Forrester IT

JULY 23, 2024

In our previous blog post on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), we explained the motivation for implementing a RAG architecture and presented a very basic example architecture for retrieving enterprise knowledge. In the previous post, we showed how […]

Architecture 259

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Examples 259

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For example, there should be a clear, consistent procedure for monitoring and retraining models once they are running (this connects with the People element mentioned above). To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture.

Architecture 128

Architecture Data Enterprise Enterprise 128

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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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Disaster Recovery 115

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. For those working within or alongside EA, these concepts are well-established pillars of the discipline.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Energy 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, in the construction value stream, Gilbane is increasing its investment in virtual design and construction, which creates a digital representation of a building, and can be used throughout the life cycle of a construction job, and even into ongoing facility operations. We need our architecture to help deliver on that intent.”

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Architecture Construction Real Estate Virtualization 118

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They tested the prompts, modified them to give better examples, changed the wording of what was being asked from the LLM and kept testing. Eight different prompts were created that were tailored to the specific output data each agent was charged with generating.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 27, 2022

They gave me examples of […]. I touched on this in my “meet your new analyst” blog. Both technology vendors and industry companies openly asked me what the term meant, because they are hearing many variations.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Nvidia unveiled new Blackwell systems and announced general availability of its Spectrum-X Ethernet stack for AI workloads, for example. The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. And in 2026, the AMD Instinct MI400 series will arrive, based on the AMD CDNA “Next” architecture.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 11, 2023

This is yet another example of raising awareness and issuing calls to action for post-quantum security preparations. The European Policy Centre recently published a quantum cybersecurity agenda for Europe in July 2023. Also in late 2022, […]

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For example, multiple jurisdictions and organizations around the world have had issues with Huawei equipment over alleged privacy and security concerns in recent years. Another example use case is with data sovereignty requirements and making sure that data doesnt leave a specific country.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The tool employs an agent-based approach with a zero-trust architecture, making it particularly suitable for organizations with segmented networks and strict security requirements. Beevers noted that NetBoxDiscovery uses an agent-based architecture, which has advantages over discovery solutions that are monolithic.

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Network Tools Architecture Cloud 180

Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The second example is fairly common. The architecture we unveiled today uses only liquid cooling, yielding greater energy and cost efficiency advantages than the alternative hybrid cooling solutions on the market,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE, in a statement.

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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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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

For example, with several dozen ERPs and general ledgers, and no enterprise-wide, standard process definitions of things as simple as cost categories, a finance system with a common information model upgrade becomes a very big effort. For example, we’re moving to a single platform for customer experience technology.

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Strategy Architecture Data Center Cloud 121

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Agile Enterprise Enterprise Architecture 145

Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Zero trust architecture with Zscaler Zero trust is not another point product to add to the perimeter-oriented status quo , with its firewalls, VPNs, castle-and-moat security, and the weaknesses of that methodology. Let’s discuss a quick example of each.

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Cloud Architecture Security Analysis 148

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Get a detailed look at how the two winners of Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Awards for EMEA have successfully demonstrated exceptional alignment, adaptivity, and trust in their IT strategies, setting a shining example for their respective industries.

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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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Firewall Security Architecture Strategy 158

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To meet that challenge, many are turning to edge computing architectures. convenience store chain, is relying on edge architecture to underpin the company’s forays into AI. Edge architectures vary widely. For example, Casey’s finds itself in an industry where growth through acquisitions is a fact of life. Casey’s, a U.S.

Architecture 119

Architecture Applications Dell Research 119

Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I was confident that a zero trust architecture with the right vendor would at least help address our security concerns. What to expect and advice for Zscaler deployments That’s not to say there isn’t a learning curve when transitioning to a zero trust architecture. For example, we have 16,000 people in our organization.

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Policies Architecture Case Study Financial 148

Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

This makes Hortonworks and Cloudera, for example, unattractive acquisition targets for the likes of IBM or Oracle. Furthermore, customers bought into open source to avoid vendor lock in, so buying for the customers is not all that attractive either. Hmmm.are you starting to see it?

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Open Source Software Software Enterprise 341

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. For example, IBM has developed hundreds of tools and approaches (or “journeys”) over the last 25 years which facilitate the modernisation process in organisations and meet a broad range of requirements.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Cisco Security Cloud Control A new AI-native management architecture, Security Cloud Control, is also on tap. First of all, you need security to protect the data that you are using to do custom training, as an example, in an AI model that you might be running into private enterprise.

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Firewall Load Balancer Network Security 214

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

As enterprises increasingly embrace serverless computing to build event-driven, scalable applications, the need for robust architectural patterns and operational best practices has become paramount. Thus, organizations can create flexible and resilient serverless architectures. optimize the overall performance.

Cloud 116

Cloud Architecture Applications Resources 116

Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For example, earlier this year IBM said it is among the first to access new Nvidia generative AI microservices that customers and developers can use to create and deploy custom applications optimized for Nvidia’s GPUs. The antitrust investigation appears to have no public complainants or perceived victims.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

We knew we had a unique opportunity to build a new end-to-end architecture with a common AI-powered data model. And while we did put in a new architecture, the objective was to enable a true cloud and consumption business model that was profitable. The architecture was a means to get there. Take sales territories for example.

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Change Management Architecture Cloud Government 116

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. I cannot say I have abundant examples like this.” “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT

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Airlines LAN Travel Financial 136

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Patnaik inherited a strong business model, dedicated team, and faithful customers, but due to a history of acquisitions, the systems architecture needed an overhaul. So she and her team developed a novel systems integration approach to improve near-term employee and customer experiences while building their future architecture.

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Architecture System Travel Mobile 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

For example, we are looking at how, if you’re making LLM calls outside of your organization, how can our API management tools be used to manage those API calls,” Kahlon said. For example, a bank might use AI models to analyze transactional data and user behavior patterns for fraud detection.

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Applications Banking Architecture Examples 124

Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Google uses these optical switches in a direct connect architecture to link the leaves through a patch panel. For example, there’s rising demand for 800G Ethernet employing 800ZR high-speed optical transmission technology and OpenZR+, the industry initiative to develop interoperable standards for coherent optical transceivers.

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Network Data Center Google Applications 183

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

And it is the chain’s hefty multicloud architecture, anchored by Aviatrix’s cloud networking and Equinix’s interconnection technology, that enables Turner to bring the hotel empire much closer to its key customers — business and leisure guests, as well as hotel owners.

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Hotels Architecture Cloud Travel 132

The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A good example of what can happen when you have too few people working on a software project is when phases start to get scheduled back-to-back. A good example are databases which are designed to be as general and flexible as possible, but they have architectural limitations. Immediately when one phase ends, the next begins.

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Software Software Agile Meeting 246

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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Business Transformation Architecture CTO Artificial Intelligence 131

Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Pull-based architecture, which puts less burden on the management plane, allowing it to achieve a much higher scale. VECO features a pull-based architecture, which is ideal for customers with many edge sites and varying levels of connectivity. Many edge offerings are tied to specific vendor ecosystems.

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Vmware Data Center Applications Cloud 166

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example: Direct costs (principal): “We’re spending 30% more on maintaining outdated systems than our competitors.” 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.

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How To Budget Architecture Strategy 136

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. For example, some clients explore alternative funding models such as opex through cloud services (rather than traditional capital expensing), which spread costs over time.

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Budget Research Strategy Cloud 122