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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. It includes data collection, refinement, storage, analysis, and delivery. Cloud storage. Cloud computing.

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

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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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005. Johnson was named president and CEO of Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) in 2022.Saddled

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO Business Intelligence

“We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Secure storage, together with data transformation, monitoring, auditing, and a compliance layer, increase the complexity of the system. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

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Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. AI networking is definitely in its early days, but we have been in a few consulting engagements about that,” Shagoury said. “A

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

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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