As the nature of digital continues to get more business-integral, a new executive role is on the rise: the chief digital officer (CDO). Credit: Broadcom In a relatively brief time span, technologies like cloud, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and IoT have taken center stage, and new innovative technologies keep emerging. We’re now navigating a technological landscape that’s growing exponentially more complex and rapidly changing, one that increasingly exceeds the ability of human intelligence to keep pace. This landscape is characterized by: • Hyperconnectivity. There are billions of devices, including IoT sensors, mobile phones, external services, and more—and trillions of connections. • Granularity. Software ranges from large, one-piece mainframe programs to the small microservices of today’s native cloud environments. •Dynamism. As-a-service apps leverage resources that are constantly, automatically being spun up and spun down. •Convergence. Where technology silos used to be the norm, those divisions are eroding. Operational technology (OT) is one key example. These are the systems that do sensing, monitoring, and controlling of physical systems, such as building management technologies and robotic assembly lines. OT systems are increasingly becoming intertwined with information technology (IT), the systems that handle creating, storing, and exchanging data and information, such as CRM […]