CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. And, again, its not enough to take the vendors word for it that theyre safe. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find it difficult to keep an eye on the costs of their cloud deployment and to continuously optimize them. In this context, more than a quarter expect cloud costs to rise by 20% or more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

With hybrid on-prem and cloud-deployed solutions and differences of capability and alignment between organizations and their suppliers, this can be a real challenge! Collaborator: Enterprise architects work with business stakeholders, development teams, vendors and other key players to ensure business outcomes are being met.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Our goal is to modernize complex, mission-critical legacy IT systems in all government organizations, he says. That means theres a need for governance and regulation.

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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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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

That included setting up a governance framework, building an internal tool that was safe for employees to use, and developing a process for vetting gen AI embedded in third-party systems. Proactive governance The governance framework came first. So DFCI took three main steps to deploy gen AI in a controlled way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. Its still early days for AI agents, says Carmen Fontana, IEEE member, and cloud and emerging tech practice lead at Augment Therapy, a digital health company. But Ive found them immensely useful in trimming down busy work.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. Governance of the technologies/vendors is perhaps secondary because "keeping the lights on" is such a dominating task. cloud architect) will become the norm. Cloud Computing. (55).

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

effectiveness of the cloud in disaster responses in 2013. responsive future: implementation of cloud computing as a technology for relief—a call for help answered before the roar had stopped. Alabama to a tsunami in Banda Aceh, cloud computing is a technology that makes achievable the desire to help in a way inconceivable a decade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. Companies can’t ignore digital transformation as technology continues to dominate nearly every aspect of business and daily-life.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. Invest in workforce planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s almost impossible for employees to keep track of our around 4,000 governing documents,” he says. Lifecycle managing servers removing all manual steps would save tens of thousands of hours, and we can spend that time on other things. However, it’s clear we’re moving toward cloud solutions in general.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. This certification will show you’re capable of dealing with any security threats, and well-versed on the requirements for IT governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Governance and Ownership – striking the right balance between retaining the right level of control while also allowing the Agile approach to thrive is critical. Having IT solutions that are structured around cloud computing as the default is essential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Chris Herringshaw, global CIO, Janus Henderson Janus Henderson For the short term, subscribing to cloud-based models is less expensive than building in-house — and that may even hold true over the long term. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Data Act also implements safeguards against illegal data transfers by cloud providers, and provides development of interoperability standards for reuse of data across sectors. The opportunity offered is enormous, says Maria Roberta Perugini, data protection and data governance attorney and member of European Data Protection Board.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And consider the organizational, technological, and governance transitions youll need to implement as well. Cloud Computing. (55). Cloud Computing. Cloud Musings. Wisdom of Clouds. Cloud Computing Journal. Fountainhead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, companies should already ask what kind of security audits and standards vendors have in their cloud environments, says Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran. Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” And do they have the right skill sets in terms of engineering and governance?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

Making the plus role happen With the advent of the cloud and managed services, the primary responsibility of the CIO role has evolved from managing data center infrastructure, security, and emails to digital and business transformation and taking ownership of revenue generation for various segments of the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. “Existing technology just doesn’t surface the most relevant content consistently and easily enough,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

In his new role, Pujari will steer development of the company’s technology capabilities in India, including expansion of cloud solutions, platform integration, capability and capacity building, and streamlining partners. He has held senior management positions at Google, TiVo, and Motorola. He joined Publicis Media in 2019.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Then at the far end of the spectrum are companies like Swedish fintech company Klarna, which has integrated gen AI not only in a range of internal projects, but also in products they sell — and have developed AI governance that includes guidelines on how AI should be used on projects.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Some leading companies already move beyond the IT/business alignment stage, well jump into IT engagement era --more adapt to today's cloud/social/ mobile ecosystem, to brand IT less as a utility, more as a differentiator. Especially now, application sprawl, shadow IT, those are the new headaches in the era of cloud.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2023

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal use rights (desktop, server, and […]

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Future of CIO

MARCH 12, 2014

In this regard, digital IT should gain more strength as an innovation engine and governance champion. It will mean that the enterprise view, customer contact, GRC and vendor management are the most important elements of an IT organization. IT organizations need to focus on value and capability building.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing. photo credit: geralt via pixabay cc Cloud computing is a funny trend. Balancing governance with self-service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

Maybe it’s the vendor who made it. Hopefully, no company or government will create an AI that doesn’t have “don’t destroy the whole planet” as one of its core values. And whether it does or not, that’s a question for ethicists and government regulators, not CIOs deploying enterprise AI solutions. So what can CIOs do about this?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

‘The above and beyond’ Like all CIOs, McDaniel relies on his own workers, contractors, and multiple outside suppliers to deliver the IT services that enable his organization — the government of Seguin, a city of about 33,000 residents. This ecosystem of vendors means CIOs increasingly need to build alliances,” Shenai says.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2021

So I started in personalization doing targeted messaging products, then went to support their merchants business, like Seller Central, that created the ability for people to manage their storefronts on Amazon. And then ultimately to vendor management, like retail systems and retail pricing. GW: What was the attraction to Google?

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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. Compliance and governance. New key metrics to capture include: Alignment with strategic goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

And then weve got a number of foundational programs of work that look at uplifting our infrastructure, making sure weve got flexibility in our cloud solutions. They also support how we uplift our middle office and where were looking to get better at utilizing the data we have in our organization to make decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. It will add it to its Spot by NetApp portfolio, the collection of SaaS tools built around the cloud management and cost optimization company it bought in 2022. Precisely buys PlaceIQ.

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