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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

The Carbon Footprint For Data Is How Much?

The Carbon Footprint For Data Is How Much? Steve Rackham, Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, EMEA Global at NetApp Something that I hear more and more being discussed is ‘sustainability’ and ‘carbon footprint’. I have worked with data for a long time, so I am used to conversations about storage efficiencies etc., but I have never really sat b...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

As FSI cloud adoption soars, what does this mean for data, compliance, and future innovation?

The financial service industry’s (FSI) recent acceleration to the cloud has outpaced any other industry, facing both new challenges and opportunities. The challenges facing the FSI industry today include heavy regulation and significant internal compliance. Any solution deployed must ensure these requirements are met, while still providing all the ...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

Convenience, innovation and trust: the keys to unlocking future growth in financial services

For every country, community and industry, the future showed up early. COVID-19 has been a catalyst for the sudden surge in digital engagement – and our lives and livelihoods have been defined by consistent and uncertain change ever since. The financial services industry has not been immune to this. But today, as the world charts a course beyond re...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

The three ways traditional financial services can take on fintech

There really is no overstating just how operationally different a fintech company is to a traditional, established, financial services organisation. Fintechs are digitally native companies – they’re born on the cloud – and this imparts a high degree of agility into their DNA. It makes them capable of analysing customer data in creative ways and off...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

The Artificial Intelligence opportunity in the global Financial Services sector

When most of us think of AI, we imagine slick, intuitive designs, underpinned by quick, efficient systems all handed to you on a personalised plate. What many of us don’t necessarily think of is hard, cold numbers. Odd really when data is the key foundation underpinning AI. Artificial intelligence is all about data or numbers, input into systems t...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

From compliance to innovation: the acceleration of DX in FS

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to drive focus for financial institutions onto systems resilience and operations. Once cast in a role of planning for different worst case scenarios, CIOs have been tasked to help banks continue to service customers in the new ‘stay-at-home’ era, focusing on delivering self-service systems, modernising and enabling...

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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

Has AI arrived for financial services?

When will artificial intelligence really have ‘arrived’? For a long time, this was a question for philosophers and computer scientists, pondering over whether passing the Turing test truly indicates intelligence, or debating about how broad our definition of artificial intelligence should be. Over the last several years, however, this question has...

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