That’s something that needs to be looked at increasingly.
It’s not just data residency or data at rest; it’s also data in transit. You have to look at this as a holistic puzzle to navigate. We need to solve these challenges for ourselves. We, as Orange Business, serve some incredibly sensitive clients, which is why this is something that we are now putting at the core of our differentiation as well. Building trust into all our products and services is now at the core of our differentiation.”
It’s this washing machine of change that, for Hriday, has reinforced the fact that the role of CIOs and their equivalents has transformed dramatically in recent years.
Candid on the scale of the shift, he says: “Probably the most disruptive force that exists today in industry, enterprise and society is technology. Over the last decade or two – with cloud, applications and SaaS – business models have been completely disrupted. Now, with AI, this is becoming an even stronger force.
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