10 Azure cost management tips

The pandemic has seen enterprises large and small embracing the cloud in droves, driven in part by the strategy’s pay-as-you-go promise, as well as the flexibility, agility, and innovation computing in the cloud can afford.   But according to a recent Gartner study, 60% of the nearly three quarters of companies that have moved some…

What is servant leadership? A philosophy for people-first leadership

Servant leadership definition Servant leadership is a leadership style that prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self. Whereas traditional leadership focuses on the success of the company or organization, servant leadership puts employees first to…

Fueling the World, One Insight at a Time

By Jeff Fochtman, Senior Vice President of Business and Marketing at Seagate Technology Recall the last time you were behind the wheel of a vehicle. Let’s assume the best-case scenario: the road and weather conditions were smooth. Maybe your journey revealed ocean-coast vistas on a sunny day. Still, another factor invariably loomed: unpredictability. Because it…

Reimagining IT at Liberty Mutual

James McGlennon is executive vice president and CIO at Boston-based Liberty Mutual, the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the world, with more than 45,000 employees operating in 29 countries. McGlennon and his team are responsible for building, managing, maintaining and innovating the company’s global technology portfolio. And like many IT leaders, McGlennon has been on…

SAP sees RISE in its fourth-quarter revenue

IT budgets, artificially boosted by the fall in employee travel and the need for work-from-home solutions during the pandemic, are coming under pressure again as the world reopens, and SAP—which also owns online expense management service Concur—is seeing the shift in the numbers. “We were benefiting, in particular in the first part of the pandemic,…