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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

The first is to run transaction-intensive banking applications, including bank statements, deposits, mobile banking, debit-card processing, and loan payments. The second is to host mobile applications, containers, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications — what Sonnenstein calls “acting as a full-fledged member of the modern universe.”.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

CIO Business Intelligence

AssuredPartners is a full-service insurance broker providing commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits. The company, which has more than 8,500 employees, plans to continue growing by acquisition, and consolidating the global insurance market. All they do is M&A. How is the IT organization structured?

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Why security services are an emerging sweet spot for telcos

TM Forum

Traditionally, enterprises have taken a siloed approach to security, spending separately on hardware security, identity protection and managed devices. While the bring-your-own-device trend is not new, the increase in home working will necessarily result in wider use of corporate applications on employees’ own devices.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

I often ask vendors to walk me through their product quote and explain what each product SKU or line item is, such as the cost for an application with the microservices and containerization,” Phelps says. CIOs may also fall into the trap of misunderstanding product mixes and the downside of auto-renewals, he adds. “I

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

The industries these decision-makers represented include insurance, banking, healthcare and life sciences, government, entertainment, and energy in the U.S. Its algorithms and architecture make it resistant to tampering and, thus, ideal for storing financial records, medical data, or other sensitive information. and tokenization.