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Securing the Software Supply Chain with Chip Childers, VP Security at VMware and Jim Mercer, VP DevSecOps at IDC
Incidents like the Log4j incident and new governmental regulations have forced tech leaders to examine the security of their software supply chain. Understanding the complexities of this is challenging; how can CIOs determine their exposure and prioritize their vulnerabilities?
Speaking with AI: A Real-Time Conversation with Pi, a Personal AI Assistant
How would an artificial intelligence advise CIOs to think about AI? In this special episode of the CIO Exchange podcast, host Yadin Porter de León brings on an artificial intelligence as a guest for the first time, called Pi. Yadin asks Pi a variety of questions about itself and how it works, AI generally, and how CIOs and technology leaders should be thinking about generative AI. This conversation offers insight into how an AI-powered conversational tool engages and answers questions.
Employee “Influencers” Drive the Next Generation of IT Innovation
Product mindset buzz words continue to dominate the headlines, but for VMware’s IT team, keeping employee success at the forefront of innovation is nothing new. Last year, VMware IT took a big step forward in their product development evolution and piloted a new employee network designed to improve the efficacy of their products and services, through collaborative design.
Podcast: 5 Strategies for Moving from Complexity to Coherency with Multi-Cloud
It’s no secret that multi-cloud deployments have become increasingly common over the past few years. In fact, VMware research shows that 87% of enterprises are using two or more public clouds to build, manage or run applications.1 Whether this is intentional or the result of corporate acquisitions or “shadow IT” projects, organizations of all types and sizes can experience challenges in managing and securing their workloads. Also listen to the podcast on Google or Spotify.
3 Ways to Win in the Era of Distributed Work
A recent global survey conducted by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by VMware sheds light on how the protracted pandemic, the Great Resignation, and now – a looming recession – have impacted businesses of all sizes. The survey, titled “The Distributed Work Dilemma: When Innovation and Job Satisfaction Compete,” includes insights from more than 5,300 HR, IT and business decision-makers as well as employee-level respondents. Here are three top findings and takeaways Innovation happens in person.
Digi-Key: Creating Magic with Multi-Cloud
Digi-Key Electronics was digital before digital was even a buzzword. The company launched in 1972 to provide electronic components and automation products to design engineers. Instead of putting salespeople on the ground, we pioneered a business model built around mail-order catalog sales. Before long, we expanded into online sales and, today, Digi-Key offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components that are both in-stock and available for immediate shipment.
How DevEx Connects to Business Value Metrics: Three Findings from Forrester
From the original rudimentary mainframe punch cards to today’s dazzling mobile gaming apps, developers have always been essential to coding and customizing applications. Now leaders increasingly understand that elevating the developer experience (DevEx) is a competitive differentiator. To evaluate the connection between DevEx and business value metrics and outcomes, VMware recently commissioned Forrester Consulting.
Why CISOs Are Looking to Lateral Security to Mitigate Ransomware
Findings from two eye-opening surveys conducted by VMware show that ransomware remains a top concern for enterprises worldwide. As IT and security leaders and chief information security officers (CISOs) look for answers, many are turning to deeper deployment and investment in lateral security tools. What is lateral security? It leverages both access control and advanced threat prevention strategies and consists of a set of systematic, omnipresent tools deployed between the perimeter and endpoints.
4 Factors That Influence Modern App Success in a Multi-Cloud Environment
How are modern CIOs making an impact with multi-cloud? A recently released VMware report, “CIO Essential Guidance: Modernizing Applications in a Multi-Cloud World,” outlines these four key factors that influence success: Drive Developer Velocity The best applications are created by the most talented developers, so it’s crucial to attract and retain the best talent.
Lumen: The Network as the Lens for the Future of Work
At a time when the way business gets done has changed dramatically, Lumen Technologies is in a unique position to envision what’s next for the future of work. Through its fiber-based network – one of the largest and most powerful in the world – it not only delivers speed, connectivity and scalability, but also uncovers important insights into traffic patterns, trends and customer challenges.
Beyond Speed: McLaren’s Winning Data-Cloud-Efficiency Formula
McLaren Racing’s 40-plus years of success in Formula 1 championship history is legendary. Innovation is in its DNA and the racing team is well known for using technology to break new ground. That’s why it was a thrill to have Edward Green, Head of Commercial Technology, sit down with us to talk about how McLaren looks beyond speed to win with data, machine learning, hybrid cloud, and more.
NVIDIA on AI: It’s Enterprise Ready for Every Developer and Every Organization
It may have been Netflix that sparked widespread consumer awareness of AI with its famous recommendation engine, but businesses of all kinds are now employing similar strategies to serve their customers. They are using AI to help customers discover which products are the best match for them, and to price those products appropriately and dynamically. Today we are seeing AI power enterprise savings and growth.
