CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. They did not plan for scalability.

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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. The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Riley describes a company’s surroundings as the tools, platforms, and applications used to get the job done. The most important thing a tech leader can do is create the architecture that staff work with,” Riley says. On that coffee break, he ended up meeting his future startup partner, now the CEO of his company.

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TechEmpower - Information Technology

AUGUST 21, 2023

At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. And what causes that? By a factor of 100?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Our flagship product, HireSystems, was the leading Applicant Tracking System delivered as a service to our large enterprise customers. Why do I like SAAS? Release schedule.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

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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. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients.

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Members from 256 companies, including 110 communications service providers, attended the virtual. In the area of Beyond Connectivity, participants paved the way for the publication of the upcoming introductory guide to business architecture and advanced their work on zero-touch partnering, connectivity-as-a-service and software marketplaces.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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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. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

At engineering and technology services company Cyient, CIO Pallavi Katiyar says that CIOs are closely integrated with business and are more like partners today, making the framework for deciding priorities relatively easier. “We Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Sustainability. Talent retention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. billion to the global economy. Then gen AI came out.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 2, 2022

Glenn Kapetansky, Chief Security Officer and Technology Capability Lead for Trexin Consulting, has a passion for building systems, organizations, and teams, and has done so across a number of business sectors, technologies, and roles. Question: What encouraged you to join your current company?

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

This innovation requires a working knowledge of the new technology, but more importantly, it requires domain knowledge of the target opportunity. This notion of domain knowledge is very important to my company, Overture as we apply new technologies to some difficult problems faced by our communications service provider (CSP) customers.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

According to Edd Dumbill, a well respected thought leader and VP of Strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, a big data and data science consulting company, Big Data is “data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Windows software can be a gateway for bad people to gain access to your company Image Credit: Alexander Popov. How much Microsoft windows software is being used at your company? What this means is that over time we’ve all collected a great deal of their software and we’ve built it into our company’s IT infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say AI, AI, AI,” which “will probably accelerate faster than anyone can think,” says Chris Nardecchia, chief information and digital officer at Rockwell Automation. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments (). t need them.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Reuse simplifies construction, testing, and ongoing maintenance of the application. The Technical Lead needs to consult on feasibility, discuss estimates, and define the application architecture. Use "simple" as a guiding principal when considering user experience, functionality, and application architecture.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

browsers, Office applications, and Windows utilities) to achieve their objectives. The true positive rate, indicating what fraction of actual malware is detected, is shown on the Y-axis. The false positive rate, indicating what fraction of detections are not malicious files, is shown on the X-axis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. From there, companies deploy their application either automatically or through continuous integration and continuous delivery,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rate of companies that have either already deployed generative AI or are actively exploring it is accelerating to the point where, combined, there are very few holdouts. Plus, when you add in cloud-based gen AI tools like ChatGPT, the percentage of companies using gen AI in one form or another becomes nearly universal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. A third reason companies are disappointed is because of a lack of control over their information systems.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Within STL, I’m responsible for our telecommunications software products portfolio as the Network Software CTO. In the context of TM Forum, I have participated in TM Forum Catalysts and the Open Digital Architecture components program. What TM Forum Open APIs are most valuable to your company? How do you use those APIs?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2024

The DARPA LunA-10 study takes its name from the goal of advancing a lunar architecture for infrastructure over a 10-year time frame. Instead, DARPA is interested in developing ideas that could give rise to future commercial applications on the moon — and perhaps technology spin-offs here on Earth.

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TM Forum

JULY 23, 2021

What are some of the technical challenges for CSPs as they improve their digital experience architectures? With today’s modern architectures, it is now possible to decouple the customer experience layer from the systems of record and allow each to evolve at their own pace. TM Forum Open Digital Architecture.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

We will also discuss how different companies can integrate cloud computing into their business operations, along with the challenges they might encounter along the way. Containers and Kubernetes: Containers have transformed application deployment and management, enabling lightweight and portable software packaging.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Organizations should discuss ways they can modernize their technology infrastructure to support architectures in which security is built in, not simply bolted on, says Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Hosted by Seattle venture capital firm Ascend , the event included all of the hallmarks of a Seattle party: a taco truck and hot dog stand, a DJ, and a cast of geeks building the next generation of startups, solving problems ranging from architecture to education. They can have all these applications where somebody reviews the output.

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