CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Underutilized and/or overprovisioned resources are among the biggest contributors to high cloud costs, says Shreehari Kulkarni, principal consultant with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. Adnan Masood, chief AI Architect at UST, says unpredictable pricing makes it tough even for CFOs to manage AI spending. That uncertainty creates a challenge for risk-averse companies that must work within budget constraints.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The 36,000-square-foot innovation hub will be led by the company’s CTO, Saurabh Mittal, and Markandey Upadhyay, head of business intelligence unit for Piramal. CIO.com caught up with Mittal to know more about his plans for the innovation lab, as well as the technology strategy for the financial services company.

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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. Analysts at the Boston Consulting Group say theyve been disappointed in the lack of recent progress of actual enterprise use cases. Whats the deal with error correction?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Yet, as appealing as it is for employees to be able to use modern technologies, decommissioning and replacing systems is arduous for IT. Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

They continue to make progress on the very hard task of data center consolidation and are helping save money, enhance agility and improve support to citizens while doing so. From the press release : GSA Closes Data Centers and Streamlines IT Organization to Boost Cost Savings, Improve Services. Data Center Consolidation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

While direct liquid cooling (DLC) is being deployed in data centers today more than ever before, would you be surprised to learn that we’ve been deploying it in our data center designs at Digital Realty since 2015? The power density requirements for AI and HPC can be 5-10 times higher than other data center use cases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” The CIO says he signed a contract with a cloud provider that gives him an out if he needs. “If It depends on what business model you’re in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Change the organizational mindset.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. It’s not like enterprise architects and infrastructure engineers were great at capacity planning from the data center days. Ensure your legal team has read ‘Cloud 3.0:

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

JLL, for instance, provides facilities management services for many cloud and data center operators. But the availability of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has been a major advancement because they enable JLL to incorporate all types of data, not just the most structured, Morin says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Llama helps with sales support, coding Deloittes Sarer recently worked with a data center technology company that was looking for gen AI to help transform both the front and back office. Thats not the case with open source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To RunPod is a GPU-as-a-service for developers that is very cost effective for universities and startups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

IBM has made its blockchain platform available out of the IBM data center in Melbourne, allowing customers to run their applications on the company’s cloud and abide by data sovereignty requirements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Fundaments, A VMware Cloud Verified partner operating from seven data centers located throughout the Netherlands, and a team of more than 50 vetted and experienced experts – all of whom are Dutch nationals – is growing rapidly. Our customers can consult with one of our engineers within minutes on any day and at any time,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

We didn’t want to invest in a data center that would commit us to another five-year depreciation cycle. Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Consulting CTO, explained the rationale: “We typically see potential cost savings of between 45% and 75% resulting from this strategy. That was really the catalyst.” billion ($5.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Ralph Loura, former SVP and CIO, Lumentum Lumentum That move soon led to a job running a data center and increasingly more senior roles, including stints as CIO at Symbol Technologies, Clorox, and HP’s Enterprise Group. NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

Do you have the data center and data science skill sets?” Increasingly, we’ll see AI-specialized hardware,” predicts Claus Torp Jensen, former CIO and CTO and currently a technology advisor. The GPU was invented for graphics processing so it’s not AI-optimized.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. The consumption-based model, on the other hand, gives access to new and valuable data.

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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. New York-Presbyterian will also invest in zero trust this year, adding a security operations center (SOC) for 24/7 network monitoring as well, Fleischut says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer. Facebook Announces Fifth Data Center, Located In Fort Worth, Texas TechCrunch (Today) - Facebook just took the wraps off its fifth data center, with this one landing in Fort Worth, Texas. Like most things at Facebook, the center already has its own Facebook.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But once the kinks are ironed out, third-party consultants will be able to put together an accurate picture that traces carbon emissions across supply chains. The big consulting firms already have their eyes on what this can do for their businesses. Europe is a step ahead,” says Srini Koushik, CTO of Rackspace Technology in the US.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 22, 2015

By: Brandee Daly, Founder C2S Consulting Group. Trigg Borgerson, CTO. Companies who migrate their applications and data centers to the cloud are doing more than just changing how they do IT. Cloud – Get on Board or be left Behind. Cloud is not just for your IT Department.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

“While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual. The cloud is getting more efficient and cheaper in ways their private data centers could never match.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Analyst estimates of IT and tech spend outside of the CIO/CTO budgets range from 40-45 -to 60%. With 2025 IT spend forecast to cross $6 trillion , there is much for both business and technology to plan for. Digital twins are getting built and born in the enterprise without any CIO facilitation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Standardize processes and understand LOB needs Effective IT service delivery begins by creating and standardizing processes and documentation, says Patrick Cannon, field CTO at data center and cloud services firm US Signal. IT leaders need a comprehensive plan to make their operation the best it can be.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. “In Select the right partnership model.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and managing HPC clusters, Hadoop clusters, and OpenStack private clouds in your data center or in the cloud. Cognitio is a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S.

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