Macquarie Government: Providing Australia’s Federal Agencies with the Cloud and Security Solutions They Need to Safeguard the Most Sensitive Data

With five state-of-art data centers located in the Sydney and Canberra metropolitan areas, including a facility created to manage cloud applications and data that require PROTECTED, SECRET and higher classifications, Macquarie Government, as part of the ASX listed Macquarie Telecom Group, was one of the first companies to provide sovereign IT services to Australia’s government…

Give them a break: How to unstress IT security teams overburdened with vulnerability patching

IT teams are exhausted. The tech talent shortage has led to severe understaffing even as cybercriminals ramp up their attacks. The ever-increasing shift toward hybrid working models has only compounded the issue, with IT teams struggling to deploy patches and other fixes across an expanded attack surface transcending the corporate firewall. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of…

Are you protected against vulnerabilities with known exploits?

No IT leader wants to tell the C-suite about a serious breach that took advantage of a known infrastructure vulnerability.  Hackers develop new attack strategies so often that it’s easy to forget a fundamental truth about cybersecurity: hackers don’t have to rely on finding new vulnerabilities. The inability of organizations to promptly address the rapidly…

Little Caesars’ CIO on achieving ‘Mission Impossible’

With a talent for developing people and inspiring innovation from her teams, Anita Klopfenstein has built a powerhouse IT organization since joining Little Caesars in 2017 as its CIO. One of the secrets behind her success as a leader is her love of learning. After majoring in both computer science and radio, television and film,…

How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better…

A CIO’s first rule for automation: Have a clear business case

By virtue of their position between IT and effecting business strategy, CIOs can identify what processes their organizations need in order to modernize and automate. When it comes to updating core systems to drive operational efficiencies, they also have to ensure that a sound business case exists to automate them, says Laurie Shotton, VP and…

Diversity in UK tech on the rise, but not for senior leadership

The sixth annual report from Tech Talent Charter (TTC) has revealed that while companies in the UK are making progress toward improving diversity in their overall workforce, there is still a significant lack of diversity among senior technology leaders. The not-for-profit charity, which focuses on tracking diversity in technology, compiled its report using data from…

AWS makes its Lift program available in India

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday made its global Lift program available in India, targeting small and medium-size businesses with revenue ranging from 800 million to 6.25 million rupees. The Lift program, according to AWS, offers promotional credits and nearly 200 AWS services to help enterprises move on-premises workloads to the cloud. The India Lift program…

Real-time artificial intelligence for everyone

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO of DataStax Every business needs an artificial intelligence strategy, and the market has been validating this for years. Gartner® predicts that, “By 2027, over 90% of new software applications that are developed in the business will contain ML models or services, as enterprises utilize the massive amounts of data…

Mainframe modernization and the importance of security

At a time when businesses are pushing the limits of digital transformation and modernization, security, particularly in the mainframe, is critical. But while most firms know this, research has shown that widespread understanding has not manifested much in the way of action. And when asked to rank their most important mainframe security features, respondents said…