Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO at Discover Financial Services, is a visionary IT leader with a passion for both the business and the human sides of technology. He’s also one of the best capital-D Differentiators I’ve ever met. He’s a strong believer in the importance of empowering people to do great work and…
Enterprise organizations have faced a compendium of challenges, but today it seems like the focus is on three things: speed, speed, and more speed. It is all about time to value and application velocity — getting applications delivered and then staying agile to evolve the application as needs arise. In order to get maximum speed,…
A growing number of organizations are looking to the cloud and cloud services to help evolve and accelerate their digital transformation plans. But why is this? What benefits do cloud services offer over self-hosted and self-managed infrastructure? 1. Faster time to market As digital transformation is rapidly altering the competitive landscape across organizations and industries,…
The first thing to know about managed cloud services? It would certainly help to define the term as a starting point. At some point in the not-so-distant past, a “cloud managed service” probably referred to something straightforward like paying a cloud provider to manage some VMs for you instead of running them yourself in your…
If you are at a supermarket, the “dirty dozen” is a list of foods that are considered the most tainted. Similarly, if you are working in an enterprise or for a service provider, the dirty dozen is a list of issues that tarnish IT infrastructure, “contaminating” current enterprise-grade implementations and exposing the dangers and risks…
By David Andrzejek, head of financial services, DataStax Schrodinger’s Cat is a quantum mechanics thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously. I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much…
The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. The push is part of an industrywide trend toward making banking more accessible by…
Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. Irrespective of the various ways of learning, and the abundance of information and knowledge, “use of digital in Africa remains basic and likely to favor digital…
Competition in the entertainment industry has never been as intense as it is today. For decades, the movie business in the U.S. was dominated by a handful of entertainment conglomerates, known as “The Big Five”: Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures. But these days, an ever-blossoming field of cable networks and streaming services…
The meager supply and high salaries of data scientists have led to a decision among many companies totally in keeping with artificial intelligence ― to automate whatever is possible. Case in point is machine learning. A Forrester study found that automated machine learning (AutoML) has been adopted by 61% of data and analytics decision makers in companies…