Tag: digital transformation

May 4, 2022

Digital transformation, or DX, is driving enterprises worldwide to adapt their network and security strategies. Two key trends in particular have accelerated due to the pandemic: the adoption of cloud infrastructures, and the growth of a distributed workforce. Together, these […]

May 3, 2022

The dramatic shift to cloud services over the past few years has given organizations unprecedented flexibility and scalability, enabling them to forge ahead with digital transformation efforts. For many, it has also led to intermingled, complex strategies that threaten to […]

April 26, 2022

Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s […]

April 25, 2022

The global pandemic witnessed the digital transformation of businesses in the cloud. Today, even as the world resumes to normal, the end-to-end innovation in business strategies has kept the momentum going as the demand for a self-servicing cloud platform continues. […]

April 12, 2022

IBM recently hosted a virtual leadership summit, The Future of Hybrid Cloud, that explored the latest developments in hybrid cloud, data usage, business insights, and how to use and integrate those technologies to become a catalyst for innovation and digital […]

April 4, 2022

For many organizations, the recent rush to the cloud has also given pause to strategic considerations around what best to leave in house. Clean Harbors is one such entity taking a hybrid approach to its digital transformation to ensure high […]

March 29, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric has taken an aggressive approach to its digital transformation due in part to forces beyond its control—climate change, the pandemic and geopolitical tensions—altering its entire way of doing business. Known for its innovative drone imagery […]

March 17, 2022

If there is one technology that typifies the shift we are currently experiencing in IT, it is application containerisation. The shift we refer to here is digital transformation, and encompasses almost everything about the way organisations build, deliver and support […]

January 27, 2022

Organizations are in the midst of various stages of digital transformation and are searching for the right solutions to help them implement the best strategies and technologies to help them on their journey. But there is a lot of information […]

January 20, 2022

Oracle has announced the launch of its new Oracle Johannesburg cloud region, the company’s 37th worldwide and its first on the continent, signalling growing confidence in the future growth of cloud services in Africa, and its long-term faith in Gauteng […]

December 29, 2021

I spoke with Adam Burden, Chief Software Engineer at Accenture, about his top forecasts for 2022, including how low code/no code will drive the democratization of technology. Among the forecasts we discussed: At the edge of the cloud: Cloud computing […]

December 10, 2021

For several years, the rate of cloud adoption has been steadily growing as businesses of all sizes realise its numerous cost and productivity benefits. The emergence of COVID-19 and the ongoing disruption to traditional office-orientated business models, however, have driven […]

November 11, 2021

Kyndryl, the managed services giant spun off from IBM, has forged a cloud partnership with Microsoft to advance digital transformation projects. A week ago, Kyndryl started trading as an independent company, and one of its core pillars was to become […]

November 9, 2021

It is easy to give credit to the pandemic for the radical acceleration of the digital world. While it is true that it ignited digital transformation, it has always been our destiny to transform the world digitally. Fast moving companies […]

November 5, 2021

Warner Music Group is the epitome of a cloud veteran. The media giant’s advanced cloud architecture, which runs on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, dates back almost 12 years, making it one of the first enterprises to migrate nearly […]

October 28, 2021

Qlik has launched a new cloud region in Singapore, making the new site its second in Asia-Pacific and fourth globally. The move comes as the business analytics vendor looks to tap growing digital transformation efforts in the region. The new […]

September 1, 2021

We closed the 2020 edition of this article by noting ongoing uncertainty about how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting economic recession, would play out. At the time (August 2020), vaccines were in development but had not yet been deployed […]

August 16, 2021

Cloud is now viewed as a foundational technology model for digital transformation and unlocking its full potential will be a key to become a truly digital and future enterprise. By improving greater elasticity, improved scalability and access to on-demand IT […]

August 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought dramatic changes to the financial services industry. Already under pressure from nimble young fintechs to modernize, established banks and insurers were undergoing incremental digital transformation. But in 2020, they hit the gas pedal. Branches closed and […]

June 8, 2021

Cloud computing introduced a paradigm shift in how companies operated, maintained and spent on IT. Through its varied service models (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), it offers companies the ability to spin up their infrastructure in minutes, auto scale on demand, […]