By: Cathy Won, Consultant with eTeam, HPE Aruba Contributor. Many people think of Network as a Service (NaaS) without the managed services component as simply a lease of the hardware and software. However, there are some key differences. Each implementation and experience working with various vendors will differ, but some highlights include the following: 1. Contracts The…
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the cornerstone of security. Proper IAM enables legitimate internal and external users to access the right data at the right time from the right devices. While IAM may seem like a check box in the journey to technology transformation, its role is much larger. CIOs identify and focus on current…
What if 28% of your staff were planning to quit within the next year, as Qualtrics found in a recent survey? That kind of turnover may be typical in fast food joints, where working conditions are such that staff come and go as quickly as the orders, but if you need employees to gain several…
Kaiser Permanente sits at the epicenter of the workforce and healthcare delivery changes wrought by the pandemic. It is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health plans, serving nearly 12.5 million members and employing more than 300,000 people. When Doug Adams became CEO in 2019, prior to the pandemic, he set a transformation strategy to…
The past two years have cast long-standing IT talent challenges into high relief. From the challenges of leading remote teams, to working through burnout, to weathering The Great Resignation, the central question on IT leaders’ minds is how to retain top talent. In an interactive presentation at CIO’s recent Future of Work Summit, Dr. Beverly…
While many, perhaps even most, CIOs are content to head operations at a small- or midsize enterprise, others have loftier ambitions. These individuals wish to climb to the very top of the IT career ladder. CIOs at major enterprises — particularly those with market capitalizations measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars…
Graeme Hackland has told CIO.com that he’s leaving Williams F1 this June, after nine years at the Grove, Oxfordshire racing team and almost 25 in motorsport. Hackland joined Williams Racing in January 2014 as the Formula One team’s CIO, having formerly held IT/IS director, head of IS, IT manager, and network roles at Lotus, Renault,…
As a technology company you can imagine how easy it is to think of data-first modernization as a technology challenge. Data fabric, data cleansing and tagging, data models, containers, inference at the edge – cloud-enabled platforms are all “go-to” conversation points. While the instinctive response to the issue of being “data-driven” can focus on “what…
Just a few years ago, enterprises were rapidly shifting to a cloud-first IT model in the expectation that moving operations to the cloud would solve many, if not all, of IT’s roadblocks, while offering few, if any, drawbacks. The public cloud delivered a new kind of IT and a new kind of experience — scalable,…
What is threat intelligence? Simply put, it’s evidence-based knowledge about a cyber menace that can help inform your team’s response. The best threat intelligence includes context, mechanisms, indicators, implications, and actionable advice. Yet despite it being an easy-to-grasp concept, threat intelligence is one of the most widely misunderstood aspects of cybersecurity today. Many people don’t…