,” followed by “management information systems,” followed by “information systems.” Having automated the daylights out of general accounting, IT’s programmers and their friendly supplicants — business managers under constant pressure to cut costs — attacked business processes…
For today’s organizations, improving customer experience is a top business priority for 2022 and beyond – and rightly so. Today’s customers are demanding more from companies, including a seamless experience where any concerns or questions are addressed quickly and efficiently. To retain current customers and to attract new ones, organizations must deliver. To do so successfully,…
The ANWR Group, a Mainhausen-based community of financial services and retailers in the footwear, sporting goods, and leather goods industries, has, until 2018, used the ERP system of its bank subsidiary DZB Bank, and as a result, banking sector regulations for financial accounting and controlling also applied to the retail area of the company. Over time,…
In a previous article, we talked about the need for organizations to secure data wherever it resides. The complexity of today’s supply chains brings that need into sharp focus, while highlighting some of the challenges of successfully protecting data. Many organizations today depend on a complex web of partners, vendors, and suppliers to run their…
Cloudera has appointed Remus Lim as vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan, to drive adoption of the hybrid data platform across the region and support customers in their journey to become more data-driven. We’ve asked him to share his vision for Cloudera in APAC and reflect on his past few months since taking up…
Across the globe, cloud concentration risk is coming under greater scrutiny. The UK HM Treasury department recently issued a policy paper “Critical Third Parties to the Finance Sector.” The paper is a proposal to enable oversight of third parties providing critical services to the UK financial system. The proposal would grant authority to classify a…
Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Those are enormously important in the private and public sectors alike. But for government agencies, there is a greater mission: improving people’s lives. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible. This is…