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If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.
"The scale of incoming information from all corners of the globe will allow McDonald’s GenAI models to better understand the broadest range of patterns and nuances"
"From adding new legal entities following M&A, through launching products such as swap types, to simple requests to improve our workflows, the system couldn’t keep up. Just a simple launch request would take as much as nine months"
"We can confirm that the situation is under control" is not the world's greatest incident response report we've seen.
Vodafone is creating hundreds of new cloud-native apps, underpinned by a multi-cloud database which is giving the telco giant resilience and the ability to innovate at speed and scale.
"This preservation responsibility applies to new methods of collaboration and information sharing tools, even including tools that allow for messages to disappear via ephemeral messaging capabilities"
Allianz more broadly has successfully ditched mainframe-based core IT applications for x67 servers with Linux operating systems.