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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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

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

“This change, available beginning with the next-generation IBM Z in the first half of 2025, will allow clients to maintain the same I/O configuration in a smaller footprint, to reduce data center floorspace as they upgrade and modernize their infrastructure,” Becht and Eickhoff wrote in a blog.

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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

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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%

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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.”

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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.

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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?

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Main constituents: Companies that control access to large blocks of data that can be useful to automated analysis. Companies are re-examining their APIs and setting up stronger controls. Some of the decisions are being swayed by the investment that the company has made in commercial office space.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 4, 2014

However, committing your company’s IT assets to the cloud is a big deal considering the importance of information technology to the company. When faced with having to make decisions about just how involved in cloud computing your company should be, a CIO is facing a great number of unknowns. How To Start?:

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

After all, says Michael Corrigan, CIO of World Insurance, “It can be more challenging to work with, or manage a third-party that is providing higher-end skills like AI/data science if you don’t have the internal IT resources with the knowledge or expertise to hold that third-party accountable.” Select the right partnership model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Choice Hotels, the Maryland-based multinational hotel chain, is a $10 billion, 80-year-old hospitality company with about 7,500 hotels in 46 countries. Usually when a company looks to go to the cloud, it wants to take advantage of the tech, get the ability to scale on demand, and manage cost differently.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Standard Chartered PLC: IT architects at Standard Chartered PLC decided to centralize data center ops for core retail-banking application, available to customers at 1,200 locations worldwide. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

billion institution serving the mid-Atlantic region and headquartered in Buffalo, NY, maintains two data centers, one in Buffalo and the other in Millsboro, Del. The company is also banking heavily on synergies between its Red Hat unit and the Z systems. “We It’s part of our universe. M&T, a $6.5

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Im also surprised that consulting/service companies arent all over this issue. Going to the cloud also provides some insurance that if (for whatever reason) compute demand increases, you have flexibility to respond. Fountainhead. Ken Oestreich.

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Galido

JUNE 13, 2019

Many companies require policies to keep operating even in the aftermath of nature’s wrath. The Payment Card Security Standards Council and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are perhaps the best examples of industry-specific standards that champion for disaster management. Understanding Disaster Recovery.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And then information is starting to flow from the company to the cloud and no one really knows about it. IT or security teams will be held accountable for that data link. And part of that is going to be your cyber liability insurance. Make your own is like build your own data center , for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2022

We recently caught up with Mike Fuhrman, Chief Product and Information Officer at Flexential, to learn how the company is helping customers gain the connectivity and cloud solutions they need and what it means to be VMware Cloud Verified.

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