Addressing Data Governance challenges with IBM DataOps
Authors: Elaine Hanley, DataOps Centre of Excellence Worldwide Lead at IBM & Julie Lockner, IBM Data and AI Portfolio Operations, Customer Experience and Offering Management At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney earlier this year, IBM hosted a design thinking workshop on the emerging topic of DataOps. This is the third blog in […]
Assessing Data Inventory challenges with IBM DataOps
Authors: Elaine Hanley, DataOps Centre of Excellence Worldwide Lead at IBM & Julie Lockner, IBM Data and AI Portfolio Operations, Customer Experience and Offering Management At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney earlier this year, IBM hosted a design thinking workshop on the emerging topic of DataOps. This is the second blog in a […]
Accelerating the delivery of Trusted Data by adopting DataOps
Authors: Elaine Hanley, DataOps Centre of Excellence Worldwide Lead at IBM & Julie Lockner, IBM Data and AI Portfolio Operations, Customer Experience and Offering Management At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney in February, IBM hosted a design thinking workshop on the emerging topic of DataOps. During the session, we met with representatives from […]
Encouraging future Kiwi talent with P-TECH
Author: Liz Hampton, Corporate Social Responsibility manager IBM New Zealand When the school year began in February, a new education-business-tertiary partnership also began at Aorere College and Manurewa High School in South Auckland. A cohort of 43 Year 11 students started their P-TECH journey, with a programme that provides for seamless transitions from school to […]
Leading the way to an ethical AI future
Author: Kaaren Koomen AM, Director, Government & Regulatory Affairs, A/NZ As so well described in the Data 61 Report of Nov 2019, AI is one of those technologies which ‘has the power to change life itself and has the potential to transform economies, unlock new societal and environmental value, and accelerate scientific discovery‘. AI’s future […]
A/NZ takes up the Call for Code 2020 Challenge
Author: DeveloperSteve Coochin, Developer Advocate, IBM Developer Call for Code is now in its third year and in 2020 we are asking the world’s developers and creative thinkers to build solutions for COVID-19 and climate change. We have all seen the effects of climate change and how it’s affecting life on the planet. In A/NZ the […]
The need for gender diversity in cybersecurity is real
Author: Pelin Nancarrow, Consulting & System Integration Leader A/NZ I have been helping clients establish guidelines for implementing, maintaining and improving information security management in their organisations for 17 years. Although it has improved, I am often still the only woman in the room. It is now more critical than ever for organizations to attract and retain […]
The value of psychology and cognitive science in Cybersecurity
Author: Fiona Byrnes, AP Managed Security Services Delivery Executive, IBM Security Who is today’s cybercriminal? What new data can be commoditised or code weaponised for disruption? These are common security intelligence questions asked in our client conversations. While these questions are about the preventative tools, testing, analytics, and security methodology, they also have underlining psychology. […]
Cybersecurity needs your skills
Author: Holly Wright, QRadar Flows Product Owner, QFlow Software Engineer, IBM Security A little-known fact about cybersecurity is that it is one of the most diverse industries out there. Think of any company. You’d be hard-pressed to pick one that hasn’t gone through some sort of digital evolution, in some shape or form. Healthcare, finance, mining, […]
An extraordinary Unhidden Figure – Katherine Coleman Johnson
Author: Moragh Blyth, Head of Marketing – Cloud, Data and AI and IBM Brand at IBM A/NZ The movie and book, Hidden Figures, celebrates the inspiring stories of Katherine Coleman Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. Before Hidden Figures, these extraordinary African-American women were among some of the unsung heroes of STEM (science, technology, engineering and […]
Why aggregated data with the right cognitive tools can lead to new insights that transform entire industries
When asked what the most important consideration is for successful digital transformation, IBM’s Doug Robinson says digital transformation itself is “just a step” towards what should be the ultimate goal – becoming a “cognitive enterprise”. For all the jargon in the world of business transformation, Robinson, Managing Partner for IBM Services at IBM, distils the […]
From stolen credentials to vulnerability exploits – are you ready to counter emerging threats?
Author: Stephen Burmester, Asia Pacific Regional Leader, X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), IBM Security The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving. As countermeasures negate the effectiveness of one type of attack, malicious actors move to another threat vector. It can seem like an endless game of tit-for-tat, but by knowing what threats to […]