By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Think about your favorite recipe. You might have all the ingredients for an apple pie, but there’s no guarantee all the elements will come together to produce a delicious dessert. Similarly, many organizations have built data architectures to remain competitive, but have instead ended up with a complex…
German software group SAP reported first-quarter revenue growth of 11% for 2022 on Friday, driven in large part by its cloud business. The company’s cloud revenue climbed 31% to €2.8 billion (US$3.02 billion) in the first quarter of 2022, while revenue for its S/4HANA cloud software was €400 million, up 78% year-on-year. Total revenue for…
Enterprises are betting big on machine learning (ML). According to IDC, 85% of the world’s largest organizations will be using artificial intelligence (AI) — including machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP) and pattern recognition — by 2026. And a survey conducted by ESG found, “62% of organizations plan to increase their year-over-year spend on AI, including investments…
Do you wish business executives and IT could work together better, collaborating on projects and fully sharing information? If you’re like most IT leaders, the answer is very much yes. The benefits of improved business-IT collaboration include things such as projects that better fit business goals, improved change management, and better buy-in for new initiatives.…
To this day, Daphne Jones remembers the high school guidance counselor who told her she would never get into college—or if she did, would never graduate. ”Black girls just don’t make it in college, he told me,” says this renowned C-suite technology leader and board director. “He had my destiny all locked up.” If only…
Multi-cloud expansion is essential for many organizations that are scripting strategic initiatives for future growth and success. But excitement over the advantages of multi-cloud—including modernization of cloud infrastructure, operations, and applications—needs to be balanced with caution. Managing and operating multiple applications and workloads across multiple clouds can create increased complexity and additional silos if not…
No one is safe from cybersecurity threats. Even the most sophisticated networks are vulnerable. Hackers, viruses, and cybercriminals are continually looking for ways to exploit weaknesses in your system. The data tells us that cyberattacks occur every 39 seconds. Cisco Customer Experience Business Critical Services provides a solution that organizations can leverage immediately. It offers…
By: Nav Chander, Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing When shopping at the grocery store before hosting a party, we often select different brands for beverages, be it soda, juice, or sparkling water, to offer a full complement of drink brands we think guests will value. We rarely select a single brand for all…
By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax Today is all about real-time. Winning enterprises take data, process it, and use it to deliver an instantaneous experience to the customer. Think about an organization where, at each moment, a recommendation engine is talking to every part of the business – sharing immediate data on live sales…
Attracting and retaining the right talent while getting a return on technology investment are the top three challenges that stop organizations from being able to successfully digitize their supply chain operations, according to a survey by management consulting firm PwC. In PwC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey, which polled 244 operations and information technology…