With 190 participating countries and 24 million visitors, Expo 2020 Dubai was one of the world’s largest events, connecting everyone to innovative and inspiring ideas for a brighter future. But what does it take to support an event on such a grand scale? The answer is a robust cloud and modern IT infrastructure, which would…
For the past 60 years, privately-owned Merchants Fleet has provided fleet management and leasing solutions to a broad range of businesses, governments, and educational institutions. And according to Jeanine Charlton, the company’s SVP and chief technology and digital officer, 2021 was their best year ever, helped in large part to its approach to digital transformation and an…
Enterprise CIOs are gobbling up a vast buffet of advanced cloud services in the post-pandemic era. In the aftermath of that unprecedented time, the cloud has evolved from a single-purpose compute and storage IaaS that saved business from global collapse into a far more complex platform capable of supporting a new class of advanced applications…
When your children, friends, or acquaintances, ask what you do for a living, how do you, a CIO, answer them? “I am the future of our business” sounds a bit megalomaniacal, and “I manage the technology function” does not begin to do justice to the impact of your work. Since my team and I spend…
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…