Digital Systems

Anbu Muppidathi - October 18, 2018 - 363 views

While there’s plenty of research on integrating security into Agile software methodologies, we’re often left only with “security sandwiches,“ where security is discussed upfront and at the far end of the development process rather than  throughout. Corporate security remains an isolated department at many organizations, one that lives outside the Agile/DevOps/Pod team practice. Developers have […]

Navin Rao - September 25, 2018 - 214 views

Imagine your car breaks down on the highway, and you call your insurer for help. A friendly and courteous agent (not an automated interactive voice response system) takes down the details, has your car towed to your preferred garage, and dispatches a cab to take you to your destination. How nice would that be? How […]

Frank Antonysamy - September 13, 2018 - 129 views

Wham! A cyberattack slams enterprise IT, reverberating at lightning speed to the company’s servers. The network crashes; email is down. Months-long delays ensue before email and other system layers are restored at all locations. What would earlier have impacted only IT systems can now also halt production and slow order fulfillment in our age of […]

Monish Mishra - August 30, 2018 - 370 views

Not too long ago, the main focus for businesses was efficiency and stability, and IT operations were measured in terms of cost and service availability. With the influx of digital technologies and mindsets, and the ensuing changes to long-held business paradigms, the new focus for IT is agility: the ability to respond quickly to market […]

Anbu Muppidathi - August 27, 2018 - 507 views

A few weeks ago, I hosted an event in New York City in which clients were asked to discuss their digital journeys so far. Some shared their wins: A retail client proudly described how, in its efforts to implement an omnichannel experience, it changed every process of a business lifecycle across an entire division. Another […]

Tom Le - August 17, 2018 - 327 views

Cloud migration, cloud adoption and cloud-first strategies are top-of-mind business initiatives at many large enterprises. With organizations expecting as much as 80% of their IT budgets to be allocated to cloud solutions, cloud security considerations are front and center. In fact, 47% of organizations that had just begun their cloud journey  said security was the […]

Srinidhi S.R. - August 15, 2018 - 447 views

Enterprises seeking to digitally transform their business and operating models face numerous challenges: overcoming organizational inertia, contending with applications sprawl, finding the required technical expertise/budget, and driving the modernization agenda alongside innovation.   Thanks to their flexible, scalable and reliable nature, hybrid cloud environments help IT play the role of strategic enabler by creating a […]

Amresh Singh - July 23, 2018 - 370 views

Work is changing, and so must the employee experience. Consider that one in five jobs in the U.S. is held by a worker under contract, according to a recent study, and within a decade, contractors and freelancers in the “gig economy” could make up half of the U.S. workforce. More U.S. employees are also working […]

Raja Renganathan - July 16, 2018 - 364 views

I read a very interesting tweet yesterday on Kubernetes’ Twitter channel. “We didn’t change our organization because we wanted to use #Kubernetes, we used Kubernetes because we wanted to change our organization.” The tweet showcases the tremendous value proposition that Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system, can bring to an enterprise in terms of […]

Monish Mishra - June 13, 2018 - 316 views

From banking to healthcare to retail, many organizations establish remote and branch offices (ROBO) to enter new markets or offer local and convenient services. For many of these enterprises, however, it’s a real challenge to provide IT support to these locations, especially with a centralized IT management team. Because of their small size, many remote […]