This Week's Top 5 Stories in Technology
How NetApp NFL Deal Could Reshape Sports Data Infrastructure
The National Football League (NFL) faces mounting data management challenges unlike those of any other sporting organisation. With billions of data points generated each game — from player tracking metrics and high-definition video to fan engagement statistics across multiple platforms — the league’s infrastructure requirements have expanded dramatically over the past decade.
The NFL now processes petabytes of information annually while confronting increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats and regulatory compliance demands. Legacy systems, siloed data repositories and the need for real-time analytics have created a complex technological landscape that threatens to impede innovation rather than enable it.
To tackle this challenge, the NFL has appointed NetApp as its Official Intelligent Data Infrastructure partner in a move to develop advanced storage technology for managing the organisation’s data assets.
The partnership will focus on creating silo-free storage solutions that enable the NFL to harness data for innovation purposes across its operations.
“The global partnership between the NFL and NetApp represents a shared commitment to leveraging intelligent data to drive transformative solutions for the league,” says Renie Anderson, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer at the NFL. “By combining our expertise with NetApp’s industry-leading intelligent data infrastructure, we can unlock new efficiencies that accelerate innovation within our game.”
Tech & AI LIVE London Returns in One Month
In just four weeks, the global technology community will gather at 155 Bishopsgate, London for one of the most anticipated technology events of the year — Tech & AI LIVE London.
Hosted by Technology Magazine, Tech & AI LIVE London will be in co-location with Cyber LIVE London for 2025.
This two-day event will bring together some of the brightest minds and most influential leaders from across the enterprise technology and artificial intelligence ecosystem.
From AI and cloud infrastructure to cybersecurity, data and digital transformation, the event promises a packed agenda of insights, innovations and invaluable networking.
SAP Appoints President to Lead Enterprise Transformation
SAP has announced the appointment of Rouven Morato as President of Enterprise and Business Transformation Management, signalling the technology giant’s continued commitment to accelerating customer migration to cloud-based ERP solutions.
Announcing his new role on LinkedIn, Rouven will oversee SAP’s Enterprise division, which encompasses the company’s flagship RISE with SAP programme, described as “SAP’s largest individual product line.” The appointment brings together two critical elements of SAP’s business strategy – Enterprise and Business Transformation Management – under unified leadership.
The move reflects SAP’s strategic focus on guiding its extensive installed customer base through the transition to cloud-based ERP systems. RISE with SAP has been the cornerstone of this strategy since its launch, offering customers a comprehensive package to simplify and accelerate their migration journey.
“Enterprise refers to SAP's initiative for its installed-base customers moving towards Cloud ERP,” Rouven explained in his announcement. “Bringing together Business Transformation Management and Enterprise reflects the incredible journey we’ve embarked on over the past four years with SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX and WalkMe.”
UST’s AI Chief: Celebrating a Century of Quantum Innovation
World Quantum Day is a global celebration held every year on 14 April, bringing together uniting quantum scientists from more than 65 countries in a shared mission: to foster public understanding and awareness of quantum science and technology on an international scale.
This initiative invites educators, researchers, communicators and artists to engage audiences worldwide through outreach talks, lab tours, exhibitions and interviews — showcasing how quantum science shapes vital technologies and and paves the way for future scientific revolutions.
Off the back of World Quantum Day, Dr Adnan Masood, Chief AI Architect at UST, celebrates how quantum — a once-experimental field — has advanced from “daring speculation to real-world pilots embraced by top leadership”.
He says that breakthroughs like IBM’s 1,121-qubit Condor processor and Google’s next-level error correction are more than headlines, calling them “catalysts for market-creating innovation, reshaping analytics, cybersecurity and finance”.
Q&A: David Khuat-Duy, Ivalua’s CEO-turned-Chief AI Officer
Implementing AI at scale is no mean feat.
But for one exec, pivoting his focus at his US$1bn spend management tech unicorn from general leadership to AI-centric management has been critical to its success moving forward.
David Khuat-Duy is the Founder and former CEO of Ivalua.
An engineer by training, David set up Ivaula at the turn of the millennium and in the 25 years since has grown it into a procurement software giant.
Ivalua’s AI-powered spend management software helps customers across the world — from IKEA to Volkswagen and Bulgari — to effectively manage spend and suppliers, increasing profitability, improving sustainability, lowering supply chain risk and boosting employee productivity.
David has witnessed a lot of change in the last quarter of a century at the helm of Ivalua and, with plenty more change on the horizon as AI’s capabilities grow, has moved over to become its first Chief AI Officer (CAIO).
In this Q&A with Technology Magazine, David shares how Ivalua is furthering its AI capabilities to enhance its offerings to customers, as well as optimise its own operations, and emphasises the importance of leadership working AI into their business strategies.
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