A group of Google employees are yet again speaking out against Google’s defense contracts, this time asking the company to shelve its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract for the Israeli government and military. Google partnered with Amazon to bid for the project. Under employee pressure, Google has previously dropped one US government defence contract (Project…
Many people may not be familiar with the Oshkosh brand, but the manufacturer’s specialty vehicles are hiding in plain sight. Fire trucks, mail delivery trucks, tow and refuse collection vehicles, access equipment, and military vehicles — Oshkosh’s products are everywhere. In fact, if you watch a network news program covering a skirmish somewhere in the…
A managed cloud services provider (MCSP) partially or totally manages the cloud platforms of their customers, including the migration, maintenance, and optimization of those platforms. Cloud environments include public, private, and hybrid clouds, each of which requires that providers have the skill sets to manage them depending on the goals of the platform. Customers work…
As the broader economy and business environment continues to recover and rebound, there is an opportunity for IT leaders to leverage increased budgets to strategically invest in and prepare for new approaches to enterprise technology. As noted by Spiceworks, the majority of businesses are increasing IT spending, with a particular focus on modernisation. “The hybrid…
Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals. Resilience and true all-day computing is…
Technology is becoming ever-more core to the educational experience, with teachers and students alike relying on rich media, deep data and analytics and cloud delivery to drive better educational outcomes. At the same time, education has a specific set of requirements of IT that differentiate it from other verticals. Resilience and true all-day computing is…
There are many different healthcare interoperability and industry clouds on the market. Which one should you choose? Some offer information management pipelines, while others focus on digital imaging communications in medicine (DICOM). You might want to start by considering your goals and which cloud will help you meet them. Interoperability cloud offerings Microsoft Azure Healthcare…
CIO ASEAN is proud to launch the CIO75 ASEAN awards for 2022, recognising the top 75 senior technology executives and teams in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong driving innovation and influencing rapid change. The CIO75 ASEAN awards are aligned to Foundry’s global awards program and viewed as a mark of excellence within the enterprise. First…
In today’s dynamic world of work from anywhere, organizations are experiencing new pressure points. IT and security leaders find themselves grappling with extended enterprises of employees, contractors, and suppliers remotely located across the globe using an expanded set of technologies. The broad adoption of cloud apps, platforms, and infrastructure has led to a complete re-thinking…
With IT leaders increasingly needing data scientists to gain game-changing insights from a growing deluge of data, hiring and retaining those key data personnel is taking on greater importance. Without enough trained, high-level data scientists to fill all the job openings out there, CIOs are working with HR and hiring specialists to find ways to…