CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With serverless components, there is no need to manage infrastructure, and the inbuilt tracing, logging, monitoring and debugging make it easy to run these workloads in production and maintain service levels. Financial services unique challenges However, it is important to understand that serverless architecture is not a silver bullet.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

As regulators demand more tangible evidence of security controls and compliance, organizations must fundamentally transform how they approach risk shifting from reactive gatekeeping to proactive enablement. Security in design review Conversation starter : How do we identify and address security risks in our architecture?

Software Review 149

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Yet, as transformative as GenAI can be, unlocking its full potential requires more than enthusiasm—it demands a strong foundation in data management, infrastructure flexibility, and governance. Without these critical elements in place, organizations risk stumbling over hurdles that could derail their AI ambitions.

Data 147

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In a recent interview with Jyoti Lalchandani, IDCs Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), we explore the key trends and technologies that will shape the future of the Middle East and the challenges organizations will face in their digital transformation journey.

Trends 159

Trends Innovation IoT Disaster Recovery 159

Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We found that over 85% of organizations had Remote Desktop Protocol internet-accessible for at least 25% of a month, significantly increasing the risk of a ransomware attack. Organizations must get their arms around their internet-facing attack surface, which is more easily said than done.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This division often creates silos in organizations. Without close integration between business and technology, organizations risk misalignment with strategic objectives and technological execution. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically. Woo adds that public cloud is costly for workloads that are data-heavy because organizations are charged both for data stored and data transferred between availability zones (AZ), regions, and clouds. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Organizations that do not continuously evolve their security strategies face significant financial losses and long-term reputational damage. Why organizations should act now The Allianz Risk Barometer 2025 highlights that while digital transformation presents new opportunities, it also expands the attack surface for cyber threats.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And it's built upon current cyber best practices and sound cyber hygiene, such as vulnerability management , proactive patching and continuous monitoring, already implemented in most organizations today.” 4, NIST released the draft Guidance for Implementing Zero Trust Architecture for public comment.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Thats why, like it or not, legacy system modernization is a challenge the typical organization must face sooner or later. In general, it means any IT system or infrastructure solution that an organization no longer considers the ideal fit for its needs, but which it still depends on because the platform hosts critical workloads.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Many organizations have turned to FinOps practices to regain control over these escalating costs. The result was a compromised availability architecture. Capital One built Cloud Custodian initially to address the issue of dev/test systems left running with little utilization.

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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. Governments and public sector organizations across the region, particularly in the GCC, will lead digital transformation with initiatives focused on smart cities, e-governance, and citizen-centric services.

Trends 122

Trends Artificial Inteligence IoT Energy 122

CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But Florida-based Brown & Brown Insurance put old-school conventions to the test when it joined a growing cadre of leading organizations remodeling IT to reflect the pervasive role of technology in business transformation. LaQuinta brings a strategic background and digital mindset to help accelerate enterprise-level business strategies.

Security 202

Security Culture Weak Development Team Insurance 202

CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

In a survey from September 2023, 53% of CIOs admitted that their organizations had plans to develop the position of head of AI. According to Foundrys 2025 State of the CIO survey, 14% of organizations now employ CAIOs, with 40% of those reporting directly to the CEO and 24% to the CIO.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

IT modernization is a necessity for organizations aiming to stay competitive. It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. Additionally, leveraging cloud-based solutions reduced the burden of maintaining on-premises infrastructure.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

This solution is designed to accelerate platform modernization, streamline workflow assessment and enable data discovery, helping organizations drive efficiency, scalability and compliance, said Swati Malhotra, AI solutions leader at EXL. AI can help organizations adapt to these shifts. The EXLerate.AI

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Over the course of our work together modernizing data architectures and integrating AI into a wide range of insurance workflows over the last several months, we’ve identified the four key elements of creating a data-first culture to support AI innovation. That commitment must begin at the C-suite level.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 29, 2025