What Top Tech Leaders Are Saying About Multi-Cloud Security, IT Innovation and Efficiency
Q3 Executive Pulse Study provides insights from over 400 tech execs and decision makers The VMware Q3 Executive Pulse Study is now live and the findings demonstrate what matters most to technology leaders when it comes to multi-cloud security and IT innovation and efficiency as we head into 2023.
Industry Experts Share What’s Next with Supercloud and Multi-Cloud
Two topics that emerged as top of mind for CIOs in 2022 were supercloud and multi-cloud. Recently on the CIO Exchange podcast, VMware leaders along with other industry experts shared their perspectives on what’s working, what’s not, what’s hype, and what’s next when it comes to these technology categories.
How Fiserv Unlocks Financial Services Innovation for Its Developers
In business for more than 35 years, Fiserv enables money movement for thousands of financial institutions and millions of people and businesses around the world. The company is recognized as a payments and financial services technology innovator and has the awards to prove it. It has been named one of FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies® for 11 of the past 14 years and has made Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list for two consecutive years.
How Digital Workspace Intelligence Enhances Employee Experience
Business leaders that understand the causal link between employee experience and customer experience can benefit from a significant strategic advantage over their uniformed peer group. That fact was made abundantly clear to me earlier in the year, as I reviewed the research findings from a market study that was reported in the Harvard Business Review1.
Effective Management Across Clouds Enables EMPLOYERS Insurance to Accelerate Growth
For more than a century, EMPLOYERS has been America’s small business insurance specialist, offering affordable and effective workers’ compensation policies to small companies. Facing aging, legacy IT infrastructure when they hired CIO, Jeff Shaw in 2017, he knew one thing for certain. To grow, a decision had to be made; invest in two additional data centers—or—move straight to the cloud.
The Digital Employee Experience Movement: 4 Findings for CIOs
As businesses face the reality of distributed workforce, digital employee experience (DEX) has become an important movement. Today’s leaders are recognizing that the right DEX solutions can increase productivity, enable faster issue remediation, and drive higher employee engagement—all while mitigating security risks. A greater percentage of annual budgets is now being dedicated to DEX as a result.
Cloud Native: Three Strategies for Success
The use of cloud-native technology is on the rise and for many organizations the question isn’t if they’ll take advantage of it – but when and for which use cases. Though the term “cloud native” implies exclusivity to the cloud, a big part of its growth is being driven by its support for modern applications and services, whether deployed on-premises or in private cloud, multiple public clouds or edge environments.
VMware Explore 2022 Executive Summit: Leaders Reveal Today’s Business Priorities and Challenges
For the first time in three years, VMware Explore brought together the VMware community in the U.S. and Europe, plus regional events in Brazil, Singapore, Japan and China. These events around the world featured Executive Summits, where we hosted senior-level customers for a day of insightful and thought-provoking CXO conversations. After several years of working and networking remotely, the ability to connect in person and compare the state of the industry was welcomed by all.
The Critical Role of Centralized Security in Modern Application Pipelines
Lehman’s Laws of Software Evolution, developed in 1974 by an IBM processing researcher (1962-1972) asserts that unless work is done to mitigate complexity across software systems, they will naturally become more complex over time, and to maintain user satisfaction software functionality must be continually increased1.
Fast Forward: CIO Initiatives Driving Innovation for 2025
The need to support high velocity development, operations, and security processes across cloud native architectures to accelerate software iterations has contributed significantly to the evolution of CIO roles. No longer overseeing reactive, service-oriented IT organizations of the past, these IT executives are directly impacting revenue goals by enabling secure world-class user experiences built on multi-cloud configurations.
Five Key Characteristics of a Unified Multi-Cloud Strategy
Multi-cloud is arguably the best configuration for releasing code fast enough to satisfy user demand for innovation across the app economy. It does so by matching world-class public cloud services to unique requirements of critical workloads and scales to support a wide range of enterprise IT needs. Today, nearly three-quarters (73%) of IT decision makers are using two or more clouds1 and that number is predicted to jump another 8% by 20242.
How Artificial Intelligence Enables CIOs to Transform the Business
No longer reserved for leading-edge innovators and risk takers, artificial intelligence is now within reach of mainstream enterprise organizations—adding to the long list of technology implementation and strategy challenges modern CIOs face. With a growing appetite for AI-driven data, the need to cull it into actionable insights across all lines of business cannot be ignored.
