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

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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From cloud spend to cloud value: The power of Cloud Unit Economics

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Cloud can unlock new capabilities to strategically drive the business. As a result, organisations are continually investing in cloud to re-invent existing business models and leapfrog their competitors. Understanding this relationship is crucial in providing valuable context on cloud expenditure.

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CIOs look beyond ‘Big 3’ cloud providers for AI innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases especially in the burgeoning AI era. Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise.

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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.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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The next wave of cybersecurity: Cloud and SOC integration

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

In todays modern business landscape, cloud technology adoption has skyrocketed, driven largely by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). This shift has completely transformed how businesses operate, with 63% of organizations citing AI as the primary driver for cloud investment.

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FinOps automation: Raising the bar on lowering cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

IT professionals have been striving to manage cloud costs effectively since the inception of cloud computing. Those efforts have evolved into FinOps , a business discipline and a set of best practices to optimize cloud spending. See also: Will FinOps help reduce cloud waste in organizations?

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A look at the future of mainframe modernization with hybrid cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At the same time, many organizations have been pushing to adopt cloud-based approaches to their IT infrastructure, opting to tap into the speed, flexibility, and analytical power that comes along with it. It’s a decision that maps back to the overarching goals of a business and how they want to leverage their data.

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How Du’s vision for sovereign cloud and AI will transform UAE’s digital governance

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

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Stop navigating the cloud, and start shaping it

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One of the most significant enablers of digital transformation is cloud computing. Strategic options for cloud adoption When it comes to cloud adoption, organizations have several strategic options to consider. Public cloud. Private cloud. Hybrid cloud. Multi-cloud.

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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Vibram certainly isn’t an isolated case of a company growing its business through tools made available by the CIO.

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Cloud modernization meets GenAI: new solutions expediate your efforts

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As organizations globally discover new opportunities created by AI, many are investing significantly in GenAI, including as part of their cloud modernization efforts. The fact that these applications were not born in the cloud makes efforts to update them laborious at best and sometimes impossible.

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Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In his role as president, CPO, and COO, Zavery’s responsibilities include ServiceNow’s platform, products, engineering, cloud infrastructure, and user experience. During his tenure, he helped build Google Cloud into the fourth-largest enterprise software company by increasing annualized revenue from $7 billion to over $41 billion.

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Avnet CIO: Navigating the cloud and AI landscape with a practical approach

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Two critical areas that underpin our digital approach are cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Cloud and the importance of cost management Early in our cloud journey, we learned that costs skyrocket without proper FinOps capabilities and overall governance. That said, were not 100% in the cloud.

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Acumatica tweaks its cloud ERP for professional services firms

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company. trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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Cloud analytics migration: how to exceed expectations

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A cloud analytics migration project is a heavy lift for enterprises that dive in without adequate preparation. Business objectives must be articulated and matched with appropriate tools, methodologies, and processes. Intel’s cloud-optimized hardware accelerates AI workloads, while SAS provides scalable, AI-driven solutions.

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. Mainframes hold an enormous amount of critical and sensitive business data including transactional information, healthcare records, customer data, and inventory metrics. Four key challenges prevent them from doing so: 1.

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Cloud modernization: The critical step your migration may be missing

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

The public cloud turns 23 this year, and enterprise migration of on-premises workloads isnt just continuing its speeding up. According to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2024 , 63% of enterprise CIOs were accelerating their cloud migrations, up from 57% in 2023. Which can be true if your efforts end with migration.

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The Ten Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024

Forrester IT

AUGUST 15, 2024

Forrester’s top ten cloud trends for 2024 report is out. Yet there are other fundamental shifts in play — the rise of the intelligent edge, increased cloud compliance complexity, and (finally!) No one will be surprised that AI figures prominently. mature multicloud networking offerings.

