IT leader and former CIO Stanley Mwangi Chege has heard executives complain for years about cloud deployments, citing rapidly escalating costs and data privacy challenges as top reasons for their frustrations. And he has seen some respond by moving workloads from the cloud back to on-premises data centers, a move they feel gives them better…
Dow Chemical Company is one of the largest chemical producers in the world, with a presence in roughly 160 countries and more than 37,000 employees worldwide. But with analytics and AI becoming table-stakes to staying competitive in the modern business world, the Michigan-based company struggled to leverage its data. “We have all these data scientists…
En un escenario marcado por la violencia y el abuso, por el sufrimiento y el terror de las víctimas, la tecnología vuelve a ponerse de lado de la sociedad actuando como parapeto. Lo relata para CIO España Madeleine Janickyj, investigadora en procesamiento del lenguaje natural para el Consorcio sobre Violencia, Salud y Sociedad (VISION) en…
El Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social (MITES) desembolsará 1.397.000 euros para la creación e integración de una nueva sede electrónica, con el objetivo de ofrecer un mejor servicio a los ciudadanos y empresas, facilitando y agilizando la gestión de trámites y procedimientos administrativos mediante la incorporación de tecnologías avanzadas y estándares modernos de seguridad…
CrowdStrike CEO has apologized to the company’s customers and partners for crashing their Windows systems, and the company has described the error that caused the disaster. “I want to sincerely apologize directly to all of you for today’s outage. All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation,” CrowdStrike founder and CEO George…
CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare services. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single…
To weather disruption, resiliency is essential, but building a culture that is capable of adapting to a constantly changing technology landscape is challenging given escalating skills gaps today. According to a survey from SAS, only 47% of executives view their organization as resilient despite 97% agreeing that the trait is vital to business. Additionally, 46%…
It can be easy to neglect the start of your transformation program when your organization and team are set on the larger, big-picture goals of the initiative. But the below examples reflect a few first 30-day experiences I’ve seen throughout my career. Just like anything, a good start helps to ensure a great finish. You…
SAP has announced enhancements to Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, giving customers of both of its commercial tiers access to SAP’s artificial intelligence copilot, Joule, which the company has been working to embed across its portfolio. As part of the announcement, the Premium and Premium Plus tiers of SAP’s private cloud version of…
Cloud security firm Wiz has probed SAP defenses as part of its tenant isolation research on AI service providers, and on Wednesday published a lengthy list of shortcomings. SAP says that they fixed all of the problems before Wiz published. Most deal with either a lack of meaningful segmentation or network components trusting other components…