CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

In the US, for example, the three biggest mobile network providers are ahead of the curve, but they still have a lot to do. You need to have a good throughput so the data gets around really fast in a power plant, for example, where you could have million-dollar high pressure turbines and generators operating.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Similarly, Kapil Pal, CTO at iEnergizer, a global BPO solutions provider, had to take some tough calls while heading IT at United Breweries (UB), one of India’s best known liquor companies. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds.

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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. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights. What would happen, for example, if a key client’s business was shut down by a cyberattack? What would be the next steps?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today’s gen AI platforms, however, require much less data since companies can start out with general-purpose foundation models and either fine-tune them on their own data, add a vector database, or inject information and examples directly into the prompt. Then gen AI came out. It’s transforming some of our workflows.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for example, uses multiagent systems to ensure its clean rooms stay clean so nothing contaminates flight hardware bound for other planets. It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. And, yes, enterprises are already deploying them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. For example, in an HR application, an employee might be allowed to see their own salary information and benefits, but not that of other employees. Even individual cities are getting in on the action. AI is a black box.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2016

Data, for example, may be used for one purpose, and then for another down the road, potentially exposing financial or medical information one might not want a particular party to see. You’ll find who owns the data in documents such as end-user license agreements. Lawsuits are sure to increase on these matters over the next few years.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Although city officials believed they had thwarted the ransomware, a dark twist emerged as stolen data—including sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, bank account details, and driver's license information—was uploaded to the dark web by the cybercriminal group Rhysida.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 23, 2007

why progress has been slow in Australia, current leading examples of Web 2.0 We have a fantastic audience of some of the most senior executives from the corporate and technology sector in Australia coming along on the day. The main reason for this post is to announce the companies we’re showcasing as “five leading examples of Web 2.0

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. Shadow IT in the cloud: "The guy from finance, for example, just goes on the internet in search of whichever application he wants.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What should you be aware of before licensing a BPM tool? If we considered the corporate workflow as a symphony orchestra and the business processes within it as the musicians, BPM would be the conductor coordinating them,” explains Ivan Kot, Solution Consultant at Itransition. How do you know which option is right for your business?

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 7, 2007

There is real potential to build local social networks, as demonstrated for example by Gnoos. David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. As just one example, we have twenty cities and states around the nation who have authority from the FCC to build fourth generation wireless networks. But I also have a few turkeys to carve.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, I recently talked with the CEO of a biotech investment fund. If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. For example, there is a 50 PB MPP cluster at eBay [3]. What is Big Data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Actors and leaders of incubators and educational movements are doing what they can for the sake of those in both technological and non-technological sectors. Many become coaches or consultants of low-code/no-code for companies while others within incubators or movements lead awareness and training on these technologies.

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