Founded in 1913, Ottawa-based Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) is made up of eight autonomous regional clubs, each of which provides a range of services, from roadside assistance and leisure travel services, to insurance services, and member discount programs. And at the center of its tech component is Kin Lee-Yow, CIO, CAA Club Group of companies. The…
As companies strive to become data-driven, and with the recent explosion of AI technology demanding ever-increasing amounts of training data, the quality of that data is becoming more important. And there’s a great deal of time and money invested in data pipelines and other technical aspects of data quality such as data consistency, validity, timeliness,…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. The fully managed AppFabric offering, which has been made generally available, is designed to help enterprises maintain SaaS application interoperability without having…
If you’re a parent, surely, you’ve experienced the feeling that your child grew even after a short trip. Well, if that child were generative AI, you’d think, judging by the headlines, that the kid grew from three years old to twenty after a day trip to Austin. With every new headline, CIOs wonder: am I…
You probably don’t remember when the milkman from the local dairy delivered bottles of fresh cold milk to your front porch at dawn. Snug in bed, you could hear the glass bottles clinking in those old wire milk baskets as he replaced your empties with full ones. You could count on it like birdsong. Since…
Rajesh Awasthi, global head of cloud and managed hosting services at Tata Communications, sees its sovereign cloud initiatives as an important element in the company’s longstanding work to transform India. Although designed to support the evolving needs of highly regulated industries like banking and financial services, government, healthcare and insurance, he notes that they benefit…
It’s been a long time since a technology has taken the world by storm like generative AI (GenAI), and for good reason. OpenAI’s decision to let anyone play with their technology for free was a powerful demonstration of the astonishing capabilities of GenAI. In fact, Goldman Sachs predicts that GenAI will generate an increase in…
Data volumes continue to grow, making it increasingly difficult to deal with the explosive growth. Huawei predicts that by 2030, the total data generated worldwide will exceed one YB, equivalent to 280 bytes or a quadrillion gigabytes. Whichever way you look at it, such numbers are beyond imagination. And that’s just on the volume side.…
Whenever one talks about high-performance or leadership there is a tendency to break out a list. For example, Major League Baseball scouts are in constant search for rare “5 tool” players who can hit for power, hit for average, field, throw, and run. Is there such a list for high-performance CIOs? If so, how long might…
Between the host of regulations introduced in the wake of the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis, the emergence of thousands of fintech startups, and shifting consumer preferences for digital payments banking, financial services companies have had plenty of change to contend with over the past decade. Transitioning to automated, data-driven processes is the best way for…