As VMware gains momentum with their sovereign cloud initiative , we turned to leading partners AUCloud, Datacom, STC, NxtGen, TietoEVRY, ThinkOn, and UKCloud and their customers to find out why a sovereign cloud is essential. With new national data protection and privacy laws continuing to take shape across the globe and penalties confirming the punitive power of existing regulations, it’s no surprise that highly regulated…
DetailsIn recent years, cloud computing has moved up the agenda for IT leaders and C-level executives in South Africa because it serves as a major catalyst for digital transformation. Along the way, hybrid cloud technology has become the preferred computing infrastructure for many companies — particularly those in the financial-services sector. Businesses across the continent…
DetailsThe NPHIES health information exchange platform, designed to unify patient care records for healthcare providers and optimise insurance services, is central to the digital transformation of healthcare in Saudi Arabia. As onboarding director for the Cooperative Health Insurance Council (CCHI), which recently launched NPHIES in collaboration with the National Health Information Center and the Ministry of…
DetailsCyber threats are among the top ten highest-rated critical risks of organizations today and for 2030, according to Protiviti’s Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2021 and 2030. The constantly changing risk environment requires companies to be agile in how they adapt and address cyber risks. CIOs and CTOs often transform business solutions to enable the…
DetailsBy: Cathy Won, Consultant with eTeam, HPE Aruba Contributor. Many people think of Network as a Service (NaaS) without the managed services component as simply a lease of the hardware and software. However, there are some key differences. Each implementation and experience working with various vendors will differ, but some highlights include the following: 1. Contracts The…
DetailsIdentity and Access Management (IAM) is the cornerstone of security. Proper IAM enables legitimate internal and external users to access the right data at the right time from the right devices. While IAM may seem like a check box in the journey to technology transformation, its role is much larger. CIOs identify and focus on current…
DetailsWhat if 28% of your staff were planning to quit within the next year, as Qualtrics found in a recent survey? That kind of turnover may be typical in fast food joints, where working conditions are such that staff come and go as quickly as the orders, but if you need employees to gain several…
DetailsWhile many, perhaps even most, CIOs are content to head operations at a small- or midsize enterprise, others have loftier ambitions. These individuals wish to climb to the very top of the IT career ladder. CIOs at major enterprises — particularly those with market capitalizations measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars…
DetailsThe past two years have cast long-standing IT talent challenges into high relief. From the challenges of leading remote teams, to working through burnout, to weathering The Great Resignation, the central question on IT leaders’ minds is how to retain top talent. In an interactive presentation at CIO’s recent Future of Work Summit, Dr. Beverly…
DetailsKaiser Permanente sits at the epicenter of the workforce and healthcare delivery changes wrought by the pandemic. It is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health plans, serving nearly 12.5 million members and employing more than 300,000 people. When Doug Adams became CEO in 2019, prior to the pandemic, he set a transformation strategy to…
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