Generative AI can revolutionize organizations by enabling the creation of innovative applications that offer enhanced customer and employee experiences. In this post, we evaluate different generative AI operating model architectures that could be adopted.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. These are also areas where organizations are most willing to use contract talent.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As organizations adopt a cloud-first infrastructure strategy, they must weigh a number of factors to determine whether or not a workload belongs in the cloud. By optimizing energy consumption, companies can significantly reduce the cost of their infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure is no longer optional–it’s essential.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Yet as organizations figure out how generative AI fits into their plans, IT leaders would do well to pay close attention to one emerging category: multiagent systems. At a time when organizations are seeking to generate value from GenAI, multiagents hold perhaps the most promise for boosting operational productivity.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Organizations look at digital transformation as an opportunity to radically improve operations and increase the value of a product or service to the customer by embedding technology into the decision-making fabric and building automation into its functions. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

No industry or organization is immune to the growing frequency, sophistication and success of cyberattacks and the steep, often devastating, organizational costs they incur. As a result, many organizations are taking a self-defined, ad hoc approach to Zero Trust, using a collection of single-purpose solutions. And with good reason.

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Organization Architecture Data Center Enterprise 195

Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With products powered by Precision AI, your organization gains comprehensive asset visibility, risk assessment, vulnerability prioritization, virtual patching and seamless threat prevention, all without downtime. This approach not only reduces risks but also enhances the overall resilience of OT infrastructures. –

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Compliance Virtualization Conference Generative AI 110

CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Without the right cloud architecture, enterprises can be crushed under a mass of operational disruption that impedes their digital transformation. What’s getting in the way of transformation journeys for enterprises? This isn’t a matter of demonstrating greater organizational resilience or patience.

Architecture 165

Architecture Innovation Enterprise Cloud 165

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At the same time, leaders say the industry will need colleagues who can strategize, guide, and check AI-enhanced work, while keeping in mind the business goals of their organization. AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

His first order of business was to create a singular technology organization called MMTech to unify the IT orgs of the company’s four business lines. Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically.

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Xebia

APRIL 2, 2024

Selecting the right architectural serving pattern is paramount in creating the most business value from your model. In this blog we will discuss the most common serving architectures 1 ; batch predicting, on-demand synchronous serving and streaming serving. How to choose your serving architecture? It doesn’t have to be.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

To support business needs, organizations must invest in advanced AI-specific management tools that can handle dynamic workloads, ensure transparency, and maintain accountability across multicloud environments, he says. There are organizations who spend $1 million plus per year on LLM calls, Ricky wrote. IT employees? Not so much.

Software Review 179

Software Review Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Government 179

CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

It represents a strategic push by countries or regions to ensure they retain control over their AI capabilities, align them with national values, and mitigate dependence on foreign organizations. This is essential for strategic autonomy or reliance on potentially biased or insecure AI models developed elsewhere.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Compliance Open Source 117

Xebia

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Region Evacuation with DNS Approach: Our third post discussed deploying web server infrastructure across multiple regions and reviewed the DNS regional evacuation approach using AWS Route 53. While the CDK stacks deploy infrastructure within the AWS Cloud, external components like the DNS provider (ClouDNS) require manual steps.

AWS 130

AWS Network Software Review Lambda 130

CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because of the expansive nature of its capabilities, many organizations are often paralyzed by the sheer breadth of possibilities. That’s especially true in the healthcare sector, where the dazzling future GenAI is trying to usher in is often limited by the shortcomings inside an organization’s legacy infrastructure.

Healthcare 174

Healthcare Organization Data Artificial Inteligence 174

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 4, 2025

Building cloud infrastructure based on proven best practices promotes security, reliability and cost efficiency. To achieve these goals, the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides comprehensive guidance for building and improving cloud architectures.

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Generative AI Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 98

CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Once a strictly tech role managing an organizations internal needs, the CIO role has seen a massive tectonic shift. With technology rapidly shaping business outcomes, and the tech infrastructure supporting every aspect of business, CIOs much deservedly now occupy a seat at the table. IndiaMART is a tech-first organization.

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Real Estate Leadership Study Technology 147

Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The adoption of cloud-native architectures and containerization is transforming the way we develop, deploy, and manage applications. However, the reality for many organizations is that virtual machines (VMs) continue to play a critical role, especially when it comes to legacy or stateful applications.

Virtualization 96

Virtualization Scalability Agile Architecture 96

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.) Data engineers build the infrastructure to collect, store, and analyze data.

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