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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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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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. Following are the roles companies are most likely to have added to support their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions are transforming and enhancing business operations. Yet despite the organisational benefits, businesses are slow to modernise IT, citing challenges in integrating legacy systems due to change management and user adoption issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. A human-centric approach helps with the change management efforts around using agentic AI while evaluating the benefits and risks. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Disorientation and different priorities: The study shows that each management level sets different technological priorities. While almost all C-level representatives (94%) see cloud computing as the most important technology, the majority of division and department heads (81%) prefer IoT.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2022

We’re cloud smart, not cloud first,” he says. “We We actually lead with business transformation — and then we did a cloud migration as a part of that.”. So many companies started out with a cloud transformation and then selectively they drove business transformation. Driving change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

“Building new business aligned cost models, setting up disaster recovery and BCP platforms, allowing remote-working, rearchitecting the enterprise network from the ground up, and migrating to cloud should be some of the prime focus areas for CIOs as they set about their operations in the new-era.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities. Reporting to the program’s executive team should be a business project manager and an IT project manager. Data migration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

An announcement Tuesday by IBM and SAP detailing the upcoming release of an offering designed to move SAP S/4HANA workloads from IBM Power Systems on-premises to the cloud within 90 days has been described by an industry analyst as seeming like a sales and marketing play more than anything.

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SAP IBM Virtualization Cloud 246

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Kyndryl Consult has also expanded its existing partnerships with hyperscalers, such as Google Cloud, to ready itself to deliver on generative AI, Slaga said. The existing accounts or clients, according to Steve Dickens, vice president of hybrid cloud at The Futurum Group, would be the company’s first primary target to expand its business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Product manager over technical debt “Best-in-class architects work in lockstep with self-organizing, agile teams to employ modernization programs that shift legacy point solutions and services into sound, robust cloud infrastructures,” says Jason Forget, president and CRO of Cockroach Labs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

CIOs should be drivers of change — which can create stress — while taking proactive and ongoing steps to reduce stress in their organization and across the company. Confirm that the financial models accurately explain budget-to-actual variances. This holistic strategy ensures resilience and long-term success.”

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Government Security Cloud System 357

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise that two out of every three IT organizations are planning to allocate more than five percent of their budgets to AI initiatives. 1 Embracing their change management roles CIOs—more than any other executive or line of business role—are becoming the central authority for most organization’s AI budgets and priorities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Implementing RPA can be challenging, given both the potential complexity of legacy business processes and the level of change management that can be required for RPA to succeed. Set and manage expectations. Poor design, change management can wreak havoc. Not every enterprise, however, has the budget for this.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Enterprise Enterprise 363

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Meanwhile, CIOs must still reduce technical debt, modernize applications, and get cloud costs under control. CIOs should look for other operational and risk management practices to complement transformation programs.

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Devops Programming Strategy Survey 357

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives.

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Examples Strategy Programming Data 352

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, establishing these processes might seem difficult. But on offense, when you have an automated change management solution in place along with processes to scan your code, your organization can more easily find and understand vulnerabilities before they become a problem.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 23, 2014

If only picking the right cloud vendor was this easy… Image Credit. Face it, we are all going to move our company’s IT applications into the cloud eventually. Just exactly where that cloud is going to be located and who will be running it for us is another question. 5 Questions To Ask A Cloud Vendor.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”.

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Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 101

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We’re investing a significant amount of time, resources, and budget to ensure we remain competitive in the digital age.” Everything is positive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Andy Thurai, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research adds that AI is also used to help with budgeting, sourcing, and writing vision statements to present to the board. As LLMs are applied to core functions, jobs will be certainly eliminated, says Jim Routh, chief trust officer at cloud security company Saviynt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Those principles are data centric, platform first, cloud based, automation led, and zero trust (so that everything is secure from the start).

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IT vendors - and even analysts - are understandably eager to see new technologies and operating models (cloud) adopted quickly. Here goes: An Instant Cloud. One Dominant Public Cloud. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Broad Use of IT Chargeback.

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Data Center Cloud Financial Virtualization 200

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Cloud and digital technologies were used to modernize business as usual rather than focus on transformative outcomes. New: It all comes back to leadership and strategic change management, i.e. ‘transformation.’ Instead, a vast majority of companies were investing in digitization.

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Strategy Research Survey Resources 362

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.

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Budget Groups Examples Insurance 321

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If Hybrid Cloud For more information, visit the HPE GreenLake “Learn More” page.

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Data How To Energy Data Center 259

Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”.

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Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 70

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If Hybrid Cloud For more information, visit the HPE GreenLake “Learn More” page.

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Data How To Energy Data Center 244

Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. The cloud computing model can significantly help agencies grappling with the need to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints.” This phenomenon is generally referred to as "VM Sprawl".

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Cloud Data Center Applications Resources 70

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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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

On one hand, hybrid cloud is all the rage. Adopting this option promises all the cost savings of public cloud with the security and comfort of private cloud. This environment would not only check the box for meeting the cloud computing mandate, but also position the organization as innovative and industry-leading.

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Cloud Data Center Resources Meeting 70

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies. So, what happens next?

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