You may think that the IT department at a major oil and gas firm is about as male-dominated as you can get – but thanks to the cover star of IA’s November-December double issue, BP can boast of both innovation diversity. Lyn Grobler will join Hyperion Insurance Group as group CIO in January following 12 years at BP.

This issue also sees IA visit VMware’s VMWorld Europe conference in Barcelona to discover what lies ahead for the virtualisation king amidst Dell’s exorbitant deal to acquire EMC, and discuss the evolution of open source with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.

Also in this issue:

• How to disrupt before you get disrupted
• Inside the little snack box that built an empire on data
• 7 trends for the storage world in 2016
• Does good security really mean sacrificing privacy?

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