CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Digitization has transformed traditional companies into data-centric operations with core business applications and systems requiring 100% availability and zero downtime. One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products.

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Case Study Storage Study Enterprise 82

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With 90 years of history, Mapfre is one of the giants of the Spanish insurance sector. The personalization of services and products is going to be fundamental in the insurance sector,” she says, an aspect she’s spearheading, along with a commitment to data and AI. “The Here, she speaks with Esther Macías on how it’ll all work.

Cloud 96

Cloud Insurance Strategy Data 96

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

Today, most banks, insurance companies, and other kinds of financial services firms have deployed natural language processing (NLP) tools to address some of their customer service needs. Good for customers, good for companies. billion, and for insurance, the savings will approach $1.3

Financial 94

Financial Company Dell Artificial Intelligence 94

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

Even internally, finance companies such as Discover , have focused on building IT and tech training platforms to upskill workers to help meet the rapidly growing need for talent. And as more insurance companies develop client-facing apps and services, there’s a need for UX/UI designers, developers, and engineers.

Industry 120

Industry Project Management Quality Assurance Engineering 120

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We We run factories and help companies run them and optimize them” and AI is used to optimize everything from getting more throughput to better quality to preventative maintenance, productivity, and cost optimization, Nardecchia says.

Budget 145

Budget CTO Hire Unified Communications Tourism 145

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

A “catastrophic failure” in the state of Oregon’s government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. The delay caused backups in the Oregon Employment Department’s processing of unemployment insurance payments and claims, state officials said. White Papers.

Storage 221

Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Becoming a sustainable enterprise is no longer a “nice to have” priority – reducing a company’s carbon footprint and fighting climate change is now mainstream. Adopting sustainable innovation practices demands a change in the outlook and the organizational culture of the company, including the current services and practices.”

Enterprise 85

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Cloud 85

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“We did a major pivot because this was a game changer in terms of its interactive abilities, as well as the comprehensiveness of its answers and its data generation capabilities. But now the company supports all major LLMs, Reihl says. “If It was just staggering in terms of its capabilities.”

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CTO Cloud Data Center Microsoft 123

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Companies providing financial services are under constant pressure from the threat of agile fintechs and ever-changing customer expectations. South African insurance provider, Discovery Holdings, doesn’t just protect people. Today, its cloud operations span four hyperscalers and it has on-premises data centers across 16 regions.

Cloud 85

Cloud Vmware Insurance Data Center 85

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits. The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

Disaster Recovery 121

Disaster Recovery Training Budget Network 121

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

While Pick is encouraging employees at the insurance company to experiment, he insists their activities be monitored. “In In insurance, we live in data all the time — and in third-party data — that’s different from some industries. We did see a tremendous amount of personal experimentation going on.

Insurance 93

Insurance Strategy Applications Policies 93

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you’re in the business of data centers or perhaps have a heavy research and development arm, you might be able to do it more cheaply yourself,” says Ciena CIO Craig Williams, who admits this may be an outlier position. “We The CIO says he signed a contract with a cloud provider that gives him an out if he needs. “If

Strategy 134

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 134

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Then at the far end of the spectrum are companies like Swedish fintech company Klarna, which has integrated gen AI not only in a range of internal projects, but also in products they sell — and have developed AI governance that includes guidelines on how AI should be used on projects. Inference output takes a split second.

Energy 70

Energy Training Guidelines Report 70

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2023

Skandia consists of several different companies, of which insurance and banking are the two largest. The insurance business has old roots: the pension company was started as early as 1855, while the bank only started in 1994, yet it was first as a purely telephone bank. So my feeling is we’re in a good position.”

Insurance 58

Insurance Banking Agile Cloud 58

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Two decades ago, as CIO and CTO at Nationwide Insurance, he inspired colleagues to implement what were then referred to as “green initiatives,” such as printing less paper and using more efficient lightbulbs. Other board members include IT leaders from Morgan Stanley , Allstate, Telefónica Germany, and Campbell Soup Company.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Data Center 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Particularly in Asia Pacific , revenues for big data and analytics solutions providers hit US$22.6bn in 2020 , with financial services companies ranking among their biggest clients. Spending on big data technology among financial services companies is expected to grow even further, with projections of 15.6%

Cloud 90

Cloud Financial Big Data Banking 90

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

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. What is behind that growth?

Insurance 101

Insurance Disaster Recovery Policies Examples 101

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

Current headlines from Ukraine have many companies concerned about the safety of employees or contractors residing there. Not doing so can result in significant financial impact on companies. At my company, Inflection,planning for possible business disruptions related to Ukraine started a year and a half ahead of the actual conflict.

Business Continuity 121

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Data Center Cloud 121

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Italian insurer Reale Group found itself with four cloud providers running around 15% of its workloads, and no clear strategy to manage them. “It It was not a result we were seeking, it was the result of reality,” said Marco Barioni, CEO of Reale ITES, the company’s internal IT engineering services unit.

