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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it.

Insurance 105
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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

And it is the chain’s hefty multicloud architecture, anchored by Aviatrix’s cloud networking and Equinix’s interconnection technology, that enables Turner to bring the hotel empire much closer to its key customers — business and leisure guests, as well as hotel owners. “A This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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Allstate’s cloud-first approach to digital transformation pays off

CIO Business Intelligence

Most companies’ digital journeys begin by migrating legacy applications to the cloud — the theory being that lifting and shifting workloads can provide a fast onramp to making good on services and capabilities unique to the cloud. The result, Jeevanjee says, is a technology-driven business strategy “that’s a very empowering thing.”

Cloud 136
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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO Business Intelligence

ZB of data in novelized form would create nearly 400,000 stacks of books, with each stack rising all the way to the moon. Accessing this data and keeping it available for end-users is a critical capability for a modern business. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 ZB by 2026.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early 2000s, companies like Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce drove a trend toward standardizing interfaces among web applications. The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume.

Strategy 134
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Understanding Digital Interactions in Real-Time

CIO Business Intelligence

But this glittering prize might cause some organizations to overlook something significantly more important: constructing the kind of event-driven data architecture that supports robust real-time analytics. We can, in the semantics of the software world, refer to digitally mediated business activities asreal-time events.