UAE, one of the Middle East’s largest economies, is moving to a new work week schedule of four-and-a-half days — with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend for government employees. The Emirates’ shift to the new work week is expected to boost remote working and align the Gulf country with major markets…
Regional IT events United States Australia India Middle East Southeast Asia Global security events All IDC Africa events While it can be difficult to sort through all the technology events now occurring in Africa, CIO Africa’s curated list of conferences includes the top events that professional IT executives in sub-Saharan Africa should know about. As…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software When you consider the breadth and depth of technology available in the marketplace today, chances are simplicity is not the first thing that comes to mind. The discourse around modernization has become overcomplicated, but customers—whether on the B2B or B2C front—have come to expect simplicity in how they interact…
The hurdles IT leaders will face in 2022 at first glance seem familiar: finding and retaining top talent, bolstering security, and creating friendly and robust remote work environments. But the ongoing pandemic has heightened these challenges. The skills gap has been exacerbated by the Great Resignation. Support for distributed teams, once a business priority, is…
By Ravi Naik, CIO & Executive Vice President of Storage Services at Seagate Technology Considerable challenges with data access and mobility, along with finding reasonably priced storage acquisition for log streaming—and associated analytics—ultimately undermine business value. Furthermore, increasingly complex cloud architectures are forcing CIOs to rethink scalability. As they enter the new year, IT organizations…
By Rich Jardine, Vice President, Strategic Customer Success, Broadcom Software When it comes to innovation, at Broadcom Software we believe it is not just about technology anymore. There is tremendous innovation happening in enterprise customer care and support. Driving it is a growing awareness that being able to support an enterprise software application after the…
By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software Today’s leading multinational companies face a daunting task: deliver powerful customer experiences, accelerate growth through new services, optimize for efficiency, and keep everything protected. Oftentimes the teams leading these initiatives are disconnected from one another. With the imperative of transforming how…
“The effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions is really about the legacy we want to leave our children and whether the business we are conducting is preparing them for the future to come – a future that will be marked by globalization and greater equity, artificial intelligence, and, most importantly, climate change. How we…
By Marc Vontobel, Co-Founder and CEO at Starmind Businesses have a data hoarding problem. After decades of headlines suggesting data is the new gold, organizations have accumulated more data than they know what to do with. IDC research suggests that companies are increasingly struggling to make sense of their complex data pools. In the data gold-rush organizations have…
At VMworld 2021, along with a lively fireside chat between VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram and Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, we were proud to share the latest updates on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, discuss our alliance and broadening roadmap with VMware, show off an exciting technology demo on Arm-based servers and showcase some recent joint customers.…