Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. And with a presence in 70 countries and around 74,000 employees, 3,100 of which are in Spain, the French multinational has important weight in the country, where it introduced a high-speed train, the first automatic metro,…
As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. When IoT becomes the driver of a new solutions P&L, the general manager of that business will need more technology acumen than general managers of the past. And when software…
CIOs are increasing their overall uptake of generative AI, pushing AI from its current role in isolated pockets of the enterprise into more organization-wide uptake and speeding the adoption of the technology across new industries, a new survey found. The survey, published today by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by enterprise data management company…
If someone told you a decade ago that deploying IT services would be more like streaming video content than the traditional procurement and provisioning process, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. Right? Enterprises have been evolving toward as-a-Service models for years, but most of this transition has been executed in software, via SaaS and other…
Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. The Accelerate, Innovate, and Move program (AIM) covers a broad range of on-premises business applications, including Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, and Dynamics 365…
HPE Aruba Networking is coming off a very strong Q2 2023 with our Intelligent Edge revenue reaching $1.3 billion, up 50% from the prior-year period. We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from…
The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. This enduring talent gap has been a pressing concern for years, says Max Chan, CIO…
Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales…
We talk a lot in the IT press about maximizing the benefits of software, hardware, and emerging technologies to create business value. What we don’t spend enough time on is discussing how we can maximize the value of our most precious resource: our people. The care and retention of IT staff should be viewed as…
When discussing ransomware groups, too often the focus is on their names, such as Noberus, Royal or AvosLocker, rather than the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in an attack before ransomware is deployed. For example, the particularly heavy use of legitimate software tools in ransomware attack chains has been notable in recent times. In…