Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. With AI-driven network management and optimization capabilities, enterprises will be able to prioritize traffic and application performance based on user needs and business requirements, according to IDC.

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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

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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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 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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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns. CIOs should consider placing these five AI bets in 2025. Should CIOs bring AI to the data or bring data to the AI?

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

You cant simply concentrate the power into a particular zone in the data center and say here is where Im going to run all my AI applications. That may not be the most pragmatic architecture. And that is forcing companies to think about for that interim, can I go source it from somewhere?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. But not every company can say the same. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women. Several went out and started their own company. Only 10.4%

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. In 2023 alone, Gartner found companies that deployed AI spent between $300,000 and $2.9

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