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…
Two years of pandemic uncertainty and escalating business risk have sharpened the focus of corporate boards on a technology trend once dismissed as just another IT buzzword. “Digital transformation work has been greatly accelerated by the pandemic,” says Paul Martin, who wrapped up a decade as CIO of Baxter International in October 2020 and now…
Flexible work environments that were precipitated by the pandemic are most certainly here to stay and work will not return to pre-pandemic norms. These days it’s all about what workers do and how they do it, not where they do it. Access to technology dictates where a worker chooses to work. Providing a consistent experience…
Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. In choosing RISE, Microsoft is making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA — although ultimately Microsoft will host its S/4HANA instances in its own Azure cloud, and…
Sonny Sonnenstein is not a mainframe guy. “I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. But it is safe to say that Sonnenstein understands something about investment risk and when it’s time to double down on a strong hand. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM…
A chief digital officer (CDO) is a leader who combines business acumen with digital expertise to help organizations drive digital transformation via an enterprise-wise digital vision and strategy. At many companies, the chief digital officer is a customer-facing role that signals a commitment to a digital future. At others, the chief digital officer’s main responsibility…