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Exit interview: Williams F1 CIO Graeme Hackland to leave racing team in June

Graeme Hackland has told CIO.com that he’s leaving Williams F1 this June, after nine years at the Grove, Oxfordshire racing team and almost 25 in motorsport. Hackland joined Williams Racing in January 2014 as the Formula One team’s CIO, having formerly held IT/IS director, head of IS, IT manager, and network roles at Lotus, Renault,…

Every Data-first Modernization Strategy Should Start with “Why?”

As a technology company you can imagine how easy it is to think of data-first modernization as a technology challenge. Data fabric, data cleansing and tagging, data models, containers, inference at the edge – cloud-enabled platforms are all “go-to” conversation points. While the instinctive response to the issue of being “data-driven” can focus on “what…

Storage as a Service Can Drive Transformation — If It’s Agile Enough for All Workloads

Just a few years ago, enterprises were rapidly shifting to a cloud-first IT model in the expectation that moving operations to the cloud would solve many, if not all, of IT’s roadblocks, while offering few, if any, drawbacks. The public cloud delivered a new kind of IT and a new kind of experience — scalable,…

How Can You Identify an Attack and Predict the Next Move? It Takes Relevant Threat Intelligence

What is threat intelligence? Simply put, it’s evidence-based knowledge about a cyber menace that can help inform your team’s response. The best threat intelligence includes context, mechanisms, indicators, implications, and actionable advice. Yet despite it being an easy-to-grasp concept, threat intelligence is one of the most widely misunderstood aspects of cybersecurity today. Many people don’t…

How Computer Vision is Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Ever increasing advances in technology and continuous process optimization techniques have helped ensure that the global supply chain runs efficiently, turning raw materials into products that make their way to physical stores and ecommerce warehouses. However, we’ve witnessed how an outside disturbance like a pandemic or flood can fracture the supply chain, throwing businesses and…

Open Group goes modular with 10th edition of TOGAF standard

The vendor-neutral Open Group Architecture Forum has launched the 10th edition of its TOGAF standard this week, with the latest edition of the popular enterprise architecture framework being given a modular redesign aimed at easing adoption for practitioners. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) has been around since 1995 and aims to help organize the…

CIO Leadership Live with Sue McLean of Greater Wellington Regional Council New Zealand

Software Risk is Business Risk. It’s Time for the C-Suite to Act.

Jason Schmitt, General Manager, Synopsys Software Integrity Group It has been said that every business is a software business. But what does that mean? Becoming a software business entails both reward and risks. The reward is a competitive edge; the risks are often misunderstood and poorly managed at the highest levels of leadership. In this…

Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Despite nearly $1 billion in online revenue in 2020, the web-based outdoor recreational…

The Container Age Has Security-To-Go as Part of CI/CD Workflows

The microservice deployment and management stack is proving very effective for companies taking advantage of the cloud’s capabilities to scale and adapt. Containers (often alongside Kubernetes tooling) fit well, too, with agile DevOps and CI/CD workflows that transition code from development to production in short timescales. A significant problem with the speed of transition from…