Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 4, 2018

At a #CIOChat this weekend we were asked about warning signs for bad architecture. Here was my quick response capturing just a tweet-sized summary of architecture that "smells bad" - Too slow making biz needs. Can’t be deployed to the cloud. Too difficult/complex to explain to new technologists.

Architecture 159

Architecture Applications Cloud System 159

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.

Cloud 130

Cloud Company Devops Disaster Recovery 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale.

Cloud 122

Cloud Resources Survey Applications 122

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.

Strategy 145

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.

Applications 138

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 138

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Challenges in APAC’s Multicloud Adoption Journey Organisations in Asia Pacific (APAC) are looking at multicloud solutions to help them navigate IT management complexity, digital skills gaps, and limited data and application visibility. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

Cloud 128

Cloud Dell Intel Agile 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

Agile 137

Agile Architecture Development System 137

TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

How: A solution aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs to achieve desired business outcomes. Results: Adopted cloud-native and microservices-based solution that resulted in 50% shorter time to market. Microservices architecture. TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA). Open APIs. ,

Cloud 130

Cloud Architecture Licensing Devops 130

TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2022

African mobile operator MTC Namibia is reducing technical debt and enabling growth with a greenfield, cloud-native approach to transforming operational support systems (OSS). The new OSS/BSS allows us to be a lot more agile.” A hodgepodge of applications stranded on aging and out-of-date infrastructure becomes unmanageable.

Cloud 130

Cloud Architecture Hardware System 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.

Cloud 124

Cloud Applications Architecture Strategy 124

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As service providers execute on these programs, thoughts are turning again to the role of data, and data architectures in an increasingly virtualized environment. The old mantra is still the same: volume, velocity and variety are the primary vectors in designing an enterprise telco data architecture. Instant gratification architecture.

Government 130

Government Cloud Data Architecture 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation.

Cloud 117

Cloud Airlines Network Security 117

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.

Cloud 98

Cloud Fractional CTO Architecture Applications 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

Agile 116

Agile Architecture Development System 116

TM Forum

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As communication service providers (CSPs) migrate to the cloud they are evaluating which applications to move to a cloud-native environment. Taking stock: Where are you on your cloud journey and how to take the next step?'. was to learn [and] see what doesn't work.

Cloud 130

Cloud Applications Architecture Devops 130

The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 28, 2021

CIOs need to prepare to switch cloud providers from the start Image Credit: Damien Pollet. As more and more CIOs move their company’s IT infrastructure into the cloud, the importance of the cloud is becoming more and more important. Design Your Cloud Strategy For Both Flexibility And Portability.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Applications 179

Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 24, 2014

When I speak to organizations about the cloud, I find the majority of them are using the cloud in some form or fashion today. Many have opted to build a private cloud to allow cloud-based systems while maintaining total control over the applications and security of the cloud.

Agile 159

Agile Cloud Fashion System 159

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.

Cloud 124

Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO Budget 124

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Ever since Basecamp announced late last year that they were (mostly) pulling out of the cloud, there’s been a spirited debate about the failure of cloud computing to deliver on hyped-up promises of miraculous cost savings. Cost savings is (and always has been) the worst reason to migrate to the cloud. Here’s how I answer them.

Cloud 98

Cloud Agile Devops Engineering 98

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many factors play a role here, but among the most important is the underlying cloud architecture that 5G’s digital services rely on. High-speed data transfer and intelligent, autonomous operations will define next-generation services, and all depend on the underlying network and architecture.

Network 131

Network Cloud Architecture Industry 131

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Many factors play a role here, but among the most important is the underlying cloud architecture that 5G’s digital services rely on. High-speed data transfer and intelligent, autonomous operations will define next-generation services, and all depend on the underlying network and architecture.

Network 130

Network Cloud Architecture Industry 130

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. As a result, islands of applications and data are formed.

Storage 97

Storage Agile Dell Applications 97

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.

Cloud 145

Cloud Strategy Fractional CTO Data Center 145

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” As the zero trust platform provider of choice for 40% of the Fortune 500, Zscaler has long been recognized as the leader in zero trust and, by extension, cloud security. But what exactly does that mean? Zero trust has come a long way.

Architecture 143

Architecture Applications Data Center Airlines 143

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The era of the multi-cloud landscape is here. CIOs are taking deliberate action by proactively matching workloads and applications with the ideal cloud, and companies are also seeing a proliferation of multi-cloud architectures created by mergers and acquisitions, data sovereignty needs, support for remote work, and shadow IT.

Vmware 105

Vmware Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 105

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.

IBM 111

IBM Cloud Applications Agile 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

But to thrive in the “intelligence era”, Mr Cao said financial institutions need to reconsider their entire digital strategy, encompassing their approach to connections, data, applications, and infrastructure, in order to strengthen their core competitiveness. Cao told the conference. Mr. Cao noted the specific problem of unstructured data.

Cloud 98

Cloud Artificial Intelligence Financial Architecture 98

Dataconomy

MARCH 6, 2023

What is enterprise architecture? This includes its business processes, technology infrastructure, and data architecture. This includes its business processes, technology infrastructure, and data architecture. This helps ensure that technology investments are focused on achieving business objectives.

Architecture 41

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 41

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2022

That’s the vision at Canada Jetlines , a startup airline that began with a cloud-native strategy. Pope is among the speakers at the Canadian CIO Future of Cloud Summit , taking place virtually June 8 and 9. A panel of tech leaders will explore how the cloud native, digital-first world is changing the role of the CIO.

Cloud 122

Cloud Case Study Architecture Strategy 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

The adoption of multiple clouds by European business and public agencies continues to increase due to the need for competitive differentiation and growth through speed, quality, and the delivery of great customer experiences. For further details, check out the IDC report on sovereign cloud here.

Cloud 92

Cloud Vmware Architecture Government 92

TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Cloud-network convergence is the essential feature of new digital information infrastructure. It breaks the boundary between cloud and network, and promotes them from independent development to comprehensive integration. The value of smart operation system for cloud-network convergence.

Operating Systems 130

Operating Systems Network System Cloud 130

TM Forum

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Oracle's Group Vice President of Product Development, Azhar Mirza, explores how TM Forum’s Open APIs and Open Digital Architecture can help underpin digital transformation and enable communications service providers (CSPs) to increase their agility and the interoperability between their systems. Open Digital Architecture.

Oracle 130

Oracle Agile Architecture Applications 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. . But it has geared up to adopt digital acceleration at high speed for agility. . Powering through the world’s energy needs .

Architecture 98

Architecture Network Energy Microsoft 98

TM Forum

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In an Agile development environment, the cadence of software development is radically different from traditional waterfall methods. While this provides significant benefits in development, much of the gain in speed and agility are wasted when testing and deployment are disconnected from the design and development process.

Devops 130

Devops Cloud Agile Architecture 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

The race towards the cloud. Cloud adoption has been a top CIO priority, accelerated by the pandemic as organizations speed up their digital transformation initiatives. IDC forecasted worldwide “whole cloud” spending will surpass US$1.3 More than operational efficiency gains, cloud is at the center of digital transformation.

Cloud 98

Cloud Devops Architecture Banking 98

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

With cloud adoption, retailers have been successful and with emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on cloud, they can break the barriers. A cloud-first approach to modernization supported by AI should ensure that technology investments are in lockstep with the retailer’s business model and objectives.

Retail 98

Retail Microsoft Cloud Apparel 98

Cloud Musings

MAY 6, 2014

The 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event will be held on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog. This event will also serve as an opportunity for industry attendees to offer queries of their own to the government presenters.

Agile 87

Agile Cloud Government Groups 87