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The Great Resignation hit the tech sector particularly hard in November as workers began to question their purpose and satisfaction with their jobs. The sentiment lingers today. Some 72% of US tech workers are considering leaving their current employer in 2022, according to a survey by TalentLMS. More than half of respondents say they suffer from job burnout, making them twice as likely to quit their job than those who don’t. “There’s a collective question…

There are always growing pains associated with new technology—and the cloud is no exception. Many companies have made big investments but have been disappointed with the results. But giving up is not really an option: the cloud could generate as much as $1 trillion in value over the next decade just among the Fortune 500, according to McKinsey research [Disclaimer: The authors are employed by McKinsey]. Getting it right is a matter of urgency. Moreover,…

IT budgets, artificially boosted by the fall in employee travel and the need for work-from-home solutions during the pandemic, are coming under pressure again as the world reopens, and SAP—which also owns online expense management service Concur—is seeing the shift in the numbers. “We were benefiting, in particular in the first part of the pandemic, from obvious savings in travel, facilities, car fleet, and other areas that were not so much in demand. But this…

During a 20-year career in which he has crossed the public-private sector divide and held senior leadership positions as diverse as CEO, CIO and director of innovation, Boots UK and Ireland CIO Rich Corbridge has arguably seen it all as far as IT is concerned. But perhaps this is the first time he’s worked at an organisation where his CEO equates technology transformation to eating a Sunday roast. “He talks about the IT of Sunday…

Vuyisa Qabaka has been at the forefront of African tech and innovation for over a decade. He is a partner at Hybr Group, a pan-African innovation and start-up advisory firm. Known to everyone as ‘Chief’ in the Cape Town tech community where he lives and works, Qabaka works with blue chip companies, helping them to improve business outcomes and processes, as well as identify and source talent. Hybr boasts a wide array of influential clients,…

Having learnt from their own migration experiences, IT experts share their advice on how to execute a seamless, successful cloud migration project. Adoption of cloud computing continues to grow in the Middle East. Accelerated by the pandemic, it’s also been fuelled by large-scale government projects and the availability of an expanding range of data centre and managed service options. With benefits including lower operating costs, reduced business complexity, scalability and improved security, it’s easy to…

By Sergej Epp, Chief Security Officer, EMEA While Zero Trust is a term that is often misunderstood as well as misused, it is an approach that has real value in helping to reduce systematic cyber risk and improve resiliency. Organizations of all sizes understand that they require a resilient cybersecurity strategy that can support and enable the business even during a crisis, but when it comes to Zero Trust, most organizations struggle to understand it…