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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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March 2022. February 2022. January 2022. Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based provider of banking and e-governance services, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vice president and head of technology and digital. Khona has more 17 years of experience across retail, telecommunications, and banking.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

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This piece of legislation in the European Union (EU) requires companies to be compliant by January 2025, meaning businesses have just under one year to ensure they’re prepared. And how can businesses ensure they’re ready? But what exactly does this policy mean for IT security? What is DORA?

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Atos staves off bankruptcy, casts wider net for refinancing

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Atos may have won a few extra months to find a long-term solution to its financial problems after reaching interim agreements with banks, bondholders, and the French government to provide €450 million (US$490 million) in additional liquidity. billion in 2022. On Tuesday, Atos laid out its financing needs — €1.2

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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

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AWS launched its first Region in the Middle East with three availability zones in 2019, enabling Middle East organizations to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements and build available, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications from Bahrain. The roots of efforts like these spread deep and wide.

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Combatting digital ignorance

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Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas , speaking at the MITSMR Connections session on February 9, 2022, lamented, “I don’t think we have strategies. I think we have a set of tactics.

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IT leaders rethink the people part of business continuity

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Like others, Orlandini does not consider the topic as entirely new; it fits with business continuity planning. In a February 2022 publication responding to questions about protecting IT services from disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it advised first “Protect people: Place human needs above all other actions.

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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

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By working closely with them, IT leaders can become more dynamic, proactive, self-determining, self-regulated, flexible, strong, robust, and resilient,” says Dr Suresh A Shan, a technology consultant with Mumbai-based rural non-banking financial company Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services.