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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO

In response, traders formed alliances, hired guards and even developed new paths to bypass high-risk areas just as modern enterprises must invest in cybersecurity strategies, encryption and redundancy to protect their valuable data from breaches and cyberattacks. Theft and counterfeiting also played a role.

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What is a cloud architect? A vital role for success in the cloud

CIO

What does a cloud architect do? Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. It also covers security and compliance, analysis, and optimization of cloud architecture.

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Transforming workloads: Harnessing AI within VMware environments

CIO

Think about this choice in terms of your own home, imagining your core business applications as the very foundation of your house, says Ken Bocchino, Group Product Manager at Google Cloud. IT teams maintain operational consistency by using their familiar on-premises tools to manage cloud workloads, eliminating retraining needs.

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Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

CIO

During his one hour forty minute-keynote, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud showcased updates around most of the companys offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , a new AI accelerator chip, new open source frameworks around agents, and updates to its data analytics, databases, and productivity tools and services among others.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, 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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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CIOs recalibrate multicloud strategies as challenges remain

CIO

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. They were mostly in one cloud with a few workloads in a different cloud.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

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. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.