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Accelerate winners demonstrate AI and services progress

TM Forum

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. Cliff co-leads the Business Architecture work at TM Forum. Cliff Faurer -. external_url.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

“Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In these challenging macroeconomic times, consolidation becomes a key priority to address a dozen tools by leveraging a platform or, as Gartner has referred, a cybersecurity mesh. Before this, Sean was involved in software development, technical support, and consulting services for a range of Internet security solutions.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

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. Veracity refers to the truthfulness of the data or your degree of trust in what it is conveying.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO Business Intelligence

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.