“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards,” wrote Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. That’s true, but what if by some stroke of magic we could go back in time and give a pep talk to our younger selves. What would we say? To provide some indirect counsel for first-time CIOs, we asked…
Multinational insurance and finance corporation AIA New Zealand’s dream is to help make the country one of the healthiest and best protected nations in the world. That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which…
At UL Solutions, CIO Karriem Shakoor has identified clear cultural and architectural requirements for achieving data democratization so that IT can get out of the reports business and into driving revenue. Recently, I had the chance to speak at length with Shakoor about data strategy at the global safety science company, which has over 15,000…
As the generative AI bandwagon gathers pace, Nvidia is promising tools to accelerate it still further. On March 21, CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) told attendees at the company’s online-only developer conference, GTC 2023, about a string of new services Nvidia hopes enterprises will use to train and run their own generative AI models. When they…
Multi-cloud environments offer significant business benefits from increasing agility to improving efficiency. The challenge, however, is that each cloud sits in an isolated silo with its own development and operating model, taxonomy, services, APIs and management tools. This lack of consistency across clouds forces companies to manage their multi-cloud environments through a patchwork of off-the-shelf,…
Findings from two eye-opening surveys conducted by VMware show that ransomware remains a top concern for enterprises worldwide. As IT and security leaders and chief information security officers (CISOs) look for answers, many are turning to deeper deployment and investment in lateral security tools. What is lateral security? It leverages both access control and advanced…
How are modern CIOs making an impact with multi-cloud? A recently released VMware report, “CIO Essential Guidance: Modernizing Applications in a Multi-Cloud World,” outlines these four key factors that influence success: Drive Developer Velocity The best applications are created by the most talented developers, so it’s crucial to attract and retain the best talent. Taking…
When Arvest, a regional bank operating in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, hired Laura Merling as chief transformation and operations officer in 2021, one of the first things she changed was its digital transformation plan. The 60-year-old bank, formed from the successive mergers of 14 regional banks, was planning to launch a neobank, an online-only…
Accenture on Tuesday said that it was acquiring Flutura, an internet of things (IoT) and data science services providing firm, for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial AI services that it sells under the umbrella of Applied Intelligence. The acquisition assumes significance as the Asia Pacific region contributes the largest chunk of Accenture’s Applied…
Amazon will fire about 9,000 more workers from several business units, including AWS, in the coming weeks, according to a statement released today by company CEO Andy Jassy. The announcement comes two months after Amazon unveiled plans to lay off 18,000 employees. In his official statement, Jassy said that most of the layoffs in this…