Imagine that you are a cloud service provider based in France. You have built a vibrant business working with other French companies, supporting their growth ambitions with the technology solutions they need, using local data centers. Because your customers are ambitious, however, inevitably one of them wants to explore a new market – Germany, perhaps. […]
Privacy breaches. Unconscious bias. Election manipulation. Digital divides. The technology sector has had some missteps over the last few years, leading to 2018 being dubbed the year of the Techlash by the Financial Times. On the surface, things don’t seem to have changed since then. Barely a week into 2020, Facebook refused to either fact-check […]
Matthew O’Neill, Financial Services Industry Managing Director, Office of the CTO, VMware It doesn’t matter what bank or financial institution they work for, there’s one thing that I guarantee keeps all CIOs awake at night – Cyber Security. To be fair, security in the digital era is probably the number one topic across all sectors. […]
It feels like we have reached a turning point in the journey towards improving quality of life – a topic we covered at length in our recent ‘Future of Healthcare Report’. Technology has become the cornerstone that connects patient, doctor and community. But while it augments our understanding of what care can deliver, budget constraints […]
Healthcare is one of the fastest growing industries for Innovation, as covered in our recent Future of Healthcare Report. Some areas of healthcare have been changed dramatically to embrace space age ideas into reality. It took decades to introduce the first healthcare Instrument – the Stethoscope, and today we are introducing organ replacements, 3D printing, […]
There’s a great deal of excitement in the healthcare industry when it comes to technological innovation in patient care. From AI-enabled pacemakers, to IoT wearables and 3D printing of organs, the innovations we’ve seen in the last decade can now help prolong a patient’s life or increase their chance of survival. It’s something we’ve covered […]
The healthcare industry is one of the most challenging to transform. It has a huge number of legacy systems with vast amounts of highly sensitive, personalised information and is beset by funding challenges. All in an environment where time pressure is a key driver in delivering accurate and safe healthcare to save lives. The world […]
Europe has made great progress in healthcare in recent years. According to a recent Deloitte report, an EU citizen born today can expect to live 30 years longer than his or her ancestors a century ago. And much suggests that this trend will persist. What exactly is driving this progress is a topic we’ve given […]
We all know life is unpredictable. Unplanned events such as natural disasters, severe weather, illness, and travel restrictions make it nearly impossible to continue “business as usual.” Is your organization prepared for a scenario in which traditional ways of working aren’t feasible for a considerable amount of time? Will you need to make tradeoffs between security and business continuity? If you’re considering or already deploying a […]
By Matthew O’Neill, Financial Services Industry Managing Director, Office of the CTO, VMware One of the great things about my job is that even after thirty years in banks and banking IT and now approaching three years at VMware, there’s more to learn every day. There are things that are new, things that have changed, or […]
Hervé Renault, Head of Cloud Providers, EMEA. For anyone that’s been in IT for any length of time, the concept of cloud isn’t new. The actual term has been in use for about 15 years or so, yet the idea of an enterprise-level, internet-based way of accessing services has been around for much longer than […]
There are currently 32 armed conflicts worldwide and the number of natural disasters is increasing rather than decreasing. Millions of people are affected by these conflicts and crises. One of the most important tasks of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is therefore to bring them the aid they urgently need. Besides that, […]