CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Unfortunately, despite hard-earned lessons around what works and what doesn’t, pressure-tested reference architectures for gen AI — what IT executives want most — remain few and far between, she said. It’s time for them to actually relook at their existing enterprise architecture for data and AI,” Guan said. “A

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

“Some leaders will pursue that goal strategically, in ways that set up their organizations for long-term success. Savvy IT leaders, Leaver said, will use that boost to shore up fundamentals by buttressing infrastructure, streamlining operations, and upskilling employees.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

APRIL 9, 2025

CEOs and boards of directors are tasking their CIOs to enable artificial intelligence (AI) within the organization as rapidly as possible. Infrastructure challenges in the AI era Its difficult to build the level of infrastructure on-premises that AI requires. However, organizations dont have to build entirely new applications.

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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

APRIL 15, 2025

Today, data sovereignty laws and compliance requirements force organizations to keep certain datasets within national borders, leading to localized cloud storage and computing solutions just as trade hubs adapted to regulatory and logistical barriers centuries ago. This gravitational effect presents a paradox for IT leaders.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

As organizations handle terabytes of sensitive data daily, dynamic masking capabilities are expected to set the gold standard for secure data operations. In the years to come, advancements in event-driven architectures and technologies like change data capture (CDC) will enable seamless data synchronization across systems with minimal lag.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Instead of overhauling entire systems, insurers can assess their API infrastructure to ensure efficient data flow, identify critical data types, and define clear schemas for structured and unstructured data. When evaluating options, prioritize platforms that facilitate data democratization through low-code or no-code architectures.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Overall, 65% of organizations plan to replace VPN services within the year, a 23% jump from last years findings. Meanwhile, 96% of organizations favor a zero trust approach, and 81% plan to implement zero trust strategies within the next 12 months. Zero trust architectures are emerging as the solution for filling these security gaps.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With the election over and a new calendar year under way, organizations and placement firms are experiencing an influx of searches, Doyle says. Especially in an era of growing emphasis on AI, organizations recognize that without the right technology leadership, they will face challenges ahead and are trying to ward off disadvantages now.

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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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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

APRIL 16, 2025

Navigator: As technology landscapes and market dynamics change, enterprise architects help businesses navigate through complexity and uncertainty, ensuring that the organization remains on course despite evolving challenges. Solution architecture: Crafting an enterprise architecture that meets both technical and business requirements.

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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 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

APRIL 2, 2025

At Northeast Grocery, this shift has enabled a fundamental redistribution of responsibility for future readiness across the organization. The second, business process transformation, is to streamline workflows through automation, which is especially important as we merge two distinct organizations.

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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

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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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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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.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

What began with chatbots and simple automation tools is developing into something far more powerful AI systems that are deeply integrated into software architectures and influence everything from backend processes to user interfaces. An overview. This makes their wide range of capabilities usable. Lets look at some specific examples.

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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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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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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.

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