A Firsthand Look at Managing Enterprise Multi-Cloud Complexity
In May of 2020, McKinsey and Company released an article touting the pandemic as a transformation accelerator, “thrusting companies five years into the digital future in a matter of eight weeks” never to return to the status quo1. Now, as the reality of hybrid work adoption and user demands continue to push digital-first strategies to the brink, capabilities, offerings, infrastructures and security are defining the future.
Trading Productivity for Value: How IT Leaders are Modernizing DevEx
Amid shifting digital landscapes where high-performing and secure online experiences are in the driver’s seat of company growth, most (75%) of technology and business executives agree—their ability to compete is directly correlated to delivering quality code fast. With software as the new foundation of modern organizational growth, development, delivery, and the productivity experience of developers cannot be understated.
Threat Report 2022: What it Takes to Secure Information Across Complex IT Configurations
Technology leaders and practitioners are more beholden now, than ever before, to track and prevent cyberthreats along accelerated software delivery pipelines. According to James Kaplan, Chief Information Security Officer(CISO) at JP Morgan Chase, security complexity is best managed by two strategies: “You manage scale.
Hybrid Work: The Role of CIOs in Empowering Employees
The pandemic-induced shift to remote work is considered the largest change in American working and living conditions since World War II, according to labor experts1—but this significant impact on work location was not localized to the United States. Studies reveal that two years post-onset, only a few (5%) of worldwide organizations have declined to adopt permanent policies for remote work,2 leaving little doubt that hybrid is a new normal for most companies.
The Key to Unlocking Outstanding Digital Employee Experiences
With the bulk of our recent global public health disruption in the rearview mirror, IT outsiders may assume CIOs have regained pre-pandemic digital transformation strides and its back to business as usual. But nothing is farther from the truth. For instance, the fight to attract and retain anywhere employees adds new challenges as lingering workplace disruptions up-level talent retention strategies across the entire digital employee experience (DEX).
Stories of Innovation at the CIO level: What it Takes to Drive Tangible Results
The tech landscape is rife with opportunity as demand for high performing, secure digital experiences ratchet up and innovation shifts into overdrive. It’s an exciting time to be a CIO—if you’re equipped with a growth mindset, unafraid of the next dramatic change, willing to take calculated risks, and crave the weight of company growth resting firmly on your shoulders.
Key Priorities of Top Performing CIOs
Software-fueled shifts in the competitive landscape over the past decade coupled with global disruptions and user demands for secure, always-on digital experiences have significantly impacted CIO roles across all sectors. Now, as the speed of innovation skyrockets, complexity along application delivery grows, and attack surfaces evolve, executive-level foresight is more critical than ever.
Reimagine Your Candidate and Employee Experience
During the past 12 months, I’ve studied how organizations, across various industries, have adapted to the ongoing challenges of a job market that requires meeting and engaging job candidates, new hires, and current employees within the digital (online and mobile) realm. That said, employee recruiting and retention is a hot topic for the C-suite.
5 Insights from Our Latest Multi-Cloud Research with Forrester Consulting
By Dave Wolpert VMware recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to better understand companies’ current and planned multi-cloud strategies, coupled with the role of application modernization in their business transformations. To explore these topics, Forrester conducted an online survey with 616 global IT decision-makers who are responsible for their organizations’ cloud strategy.
Multi-Cloud Strategies Speed Innovation and Business Growth
Today, CIOs are much more involved in developing business strategies, generating revenue and fostering partnerships. As such, recently VMware commissioned Forbes Insights to survey CIOs around the world and dive deeper into their evolving roles and new areas of focus. Taking charge We found that CIOs are growing their influence and impact across the enterprise, with a heavy focus on creating IT that inspires innovation across the organization.
How a Customer First Mindset is Driving VMware's Growth Strategy
By: Annie Lin, Senior Director, Business Strategy, VMware This article is part of a three-part series between VMware’s CIO leadership who are rolling out VMware’s largest transformation yet: VMware’s transition to a Software & Subscription as a Service model. Follow along as we learn what it means for 40,000+ of our global colleagues to come together and transform as ONE VMware. Happy customers make growing businesses.
How CIOs Are Leading a New Wave of Technology Driven Growth
In the past, strategic decisions and organizational change have been supported by technologies—rarely driven by them. CIOs were often left out of major decisions and tasked with executing the “how” regardless of the “why.” That’s no longer the case. They are seizing the opportunities presented by multi-cloud, modernizing their application pipeline, and meeting or exceeding expectations around hybrid workplaces.
Empowering the Future of Work for an 'Anywhere Workforce'
Share on: 0 Over the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve witnessed the rapid transformation of work as many organizations pivoted to a distributed workforce model. Now that we’re two years into this significant transition, what are the implications that CIOs and the C-suite should consider next on their journey? How have employees weathered this shift?
