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The latest from London’s Technology & Construction Court as companies clash over mainframe migration software.

Martin Veitch July 05, 2024

Interview: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on nice guy Nutanix’s latest trick

Interview: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on nice guy Nutanix’s latest trick

On a grey, chilly, wet Chicago morning your correspondent makes a quick exit on South Michigan Avenue to the American Writers Museum to dodge the rain and to be reminded of Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. The same can be said...

Martin Veitch May 11, 2023

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Smart buildings at an inflexion point

Smart buildings may be growing in popularity but they remain dwarfed by their dumb relations. However, with energy bills through the roof and a growing mandate for sustainability, that may well change very soon. “Less than 5% [of commercial buildings] are digital and smart, so there’s a lot of...

Martin Veitch April 16, 2023

Siemens Smart Infrastructure CTO: It's got far cheaper to link major devices

Siemens Smart Infrastructure CTO: It's got far cheaper to link major devices

Smart buildings may be growing in popularity but they remain dwarfed by their dumb, if functional, relations. However, with energy bills through the roof and a growing mandate for sustainability, that may well change very soon: “Less than 5% [of commercial buildings] are digital and smart, so there’s a...

Martin Veitch April 10, 2023

Why ERP firm IFS’s passage to Sri Lanka deserves attention

Why ERP firm IFS’s passage to Sri Lanka deserves attention

IT companies scour the world these days for destinations that will help them locate skilled workers and drive cost efficiencies. India has of course become a global nexus for software factories, consulting services and offshoring. Central and eastern Europe have become happy hunting grounds, even for countries that have had...

Martin Veitch April 03, 2023

The Big Interview: CISO and CTO Chuck Herrin on olive branches and APIs

The Big Interview: CISO and CTO Chuck Herrin on olive branches and APIs

"They all looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears"

Martin Veitch March 29, 2023

Can Manchester United's youth academy inspire this new technology training programme?

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Can Manchester United's youth academy inspire this new technology training programme?

All too often, attempts at philanthropy and ESG can appear to be token gestures, handy for ticking a checkbox, issuing a press release and brand building but not much else. However, today services giant DXC Technology and Manchester United will announce an educational partnership that at first sight looks a...

Martin Veitch March 28, 2023

The data plumbing for real-time machine learning is becoming more accessible

The data plumbing for real-time machine learning is becoming more accessible

"It extracts the most relevant data so you only compute what’s necessary"

Martin Veitch March 22, 2023

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One to Watch: VictoriaMetrics - The story of a startup from Ukraine

This is the story of a young company seeking success, and it is a familiar story in many ways. Bright people have an idea to fill a gap in the market – check. They form a bootstrapped company – check. They work long hours hacking code – check. They spread the word and...

Martin Veitch March 20, 2023

Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny

Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny

Voice Assistant, can you say ‘Kismet’? Turns out that when Microsoft completed its deal to buy Nuance Communications a little over a year ago for about $19.7 billion, the purchase may have been better than it anticipated at the time. Either that or part of a grand plan, because...

Martin Veitch March 16, 2023

Lenovo's Global CIO Arthur Hu on working two jobs and coming up via the helpdesk

Lenovo's Global CIO Arthur Hu on working two jobs and coming up via the helpdesk

“You’re right, I need a new agent!” quips Arthur Hu, a man who since April 2022 combines the role of global CIO at Lenovo with that of CTO of the giant’s Solutions & Services Group (SSG). A Lenovo veteran of 13 years and CIO for over six of...

Martin Veitch March 11, 2023

Summer School offers a glimpse of Narnia as CDO role evolves

Summer School offers a glimpse of Narnia as CDO role evolves

At the end of June, over 400 prospective heads of data will gather, virtually, for the sixth annual online Carruthers and Jackson Summer School for Data Leaders. The success of the 10-week digital course is proof, as if it were needed, that the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role and the...

Martin Veitch March 08, 2023

Finastra's Chief Innovation Officer: "The AI revolution is here and I'm super optimistic"

Finastra's Chief Innovation Officer: "The AI revolution is here and I'm super optimistic"

Shuki Licht is impressed with the pace of innovation in LLMs

Martin Veitch March 06, 2023

Fracture: A taster of IT guru Jerry Fishenden's plan to fix state IT

Fracture: A taster of IT guru Jerry Fishenden's plan to fix state IT

Jerry Fishenden lays out his vision of how to fix digital government in his new book, Fracture...

Martin Veitch February 27, 2023

Blair: Digital ID could help UK move to "proactive" service delivery

Blair: Digital ID could help UK move to "proactive" service delivery

A powerful, cross-party axis between Labour and Conservative former leaders could put digital identity cards back on the table. The seemingly unlikely pairing of Tony Blair and William Hague back a new report that calls for the introduction of digital ID cards as well as broad technology-enabled changes to education,...

Martin Veitch February 22, 2023

Everything you read about Dell and the death of the PC is wrong

The recent news that Dell is to make 6,650 staff redundant (about 5% of its workforce) led to predictable blame being heaped on that old political football, the IBM-compatible Personal Computer. The notion perpetuated implicitly in media coverage was that PC sales are falling ergo Dell is falling: a...

Martin Veitch February 10, 2023

ODI mines open data in a bid to improve fitness, "social prescribing"

ODI mines open data in a bid to improve fitness, "social prescribing"

The Open Data Institute is combining with UK sporting and health bodies to do for fitness what has already happened in fields from banking to travel. That is, using open data for greater accessibility, more opportunities for customers… and in this case taking some weight off increasingly pressured health services....

Martin Veitch February 09, 2023

Much-travelled CIO David Ivell is on a mission to help teachers support children with behaviour challenges

Much-travelled CIO David Ivell is on a mission to help teachers support children with behaviour challenges

"There’s work to keep the IT wheels on but it’s a small part of the role..."

Martin Veitch February 08, 2023

Podium Analytics CTO Damian Smith is using data to help tackle youth sporting injuries

Podium Analytics CTO Damian Smith is using data to help tackle youth sporting injuries

Damian Smith was managing a rather delicate job as Head of IT at the England and Wales Cricket Board when he was approached by non-profit Podium Analytics to reduce the volume and impact of youth sport-incurred injuries. “In 2020, I was in the midst of putting bio-secure international cricket on...

Martin Veitch February 02, 2023