As 2022 wraps up, many IT leaders are re-evaluating their current infrastructure to understand how they can continue to modernize, reduce complexity at scale and — most importantly — protect their organization. Common pain points include management overhead and rising costs, with their overall impact on budget becoming a larger and larger concern. But it’s…
In 2016, Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers announced it would build a brand-new state-of-the-art stadium in Arlington, Texas. It wasn’t just a new venue for the team, it was an opportunity to reimagine business operations. The old stadium, which opened in 1992, provided the business operations team with data, but that data came from disparate…
Demand for tech workers remains high, with no signs of easing up. The proof is in the numbers: 319,652 job postings for IT workers in August, according to CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association issuing IT professional certifications. The month before there were 371,847. That kind of competition for talent puts pressure on CIOs and their…
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, attendance at Wonderla amusement parks has hit new heights, leaving Bengaluru-headquartered Wonderla Holidays Ltd. at a crossroads. The company, listed on both the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, operates three amusement parks in Kochi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad that were set up in 2000, 2005, and 2016, respectively, and…
No one sounds more amazed about his career path than Anthony Osijo himself. He was a career banker living in Hong Kong when friends from university pitched their new utility startup called Bboxx. “I was an angel investor,” laughs Osijo from his London home office. Now, as Chief Financial Officer of Bboxx, it’s Osijo’s job…
By Ilias Chantzos, Global Privacy Officer and Head of EMEA Government Affairs, Broadcom On May 11, 2022, the European Union (EU) reached provisional agreement on the new Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Despite the choice of term, there’s nothing “provisional” about DORA. In fact, one of the world’s most far-reaching cybersecurity regulations for financial services…
By: Scott Dennehy, Edge Innovation at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company As the adoption of cloud and other as-a-service offerings has accelerated in recent years, so has the number of acronyms used to describe these offerings. In some cases, the acronyms are used interchangeably, confusing the service that is being delivered and consumed. Let’s…
Oracle is continuing to lay off people in the US, just months after the company acquired healthcare data specialist firm Cerner for $28.3 billion and announced a first round of layoffs, according to published reports. The layoffs come as hiring for IT jobs slows due to worries about an economic downturn. In Oracle’s latest round…
IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies, which involve cross-functional teams. These new building blocks of business include both tech and business pros, and they’re generally led by a product manager, who acts as the point person throughout the product’s lifecycle. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any…
Data represents a store of value and a strategic opportunity for enterprises across all industries. From edge to cloud to core, businesses are producing data in vast quantities, at an unprecedented pace. And they’re now rapidly evolving their data management strategies to efficiently cope with data at scale and seize the advantage. … Or are…