CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This siloed approach leads to suboptimal decision-making and fractured strategies. The result was a compromised availability architecture. GreenOps incorporates financial, environmental and operational metrics, ensuring a balanced strategy that aligns with broader organizational goals. Cross-functional collaboration.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

To consolidate and modernize our technology, we focus on three transformations: customer facing, back office, and architecture. For the technical architecture, we use a cloud-only strategy. A cloud-only architecture allows us to operate in all these modes. What is your target architecture?

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Data sovereignty and local cloud infrastructure will remain priorities, supported by national cloud strategies, particularly in the GCC. Digital health solutions, including AI-powered diagnostics, telemedicine, and health data analytics, will transform patient care in the healthcare sector.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. But doing the work yourself means managing — and paying for — a staff, a data center, and more. No one knows anything. Finding the right balance may be impossible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Hameed and Qadeer developed Deep Vision’s architecture as part of a Ph.D. “They came up with a very compelling architecture for AI that minimizes data movement within the chip,” Annavajjhala explained. , who recruited Ravi Annavajjhala, who previously worked at Intel and SanDisk, as the company’s CEO.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet, controlling cloud costs remains the top challenge IT leaders face in making the most of their cloud strategies, with about one third — 35% — of respondents citing these expenses as the No. Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%).

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CIO

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. The Foundation of the Caf-Like Branch: Zero-Trust Architecture At the heart of the caf-like branch is a technological evolution thats been years in the makingzero-trust security architecture.

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Private cloud architecture is an increasingly popular approach to cloud computing that offers organizations greater control, security, and customization over their cloud infrastructure. What is Private Cloud Architecture? Why is Private Cloud Architecture important for Businesses?

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Equinix Global Tech Trends Survey found that 71% of global IT decision-makers agree that sustainability strategy and practices are critical to the longevity of their business, and 65% said their companies would only work with IT partners who can prove they meet key carbon-reduction targets.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 14, 2025

Interest in Data Lake architectures rose 59%, while the much older Data Warehouse held steady, with a 0.3% In our skill taxonomy, Data Lake includes Data Lakehouse , a data storage architecture that combines features of data lakes and data warehouses.) Finally, ETL grew 102%.

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CIO

JUNE 9, 2023

Such is the case with a data management strategy. That gap is becoming increasingly apparent because of artificial intelligence’s (AI) dependence on effective data management. For example, smart hospitals employ effective data management strategies. Learn more about data architectures in my article here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. ” Image Credits: Lightbits Labs.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

When Uber decided in 2022 to shift away from running its own data centers, the ridesharing and delivery company wanted a high level of control for how its workloads ran in the cloud, down to the CPU level. Calculated route to the cloud Uber’s cloud journey may sound familiar in some ways.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

It emerged that there are major gaps in cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) strategies, resulting in exceeded budgets and an overall loss cloud spend control. Overspend in cloud deployment Money wasted on an untargeted cloud strategy has serious consequences to the enterprise. So what’s the solution?

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CIO

AUGUST 7, 2023

Softchoice , an award-winning VMware partner and this year’s winner of the Cloud Consumption Award for the Americas in the 2023 VMware Partner Achievement Awards , has deep expertise in helping customers succeed with cloud and workplace solutions, from the data center to cloud to edge. “It Multi Cloud

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2024

According to the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report : The rate of cloud migration shows no sign of slowing down—from $370 billion in 2021, with predictions to reach $830 billion in 2025—with many cloud-native applications and architectures already having had time to mature. Therefore, it'll be easier. It's definitely a misconception.

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Xebia

MAY 21, 2024

This involves updating existing systems to take advantage of modern cloud-native architectures, technologies, and best practices, which always follow the six Pillars of AWS Well Architecture Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Traditional on-premise architectures, which create a fixed, finite set of resources, forces every business request for new insight to be a crazy resource balancing act, coupled with long wait times, or a straight-up no, it cannot be done. Typical scenarios for most customer data centers. A tale of two organizations. A solution.

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. Still, at times, tailoring one’s strategy to fit a single provider has its benefits, he says.

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OverOps

APRIL 23, 2019

Many organizations committed themselves to move complete data center applications onto the public cloud. The ability to connect existing systems running on traditional architectures and contain business-critical applications or sensitive data that may not be best placed on the public cloud. Better Security.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. They tend to utilize a castle-and-moat security strategy focused on the network perimeter. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers. And it worked.

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Cloudera

JULY 26, 2021

With this first article of the two-part series on data product strategies, I am presenting some of the emerging themes in data product development and how they inform the prerequisites and foundational capabilities of an Enterprise data platform that would serve as the backbone for developing successful data product strategies.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Are they adopting digital strategies that serve both younger and older populations? Are they successfully untangling their “spaghetti architectures”? Untangling Their ‘Spaghetti Architectures’ Retailers have long used back-end technologies to run specific aspects of their business. It’s not just improving interfaces.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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James Shore

MAY 31, 2021

Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture. Netflix shut down their data centers and moved everything to the cloud! Programmers, Operations.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

“As organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, they are migrating more critical workloads and data to the cloud, which naturally leads to higher costs,” he says. The company is a recent convert to cloud computing; it replaced its own data centers with the cloud just over a year ago, he says.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

It is all about the accelerator’s architectural design plus optimization of the AI ecosystem that sits on top of the accelerator. When it comes to AI acceleration in production enterprise workloads, a fit-for-purpose architecture matters.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Back then I was a dev-centric CIO working in a regulated Fortune 100 enterprise with strict controls on its data center infrastructure and deployment practices. Applications sanctioned for frequent, continuous deployments should have robust continuous testing, enhanced observability, and a canary release strategy to minimize risks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And it is the chain’s hefty multicloud architecture, anchored by Aviatrix’s cloud networking and Equinix’s interconnection technology, that enables Turner to bring the hotel empire much closer to its key customers — business and leisure guests, as well as hotel owners. This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says. There is a talent war going on,” Hoag says.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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CIO

JUNE 1, 2023

Meanwhile, F oundry’s Digital Business Research shows 38% of organizations surveyed are increasing spend on Big Data projects. While these developments present exciting opportunities, it’s vital businesses also ensure they have a robust resiliency strategy in place.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

You need sound strategies to solve each of these Dirty Dozen for a more cost effective and efficient data center infrastructure environment. A cyber resilience solution is deemed effective when it provides guaranteed availability and a fully scaled data restoration for business continuity.

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