Over the last two years, organizations have significantly accelerated their shift to the cloud. IT teams that hadn’t already started this process by 2020 were kickstarted by the global pandemic when they suddenly found themselves needing to support a remote workforce. This trend only increased in 2021 as more and more companies and employees realized…
As organizations continue to try and navigate rapid change, they are seeking out the right methods and tools to drive that success. And the organizations who are becoming more agile and able to navigate that challenge are the ones who are activating the support of their entire business. IDG’s recent MarketPulse Survey, “Empowering Business Users…
Today the CTO of NoBroker, Akhil Gupta discovered his passion for coding in the final year of his chemical engineering degree at IIT Bombay. During his campus placements he found a job, and so began his career in technology at Oracle. “It had an amazing boot camp period, and it was during those six months…
Digital Sense is well known among private sector enterprises and government agencies throughout Queensland for its full suite of cloud solutions. The company’s products and services address everything from data sovereignty and data protection to the demand for low-latency, cloud-native applications. We spoke with Digital Sense’s Head of Sales and Commercial Jon Pannell to learn…
Now that people are gradually returning to the office, people often describe the quite profound experiences they have in seeing coworkers ‘in 3D’ again after spending two years only seeing everyone as a flat tile in a video conferencing app. The audio never, ever drops out! You can see their full body language. You don’t…
As the broader labor market tightens, workers in the IT sector remain scarce with an unemployment rate of 2.2%. Along with software developers and security analysts, some of the hardest to find IT workers are QA professionals. Even more scarce is the true unicorn of the IT quality assurance world: the SDET (Software Development Engineer…
A common misconception about tech workers of a certain vintage is that they’re caught in the past and either overqualified or unable to adapt to future technology. As with most conventional wisdom, there’s as much fiction as fact surrounding the supposed work habits and career opportunities for veteran IT pros — even those as young…
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen businesses accelerating digital transformation strategies faster than originally planned. But the ongoing IT skills gap has complicated progress, with more than half of IT decision-makers reporting that hiring for essential IT positions is “somewhat difficult or extremely difficult,” according to the Global Knowledge 2021 IT Skills and Salary report. To…
At a time when innovation, speed, and agility are all critical to virtually every enterprise, what does it take to lead a technology organization? That’s the central question CIO contributing editor Julia King posed to Ron Moskowitz, CIO at South Coast Air Quality Management District in their conversation at the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards, where…
Kyndryl, the IT services business that IBM spun off in early November, has formed a global strategic partnership with Google to support their joint customers in the cloud. The deal comes a month after Kyndryl struck a similar deal with Microsoft, encompassing Azure cloud hosting and support for products such as Office365 and Teams, and…