Earlier this year as Russian troops massed along the Ukrainian border, Israel-headquartered Beewise offered to relocate each of its Ukraine-based technologists and up to 10 of their family members with all expenses paid for six months. Diana Lisovenko, a software engineer from Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, decided to stay put. She thought the chances…
San Diego Gas & Electric has taken an aggressive approach to its digital transformation due in part to forces beyond its control—climate change, the pandemic and geopolitical tensions—altering its entire way of doing business. Known for its innovative drone imagery application that helped track West Coast wildfire, the San Diego utility began its migration to…
After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data. With Snowflake’s proprietary cloud data warehouse at its heart, the Retail Data Cloud brings together Snowflake’s highly-scalable data warehousing, analytics…
HP CIO Ron Guerrier says the company’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is one of the factors that brought him to the company in September 2020. Even so, Guerrier believed that as its new CIO he could advance, even further, the company’s DEI efforts in the IT space, where Blacks in particular remain underrepresented.…
At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. Customers, whether employees or those paying for a product or service must “love” the result of this minimum viable…
If there was any doubt that the trend towards globalisation had decelerated, the emergence of COVID-19 has put that to rest. The shift towards more inward-looking policy settings around the globe, has been emboldened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since early 2020 there has been a heightened awareness of the value and indeed necessity of sovereign control…
2022 is shaping up to be a big year for cloud. The era of cloud-based business experimentation is coming to a close and we’re entering a new dawn of the cloud-native enterprise and large-scale, all-encompassing digital transformation initiatives. According to a recent IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Cloudreach titled How to be a Digital Leader in…
By Ilias Chantzos, Global Privacy Officer and Head of EMEA Government Affairs, Broadcom Inc. When it comes to avoiding ransomware attacks, no sector remains safe anymore. Yet, the financial services sector in particular remains a favorite target for cyber criminals. Indeed, financial institutions were disproportionately affected by ransomware in 2021, and the early indications for…
By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software Last December, Broadcom Software published our blog: Predictions for 2022. We will now explore each of these in more depth in our next blog series. First up, Zero Trust. Prediction: Zero Trust becomes table stakes Bad actors are stepping up their…
If you’ve been recently promoted into the CIO role, or hope to be at some point, a CIO management-certificate program can help you learn how to think strategically, approach the job systematically and broadly, and communicate effectively with other executives in the C-suite. And they can help you resolve issues you may be grappling with…