

Martin Banks
Red Bull Racing - when remote working gives you wings
The typical remote worker will travel with a laptop, but Red Bull Racing carries its own data center around the world’s race tracks.
The Future of Work – activity, not place, is the new normal and that has implications for all
If digital nomads are the ‘new normal’, planning for the human aspects is going to need a more complex and diverse set of skills.
An intelligent strategy - why planes are just part of the picture in taking JetBlue to new heights
JetBlue has become a travel-tech business that happens to fly, using tools from software intelligence specialist CAST to ensure everything hangs together.
Four CIO 'hot tech' topics to contemplate, from quantum considerations to 5G's dirty little secret
Thoughts on things for CIOs to think about from Dell Technologies Global CTO, from quantum computing to 5G subplots.
PCCW’s Console Connection straightens out multi-cloud’s ‘hairball’ connection problem
A point-to-point, high-speed and capacity data connection are becoming the order of the day, just in time for multi-cloud operations to accelerate the number and complexity of global interconnections.
The Future of Work - one way to get the gig economy organised
Having the necessary talents is one thing, but much of the gig economy is a sea of solo operators trying to sell themselves. There is a new opportunity here for talent brokers like California-based Braintrust, that can help pull together the big opportunity for those solo gigsters.
Eating an elephant - Nedbank’s digital transformation, built around DevOps and mainframe resilience
Developing front-end, user-facing applications is one thing; making sure the resilience of the established back office services keeps up is another matter.
Out with the old, in with…new problems? In business transformation, even legacy apps can have a vital role
When it comes to business transformation and modernisation, wholesale ripping out the old and replacing with whizzy new tech solutions in search of a problem is unlikely ever be the right answer. You too may have a 50 year old app that cannot easily be replaced.
A sideways look at the enterprise fall out from the musical chairs played by defecting VMware execs
First VMware’s COO resigned to take up the role of CEO at Nutanix, rapidly followed by a lawsuit for breach of contract and fiduciary duty; then the CEO left to join Intel as its new boss. The bigger questions in both cases are the same – what might be the eventual result?
Taping up a renaissance as HDD stalls - tape storage makes a comeback at CERN
Tape storage could have an interesting new future - and if it does you can blame the growing calls for the ‘democratisation of data’, where anyone and everyone gets involved in analysing data in a million different ways
2020 - the year of making IT simple (or trying to at any rate)
IT complexity has been a bane of business life for decades; time for something simple...
The Future of Work 2 - stay home, workers of the world
Office workers may have been obliged to work from home with the coming of the first pandemic lockdown, but many took to it readily, and many companies realised it had many advantages without causing their world to cave in. The trickier problem will come when the same idea is applied to manufacturing tasks.
The Future of Work Part 1 – when everybody gets a gig
First there was a pandemic, then some lockdowns and then working from home. Then those working from home decided they liked it and...