CIO Business Intelligence

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. In this context, more than a quarter expect cloud costs to rise by 20% or more.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

405B workload compared to the companys H200 NVL8, which is based on the Hopper architecture. In the latest round of benchmarks, the three year old architecture still managed to achieve a 60% performance boost over last year on the Llama 2 70B workload. That isnt to say that Hopper is lagging.

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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. For today’s CIO, they need to understand that AI will be the biggest disruptor to networks since the cloud,” he said. “In

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

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Network Artificial Intelligence Budget Architecture 534

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC and one the surveys authors, points out that CIOs are still dealing with how best to manage unexpected costs in the cloud and have learned that estimating costs for new workloads is challenging without historical data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Expectation of disruption Limited investment in cyber resilience remains a challenge, despite rising security budgets overall: nearly 49% of U.S.-based based IT leaders globally believe their budget for cyber resilience is inadequate. A lack of budget cannot be put down to a lack of evidence of need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

But the world shiftedapplications moved to the cloud, workers became mobile, and cybercriminals got more creative. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns. The Cafe-like Branch eliminates these inefficiencies while simplifying the network architecture. Sounds promising, right?

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Network WAN Architecture Security 252

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

If you’re stressing over cloud cost increases, you’re not alone. Three out of every five organizations saw cloud spending increase in the past year, with nearly four in 10 who experienced price hikes saying their costs jumped by more than 25% — this according to a recent survey of IT professionals commissioned by cloud provider Civo.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Azures growing adoption among companies leveraging cloud platforms highlights the increasing need for effective cloud resource management. Enterprises must focus on resource provisioning, automation, and monitoring to optimize cloud environments. As Azure environments grow, managing and optimizing costs becomes paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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Cloud Architecture IBM Security 338

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 363

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

The reality is that the cloud is not a hammer that should be used to hit every AI nail. The cloud is great for experimentation when data sets are smaller and model complexity is light. But over time, data sets and AI models grow more complex as companies seek greater accuracy from the models.

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence Training Architecture 344

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Yet it’s rare for any business leader not to say they wish they had a better ROI from their cloud spend. This often took both budget and control away from CIOs. Design cloud approaches automatically scale up and down based on demand. With more experience under their belts, these teams are embarking on what they call “cloud 2.0”

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Financial Strategy 317

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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Cloud Strategy Fractional CTO Data Center 363

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

The cloud has changed the IT and business worlds forever, and generally for the better. But when misused or abused the cloud can backfire, leading to a serious business setback or, in a worst-case situation, long-term competitive damage. Ensuing proper cloud use is essential in today’s high-stakes, fast-paced business environment.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Sharma added that hyperscale architecture is typically based on Layer-3 features and BGP.

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Data Center Load Balancer Open Source Data 482

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, today’s leading enterprises are seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance their security measures. Cloud costs and security are two critical aspects that every organization must carefully manage, and they are more closely intertwined than you might think.

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Cloud Security Resources Policies 325

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

of IT budgets by 2027. This change affects the entire IT architectural stack and impacts everything youre currently doing from business transformation to digital transformation and more. Todays challenge is perhaps far greater. You cant just move to a single vendor as in the ERP days or develop policies just for physical devices.

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Government Policies Open Source Agile 264

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. This includes proactive budgeting, regular financial reviews and the implementation of cost allocation policies that ensure accountability.

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Budget Financial Resources Strategy 147

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. A third area of shifting debate concerns infrastructure between data centers, public clouds, hybrid clouds, multicloud, and edge computing. Should CIOs bring AI to the data or bring data to the AI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 363

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. Describing their existing systems as “burning platforms,” he says that migrating to the cloud was essentially their only option. We walked into a partner-managed cloud environment,” he says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

It feels like just yesterday that we were promised that cloud servers cost just pennies. When the monthly cloud bill arrives, CFOs are hitting the roof. Cloud cost managers are the solution. Smaller teams with simple configurations can probably get by with the stock services of the cloud companies.

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Tools Cloud Budget Vmware 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

At the moment,tech implementation at Guzmn Minerals is carried out through a series of interconnected platforms that guarantee a real-time flow of data.Our cloud infrastructure acts as a backbone, allowing for centralized and secure management, says Sabater. To achieve this, Guzmn has a considerable annual IT budget, explains Sabater.

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Cloud Artificial Intelligence System Budget 147

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.

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Enterprise Enterprise Strategy Cloud 327

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. . With commodity prices being halved, Chevron like many of its peers in the energy space saw a consequent lowering in capital budgets.

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Architecture Network Energy Microsoft 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 312

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. CloudOps: A multilayered framework for cloud operations.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Applications Devops 278

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. He initially turned down the CIO job but was persuaded to take it up by the prospects of leading Marsh McLennan on this digital journey.

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 305

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

What would you say is the one call most people would change when it comes to their architecture? All architecture is wrong, because everything we’ve done has changed and grown over time. I think back to the first big architecture I worked on, and boy, you would not do that today. We just don’t know it yet.

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Architecture Data Artificial Intelligence Development 264

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system. We really liked [NetSuite’s] architecture and that it’s in the cloud, and it hit the vast majority of our business requirements,” Shannon notes.

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Oracle System Data Applications 328