Digital maturity in the Australian construction industry is fragmented according to the Australian Broadband Advisory Council’s Construction Expert Working Group scoping study, which looked into opportunities and barriers for the take up of tech in the construction sector. The study also found that the take up of digital technologies varies significantly across industry segments, and…
By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software In December 2021, Broadcom Software published our blog: Predictions for 2022. We will now explore each of these predictions in more depth with this blog series. For this blog our topic is edge computing. The future has a way of quickly…
Due to the rise of “big tech”, the federal government has gotten more involved in the tech sector in recent years. Due to this shift, top tech companies are increasingly partnering with the government to not only further their own success but also the success of the United States. By working together with the federal…
Last year, Dow took a bold step to make better use of its data. With a goal of eliminating isolated islands of data and making better use of business intelligence as an enterprise asset, the company launched an internal organization that seamlessly integrated IT and the company’s global business units under one umbrella. The structure…
The dramatic shift to cloud services over the past few years has given organizations unprecedented flexibility and scalability, enabling them to forge ahead with digital transformation efforts. For many, it has also led to intermingled, complex strategies that threaten to take away some of the luster of the cloud. Enterprises don’t typically deploy one cloud…
Places for People technology officer Dean Garvey-North joined the property management firm in 2020 to lead infrastructure and technology teams. It was a daunting challenge, not least with technology leadership being restructured in the wake of CDIO Norma Dove-Edwin’s departure in March, but also owing to complex business operating across five departments and more than…
Can you deliver meaningful results on a data project within one or two quarters? That’s a requirement for nearly any initiative undertaken by Petco Chief Data and Analytics Officer Rakesh Srinivasan, who invests the talent and resources to achieve results quickly. “I’m a big believer in not building multi-year plans when you’re in a quick…
As awesome as the original hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) experience was, aggregation had its limitations. A little over a decade ago, HCI redefined what data storage solutions could be. Even though early platforms did little more than consolidate compute, storage, and networking components in a single chassis, the resulting hyperconverged node was revolutionary. Compact, scalable, and…
Password-based authentication is likely the most widely used method of authenticating users to online services. However, the fact that it is common does not mean that it is good at its job. Password-based authentication is used because it is easy to understand and implement. However, this comes at the cost of weak security and a…
The ransomware scourge continues, with incidents hitting a U.S. record in the second quarter of 2021, as attackers expand into vertical industries and target critical infrastructure. Ransom demands have also been growing. According to IT Governance, the average decryption key rate from attackers is $140,000 yet many organizations end up paying much more than that.…