Karun Sorout - March 20, 2019 - 3 views

According to IDC, public cloud IT infrastructure  spending in the second quarter of 2018 saw a nearly 59% year-over-year increase, more than double the spending growth on private cloud infrastructure during the same period. This shift to cloud, and particularly hybrid infrastructure, is being driven by decision-makers who realize the increasingly critical role hybrid cloud […]

Venugopal Lambu - March 18, 2019 - 145 views

Business and technology leaders have been well-trained in the digital economy to perceive the world through the eyes of a consumer. Consumers’ day-to-day lives revolve around easy-to-use, consumption-based, pay-as-you-go platforms: Whether we’re watching a movie or TV show, listening to music, arranging transportation or planning a trip, it’s becoming less necessary to own a physical […]

Gajen Kandiah - March 15, 2019 - 152 views

Amid the fascination surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and other hot digital technologies, there’s a recurring theme among business executives, and certainly within Cognizant: keep it human. Not only is it essential to embed human intelligence, judgment and empathy in the design of the digital experience, and especially to ensure ethical AI outcomes; it’s also critical […]

Mark Miller - March 14, 2019 - 32 views

No one likes to be criticized. Let’s just get that out of the way. But today, we live in a world full of criticism, in the form of online reviews, comments, tweets, thumbs-ups and emojis. No matter how we feel about the politics of online comments and reviews – whether it’s a good or bad […]

Murali Inuguru - March 12, 2019 - 166 views

“I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.” This forecast, made by former InfoWorld editor in chief Stewart Alsop in 1991, proves more highly exaggerated with each passing year. Mainframes continue to run inside many of the world’s largest companies, including banks, retailers, insurance companies and airlines, supporting their daily […]

Praveen Challa - March 6, 2019 - 351 views

DevOps has ushered in a new era of agility, with diverse teams working collaboratively, sharing knowledge and responsibilities, and quickly delivering products and services. However, as competition increases amid demand for continuous process improvement, it’s not enough to just “do DevOps” – businesses need to unlock the full potential of their DevOps ecosystem. For many […]

Manish Bahl - March 4, 2019 - 141 views

Whether you work in the front office, the back office or the C-suite, your work will soon be very different.  With the influx of automation and AI, many of us will need to adapt to evolving work tasks or transition into a new job role (we’ve identified 42 that we believe will evolve, here and […]

Paul Roehrig - February 28, 2019 - 229 views

Sorry to break it to you, but unless you’re reading this on parchment illuminated by a whale oil lantern, you’ve been hacked one way or another. By “hacked,” we mean a cybersecurity breach or any other violation of personal data stewardship and governance that results in a breakdown of trust, privacy, ethics, legislation or industry […]

Vidya Viswanathan - February 26, 2019 - 281 views

Many healthcare solution designers have ambitious goals for reshaping patient care with AI, genomics, neural networks, precision medicine and more. We hope to make advance diagnoses and prevent acute episodes before even the slightest symptoms appear. But in our eagerness to build healthcare solutions based on these technologies, we ignore the scientific evidence that more […]

Simon Walker - February 22, 2019 - 267 views

We’re all increasingly interacting with smart technology at home. My 4-year-old daughter learned to say “Hey, Google” before she could operate a mouse. As Amazon Echo and Google Home devices start to pervade millions of homes, consumers are growing accustomed to using Siri, Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant to book appointments, send emails or check […]