The Fellowship of the Metaverse: CIO, CMO, CCO and CHRO

Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. With the metaverse still in its infancy and an abundance of ambiguities making planning challenging and investment risky,…

Game Changer: Modernize IT Procurement with Data-driven Insights

Every organization pursuing digital transformation needs to optimize IT from edge to cloud to move faster and speed time to innovation. But the devil’s in the details. Each proposed IT infrastructure purchase presents decision-makers with difficult questions. What’s the right infrastructure configuration to meet our service level agreements (SLAs)? Where should we modernize — on-premises…

Scaling Financial Operations in Multi-Academy Trusts

The education sector in the UK is seeing incredible transformation with the expansion of multi-academy trusts (MATs) and the government’s requirement to have all schools in MATs by 2030. This brings unprecedented challenges, but also an enormous opportunity for positive education reform. Core to this challenge for MAT’s is the management of financial operations, budgets…

Skills and traits of elite product managers

The days when IT was left to its own (literal) devices, content to work on the tech side of various projects, are on their way out. IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies, in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. This organizational…

Want to Drive Industry Breakthroughs or Speed Up Innovation? Start by Optimising Your HPC and AI Workloads

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the cornerstone of business analytics, allowing companies to generate value from the ever-growing datasets generated by today’s business processes. At the same time, the sheer volume and velocity of data demand high-performance computing (HPC) to provide the power needed to effectively train AIs, do AI inferencing, and run analytics.…

Overcoming Cybersecurity Implementation Challenges

By Haider Pasha, Sr. Director and Chief Security Officer for Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity has long been one of the most complex landscapes an organization must navigate; with each new threat or vulnerability, complexity continues to grow. This is especially true for organizations that have traditionally taken a point product approach to…

Europe’s Fastest Growing Chain is Reinventing the 24/7 Store as an “Ultimate Convenience Ecosystem”

Did you know that Europe’s largest convenience chain isn’t British or German or French? It’s Polish! Founded in 1998, the chain, Zabka Polska (meaning “Little Frog” in Polish), operates more than 8,300 stores throughout Poland serving nearly 3 million customers every day. That translates to more than a billion customer interactions per year. Clearly, this…