CxO, CxO Podcasts, AI, ERP, Operations, Networks, Sales (291.2.1)
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CxO
- 2022 CIO Priorities
- 10 Ways Inflation Will Impact IT
- Top 7 CIO Challenges In 2022 And How To Handle Them
- CIO Interview: Lee Cowie, Chief Technology Officer, Merlin Entertainments
- Digital Transformation: 3 Ways It Changes Companies
CxO Podcasts
AI
- A Framework For Enterprise AI Adoption
- Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Are Headed For A Major Bottleneck - Here's How We Solve It
- Artificial Intelligence And Security: What You Should Know
ERP
Operations
- How To Modernize IT Operations For A Cloud-Native World
- Making Data Centers Cool Again
- Saying Goodbye To Legacy Systems
Networks
- How SD-WAN Enables Digital Transformation
- What Is Wireshark?
- WW Ethernet Switch Revenue Increased 12.7% Y/Y In 1Q22 At $7.6 Billion
Sales
Thursday, June 21st, 2022: 11:00 AM to 12:45 PM Friday, June 24th
CxO
2022 CIO Priorities
Most chief information officers (CIOs) are prioritizing hybrid work and cybersecurity in 2022, with digital enablement the top area of focus overall.
CIOs traditionally oversee the IT department within the organization, but as businesses introduce more digital processes, the CIO role may be expanding. In 2022, CIOs have many challenges to face, whether that's the widely reported 'Great Resignation,' the enablement of hybrid work as some regions lift pandemic restrictions or the myriad cybersecurity threats... more
10 Ways Inflation Will Impact IT
As inflation rises across the globe, CIOs are strategizing ways to navigate rising prices for IT supplies, services, and talent by rethinking IT portfolios, reprioritizing IT spend, and honing business efficiencies.
As CIO of an organization with a global reach, Bob Johnson keeps careful watch on the world's economic situation... more
Top 7 CIO Challenges In 2022 And How To Handle Them
IT leaders this year face hybrid work, inflation and the prospect for sustainability regulations, while they deal with perennial issues such as staff retention and cybersecurity.
Technology leaders who encountered a tough slog in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 aren't catching much of a break this year.
Indeed, 2022 adds the tests of inflation, the back-to-the-office debate and geopolitical turmoil that exacerbates preexisting supply chain issues. Perennial concerns such as cybersecurity and the IT staffing shortage continue unabated. And the pandemic, now in its third year, complicates matters with regional flareups. more
CIO Interview: Lee Cowie, Chief Technology Officer, Merlin Entertainments
The theme park giant faced an enormous challenge during Covid with its venues closed, but digital technology came to the rescue and is now opening up new opportunities
Lee Cowie, chief technology officer (CTO) at Merlin Entertainments, chats about technology leadership responsibilities in front of a giant picture of superhero Iron Man. It's a vivid reminder of the kind of company he works for and a visual clue to his feelings about his role... more
Digital Transformation: 3 Ways It Changes Companies
Companies that embrace a digital transformation mindset focus not on technology, but on how it can improve overall business success. Consider these examples
I've worked on intelligent automation projects with many organizations worldwide, and there is no doubt: The digital transformation process has a huge impact - not only by bringing about obvious initial change but also by affecting business leaders' outlook for the future... more
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022: 11:00 AM to 4:15 PM Wednesday, June 22nd
CxO Podcasts
CXOTALK: CMO: Marketing Investment And Strategy For 2022
How does the Chief Marketing Officer of a large organization plan and prioritize strategy and investments? We talk with Gaurav Chand, the CMO of Cognizant, to learn about marketing investment and strategy in 2022.
As CMO, Gaurav oversees all aspects of Cognizant's global marketing, including brand, creative, digital, events, communications, field and corporate marketing. Gaurav's primary mission is to facilitate growth by developing and executing a comprehensive marketing plan that promotes Cognizant's digital leadership, increases brand recognition and extends its competitive advantage in all market segments... more
AI
A Framework For Enterprise AI Adoption
While there is a lot of excitement about how advances in artificial intelligence will help the enterprise sector, the reality is that most efforts fail.
Study after study shows that organizations of different sizes are struggling to bring machine learning into their operations, and many initiatives end up being shelved or used in a very limited capacity... more
Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Are Headed For A Major Bottleneck - Here's How We Solve It
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are already changing the world - but the innovations we're seeing so far are just a taste of what's around the corner.
We are on the precipice of a revolution that will affect every industry, from business and education to healthcare and entertainment. These new technologies will help solve some of the most challenging problems of our age and bring changes comparable in scale to the renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the electronic age... more
Artificial Intelligence And Security: What You Should Know
Next-generation AI products learn proactively and identify changes in the networks, users, and databases using "data drift" to adapt to specific threats as they evolve.
