By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Consumers love smart personalization. Developers get fired up about building AI-powered apps. And just two months after ChatGPT launched, 100 million people have added tapping into the power of AI to their toolbox. These signals point toward an “AI everywhere” future: one in which it’s a competency…
Behind the scenes at one of South America’s largest retail conglomerates, human resources (HR) professionals manage the movement of tens of thousands of employees. Hit by a recent spike in turnover, one thing became clear to the company’s HR team: their records system needed a serious upgrade. With annual sales in the billions, the retail…
When the chief banking officer of a $10.3B community bank visited a competing super-regional branch in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she noticed something troubling. Piles upon piles of paper crowded the branch manager’s desk and cluttered the nearby credenza. Set amid an open floor plan, the stacks of files left sensitive customer information—business and…
Cybercrime is everywhere – and staying on top of today’s evolving threats has never been more important for IT and security leaders. In particular, understanding the dark web is essential. To that end, we pulled together 5 takeaways from HP Wolf’s security report – The Evolution of Cybercrime: Why the Dark Web is Supercharging the…
For decades, organizations have relied on traditional architecture to secure their network based on firewalls and other perimeter defenses. As organizations massively moved their workloads to the cloud, users are now accessing sensitive data in the cloud through unsecured links, outside of the corporate network perimeter and from any device. This trend has accelerated as…
With the rise of cloud computing, many organizations rapidly adopted public cloud services alongside cloud principles in dedicated IT environments, or private clouds, to accelerate innovation and meet business requirements. This led to the rise of multicloud: today, almost nine out of 10 IT environments include a mix of public and private clouds1. In some…
Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year, is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers. SAP…
Successful CIOs, like all highly placed executives, must be adept at running an organization that’s good at getting work out the door. Unfortunately, many of the most popular management techniques for fixing poor organizational performance don’t work. Or worse. If you want better guidance, start with Peter Drucker’s observation that, “Most of what we call…
For companies looking for an edge in the tight talent market, a solid DEI strategy and employee engagement often go hand in hand, creating a balance that fosters an inclusive work environment. When employees feel they can bring their authentic selves to work, it can result in higher levels of employee productivity and satisfaction, improved…
When leaders consider how technology has enabled the transformation of business models over the past several years, few would disagree that the world has changed dramatically. Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. It’s a familiar story: Netflix beat Blockbuster; Amazon beat Borders. More recently, Tesla has transformed the experience of buying, owning,…