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Data distilleries: CIOs turn to new efficient enterprise data platforms

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

To overcome this, many CIOs originally adopted enterprise data platforms (EDPs)—centralized cloud solutions that delivered insights quickly, securely, and reliably across various business units and geographies. From an implementation standpoint, choose a cloud-based distillery that integrates with your existing cloud infrastructure.

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Oracle targets healthcare firms with new features in Cloud HCM and SCM

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Oracle has added new features to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) and Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM) suites, targeting firms in the healthcare sector. This feature, according to the company, assumes importance as the US healthcare industry is currently facing an ongoing talent shortage.

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Oracle’s growing impact in the Middle East: Driving AI and cloud innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

At yesterdays Oracle Cloud Summit in Dubai, the company made several key announcements, highlighting not only its deepening commitment to the region but also the exciting trajectory of AI and cloud adoption across the UAE and KSA. A key point shared during the summit was how the Kingdoms organizations are increasingly investing in AI.

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CIOs to spend ambitiously on AI in 2025 — and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The big investments in generative AI may eventually rival traditional cloud investments but that does not mean top cloud providers — all of whom are top AI platforms providers — will suffer. Enterprises are also choosing cloud for AI to leverage the ecosystem of partnerships,” McCarthy notes.

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Culture and cloud combine to harness data at Regeneron

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

This is where the combination of cloud, big data, and bringing it together allows you to look at it all, he says. On cloud to manage data: Not everyone might want to hear this, but it takes a long time to rework infrastructure to transition to cloud. That creates a type of excitement I just didnt see in some other organizations.

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SAP builds new business suite in the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

width="2500" height="1406" sizes="(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px"> With a new Business Suite in the cloud, in which all functional modules are integrated with each other along the process chains, SAP wants to build on old on-premises successes. The basis for this is the Business Technology Platform (BTP).

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Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Outdated software applications are creating roadblocks to AI adoption at many organizations, with limited data retention capabilities a central culprit, IT experts say.

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MWC25: KSA accelerates digital transformation with Huawei-Zain partnership

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2025

In a landmark move for Saudi Arabias digital economy, Huawei Cloud and Zain KSA have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate cloud adoption and digital transformation across industries. Huawei showcased cutting-edge advancements at MWC, reaffirming its 5G, AI, and cloud computing leadership.

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FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With more and more businesses moving to the Cloud, FinOps is becoming a vital framework for efficiently controlling Cloud expenses. Given that SaaS accounts for a sizable amount of Cloud expenses for businesses of all kinds, including small and medium-sized firms, this addition is essential.

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SAP throws a lifeline to large organizations with new ECC offering

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

SAP on Tuesday said it plans to announce a new offering in the next quarter that is based around SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) and is designed to help the firms largest customers plan, execute and succeed in their cloud transformation. Its the future of SAP. Not all customers are as gung ho about the transition, however.

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“Collaborations between public and private organizations will be vital for the UAE to deliver on digital agenda”

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2024

At Gitex Global 2024, Core42, a leading provider of sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure under the G42 umbrella, signed a landmark agreement with semiconductor giant AMD. The partnership is set to trial cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions while exploring confidential compute technology for cloud deployments.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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Huawei Cloud unveils AI-Native innovations at MWC 2025, driving digital transformation in the Middle East

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, Huawei has positioned itself at the forefront of technological innovation, showcasing its latest advancements in 5G, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. Huawei Cloud unveiled cutting-edge AI-native cloud services, reinforcing its commitment to intelligent transformation.

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Huawei Cloud fuels Saudi Arabia’s AI ambitions at LEAP 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, stated that Huawei Cloud is transforming how enterprises harness AI.He Huawei Cloud combines Cloud for AI and AI for Cloud, leveraging cloud infrastructure to build AI model capabilities and utilizing AI to enhance cloud development processes.

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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Cloud storage. Not all data architectures leverage cloud storage, but many modern data architectures use public, private, or hybrid clouds to provide agility. Cloud computing. In addition to using cloud for storage, many modern data architectures make use of cloud computing to analyze and manage data.

