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Revolutionizing data management: Trends driving security, scalability, and governance in 2025

CIO

As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. Data masking for enhanced security and privacy Data masking has emerged as a critical pillar of modern data management strategies, addressing privacy and compliance concerns.

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9 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

Cloud skills include programming languages, database management, DevOps, security, containerization and microservices, data visualization, AI and ML, and automation. Businesses need tech professionals skilled at overseeing security best practices, incident response, network security, cloud security, and threat intelligence.

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Bridging the IT skills gap, Part 1: Assessing current strategies and introducing GenAI as a unified solution

CIO

The gap between emerging technological capabilities and workforce skills is widening, and traditional approaches such as hiring specialized professionals or offering occasional training are no longer sufficient as they often lack the scalability and adaptability needed for long-term success. Take cybersecurity, for example.

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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

CIO

Data sovereignty and the development of local cloud infrastructure will remain top priorities in the region, driven by national strategies aimed at ensuring data security and compliance. As digital transformation accelerates, so do the risks associated with cybersecurity.

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The Modern Encryption Software Checklist: The Secret to Understanding Your Data Security Needs

Understanding your data security needs is tough enough, but what can be even more difficult is choosing the right software to fit your company. User authentication and advanced security factors. Flexibility and scalability. Fortunately, there is a solution. Key management system. Enterprise features.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity. For example, a company aiming for market expansion might focus on developing scalable infrastructure, enabling application localization, and enhancing security measures to support operations in new regions.

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CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025

CIO

Overall, successful CIOs in 2025 will need to balance technical expertise with business acumen, leadership, and a focus on data, AI, cybersecurity, and M&A integration. AI adoption, IT outsourcing, and cybersecurity risks are fundamentally reshaping expectations. Cybersecurity is also a huge focus for many organizations.

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The Definitive Guide to Creating a Reliable Mobile App

Hear from Product Managers across a variety of industries on what they see as most important for ensuring mobile reliability, and gain a better understanding of what it takes to build scalable and secure mobile apps.

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MLOps 101: The Foundation for Your AI Strategy

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) allows organizations to alleviate many of the issues on the path to AI with ROI by providing a technological backbone for managing the machine learning lifecycle through automation and scalability. How can MLOps tools deliver trusted, scalable, and secure infrastructure for machine learning projects?

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. Overlooking Security Considerations. Managing Delete Heavy Workloads. Running Unoptimized Queries.

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The Ultimate Embedded Analytics Guide

Share data and insights securely. Ensure the solution is built on scalable, cost effective infrastructure. However, in order to successfully expose analytics to customers and partners, companies are faced with three main challenges: Manage complex data (big and disparate datasets) quickly.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.