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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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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

Sourabh Chatterjee, president and head of technology, digital sales, and travel at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, says, “At the end of the day, it is the content, faculty, and case studies of a course that cumulatively open the mind. It could be coding, designing, process flow, testing, or architecture. Careers, Certifications, CIO

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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

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Individuals also can arrange insurance with one click. Because all the systems are interlinked, a manager can see which employees he is responsible for, which applications these employees use and the total licensing costs are for that usage. Architecture CTO News' By Robert Doswell. About the author: .

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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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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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.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Reliable computing Trustworthy systems have always been the goal for developers but lately some high-profile events are convincing some IT managers that better architectures and practices are necessary. The chain of transactions held in the distributed ledger might track insurance payments, car purchases, or any number of assets.

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