An alarm sounds on the factory floor: a critical piece of equipment has malfunctioned. An engineer approaches the machine, scans its QR code, and immediately accesses visual step-by-step instructions for fixing the issue created by the people who work with the same machines every day. This is SwipeGuide, a B2B cloud-based SaaS platform that captures…
Johnny Serrano, CIO with Australian mine safety specialists GroundProbe always had a fascination with how things worked, from his first Sony Walkman to the growing number of games that had suddenly become available to kids. “I really knew that I wanted to get paid to make games. That was my whole motivation,” Serrano tells CIO…
Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics, machine learning, data center consolidation and cloud-native app development, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 billion in the second quarter, according to Canalys. The Singapore-based market research firm said its latest cloud spending research, released Tuesday, shows that demand for cloud services…
For decades, third-party IT service arrangements have generally been structured one of two ways. There are the “break-fix” scenarios where an outside team is on call, either physically or virtually, to patch up whatever goes on the fritz. Then there are the much more involved “consultative” relationships where an outside team gives high-level strategic advice…
The once-common architectural pattern of backhauling network traffic to a central data center or headquarters has been augmented due to the rise of SaaS applications. SaaS uses content distribution systems that replicate data to points of presence around the world for closer and faster access. The applications are designed to use the nearest point of…
If you have a dev-centric background, you must have heard about the term DevOps. Before DevOps was called DevOps, the two disciplines (“Dev” and “Ops”) were growing further apart. Developers (the “Dev” part of the story) have had a desire for agility since the turn of the century, following the publication of the famous Manifesto…
Driven by the ongoing need for companies to automate repetitive tasks, global RPA (robotic process automation) software revenue is expected to reach $2.9 billion in 2022, up by 19.5% from last year, according to a market research report by Gartner. North America will account for the largest revenue share at 48.5%, followed by Western Europe…
If you thought network operations was a daunting challenge in the past few years, wait until you see what’s around the corner. First, let’s consider the disruptions in the recent past. COVID has led people to increasingly work from anywhere. Digital transformation is accelerating as enterprises rush to remodel their operating models. The cloud, for…
By Serge Lucio, Vice President and General Manager, Agile Operations Division, Broadcom Software Over the course of 2020 and 2021, the fabric of our work lives was radically altered, ushering in a world in which hybrid models were the norm. In 2022, these changes will be solidified and entrenched. Because of this, it is now…
A substantial shift has happened in the enterprise storage industry over the last 12 months that has changed the dialogue about storage. In past years, the first conversations with enterprise storage buyers were about cost efficiency and performance. However, today, the two most important things that come up first in storage conversations are cybersecurity and delivery time. This…