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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Ensure security and access controls.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture. These advanced architectures offer the flexibility and visibility needed to simplify data access across the organization, break down silos, and make data more understandable and actionable.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

He brings more than 30 years of experience across some of the largest enterprise customers, helping them understand and utilize AI ranging from initial concepts to specific application architectures, design, development and delivery. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To overcome those challenges and successfully scale AI enterprise-wide, organizations must create a modern data architecture leveraging a mix of technologies, capabilities, and approaches including data lakehouses, data fabric, and data mesh. Another challenge here stems from the existing architecture within these organizations.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Data architectures to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years. Download this TDWI Checklist report to understand: How your organization can make this transition to a modernized data architecture. The decision making around this transition.

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Can serverless fix fintech’s scaling problem?

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. Architecture complexity.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

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. Choose the right framework There are plenty of differences among the dozens of EA frameworks available.

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Why the CIO role should be split in two

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The fact is that within enterprises, existing architecture is overly complex, often including new digital systems interconnected with legacy systems. This hybrid architecture is a combination of best and bad practice. When there is an outage, the new digital platforms can invariably be restored to recover business process support.

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Building a better future: The enterprise architect’s role in leading organizational transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By following these steps, organizations can ensure a smooth and effective transition of architects into leadership roles, driving both technological innovation and business growth. The future of leadership is agile, adaptable and architecturally driven.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Redefining enterprise transformation in the age of intelligent ecosystems

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Our commitments to the businesses we supported as architects were perpetually at odds with reality. A tectonic shift was moving us all from monolithic architectures to self-service models and an existential crisis for architecture and IT was upon us. Enterprises survive and thrive through their capacity to pivot and adapt.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

“What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT Unfortunately, despite hard-earned lessons around what works and what doesn’t, pressure-tested reference architectures for gen AI — what IT executives want most — remain few and far between, she said.

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Comprehensive data management for AI: The next-gen data management engine that will drive AI to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a long-time partner with NVIDIA, NetApp has delivered certified NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NetApp ® AIPod ™ architectures and has seen rapid adoption of AI workflows on first-party cloud offerings at the hyperscalers. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems. Or, in some cases, companies have platforms that were built with human interactions in mind and aren’t ideal today for many gen AI implementations.

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AI’s data problem: How to build the right foundation

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With data existing in a variety of architectures and forms, it can be impossible to discern which resources are the best for fueling GenAI. With the right hybrid data architecture, you can bring AI models to your data instead of the other way around, ensuring safer, more governed deployments.

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Zero Trust security, why it’s essential In today’s threat landscape

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

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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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Migrating to the cloud without fully understanding workload requirements or optimizing database architectures can lead to overprovisioning and resource sprawl, he warns. To avoid unnecessary expenses, its important to design with a clear understanding of workload-specific needs and align them with the cloud providers architecture.

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Cloud modernization meets GenAI: new solutions expediate your efforts

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI and GenAI optimize cloud architectures and cloud-native applications GenAI is also proving adept at analyzing cloud architectures, suggesting optimal cloud configurations and identifying the most appropriate modernization approaches.

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Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

All kinds of things can be automated The question is, how should businesses go about modernising their own applications effectively? Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. Learn more about NTT DATA and Edge AI

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Over the past decade, CIOs and CISOs shifted their strategies based on ease of use, scalability, security, and costs, only to find that their golden rules for selecting optimal architectures yielded many exceptions and evolved yearly with infrastructure innovations. Should CIOs bring AI to the data or bring data to the AI?

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What CIOs should learn now that DeepSeek is here

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Peter Rutten, research VP, performance intensive computing, and worldwide infrastructure research at IDC, says the key takeaway from the DeepSeek results is the current approach to AI training that AI can only improve with bigger, more, and faster architecture is not justified.

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Breaking down silos: A holistic approach to running Virtual Machines and Containers on the same platform at scale.

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Which are not longer an architectural fit? In this environment it is critical that technology leaders reduce the footprint of and remove the legacy systems that are difficult to change, do not fit with future architectures, and that trend toward obsolescence. Which are obsolete? Which are a nightmare to support?

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5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

This change affects the entire IT architectural stack and impacts everything youre currently doing from business transformation to digital transformation and more. In our Cloud and AI Business Survey, over half of the CIOs said theyre looking to their CSP relationships to help meet their new compliance and security needs.

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Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This approach allows businesses to build custom applications by assembling pre-built, modular components. Composable architecture offers a middle ground between rigid, one-size-fits-all SaaS platforms and fully custom-built solutions. Composable solutions Alongside vertical SaaS, were witnessing the rise of composable solutions.

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Reimagine application modernisation with the power of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Speed: Does it deliver rapid, secure, pre-built tools and resources so developers can focus on quality outcomes for the business rather than risk and integration? Alignment: Is the solution customisable for -specific architectures, and therefore able to unlock additional, unique efficiency, accuracy, and scalability improvements?