In March 2019, Norsk Hydro, a Norwegian renewable energy and aluminum manufacturing company, faced a ransomware attack. Rather than paying the ransom, a cybersecurity team used artificial intelligence to identify the corruption in the computer system and rebuild the operations in an uncorrupted parallel system. LockerGoga ransomware was eventually identified as the culprit, which spread via Windows-based systems... more
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
ERP
8 Reasons ERP Is Back And On The Rise
The tech world is filled with three-letter acronyms that ebb and flow like tides. The buzz phrase 'enterprise resource planning,' (ERP), first appeared on PowerPoint slides in the 1990s.
It was the latest manifestation at the time of a long drive that began in the 1950s and 60s to use computers to manage corporate resources effectively and profitably.
The acronym seemed to disappear for a few decades after that. Not because the work went away, but just because other topics elbowed ERP out of the limelight. That's changing, though, and today, the letters are starting to appear once again. For instance, Findability, an artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced that they were branding their new product with the name 'ERP-Max' instead of a name that conjures up ideas of machine learning. more
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Operations
How To Modernize IT Operations For A Cloud-Native World
In a cloud-native world, the IT operations strategies that worked when IaaS was at the center of software environments no longer suffice
Instead, modern businesses need a truly cloud-native approach to IT operations. Here's what that means and how your team can bring its IT operations strategy up to speed with cloud-native computing.
Once upon a time, running workloads on public cloud IaaS services was cutting-edge. So were IT operations teams that understood how to deploy, monitor, and secure the VM-based monoliths that operated in those cloud environments. more
Making Data Centers Cool Again
As compute power in data centers increases, so too, does cooling requirements. Some of the biggest providers in the world are beginning to look to liquid immersion to keep their systems cool and working.
It has been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic catapulted digital transformation to the top of the priority list for virtually every business and individual in the world. And as the world's reliance on next-gen technologies continues to increase, so too will the amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed increase to meet the demands of today's post-digital society... more
Saying Goodbye To Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not.But if you were, you'd still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day to drive mission-critical applications that we use every day when shopping, banking or hundreds of other normal tasks.
At least two-thirds of large enterprises are running mainframe-based apps that date back 10 to 20 years and more than 25% of businesses feature applications that are between 20 or 30 years old. more
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Networks
How SD-WAN Enables Digital Transformation
While Software-Defined Wide Area Networking, or SD-WAN, has gradually evolved over about the last decade, in recent years it has seen rapid adoption - in part due to organizations' move to digital transformation (DX).
Many industry analysts estimate the SD-WAN market is now in the billions of dollars, with a 25- to 35-percent compound annual growth rate. It has also become increasingly common for telcos and other service providers to offer managed SD-WAN services for their customers. For enterprises, a wide variety of vendors offer SD-WAN solutions, which can further complicate the decision process. more
What Is Wireshark?
Gartner's newest research highlights three 2022 Cool Vendors in AI for Computer Vision that offer innovative alternatives in the marketplace.
Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its newest research highlighting four emerging solution providers that data and analytics leaders should consider as compliments to their existing architectures. The 2022 Cool Vendors in Analytics and AI for Computer Vision report features information on startups that offer some disruptive capability or opportunity not common to the marketplace. more
WW Ethernet Switch Revenue Increased 12.7% Y/Y In 1Q22 At $7.6 Billion
The WW Ethernet switch market grew 12.7% Y/Y in with revenues of $7.6 billion.
The total WW enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $3.6 billion in revenue in 1Q22, a 3.5% increase Y/Y.
These growth rates are according to results published in the International Data Corporation's Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch Tracker and Worldwide Quarterly Router Tracker. more
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022: 11:00 AM to 5:15 PM EDT
Sales
The B2B Buying Journey
The B2B buying process has changed, has your sales strategy?
Your sales reps have roughly 5% of a customer's time during their B2B buying journey. Lack of time with buyers coupled with rapidly shifting buying dynamics, fueled by digital buying behavior, is reshaping the strategic focus of sales organizations.
Download the Gartner guide for CSOs to learn how to:
- Navigate the evolution of the B2B buying journey over the next five years
- Position your unique value-add to help guide customers to decision confidence while minimizing uncertainty
- Accelerate beyond foundational analytics toward AI-powered insights
Sellers have little opportunity to influence customer decisions... more
What We Learned On The Sales Hacker Roadshow (2022)
If you joined the Sales Hacker community in the last four years, this might be news to you: Sales Hacker was originally known mostly for its incredible in-person events.
But (and it's painful to admit this) until this spring, we hadn't hosted a physical event in nearly four years!
We've been focused on other things. To name a few:
- Publishing even more new content you love (we know you love it because our site traffic has tripled)
- Redesigning the website
- Building a larger team
- Launching the forums so our members could have conversations like this one
But we found that as this glorious community grew in size, we weren't proportionally growing the sense of community we feel with our members and that our members feel with their peers. And we decided we needed to improve that. Enter: the Sales Hacker Roadshow '22. more
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
Thursday, June 30th, 2022: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT
