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DEI matters more than ever - in the IT industry and beyond

Liz Blackman, Chief Marketing Officer at Avantra, discusses the continuing importance of DEI, despite some recent ‘push back’, explaining the importance of women's perspectives in creating balanced leadership teams, how diverse viewpoints lead to better solutions and innovation in technology, the responsibility of current women leaders in challenging stereotypes for future generations and some practical approaches to creating more equitable environments in male-dominated industries.

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AI and automation ‘to the rescue’ for overworked IT generalists
  • Posted on 18th April 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Steve Petryschuk, Director, Product & Market Strategy in Product Management, Auvik, discusses the findings of the company’s recent 2025 IT Report, entitled: “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” which reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist. Steve also highlights some recent innovations added to Auvik’s IT Operations platform.

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WOMEN IN IT – Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy
  • Posted on 13th April 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy, shares valuable insights on empowering women in tech and promoting inclusive workplaces – including building a career in tech without a traditional tech background; the importance of DEI representation in AI and tech leadership; AI in recruitment: the need for human oversight; empowering women and Gen Z in tech; and just why a well-crafted DEI strategy can bring so many benefits to an organisation when it comes to both employee and customer interactions.

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Enterprises waste millions on underused tech, struggle to harness AI efficiencies

Vivek Behl, Vice President, Strategy at WalkMe, discusses the findings of the company’s annual report, The State of Digital Adoption 2025, Special AI Edition. This year’s report focuses on AI adoption in the enterprise and highlights an alarming disconnect - while 79% of executives express confidence in meeting their AI transformation goals, only 28% of employees feel adequately trained and only 25% report being able to use AI to work more efficiently.

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DCS talks to ToffeeX at TechExGlobal 2025

In this video, DCS talks to ToffeeX at TechExGlobal 2025.

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Security is NOT the enemy of innovation

Sashi Jayeratnam, Senior Director of Product Management for Spirent, explains how an unfortunate reality of modern cybersecurity is that it is often put at odds with the wave of innovation that is now happening in enterprise IT – security testing is often reactive and manual and generally cannot keep up with the complexity or pace that innovation brings about. Sashi describes a new approach, where innovation within an organization needs to be managed differently, with security testing embedded and automated throughout the change process so that changes can be tested before they are rolled out. From there security can become an embedded part of the innovation process.

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DCS talks to Nasuni at TechExGlobal 2025

In this video, DCS talks to Nasuni at TechExGlobal 2025.

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DCS talks to Edge Impulse at TechExGlobal 2025

In this video, DCS talks to Edge Impulse at TechExGlobal 2025.

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DCS talks to Barbara at TechExGlobal 2025

In this video, DCS talks to Barbara at TechExGlobal 2025.

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AI + low-code - redefining application development
  • Posted on 31st January 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Tiago Azevedo, CIO at OutSystems, discusses the findings of the company’s recent global 2025 State of Application Development report, explaining how GenAI and low-code in combination will redefine application development and increase productivity while ensuring governance throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Tiago suggests that developer teams shouldn’t have to choose between high-quality, fully functional apps and speed-to-market, and by abandoning antiquated development practices in favour of AI-powered low-code technology, they can reap the performance and agility benefits of these transformative technologies.

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Document processing - as easy as IDP

David Malan, Sales Director, DocuWare, provides an overview of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) – explaining how streamlined, future-proof automation powered by AI could be just the solution an organisation needs to accurately read, pre-process and classify documents for increased efficiency. He also introduces DocuWare IDP - which leverages AI and machine learning to provide customers with the fastest document lifecycle automation rates, greatly improving overall productivity and earnings.

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Reinventing the high-tech company of tomorrow

Deborah Garand, Managing Director - High Tech, Accenture, discusses the findings of the company’s recent ‘As a Service, at Your Service’ research report which looks at the challenges and opportunities for high-tech companies as they look towards as-a-service (aaS) offerings to improve customer value and operational flexibility. The stakes are high, with 97% of executives believing generative AI can expedite the organisation’s strategic shift toward aaS models, while 75% of executives believe that legacy technology hardware companies will no longer exist unless they begin acting more like software companies.

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IT modernisation - the dos and don'ts

Neil Fowler, SVP of Hybrid Cloud Engineering at Rocket Software, discusses the challenges and opportunities of IT modernisation, offering some valuable insights as to the essential ingredients of a successful IT modernisation strategy, alongside some words of caution as to the pitfalls to avoid.

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AI Transform - Interview with NetApp

Kirsty Biddiscombe, AI, ML and Data Analytics lead for NetApp EMEA, discusses the challenges and opportunities of enterprise AI - with the focus very much on the current skills shortage.

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Combination of energy efficient data centres and modern IT infrastructure could save billions
  • Posted on 25th October 2024 in by Phil Alsop

Mat Brown, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer | Sustainability: Data Center & Hybrid Multicloud at Nutanix, who worked closely with Atlantic Ventures, as they produced the ‘Improving Sustainability in Data Centers 2024’ report, which reveals how next-generation data centre architectures, including hybrid cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), can significantly reduce energy consumption, lower carbon emissions, and drive cost savings across the EMEA region.

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