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INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How Organizations Can Utilize Available Training Budgets: Skill Enhancement : Upgrade the team’s skills to defend against the latest networking, cloud, and cybersecurity threats. INE’s suite of learning paths offers an incomparable depth of expertise across cybersecurity, cloud, networking, and data science.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, leveraging cloud-based solutions reduced the burden of maintaining on-premises infrastructure. Also, reexamine current practices and processes.

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Businesses have long understood that simplifying and centralizing operations can reduce costs, break down silos, and foster collaboration and sustainability. Yet, despite its potential, cloud computing has not fully leveraged these advantages in managing complex cloud environments.

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Saudi Arabia launches $100 Billion AI initiative to lead in global tech

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

billion in a global super-scaler cloud, and Oracle investing $1.5 billion to expand its MENA business by launching new cloud areas in the Kingdom. Huawei has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in the Kingdom, while Zoom has partnered with Aramco to launch a cloud area in the Kingdom.

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

The successor to SAP ECC, S/4HANA is built on an in-memory database and is designed to enable real-time data processing and analysis for businesses. It is available both in a cloud-based SaaS and an on-premises version. S/4HANA Cloud With S/4HANA, SAP has also taken a new approach to its operating model.

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SAP aims to unify data for AI, analytics with new Business Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With its new Business Data Cloud, SAP wants to help enterprises unify data held in its own systems with that in other vendors applications: Its goal is to expedite advanced analytics and AI use cases. Although enterprises can continue using Datasphere for now, SAP clearly wants them to move to Business Data Cloud.

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MasOrange acelera su transformación digital avivada por la IA mediante una alianza con Google Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

El mayor proveedor de telecomunicaciones en Espaa por nmero de clientes une fuerzas con Google Cloud con vistas a acelerar su transformacin digital y posicionarse en el mercado como referente para particulares y empresas apoyadas por el uso de la inteligencia artificial (IA).

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IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many are reframing how to manage infrastructure, especially as demand for AI and cloud-native innovation escalates,” Carter said. Reveal the best of both worlds Carter noted that many VMware customers have invested in its solutions for decades but now seek modernization for greater agility, scalability, and cloud-native environments.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

The next wave of cybersecurity: Cloud and SOC integration

FinOps automation: Raising the bar on lowering cloud costs

A look at the future of mainframe modernization with hybrid cloud

How Du’s vision for sovereign cloud and AI will transform UAE’s digital governance

Stop navigating the cloud, and start shaping it

The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

Cloud modernization meets GenAI: new solutions expediate your efforts

Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

Avnet CIO: Navigating the cloud and AI landscape with a practical approach

Acumatica tweaks its cloud ERP for professional services firms

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Cloud modernization: The critical step your migration may be missing

The Ten Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024

Data distilleries: CIOs turn to new efficient enterprise data platforms

Oracle targets healthcare firms with new features in Cloud HCM and SCM

Oracle’s growing impact in the Middle East: Driving AI and cloud innovation

CIOs to spend ambitiously on AI in 2025 — and beyond

Culture and cloud combine to harness data at Regeneron

SAP builds new business suite in the cloud

Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

MWC25: KSA accelerates digital transformation with Huawei-Zain partnership

FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

SAP throws a lifeline to large organizations with new ECC offering

“Collaborations between public and private organizations will be vital for the UAE to deliver on digital agenda”

11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

Huawei Cloud unveils AI-Native innovations at MWC 2025, driving digital transformation in the Middle East

Huawei Cloud fuels Saudi Arabia’s AI ambitions at LEAP 2025

What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

INE Launches Initiative to Optimize Year-End Training Budgets with Enhanced Cybersecurity and Networking Programs

Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

Saudi Arabia launches $100 Billion AI initiative to lead in global tech

What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

SAP aims to unify data for AI, analytics with new Business Data Cloud

MasOrange acelera su transformación digital avivada por la IA mediante una alianza con Google Cloud

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