From the CEO’s perspective, an optimized IT services portfolio maximizes cost efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. It enables the organization to focus on its core business while managing risks and accelerating time-to-market for new products and services. From the CIO’s perspective, an optimized IT services portfolio ensures strategic alignment with business goals, enabling the organization to…
After laying off 8,000 staffers in January, Salesforce is now planning to hire at least 3,300 employees. The plan includes rehiring some of the former employees. Salesforce is looking at a large recruitment drive as it plans to invest in new areas such as generative AI and push some of its popular products, such…
In a rapidly evolving business landscape, where innovation and cost efficiency are paramount, the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud managed services at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas is a pivotal moment. Announced in April at VMware’s Partner Leadership Summit, VMware Cross-Cloud managed services redefine the way organizations address the complexities of multi-cloud, offering unparalleled flexibility, scalability…
Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud…
It seems that every event I moderate, regardless of the topic, will devolve into a discussion of generative AI and the excitement of intelligent systems. The enthusiasm for this innovative technology is irrepressible. Ideas fly around, grandiose plans are discussed, and everyone can’t wait to get going. However, as the discussion moves back to more…
No doubt, Nasdaq is bullish on generative AI. Brad Peterson, the company’s CIO and CTO, has been implementing AI for more than a decade and is all in on the promised innovation afforded by generative AI. “We are committed to enhancing the liquidity, transparency, and integrity of the world’s economy and AI will continue to…
Your strategy’s only as strong as it is implemented well. And you can implement it well only to the extent that your followership is strong. Your followership is the most potent circle of your professional network, and it, perhaps more than anything else, empowers you to influence and implement, with or without authority. Brett Lansing,…
According to the European Commission, no less, ‘data is immensely valuable to all organisations, a significant resource for the digital economy and the ‘cornerstone of our EU industrial competitiveness’. Hardly surprising when you consider the data economy is projected to deliver more than €829b and nearly 11m jobs to the region by 2025. Capitalising on…
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax As a software developer and coding instructor, Ania Kubow is always informative and engaging. But watching her 30-minute video on “Vector Embeddings for Beginners” will be time well-spent for many people who have no intention of ever doing hands-on- coding. Specifically, it’s a must-watch for anyone who…
Generative AI will soon be everywhere — including in Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tool. Salesforce will add new features to Net Zero Cloud to automate some aspects of preparing ESG reports — something investors and regulators are increasingly paying attention to — and later upgrading them with new generative…