Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. Alice & Bob devise cat qubits Also in January, quantum computing startup Alice & Bob announced their new quantum error correction architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Integration with other systems was difficult and it required a lot of specialized resources to make changes, such as business processes and validation during order entry and replenishment to branch offices, he says. Quite frankly, we didn’t have the internal resources to support an on-premise solution,” Shannon says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. In addition, the power of agentic AIs is still in its infancy, they say. Kumar adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

He continued: “In the same way GPUs accelerated graphical capabilities in entertainment and gaming applications, DPUs can help organizations create architectures to support next-gen reliability, performance, and security requirements. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at Oroca Innovations.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Carter advises IT leaders to look deep within their organizations to understand how software resources are being used.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Select the strategy that best aligns with your goals, timeline, and resources,” Csonka advises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The value of addressing cybersecurity issues through ongoing discussions is getting corporate alignment on effective and robust strategies, says Roger Albrecht, co-lead of the cybersecurity unit at technology research and advisory firm ISG. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

“Holistic CloudOps is a framework with several layers that help enterprises manage all aspects of their cloud ecosystem,” says Jason Hatch, vice president and cloud center of excellence lead at consulting firm Capgemini Americas. This is also facilitated at the operations level, with better automation in deployment and management.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Look for insight on what will be easier to prioritize, fund, resource, and get meaningful executive sponsorship.” The most important thing a tech leader can do is create the architecture that staff work with,” Riley says. After that, the architecture begins to shape not only your employees but also yourself and the entire organization.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

That’s a requirement for nearly any initiative undertaken by Petco Chief Data and Analytics Officer Rakesh Srinivasan, who invests the talent and resources to achieve results quickly. Can you deliver meaningful results on a data project within one or two quarters? It’s important to start scrappy and start seeing results.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC. You need to have an architecture, design, and plan that allows you to course correct along the way. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says. It’s not a subject the board are pounding their fists over.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

And there are organizations ready to bring in doctors and resources — but there’s an information gap between the two, says Joan LaRovere, associate chief medical officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, a professor at Harvard medical School, and co-founder of the Virtue Foundation, an NGO dedicated to solving this information problem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. The best arrangement is to have a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business unit or group requesting those resources.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As This work is critical and feeds directly into how the company uses AI.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

The ability to securely store, prioritize, analyze, share, and scale data is fundamental to operations,” says Chuck Brooks (@ChuckDBrooks) , president of Brooks Consulting International and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2016

The Army is seeking innovative micro-cloud management solutions and plans to award innovative prototype contracts over the next three months. THE PROBLEM – The Army is expanding its distributed micro-cloud architecture, characterized by commonly abstracted and controlled hardware suites that form a vast heterogeneous dynamic resource pool.

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2014

Pentaho Equips Companies to Easily Scale Big Data Operations, Regardless of IT Resources. Traditional RDBMS analytics can get very complicated and quite frankly, ugly, when working with semi or unstructured data,” said Chris Palm, Lead Software Architecture Engineer at MultiPlan. More details are captured in the release below-bg.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

The CCSO serves as the process owner of all ongoing activities related to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Internet2 infrastructure resources, in compliance with Internet2 policies and legal and contractual requirements. Consults with service owners regarding their security risks and responsibility in minimizing those risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Organizations are facing a shortage of resources and talent, so we need automation to be our ally to automate mundane, repetitive, and low-value tasks so that our talent can work on more impactful projects.” Many technology workers have opted to stay remote, creating a more fluid workforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

King Price, a South Africa-based, privately held short-term insurance provider, were able to radically transform their business strategy, increasing system resilience, customer expansion and market adaptability in the process of adopting cloud technology. If yes, how did you approach that?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

CDDO representatives said that the strategy will align with government departments’ own digital transformation strategies, and that CDO and CTO networks throughout Whitehall were consulted throughout its development. The technology industry is excited by this ambitious strategy and is ready to support its delivery and implementation.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising.

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CTOvision

MARCH 21, 2016

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Whether you’re a CIO, CTO, chief digital officer, a data leader, cyber — the opportunity for these leaders is unparalleled when you consider the impact that they can make on their enterprises and on their industries. And the temperament and the patience on the part of many stakeholders has contracted.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. These network, security, and cloud changes allow us to shift resources and spend less on-prem and more in the cloud.” And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) seeks to align systems and business processes, decompose processes and tasks according to a well-defined Business Process Framework, and expose and integrate systems functions with Open APIs. Configure & activate resource. Repair/replace failed resource. Diagnose service problem.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 30, 2008

The document is handed to analysts who break the requirements down to development tasks and a project manager develops a schedule and assigns resources to tasks. In the real world, requirement documents are rarely complete and the software developers themselves are developing the architecture directly from the requirements document.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. “If Good data hygiene, and information architecture has always been a problem,” Wong says.

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