Study 143

Study Oracle Cloud Disaster Recovery 143

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

billion industrial manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago, says Ron Mathis, corporate IT operations director. ITW is decentralized, Mathis explains, and its hundreds of affiliated companies are treated as entrepreneurial organizations with their own priorities and responsibilities.

Budget 132

Budget Cloud Insurance Survey 132

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

billion in cost savings for the insurance industry as well during the same period. . For banks, brokerages, insurance companies, fintech firms, and other financial services organizations, NLP is increasingly being seen as a solution to too much data and too few employees. NLP will account for $35.1 Putting NLP to Work.

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Financial Artificial Intelligence Intel Banking 92

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To maximize the value of these investments, it will be critical for CIOs to take a page from digital native companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb by linking technology development directly to customer experience and working together seamlessly between teams to prioritize technologies that have the biggest impacts. Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence Strategy Cloud Data 134

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? AWS is the big player is the public cloud space, so it makes sense that CloudScaling would insure compatibility for these customers. Modular Data Centers.

Google 199

Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The promotional materials were from a company touting what it described as the “largest stockpile of GPUs available for the best price” — underscoring the soaring demand and short supply of the graphics processing units instrumental for training artificial intelligence models. I’ve asked the company for an explanation.

Web Services 119

Web Services Artificial Intelligence Conference Microsoft 119

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

All companies are now software companies, which means leaders have to rethink how they run their business. Projects are great if you’re planning to, say, migrate a data center. When you look at companies’ top objectives, customer needs top the list: No. Here are five takeaways: . DPM facilitates the move.

Survey 81

Survey Software Development Devops Software 81

SPF13

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Myth – Disaster Recovery Plans Are like an Insurance Policy that Never Gets Used. They believe disaster recovery is a sunk cost similar to a car insurance policy of someone who never gets an accident. One of the most common uses is as a migration plan template anytime a business switches data centers.

Disaster Recovery 167

Disaster Recovery Insurance Data Center Virtualization 167

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are three examples of organizations that unlocked increased value from hybrid data models: A large African telecommunications company was able to build up its analytics once and then deploy them on whatever infrastructure was available in the specific country of the African continent. Core infrastructure isn’t going anywhere.

Cloud 52

Cloud Government Data Center Data 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation.

Hotels 145

Hotels Real Estate Financial Business Transformation 145

SPF13

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This myth largely stems from traditional manual data recovery because end-users had to deal with duplicate, silent infrastructures across multiple sites. Disaster Recovery Plans Are like an Insurance Policy that Never Gets Used. One of the most common uses is as a migration plan template anytime a business switches data centers.Â

Disaster Recovery 191

Disaster Recovery Insurance Virtualization Data Center 191

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2024

Data at rest. Data in motion. Cyber insurance. Consider today’s IT architecture world: on premises, outsourced data center, public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, the edge. There are options that help companies manage disparate tasks, projects, and resources. Testing vendor solutions. State actors.

Government 63

Government Tools Applications Training 63

ComputerWorld IT Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In networking, big cloud companies like Google and Facebook are at the top of their game. They run giant data centers, continually launch and modify large-scale applications, and don’t seem to be bound to big system vendors. Everybody wants to be a winner. One way to get there is to follow the leaders.

Network 40

Network Enterprise Enterprise Open Source 40

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) has grown over the course of a century into a $40 billion organization with $1.2 Post-pandemic, every company is now going through it, which is a great thing for the financial services industry largely. I’ve had a front row seat at some of these big transformations.

Financial 99

Financial Nonprofit Industry Research 99

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Build a robust talent development plan Monica Caldas, CIO and executive vice president with Liberty Mutual Insurance, believes that a strong, skills-focused development plan should be an imperative for IT leaders in 2024. Technology is accelerating across every sector, and with that comes shifts in technology professionals’ skills,” she says.

Training 142

Training Data CTO Development 142

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

BPM Institute says BPM should focus on three outcomes: Clarity on strategic direction Alignment of the firm’s resources Increased discipline in daily operations Business processes are essential to the operations of almost every company. A company can only be as flexible, efficient, and agile as the interaction of its business processes allow.

Agile 81

Agile Enterprise Enterprise Engineering 81

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

IBM is refreshing its mainframe range, putting an AI accelerator on the processor and surrounding it with new cryptographic features the company says will help protect today’s data against the quantum computing attacks of the future. Instead, they developed an integrated accelerator, an industry first for data center hardware.”.

IBM 122

IBM Applications Data Hardware 122

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

“I always find there’s benefit in using a story to help my audience understand what can sometimes be very technical concepts that I’m trying to communicate to non-technical people,” says Adam Miller, CIO of UK insurer, Markerstudy Group. That’s what data storytelling is: visualisation plus narrative plus context.”

Fractional CTO 113

Fractional CTO Meeting CTO Data 113

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Keeping on top of activity in this area can help your company make the most of emerging opportunities and steer clear of issues that often arise when vendors combine. The appetite of Indian IT service companies for European acquisitions is still unsated. Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million.

Enterprise 143

Enterprise Enterprise Oracle SAP 143