CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. 75% of firms that build aspirational agentic AI architectures on their own will fail. Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so. The company said it has identified a need for more intelligent edge networking and computing.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Companies have historically secured OT systems which include physical security controls, HVAC systems, industrial control systems like factory automation equipment, and medical scanning equipment by air-gapping them. Companies often need new security solutions to protect OT.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Supermicro JBOF replaces the traditional storage CPU and memory subsystem with the BlueField-3 DPU and runs the storage application on the DPU’s 16 Arm cores. Companies are prioritizing investment in highly configured server clusters for AI, research firm Omdia reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Less than 10% of the FTSE 500 companies that existed fifty years ago are still around today and less than half of the companies founded since 2000 are still operating. Company executives are well aware that their businesses need to adapt to keep up with the rapid transformation now taking place.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

The goal of the Kyndryl/Google Cloud service is to make it easier for organizations to utilize AI assistance to access and integrate mainframe-based data with cloud-based resources and combine that data with other information to build new applications, the companies stated.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

The companys newly unveiled Passage L200 and M1000 platforms use light instead of electricity to move data, potentially unlocking major performance gains for companies running large AI models, the company said in a statement. Lightmatters approach could flatten this architecture.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its no secret that more modern approaches to remote access have been usurping VPNs as organizations adapt to the realities of a more distributed workforce, increasingly cloud-based applications, and heightened security threats. Its really access to an individual resource or application instead of a whole network segment.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

AI factories are specified data centers emphasizing AI applications as opposed to traditional line of business applications like databases and ERP. The architecture aims to optimize deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

Otherwise, companies will struggle to realize business value with AI/ML capabilities left to endure high cloud cost expenses, as it has been for many companies in 2024 for AI solutions. The assessment provides insights into the current state of architecture and workloads and maps technology needs to the business objectives.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The FortiDLP platform provides automated data movement tracking, cloud application monitoring and endpoint protection mechanisms that work both online and offline. FortiDLP expands Fortinet’s data protection efforts FortiDLP’s architecture includes several key technical components.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Our vision is to be the platform of choice for running AI applications, says Puri. The system integrator has the Topaz AI platform, which includes a set of services and solutions to help enterprises build and deploy AI applications. The updated product also has enhanced security features, including LLM guardrails. Red Hat reported $6.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The built-in elasticity in serverless computing architecture makes it particularly appealing for unpredictable workloads and amplifies developers productivity by letting developers focus on writing code and optimizing application design industry benchmarks , providing additional justification for this hypothesis. Vendor lock-in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

SAP R/1 was designed as standard software that could be offered to other companies. In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. In 1979, the successor product, SAP R/2 , was launched.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that could enable a network transformation. Its not an application, but an application architecture or model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Later, as an enterprise architect in consumer-packaged goods, I could no longer realistically contemplate a world where IT could execute mass application portfolio migrations from data centers to cloud and SaaS-based applications and survive the cost, risk and time-to-market implications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. It’s a tall order, because as technologies, business needs, and applications change, so must the environments where they are deployed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Generative AI has seen faster and more widespread adoption than any other technology today, with many companies already seeing ROI and scaling up use cases into wide adoption. The company says it can achieve PhD-level performance in challenging benchmark tests in physics, chemistry, and biology.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It has libraries, APIs, and a set of tools that allow developers to build high-performance applications for data centers supporting network virtualization, storage offload, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Nvidia is not a cybersecurity provider, and doesnt aim to be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

While CIOs understand the crushing weight of technical debt — now costing US companies $2.41 The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This means that they have developed an application that shows an advantage over a classical approach though not necessarily one that is fully rolled out and commercially viable at scale. To solve the error problem, quantum computing companies use multiple physical qubits to create one error-corrected qubits.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. Both companies claim that their two approaches, both still in the very early stages, have the potential to scale better than their competitors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Less than 10% of the FTSE 500 companies that existed fifty years ago are still around today and less than half of the companies founded since 2000 are still operating. Company executives are well aware that their businesses need to adapt to keep up with the rapid transformation now taking place.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The demand for AI skills is projected to persistently grow as these technologies become more central to network engineering and architectural roles. In the big picture, networking pros must have the skills to enable the integration of new AI applications with the underlying AI infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Which are not longer an architectural fit? For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application. The application leverages functionality in the database so it is difficult to decouple the application and database.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti. Vibram certainly isn’t an isolated case of a company growing its business through tools made available by the CIO.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

also supports HPEs Data Fabric architecture which aims supply a unified and consistent data layer that allows data access across premises data centers, public clouds, and edge environments with the idea of bringing together a single, logical view of data, regardless of where it resides, according to HPE.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

As part of this expansion, IBM is integrating its watsonx development platform with Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM) software, the companies announced at Nvidias GTC conference. The idea is to let customers responsibly scale and enhance AI applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI reasoning, IBM stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. For example, one of the largest energy companies in the world has embraced TOGAF — to a point.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. Sounds promising, right?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example, a company could have a best-in-class mainframe system running legacy applications that are homegrown and outdated, he adds. These types of applications can be migrated to modern cloud solutions that require much less IT talent overall and are cheaper and easier to maintain and keep current.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

When organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they expect to see significant benefits: increased scalability, stronger security and accelerated adoption of new technologies. Certainly, no CIO would try to migrate a mainframe or a traditional monolithic application directly to the cloud. Whats the solution? Modernization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Anecdotally, Ive heard of cases where consulting companies have been brought in to optimize the use of AI models because the resourcing cost increased by hundreds of thousands of dollars due to a lack of upfront planning. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. While up to 80% of the enterprise-scale systems Endava works on use the public cloud partially or fully, about 60% of those companies are migrating back at least one system. We see this more as a trend, he says.

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