Last year was another tough one for CIOs. New procedures had been put in place to deal with the challenges COVID-19 had thrown up, but the pandemic was far from over. As we enter 2022, many of the same challenges to business resilience remain, but technology continues to evolve. This year, CIOs in the Middle…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming one of the most important technologies for financial companies of all types. The ability to respond faster than people, to automate processes through AI, enables companies to do more with less and expand their operations. They are also able to offer more advanced – and more timely – services.…
Few organizations can flip a switch to a modern IT infrastructure and data landscape. Yet instead of viewing the legacy environment as a burden, imagine maximizing the value of existing data and IT assets. What’s key: make them an essential pillar of a modern enterprise with the right partner and platform. Companies have doled out…
When organizations talk about migrating core enterprise applications to cloud, much of the focus is on operational efficiencies and the benefits of trading up hefty, upfront capital expenditures for more manageable subscription pricing. Often underplayed, particularly when it comes to SAP environments, are the innovation advantages of cloud migration. Moving SAP to the cloud provides…
By Jerry Hoff For many security professionals, the idea of Zero Trust can be quite daunting. It assumes that everything – every asset, device, data flow and user–could be fraudulent, potentially marking the beginning of an attack, until enough evidence to the contrary is offered. Even then, authentication or privileges can be automatically revoked as…
Artificial intelligence and machine learning can slash the number of false alerts that tie down operations staff, speed troubleshooting of problems, and help developers and architects understand and manage fast-changing, cloud-based IT environments. But CIOs should not expect what some customers call “magic” results, such as automatically predicting and fixing any conceivable IT issue, or…
Oracle has announced the launch of its new Oracle Johannesburg cloud region, the company’s 37th worldwide and its first on the continent, signalling growing confidence in the future growth of cloud services in Africa, and its long-term faith in Gauteng as the premier regional hub. Demand for enterprise cloud services has been growing rapidly on…
Are you asking your organization the right questions about digital transformation efforts? Center your efforts with this guide. The need to prepare for disruption has become a cliché in the business world. As the last two years have proven, it is becoming even more of an imperative to prepare your organization for possible turbulence and…
What do you think keeps CIOs up at night these days? CIOs are telling me that they function under plenty of constraints—everyone is being asked to do more with less. They must innovate under constraints. Successful CIOs recognize that this is not a bad thing. In fact, a constrained environment is often a source of…
Compare today’s IT landscape to that of a decade ago, and you can see that traditional enterprise IT has been turned inside out. Workers are at home or in other remote locations. Once concentrated in internally managed data centers, applications and data are now distributed across multiple public and private clouds. In this article, we…