Communications service providers (CSPs) are rethinking their approach to enterprise services in the era of advanced wireless connectivity and 5G networks, as well as with the continuing maturity of fibre and Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) portfolios.

One of the highlights of the DataOps Unleashed 2022 virtual conference was a roundtable panel discussion on building versus buying when it comes to your data stack. Build versus buy is a question for all layers of the enterprise infrastructure stack. But in the last five years — even in just the last year alone — it’s hard to think of a part of IT that has seen more dramatic change than that of the modern data stack.

In a recent webinar, Functional (& Funny) Strategies for Modern Data Architecture, we combined comedy and practical strategies for migrating from Hadoop to AWS. Unravel Co-Founder and CTO Shivnath Babu moderated a discussion with AWS Principal Architect, Global Specialty Practice, Dipankar Ghosal and WANdisco CTO Paul Scott-Murphy. Here are some of the key takeaways from the event.

The pandemic changed our healthcare behaviors. Planned hospital and doctor visits were reduced while telemedicine, for physical and mental health, increased. As healthcare providers and insurers/payers worked through mass amounts of new data, our health insurance practice was there to help.

Data holds incredible untapped potential for Australian organisations across industries, regardless of individual business goals, and all organisations are at different points in their data transformation journey with some achieving success faster than others. To be successful, the use of data insights must become a central lifeforce throughout an organisation and not just reside within the confines of the IT team. More importantly, effective data strategies don’t stand still.