Analyzing the Dell Technologies strategy from a CIO perspective

Dell Technologies has embarked on an ambitious strategy that encompasses many things of interest for the transformational CIO. It starts with their ‘moonshot’ goals and continues into value, risk, reputation, trust and specific technological solutions for the enterprise. AIMING FOR…

Starting with the customer and working backwards with Prakash Kota

In a recent podcast, Autodesk CIO Prakash Kota discussed the company's shift from software shipping to subscription-based services. He emphasized the importance of the CIO role in digital transformation, focusing on customer engagement and collaboration with peers. Cloud and AI are pivotal in enhancing value, productivity, and employee experiences.

Here are three things to prepare your organization for a pandemic outbreak

In light of the recent Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, now is a good time to review your plans. Two of those key plans here are your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans. Each plan plays an instrumental…

Leading Digital Transformation in a Financial Institution with Sangy Vatsa

In this podcast episode, Sangy Vatsa, EVP and CIO of Comerica Bank, discusses the bank's digital transformation journey, highlighting the Tech Vision 2020 initiative. Vatsa outlines the collaborative "two-in-a-box" model, rapid cloud adoption of 100 applications in nine months, and future plans for Digital 2025 amidst evolving customer needs and regulatory requirements.

Assessing the impact of the IBM leadership changes

Last week, IBM announced a few significant leadership changes that put a lot of things in play. First, is IBM’s sheer leadership challenge as it pertains to culture. Second, is the impact to customers including existing IBM customers, Red Hat…

Amazon Web Services significantly escalates their enterprise game

Last week marked the sixth Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference I have attended. While AWS has attracted the webscale and startup businesses in full force, the enterprise has been a bit of an enigma for AWS. This year at…

Mapping the AWS platform taxonomy that includes hybrid cloud

One of the biggest challenges for AWS has been to adequately attract the massive, yet largely untapped, enterprise business. There are a number of reasons for this, one of which is AWS’ focus on only offering a public cloud solution.…

What is HybridMultiCloud and why should you care?

This past year, a new term has emerged that appears to be a combination of two terms; hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Is this a new solution or modification of an existing solution? Or possibly is ‘HybridMultiCloud’ a juxtaposition of marketing…