IT services company Atos has found a buyer for its legacy managed infrastructure services business as it prepares for an IBM-style split between faster- and slower-growing activities. The deal will spell an end to the current one-stop shop for IT services that it offers its enterprise customers, but will free up capital and cash-flow for…
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Years before the meteoric adoption of ChatGPT made AI top of mind for just about everyone, the authors of Competing in the Age of AI had already pointed out something every business leader should ignore at their peril: In traditional operating models, scale inevitably reaches a point…
Digital transformation must be a core organizational competency. That’s my key advice to CIOs and IT leaders. During keynotes and discussions with CIOs, I remind everyone how strategic priorities evolve significantly every two years or less, from growth in 2018, to pandemic and remote work in 2020, to hybrid work and financial constraints in 2022.…
Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, is concerned the market for public cloud infrastructure services is concentrated in the hands of just three providers, limiting competition and making it difficult for enterprises to switch or use multiple suppliers. Those three providers—AWS, Microsoft, and Google—argue the contrary. The two sides, and their supporters, are currently battling it…
The Miami-Illinois language of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Myaamiaki tribe) fell dormant during the 19th and 20th centuries, at a time when Indigenous populations faced forced relocations and abusive boarding schools, where children were forced to assimilate and were punished for using their own language. It wasn’t until the 1990s that Indigenous rights were…
The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. The report is based on an online survey conducted in April, which received responses from 1,684 participants globally across multiple industry sectors, company sizes,…
For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Annual or not, like running with the bulls in Pamplona, this exercise never fails to test your mettle and often leaves you staring frantically at the page and…
Today marks the beginning of a new and exciting era for Stack Overflow. We are announcing our roadmap for the integration of generative AI into our public platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, and brand new product areas, like an IDE integration that brings the vast knowledge of 58 million questions and answers from our community…
Bloomberg is a company synonymous with finance, technology, and media. It has offices across the globe and more than 8,000 engineers working to support everything from real-time data feeds about moves in the financial markets and the company’s journalists to mobile apps and AI models that can analyze financial data and sentiment. To help its…
With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and product researchers will bypass most or all of their software developers and ask AI directly…