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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

As such, Kay’s biggest challenge in setting the stage for her digital ambitions — and one that has involved the entire C-suite — has been unifying the IT operations of Principal Financial’s individual businesses units in order to develop an enterprise-wide data foundation and cloud architecture on which to build its next-generation services.

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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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Self-service: From the living room to the enterprise

CTOvision

Individuals also can arrange insurance with one click. Using a self-service portal, for instance, employees can request their own access to applications, network shares, functional mailboxes and distribution lists. Architecture CTO News' By Robert Doswell. It’s now common practice to perform a variety of banking tasks from home.

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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. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

Strategy 140
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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. However, massively parallel processing (MPP) database architectures are one example of purpose-built technologies that have been developed to support both OLTP and OLAP data structures at enormous scales up into the petabytes (PB).

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Chance of succeeding: The success or failure will probably be governed by the nature of the applications.

Tools 145
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AI in the cloud pays dividends for Liberty Mutual

CIO Business Intelligence

Liberty Mutual’s cloud infrastructure runs an array of business applications and analytics dashboards that yield real-time insights and predictions, as well as machine learning models that streamline claims processing. The insurer also uses Amazon Sage Maker to build machine learning models, but the core models are based on Python.

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