CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Managing technical debt, rationalizing services, and reducing infrastructure complexity have always been essential to an organization’s success in creating value and delivering on expectations,” she says. Moving to the cloud doesn’t make that go away, and it isn’t the vendor’s responsibility.

Technical Review 204

Technical Review Software Review Apparel Systems Review 204

CIO

JULY 26, 2024

More than half of users surveyed initially take stock of their existing IT infrastructure. At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities. The motives for this approach are also revealing.

Cloud 215

Cloud Technical Review Study Survey 215

CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, its hard for vendors to invest money in security if customers arent asking for it. Our legal team knows exactly what to ask for when negotiating contracts.

Software Review 175

Software Review Security Systems Review Development Team Review 175

CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4% The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Software Engineering 174

CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

Now at Downer, an organization with over 30,000 people, efficient use of technologies and talent is essential to the way it designs, builds, and sustains infrastructure assets and facilities across Australia and New Zealand. So on any given day, it supports cleaning in a hospital, for instance, and operates and maintains road networks.

Off-The-Shelf 99

Off-The-Shelf Strategy Programming Innovation 99

CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below. And that is the rub.

Technical Advisors 216

Technical Advisors Recruiting Change Management Analytics 216

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

Backup 195

Backup Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Enterprise 195

CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

This ranges from the technology and devices needed to access work, through to their service and support and end-of-life management. Backed by Lenovo accessories, the CIO can streamline their device fleet rollouts and management by working with a single provider. CIOs realise the value of finding the right vendor partner.

Innovation 147

Innovation Agile Budget Vendor Management 147

CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

While on-prem, open-source LLMs were considered, they’d require significant investment in infrastructure and might not offer the same level of versatility as commercial models like GPT-4,” he says. Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one.

Technical Review 196

Technical Review Software Review Government Systems Review 196

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Ironically, as more of Wiedenbeck’s IT budget has moved to the cloud, the one place where price increases have stayed in check has been for infrastructure. With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

Technical Review 200

Technical Review Software Review Budget Fractional CTO 200

CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

Cloud 187

Cloud Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO Coach 187

CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode. Luckily, there are ways to slash the timelines on those projects.

Strategy 210

Strategy Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Agile 210

CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation. With that added role under his belt, Strickland was soon tapped for other plus-roles along with a direct report structure to the CEO.

Leadership 218

Leadership Real Estate Hotels Apparel 218

CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

When possible, it can be beneficial to take advantage of the provider’s learning and development infrastructure to transform internal IT teams as well, she says. Double down on vendor management. To manage these relationships, IT organizations need robust vendor management processes , says West Monroe’s Wright.

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Technical Advisors Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence 187

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

Strategy 217

Strategy Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review 217

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

You don’t need to figure out how to productize it, scale it, and support the underlying infrastructure. Vendors are keeping the prices down to encourage adoption. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management

Artificial Inteligence 197

Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Generative AI Artificial Intelligence 197

CIO

JULY 25, 2024

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value.

Security 197

Security Technical Review Project Management Agile 197

CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our infrastructure was handled by IT veteran Tim Farrington, who’s been doing this for over 20 years in SMEs throughout Ontario. He was very resourceful and organized in his approach to infrastructure management. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Software Review Weak Development Team Leadership 148

Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

For Italo, this IT-business dialog is based on a flexible IT infrastructure that includes numerous automation and AI components, and provides the necessary groundwork for business continuity. IT was divided into three parts: core banking, IT infrastructure, and data management, analytics, and AI.

Disaster Recovery 138

Disaster Recovery Banking Analytics Training 138

CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

That the CIO role has become more strategic and business-focused is another factor for green IT efforts targeting power and digital infrastructure, she says. In 2023, the cloud, security, and networking service provider announced it will transition its data centers and offices in Michigan to renewable energy sources, Jandron says.

Sustainability 193

Sustainability Hotels Data Center Energy 193

CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

Some enterprises turn to a fractional CIO to supply knowledge and expertise in one or more fundamental leadership areas, such as operations management, maintenance, strategic planning, risk, compliance/governance, vendor management, and other essential matters, Trzeciak notes. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

Technical Advisors 183

Technical Advisors How To Leadership Enterprise 183

CIO

JUNE 28, 2024

Finding patterns Incident management is another area being tackled. Day and night, the STA monitors its infrastructure — roads and railways, as well as IT and telecoms — and registers and resolves incidents.

Development Team Review 159

Development Team Review Technical Review Analysis Transportation 159

Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. Letting outsiders work on your networks and systems can be a trust issue as well.

Company 111

Company Technical Review Disaster Recovery Budget 111

CIO

JULY 11, 2024

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important.

Cloud 197

Cloud Budget Survey Architecture 197

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 22, 2019

Cloud-native infrastructure. Instead, it moves the focus to creating cloud-native applications, and puts the spotlight on the advantages of cloud-based infrastructure. A service mesh can best be described as a dedicated layer of infrastructure that enables rapid, secure, and dependable communication between and among service instances.

Systems Review 93

Systems Review Trends Engineering System 93

CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. Secure, reliable data infrastructure Both ML and gen AI depend on data. This is where large language models get me really excited.

Artificial Inteligence 195

Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Trends Open Source 195

CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the hardware level it’s adding new instances to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service tailored for AI workloads. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers OCI Supercluster will combine thousands of Nvidia GPUs and high-speed memory for training LLMs.

Generative AI 148

Generative AI Enterprise Software ChatGPT 148

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What’s going to happen, then, if that point solution is acquired by another vendor — perhaps not your preferred supplier — and integrated into its stack? We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. If that’s true, then you’re in a better position.

Hardware 78

Hardware Vendor Management Infrastructure Software 78

Datavail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Right-sizing infrastructure instead of overprovisioning lowers capital costs. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. Here are 5 compelling business benefits you can realize: Reduce Database Expenses PostgreSQL’s open-source model helps lower licensing expenses.

Vendor Management 55

Vendor Management Open Source Backup Scalability 55

Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The writing is on the wall: Traditional security tools and methodologies are ill-suited to protect cloud native’s developer-driven and infrastructure-agnostic multicloud patterns. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure and declarative APIs exemplify this approach. A Cloud-Agnostic Security Future.

Cloud 91

Cloud Serverless Lambda Weak Development Team 91

Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

However, as enterprises seek to create the modern IT architectures and move workloads to the cloud, they need also incorporate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors to help create ecosystems that enable their business needs. What Is FedRAMP?

Security 51

Security Systems Review Technical Review Vendor Management 51

Infinidat

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In situations where Infinidat is allowed to compete against AFAs (All Flash Arrays) for their business, the savings can grow to 50% or more on a $/PB basis, and that does not include the savings associated with simplified infrastructure design, staff productivity improvements, or savings in vendor management costs. Conclusions.

Storage 69

Storage Systems Review Infrastructure Software Review 69

AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In terms of how to offer FMs to your tenants, with AWS you have several options: Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of FMs from AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API. It’s serverless so you don’t have to manage the infrastructure.

Generative AI 115

Generative AI AWS Enterprise Artificial Inteligence 115

Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. This also includes platform-level work around shared infrastructure, tools, and vendors that support SREs’ field of concerns.

Systems Review 75

Systems Review Sustainability Engineering Scalability 75

CIO

MAY 29, 2024

But the only reason those weights inside that neural network are the way they are is because of massive amounts of training — potentially one or two months of training at something like 100 to 400 megawatts — to get that infrastructure the way it is. So how much of that should you be charged for?”

Sustainability 163

Sustainability Artificial Inteligence Energy Guidelines 163