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CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon [Subscribe to the Podcast] On Apple Podcast: https://podcastsconnect.apple.com/my-podcasts For more podcasts, video and in-depth research go to https://www.vmware.com/cio...
CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon [Subscribe to the Podcast] On Apple Podcast: https://podcastsconnect.apple.com/my-podcasts For more podcasts, video and in-depth research go to https://www.vmware.com/cio...
This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Ginna Raahauge, CIO at Zayo to find out more about the current state and future of the expanding definition of DevOps and what application modernization really means within the new environments the applications are being consumed. She explains how Covid has accelerated the diversification of appli...
What’s stopping your business from deploying applications 50% faster to increase market share and boost revenue? For Jeff Shaw, CIO of EMPLOYERS Insurance, it was finding the right place to run the right application with the agility and scalability of the cloud. This meant leveraging not one cloud, but multiple clouds to take advantage of the best tools that each one had to offer while at the same time, managing them as if they were one cloud. In this episode, Jeff is joined by his VP of Cloud I...
This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Tihomir Bajic, CEO of LTSE Software to find out more about the evolution of DevOps, and his vision for overcoming siloed developer, ops and security teams for fast, consistent and scalable operations across environments. He explains the importance of developer lifestyle and flexibility, to ensure ...
This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Ashish Kakran, Principal of Thomvest Ventures to find out how his organization nurtures the future of technology and advancement by investing in companies to help them become leaders in their fields. During the discussion we tackle the technology challenges related to multi-cloud, including infras...
Nowadays, technology is a crucial part of every company. Technology leaders need to be capable of more than just supporting their business, they need to be able to help drive it. Heller Search is an executive search firm that places technology leaders in the right opportunity for them, nationwide, and across all industries. In this episode we speak with Martha Heller, CEO at Heller Search Associates, to find out how her team excels at navigating the IT talent market while engaging with high leve...
Illuminate Ventures focuses on finding, funding, and accelerating great founders in the B2B, Enterprise cloud, and mobile computing spaces - BUT, without a crystal ball into the future, how do they determine what are the right trends and technologies to back? In this episode, I speak with Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing partner at Illuminate Ventures, to find out how they’re leveraging data to make the best investing decisions. From artificial intelligence and machine learning to hybrid cloud...
Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. This big idea is driving innovative technology entrepreneurs to create new markets in impoverished areas where opportunity did not previously exist. Clayton Christensen, and his coauthors Karen Dillon and Efosa Ojomo, lay this out in their book "The Prosperity Paradox" and highlight the role of innovators in developing prosperity in emerging economies. The best of altruistic intentions — and billions of dollars in aid — haven’t lifted many co...
This episode of CIO Exchange is a part of our CIO Unplugged series where Jason Conyard, VMware’s CIO, has candid hallway-style conversations with other technology leaders about what’s at the top of his mind right now. In this episode, Jason speaks with Alex Tosheff, the Chief Security Officer at VMware, about the relationship between the CIO and CSO. During the conversation they cover the classic tensions between technology and security teams, the strategic importance of those roles and the rela...
Is security a barrier to innovation, or would innovation not even be relevant without security? Security is often seen as a tax or barrier to new and creative solutions that could potentially create more value if security didn't slow everything down. But is this still true? In this episode, we have a hallway-style conversation with Curt Carlson, the author of the book entitled Innovation , who also served as the CEO of SRI International, widely known for the work done to create Apple's Siri inte...
This conversation is part two of our three-part Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind three themes: innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we tackle the theme of talent and how companies can best enable their workforces by looking at the whole person and not just the tools they use or what they're paid. Michael Loggins, Global Vice President of IT at SMC, joins the show along with Renu Upadhyay, Vice President of Product and Techni...
This conversation is part one of our three-part Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind three themes: innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we tackle the theme of innovation from the standpoint of solving problems in unique ways that surprise and delight users and provide them with solutions they never knew they needed. Jason Conyard, VMware CIO, talks about how the term "innovation" is overused. He focuses on what's really required...
FedEx is an $87 billion business with over 560,000 team members around the world. At that scale, how does Rob Carter, FedEx CIO, approach business agility to stay ahead of the curve? In this episode, I speak with Rob Carter about what he has dubbed “the dominant architecture,” which allows industries to scale and has proven throughout history to increase global value creation exponentially. For technology leaders, this dominant architecture is now comprised of critical technologies like multi-cl...
How do you fight for your own life along with the lives of billions of others in the world? While technology was able to dramatically accelerate the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, even with distributed teams, that speed pushed the people on those vaccine teams to their limits. This episode aired live from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) conference on August 11th, 2021, about a month after the Delta variant had become the dominant form of the coronavirus in...
The accelerating growth of Fintech companies is a powerful sign of the unstoppable market dynamics that are currently unfolding. Agile, cloud-native startups backed by large amounts of venture capital were able to take market share from established companies, like legacy consumer banks, by creating the trusted platforms of choice for the next generation. In this episode, I speak with Anudeep Parhar, CIO of Entrust, a trusted identity technology company specializing in highly secure transactions....