Putting People at the Center of VMware’s SaaS Transformation Journey
By: and Jerry Ibrahim, IT Chief Technology Officer, VMware This article is part of a three-part series between VMware’s CIO leadership who are rolling out VMware’s largest transformation yet: VMware’s transition from a Software as a Service & Subscription model. Follow along as we learn what it means for 40,000+ of our global colleagues to come together and transform as ONE VMware. True transformation is rooted in a strong culture of innovation.
CIOs Must Change Their Mindset to Scale Business and Innovation
In 2020, companies changed their operations almost overnight. Some companies, however, struggled with this sudden about-face. The culprit? Not leveraging software to enable day-to-day functions. For example, in early 2020, nearly half of polled organizations hadn’t improved their software portfolios in at least one year. That’s understandable. Becoming a software-driven multi-cloud company isn’t as simple as using more technology tools.
Constellation's Dion Hinchcliffe: Cross-cloud unites cloud strategy
Multi-cloud environments offer several advantages over single-cloud environments—such as the ability to choose best-in-breed services from specific cloud providers, to achieve regional compliance, and to bolster resilience across your cloud estate. However, managing a multi-cloud estate is complex. The root challenge is that every cloud provider uses administrative tools that only work within its cloud.
Be a Visionary: Take the Next Step With Multi-Cloud
Visionary organizations capitalize on modern IT environments, harnessing digital technologies to reimagine both customer and employee experiences. It is therefore no surprise that multi-cloud is booming — 73% of VMware customers already use two or more clouds, and 81% of enterprises expect to be multi-cloud by 2024.i Yet, while multi-cloud delivers greater efficiency, agility and scalability to organizations, some IT leaders are still uncertain about how best to manage their multi-cloud estates.
5 Key Elements of a Successful Multi-Cloud Environment
Enterprise adoption of multi-cloud environments continues to grow, even though managing, optimizing and securing applications across multiple public clouds can be challenging. What would it take to reduce the complexity of a multi-cloud estate? 451 Research recently addressed that very question in a new report, Taming Complexity in the New Multicloud World.
The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work
Employees have come to expect the relative freedom and flexibility of a hybrid work environment to the point that it has become table stakes for employers looking to attract and retain talent. Embracing this “virtual floorplan” not only helps employers remain competitive in a cutthroat talent market, but also stands to significantly increase productivity, encourage collaboration, and improve cohesion. Yet, with these benefits come security challenges.
Inspire Organizational Change for Modern Agility
In March of 2020, organizations faced a massive shift. Almost overnight, entire operations were forced to go remote. Today, that trend continues. Ninety-two percent of respondents to the study “The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for the New Era of Work” report at least some of their employees work remotely, which is only a 2% decrease from work-from-home poll results taken at the height of the pandemic.
The Great Resignation & Your Approach to Talent
Lead/Forward Podcast, Ep. 2 “Talent” A staggering 4.3 million people quit their jobs in September 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.1 The resignation sensation sweeping the nation is leaving some organizations with dwindling staffs of disgruntled employees. The Great Resignation is impossible for business leaders to ignore and may be the jolt they needed to change their approach to employee happiness and workplace culture.
When You Say ‘IT Innovation,’ You Probably Mean ‘Creativity’
Lead/Forward Podcast Series, Ep. 1 “Innovation” New technology isn’t always the answer. That’s a bold statement coming from a technology company. According to VMware CIO Jason Conyard, “innovation” is an overused term that’s often used incorrectly. Innovation is the space program in the 1960s, the steam engine, Uber.
CIO Priorities are shifting to a more strategic role
CIO priorities are shifting toward more strategic roles, away from a singular focus on technology. Australia Securities Exchange CIO discusses why, and VMware’s CIO Assessment tool helps technology leaders better understand organizational goals. Not too long ago, nearly half of technology leaders felt their departments were primarily cost centers or service providers.[1] Since then, we have seen a shift in CIO priorities.
Business Transformation a Catalyst for Innovation
VMware’s 2021 IT Performance Annual Report shows how we are driving positive change. While it’s true that transformation is a journey, I think it’s more useful to say that the business transformation of today is more of an attitude. By that I mean transformation is a choice we make every day. Business and IT leaders must model the transformation mindset so that it reaches their entire organization. Companies met the challenges of 2020 and 2021 with a raft of transformative technological solutions.
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Today’s technologists have to interpret the industry’s past, present, and future. At Genpact, Sanjay Srivastava uses data strategy and process design to help businesses make a plan and avoid disruption in the future. As Genpact’s Chief Digital Strategist, Sanjay designs and runs thousands of digitally-enabled processes and services. In this episode of the CIO Exchange, Sanjay discusses the ideal mindset of a technologist, the evolving tech ecosystem, and the value of data.
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