(And is Now on the Azure Marketplace) Ian Moyse – Tech Industry influencer As we enter 2024, there has never been a time when data has held as high an intrinsic value to an organisation.  I have spoken before about data being the source of the new gold, the value that underpins an organisation’s success and future. The actual gold is the insights that can be gleaned from this data, leading to business action that makes an ongoing and real difference to an organisation. Big Data has been one of those hyped terms alongside Cloud, AI and IOT over recent years, but as with these, others get p ..read more

Ian Moyse – Industry Cloud Thought Leader Having worked in the IT sector for 3 decades, in the past 5 years I have witnessed faster change and adoption of technologies than the prior 20 years combined. Users’ familiarity with technology have rocketed, and their demands have evolved alongside. Much of this has been driven by the consumerisation of compute power in smart phones, home IoT devices such as ring doorbells and smart TV’s and expectations of always on-always available and internet connected technologies. This has naturally reverberated into businesses small and large, where customers ..read more

Ian Moyse, Industry Cloud Thought Leader & Sponsored Influencer of VMware’s Zero Carbon Committed Initiative Having worked in IT leadership a long, long time, engaging with businesses from small startups to the largest multi-billion-dollar global organisations, I have seen the levels of commitment to sustainability initiatives change over time. It was not so many years ago that businesses liked the ‘press release’ kudos of a green initiative, but lacked the commitment, ability and information to execute on the dream. Today, the importance of committing to low-carbon and sustainable comput ..read more

Ian Moyse, Cloud Thought Leader Huawei continues to innovate and spread the word of tech for good and in its recent Innovation Week of Win- Win, it focused on how the industry and customer can both achieve a win/win together that positively impacts the environment and the good of the community. From the breadth of sessions, I would suggest this is a win-win-win for end customers, partners/carriers and Huawei itself as it make a further step forward on its commitment to faster innovation, integrations across key technology stacks of telecoms, cloud, AI and more and commitment to a greener deliv ..read more

Ian Moyse, Cloud Industry Thought Leader & Social Influencer Cloud computing has revolutionised our lives and industries over the past 20 years, and will continue to do so as it evolves, innovates and becomes increasingly more affordable for all. Today, cloud computing platforms and applications span technology sectors, vertical industries, and use cases.      While many businesses had adopted cloud computing models prior to 2020, the global pandemic dramatically accelerated the pace. Less than two years later, due to the cloud’s ability to solve the business disru ..read more

(Why aggregating data from everywhere to anywhere is key) Ian Moyse, Cloud Industry Thought Leader & Social Influencer Digital transformation is difficult enough encompassing changes in platform, vendor, processes, skills, data stores and more. Additionally, the complexity of securing and monitoring this changed environment, in combination with the traditional systems already in place, often results in security and performance blind spots going unnoticed. The pandemic has accelerated the speed of cloud adoption, resulting in a higher amount of pressure across the organisations to transform ..read more

Ian Moyse, Cloud Industry Thought Leader & Social Influencer We have rapidly progressed to a more mature digitized world, where cloud computing has become commonplace. The COVID-19 global pandemic accelerated the need for remote work across the world, bringing exponential growth to the likes of common cloud applications such as video conferencing and cloud telephony. This need has also pushed business agendas forward to ‘digitally transform,’ utilizing the new delivery form factors now available. Recent reports found that only 7% of IT decision-makers say they’re equipped for digital trans ..read more

Ian Moyse, Industry Cloud Influencer As we progress fast to a post COVID new world of distributed working and changed expectations of business delivery Huawei laid out its bold plans for a smarter world by 2030. A world of new value creation for customer, supply chains at all levels and businesses across industry sector. Over 5 days Huawei Connect portrayed an intelligent decade ahead bringing major changes to every aspect of our lives through customer demand, business need and the capabilities given to us by the continued emergence of technological innovations. Predictions were given that in ..read more

Ian Moyse, Industry Cloud Influencer There is no doubt that 5G has become a technology evolution that surpasses the 1st impression it made. When 5G was 1st announced the immediate perceived improvement was that of speed of transmission and reports were wide that the consumer would not pay the higher price for the pure speed improvement. However, what was missed was the wider application and implications that 5G delivers to the business community and the economic advantages that can be extracted from this new extension to a medium we increasingly take for granted; the ability to access anything ..read more

As in my prior commentary, AI is coming to be an everyday term not only from the science fiction of movies, but increasingly from the realities of our everyday lives. Many debates are in play around AI, where it can be trusted, how robust it is and the impact if may have on all our lives and job roles in the coming years. It is inherently linked to the concept of robotics and ability for a human like machine to mimic our human form and actions. AI by many is expected to bring fear and negative impact, to replace the human in many job of today and to make others lazy where affordability allows ..read more