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CIO - Time is up or now is the time?!

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In this age of digital, every company is becoming a technology company. It is disrupting the role of CIO. CIO faces many challenges while companies trying to reinvent to stay relevant. Let us discuss some of those challenges faced by a typical CIO and some suggestions later in this article to turn the tide for a win-win. Expectation mismatch - there is a ground reality that is completely in the opposite direction of what the company wants to achieve. Business is under tremendous pressure to meet the market demand. Customers are looking for value and quick solutions. And, there is an information overload around us projecting all the positives of digital transformation, without much detail on how the success was achieved. Most of the organizations learns the hard way that there is no one-size-fits-for-all approach exists. It may work differently in startups than in traditional companies. The pressure is now on CIO, with a question “they have done it, why not we?” Aging IT infras

5G Super Speed to Power Internet of Things!

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At the just concluded mobile world congress , 5G corned prime space, and speed was everywhere. Even there was Formula 1 use case and key-note by the speed machine Fernando Alonso. 5G promises speed for IoT! Good news is, 5G is closer to becoming a reality. Carriers have announced the deployment plans and there were several use cases already in pilot mode. What is 5G? Why is it being perceived as next generation connectivity solution for digital transformation? 5G is the upcoming fifth-generation wireless broadband technology based on the IEEE802.11ac standard. According to the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association ( GSMA ) to qualify for a 5G, a connection should meet most of these eight criteria: One to 10Gbps connections to end points in the field One millisecond end-to-end round trip delay  1000x bandwidth per unit area 10 to 100x number of connected devices  (Perception of) 99.999 percent availability  (Perception of) 100 percent coverage  90 percent redu