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Andrea Malagodi, CIO at Sonar, predicts the current software development lifecycle will remain much the same, but the way it’s executed will soon change dramatically. “AI

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Transformation transformed: How Generative AI has completely changed the way businesses think about innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

The process would start with an overhaul of large on-premises or on-cloud applications and platforms, focused on migrating everything to the latest tech architecture. Only then, could those data points be converted into a unified view of the customer, albeit one that would be out-of-date the moment a new interaction occurred.

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FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Understanding this complexity, the FinOps Foundation is developing best practices and frameworks to integrate SaaS into the FinOps architecture. SaaS billing, in contrast to conventional on-premises software licenses, frequently entails intricate, consumption-based pricing, which makes cost control more challenging.

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SAP enhances Datasphere and SAC for AI-driven transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

SAP unveiled Datasphere a year ago as a comprehensive data service, built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), to provide a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization.

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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Now, he focuses on strategic business technology strategy through architectural excellence. The CAF’s purpose is to test, challenge and support the art and science of Business Technology Architecture and its evolution over time as well as grow the influence and leadership of chief architects both inside and outside the profession.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Some of the new solutions available for enterprise executives to research include AI-powered threat detection, identity verification, zero-trust architecture, AI-enhanced endpoint protection, and AI systems to run automated incident response.

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Layoffs, AI demand create mismatched talent market for IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

And for organizations that plan to lay off workers to hire for AI , the question remains whether there’s enough skilled talent available to hire with AI skills.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the other hand, enterprise architects often struggle to deliver business outcomes, and many CIOs find themselves communicating the function’s importance to executive stakeholders repeatedly.

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Your IT infrastructure may be more outdated than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Keeping pace with the business CIOs need to continually assess their IT systems to ensure they’re still meeting the organization’s needs, he says. “We We also need to understand where business is heading and update our architecture and tech stack based on future business needs,” Ivashin adds.

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Why firewalls and VPNs give you a false sense of security

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Perimeter-based architecture means more work for IT teams More doesnt mean better when it comes to firewalls and VPNs. Expanding a perimeter-based security architecture rooted in firewalls and VPNs means more deployments, more overhead costs, and more time wasted for IT teams but less security and less peace of mind.

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Goodbye digital transformation, hello AI-first business transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Consider the following business solutions in their early forms: Workday for HR Salesforce for sales Adobe or Hubspot for marketing SAP for ERP These solutions reformed the way we thought about HR, supply chain, or CRM, but they did not transform the work itself. Instead of transforming our businesses in the same way, we gave them a lifeline.

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How to maximize hard-dollar ROI on security technology investments

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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Why a data-first culture is key to unlocking value from AI in insurance

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Over the course of our work together modernizing data architectures and integrating AI into a wide range of insurance workflows over the last several months, we’ve identified the four key elements of creating a data-first culture to support AI innovation.

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The UAE emerges as a global leader in AI, driving innovation and future technology

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

With Gen AI interest growing, organizations are forced to examine their data architecture and maturity. This also led to many data modernization projects where specialized business and IT services players with data life-cycle services capabilities have started engaging with clients across different vertical markets.”

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Public cloud is just one of the materials we need to build an architectural solution, he says, and you have to strike the right balance. It contains years of safety information that Mosaic built into the model, so contractors working at a mining site can enter questions around safety and see how to handle a given situation.

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United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With the core architectural backbone of the airlines gen AI roadmap in place, including United Data Hub and an AI and ML platform dubbed Mars, Birnbaum has released a handful of models into production use for employees and customers alike. CIO Jason Birnbaum has ambitious plans for generative AI at United Airlines.

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Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

All kinds of things can be automated The question is, how should businesses go about modernising their own applications effectively? Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. Learn more about NTT DATA and Edge AI

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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Can serverless fix fintech’s scaling problem?

Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

Why the CIO role should be split in two

Building a better future: The enterprise architect’s role in leading organizational transformation

Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

Redefining enterprise transformation in the age of intelligent ecosystems

CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

Comprehensive data management for AI: The next-gen data management engine that will drive AI to new heights

How to talk to your board about tech debt

AI’s data problem: How to build the right foundation

Zero Trust security, why it’s essential In today’s threat landscape

Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

Cloud modernization meets GenAI: new solutions expediate your efforts

Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

What CIOs should learn now that DeepSeek is here

Breaking down silos: A holistic approach to running Virtual Machines and Containers on the same platform at scale.

Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation

Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

Reimagine application modernisation with the power of generative AI

5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

Transformation transformed: How Generative AI has completely changed the way businesses think about innovation

FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

SAP enhances Datasphere and SAC for AI-driven transformation

A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

Layoffs, AI demand create mismatched talent market for IT skills

Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

Your IT infrastructure may be more outdated than you think

Why firewalls and VPNs give you a false sense of security

Goodbye digital transformation, hello AI-first business transformation

How to maximize hard-dollar ROI on security technology investments

Why a data-first culture is key to unlocking value from AI in insurance

The UAE emerges as a global leader in AI, driving innovation and future technology

CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

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