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

CIO Business Intelligence

The Middle East is rapidly evolving into a global hub for technological innovation, with 2025 set to be a pivotal year in the regions digital landscape. Looking ahead to 2025, Lalchandani identifies several technological trends that will define the Middle Easts digital landscape.

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IDC: 4 cloud investment predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

As cloud adoption has continued to rise in recent years in response to businesses’ need for agility, cost savings, innovation, and digital transformation, organizations are faced with new challenges and opportunities that impact business operations. What follows are edited excerpts of that presentation.

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CIOs eye SaaS backup plans post-CrowdStrike

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on. An extra layer of redundancy may become critical.”

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De-Risk Your Business by Moving to Colocation Data Centers – A Modern Cloud Experience

CIO Business Intelligence

The adoption of hybrid cloud accelerated the development of new business models, experiences, and efficiencies across all industries. While there are many compelling reasons to keep applications and data in non-public cloud locations, the other reality is that owner-operated data centers have their own set of challenges.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Fujitsu remains very much interested in the mainframe market, with a new model still on its roadmap for 2024, and a move under way to “shift its mainframes and UNIX servers to the cloud, gradually enhancing its existing business systems to optimize the experience for its end-users.” Z as a service. The future of mainframe-as-a-service.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business in some form or another is looking to adopt and integrate emerging technologies—whether that’s artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud architectures, or advanced data analytics—to help achieve a competitive edge and reach key operational goals. And how can businesses ensure they’re ready?

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New regulation intensifies focus on IT risk management and operational resilience

CIO Business Intelligence

Moreover, it also applies to all the IT services firms that provide critical functions like cloud hosting, payment processing, data analytics, and other digital services to these financial institutions. When DORA becomes effective on January 17, 2025, non-compliance with DORA will trigger severe administrative and criminal penalties.