My CIO Blog
- Winning with Unified Data Security and Access Governance January 27, 2023How do you become data-driven? It’s a question that seemingly has infinite answers. That’s why many companies flounder in the ambiguity of data-driven initiatives absent of concrete, actionable focus areas. Forward-thinking leaders are strategically focused on a particular data-driven initiative — self-service data access and governance.But even for companies who’ve succeeded in pinpointing the core […]
- Ericsson and Vonage are putting the power of 5G at the fingertips of developers January 27, 2023The Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market is big and growing fast. Already worth more than $8 billion, analysts predict that the market will nearly triple in size to $22 billion by 2025. CPaaS is a cloud platform that exposes communications functions such as SMS, voice, video, and IP chat via programmable application programming […]
- IT leaders take note: The future is what you create January 27, 2023The new year brings with it enthusiasm for new priorities and accomplishments to come, resolutions to seize opportunities and overcome challenges, and the opportunity to assess takeaways from the previous year and turn the page on projects and missteps past.In the ideal beginning of the year scenario, organizations would have completed celebrating and cerebrating on […]
- Hispanic IT leaders work to close the gap January 27, 2023When Pete Torres transitioned to the IT industry after serving in the military, he encountered a noticeable lack of Hispanic representation at conferences and events he attended. Even when he was young, the idea of a career in technology was “not really an option,” he says, owing in part to the IT industry’s decades-long issues […]
- What is a Data Fabric? January 26, 2023By now, you’ve heard the good news: The business world is embracing data-driven decision making and growing their data practices at an unprecedented clip. The pandemic may have forced their hands, but they’ve seen the value of data and will never go back to making decisions based on hunches.Here is the so-so news: They’re moving […]
- IBM reports rise in Q4 profit, but plans to cut 3,900 jobs January 26, 2023IBM reported net income of $2.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022 and year-on-year increases in revenue across all three of its business segments.That’s an increase in net income of 9% compared to the total reported for the corresponding quarter of 2021, or 17% comparing only continuing operations: IBM spun off most its infrastructure […]
- SAP plans layoffs and selloff with cloud revenue up but profit down January 26, 2023SAP’s revenue rose 11% in 2022 with the cloud component of that climbing 33%, but net income dropped 68%, prompting restructuring and layoffs in its CRM activities.The company is also exploring selling its majority stake in Qualtrics, the experience management platform it bought for $8 billion in 2018, to refocus on its core business.SAP already […]
- How Real-Time Data and Open-Source Software Fuel ‘AI Factories’ January 26, 2023By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStaxIn their 2020 book Competing in the Age of AI, Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani make some bold predictions about the winning enterprises of the future.These organizations, which they refer to as “AI factories,” build a “virtuous cycle between user engagement, data collection, algorithm […]
- CIO Leadership Live with Roxanne Salton, Chief Digital Officer at Southern Cross Health Society January 26, 2023Roxanne Salton, Chief Digital Officer at Southern Cross Health Society, on why the job of transformation is not just the job of the CIO, the need to get more women into IT leadership roles, and being mindful of uncertainty in the year ahead and how it impacts your people.Watch the episode:#id63d72d501a493 .jw-wrapper::before { content: "Roxanne […]
- Top 17 cloud cost management tools January 26, 2023It feels like just yesterday that we were promised that cloud servers cost just pennies. You could rent a rack with the spare change behind the sofa cushions and have money left for an ice cream sandwich.Those days are long gone. When the monthly cloud bill arrives, CFOs are hitting the roof. Developer teams are […]