After a year that saw the largest and fastest transformation in work patterns in history, security teams now preside over an ecosystem that is more distributed and heterogeneous than ever before. A study was conducted where 3,542 CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs from around the world were surveyed from companies in a range of industries to understand the challenges and issues facing businesses when it comes to escalating cyberattacks. In this episode, originally recorded at VMware's 2021 Security Connect e...
Technology leaders, right now, are experiencing a once-in-a-career opportunity to lead the business in reimagining the future of how their teams get things done. A future that attracts and inspires the best people to do their best work. In this episode Jason Conyard, VMware’s CIO describes how he is helping to create human connections in a distributed work environment, not by digitally replicating the office experience, but by creating what he calls the “3rd Experience.” Jason talks about what t...
Mobility isn't just for consumers. Retailers must embrace mobility at scale in their physical stores, connected to an enhanced online presence, to provide the types of end-to-end purchasing experiences that today's consumers are demanding. In this episode, we hear from Jared Feldman, Global Retail IT Leader at Estee Lauder as he discusses the powerful forces currently driving global retail companies to embrace a mobile-first workforce and technology-enabled network of stores to better serve thei...
Because technology has risen to become a critical pillar of business strategy, boards and CIOs may need to elevate their engagement and collaboration with each other, and a trusted relationship between the board of directors and the CIO takes effort on both sides. In this episode we cover the relationship between the CIO and their board of directors. What are the expectations, pressures, and opportunities that a CIO faces when working with their companies' board? I had a chance to talk with Warr...
This is a curated episode from the VMware family of shows called Don't Break the Bank with Matthew O'Neill and Brian Hayes. It covers how the financial services sector is one of the most secure in the world; it’s also one of the most targeted by sophisticated cybercriminals. In this show, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity experts, Tom Kellermann, talks with Mathew and Brian about how the threat has gone from bank heist to hostage situation, and what financial service providers can do to c...
Change is constant. But often when change comes knocking at the door, it can feel unwelcome. Unless we imagine the opportunities change might bring. And dare to lead it. In this episode we hear from Ross Forgione, CIO of the Australia-Based law firm of Johnson Winter & Slattery, who talks about the ubiquitous issue that technology leaders face, resistance to change. Ross, who has been a CIO across multiple industries – from broadcast to manufacturing and now legal, outlines the way in which ...
With nearly 24 million people—a little over 15% of the workforce— involved in military, public, and national service at the local, state, and federal levels, the public sector in the U.S. faces some unique challenges from a modernization standpoint. Constrained by regulations but tasked with some of the most critical services, there is no shortage of obstacles to implementing the necessary changes to keep pace with emerging threats as well as the demands of the citizens that these entities have ...
Now more than ever, technology leaders and their teams are rethinking the meaning of work and redefining how they navigate their careers. In this episode, recorded during the September 2020 VMworld Inspired Future event, we hear from a panel of leaders in technology roles and technology companies about their experiences, perspectives, and advice about tech careers. The first voice that you’ll hear will be from the panel moderator, Anna Dorcey, VP of Americas Marketing at VMware, followed by intr...
Our unique digital experiences are now being driven, more and more, by artificial intelligence and machine learning, making it a critical component of the applications that businesses are using to differentiate themselves in their respective industries. To make the promises of AI a reality across global organizations, it has been equally critical for technology leaders to have a firm grasp on the difference between conversations about the state-of-the-art vs the state-of-the-practice. In this ep...
This episode is a part of our ongoing conversation about technology and healthcare, where we cover the roles technology plays in the delivery and management of healthcare services. For decades now healthcare has been identified as an industry ripe for disruption but it has been very slow to realize the innovation promised by the would-be disruptors. To discuss some of the reasons why, I talk with Jorrit Ebben, the Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer of Academy Het Dorp to get his take on why e...
In the wake of high-profile technology companies like Twitter and Facebook announcing a permanent shift to remote work, the rest of the business world has been left wondering whether this is something they should embrace as well. In this episode, recorded during the August 2020 Bay Area Leadership Association’s ORBIE awards, we hear VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger and VMware CIO and CDTO Bask Iyer in conversation with Frank Bell, founder of InspireCIO. The first voice you’ll hear will be from Frank, ...
This conversation was recorded at our CIO Forum in San Francisco in 2019 where we spoke with Patrick Hale, CIO of VITAS healthcare. Patrick and I discussed the burdens on CIOs in Healthcare to innovate in an industry where failing fast is not an option. Patrick lays out the intense challenges he faces between regulatory constraints, patient safety, and the pressures to enhance the patient experience with new, but safe, technology. Guest: Patrick Hale, CIO VITAS Patrick Hale on Twitter: https://t...
Deciding what your priorities are as an IT organization has become exponentially more difficult, amid a global landscape that is rapidly shifting every day. Technology leaders have the opportunity, and the burden, to differentiate their businesses within their industry or face the prospect of declining revenues and tumbling stock prices. Finding the gaps in the enterprise application portfolio has become a key focus for CIOs and their teams, but knowing how to approach this problem in light of m...
