Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Pays $50M to expand in one of the hottest US data center markets Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2022

The traditional in-person process of insurance agents meeting with prospective customers to discuss policies, sign paperwork, and load it into the company’s client/server system came to a complete halt. Because we are an insurance company, what we are is a promise on a piece of paper,” says then-CIO Richard Gilbert. “We

Virtualization 96

Virtualization Insurance Policies Data Center 96

Network World

AUGUST 23, 2016

The OIG at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducted a wireless penetration test on 13 CMS data centers and facilities. CMS, an agency within HHS, administers federal healthcare programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Wireless 60

Wireless Data Center Network Healthcare 60

Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ideally, data centers and disaster recovery sites should be placed at a longer distance from each other than is traditionally practiced to literally insure your data from the impact of any man-made or natural disaster. Read More.

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Data Insurance Data Center 100

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

One company that needs to keep data on a tight leash is Petco, which is a market leader in pet care and wellness products. Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. Insurance companies also see Infinidat as a storage vendor of choice.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The number of victims may make this the largest data breach involving a U.S. health insurer.

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Insurance Data 100

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

There’s also a demand for more typical IT roles such as project manager, data scientist, cybersecurity professional, RPA developer, IoT engineer, asset management specialist, data center manager, and more. Average salary: US$118,498 Increase since 2021: +3.6% Average salary: US$115,940 Increase since 2021: +6.8%

Industry 121

Industry Project Management Quality Assurance Engineering 121

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We Vaithylingam says the College of Southern Nevada will shut down its on-prem data center — one of the largest in Nevada — and plans to fully move all workloads and infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.

Budget 145

Budget CTO Hire Unified Communications Tourism 145

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2022

Data centers: When considering a move to the cloud , choose a green cloud provider that has a sustainability strategy that reduces the environmental impact of their data centers. Data: Use data to share information around sustainability efforts.

Enterprise 85

Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Cloud 85

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

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. Europe is driving a lot of the standards and wants to make sure that we are pretty accurate in what we’re reporting,” he says.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Data Center 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

“Our approach is one of cautious interest,” says Robert Pick, executive vice president and CIO for Tokio Marine North America, a multinational insurance provider with headquarters in Japan. While Pick is encouraging employees at the insurance company to experiment, he insists their activities be monitored. “In

Insurance 93

Insurance Strategy Applications Policies 93

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. It’s a system that’s largely customized to the customer.

Insurance 59

Insurance Banking Agile Cloud 59

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2016

Look at the whole picture, not just facility risks Read More.

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Insurance Data Resources 100

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Even if these events don’t occur, what kinds of premiums are you likely to pay your corporate and cyber-liability insurers when they read your latest audit reports and see you haven’t updated your disaster recovery plan or invested in hardening your network security for over two years? The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

Disaster Recovery 122

Disaster Recovery Training Budget Network 122

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

AWS is the big player is the public cloud space, so it makes sense that CloudScaling would insure compatibility for these customers. About Jason Verge Jason Verge is an Editor/Industry Analyst on the Data Center Knowledge team with a strong background in the data center and Web hosting industries. White Papers.

Google 199

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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.

Disaster Recovery 167

Disaster Recovery Insurance Data Center Virtualization 167

Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 24, 2014

After an extraordinarily rocky start, the federal healthcare exchange, the online marketplace consumers use to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Healthcare Act, seems to be working more smoothly. But, now problems are cropping up with the state healthcare exchanges, writes David. Industry Perspectives'

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Analysis Healthcare Insurance Industry 193

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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Disaster Recovery Insurance Virtualization Data Center 191

Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 16, 2013

IO announces multiple customer wins in Arizona and New Jersey, Iron Mountain announces colo agreement with SOLABS, Sudlows selected by Swinton Insurance. Europe IO Iron Mountain sudlows'

Insurance 181

Insurance 181

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Security and data privacy The introduction of GenAI into enterprise workflows, and the related data needed to power it, amplifies the need for CIOs to implement robust security measures, develop incident response plans, and stay vigilant against evolving cyber threats to protect sensitive information and maintain business continuity.

Artificial Intelligence 134

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 13, 2014

Amazon expands edge locations to Taipei and Rio de Janeiro, Dell helps customers use Salesforce.com, ScaleOut Software extends its in-memory data grid, and PlanSource raises $12 million to continue to innovate its insurance exchange and benefits administration cloud offering.

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Dell Insurance Software Software 192

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.

Insurance 103

Insurance Disaster Recovery Policies Examples 103

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. Testing vendor solutions. Risk considered in vendor contracts. State actors. The attack surface. This is hardly simple.

Government 65

Government Tools Applications Training 65

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Spending on big data technology among financial services companies is expected to grow even further, with projections of 15.6% However, many financial services companies still prefer to build their own data centers rather than leverage cloud solutions. million in insurance fraud in just 7 months. .

Cloud 91

Cloud Financial Big Data Banking 91

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. The same study estimated that chatbots would lead to $1.3

Financial 93

Financial Artificial Intelligence Intel Banking 93

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

They used Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) on-prem in two data centers and moved to CDP on Azure. A European Multinational Insurance company deployed CDP both on-prem and on Azure public cloud with Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML). Core infrastructure isn’t going anywhere.

Cloud 52

Cloud Government Data Center Data 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

Projects are great if you’re planning to, say, migrate a data center. An executive at an insurance company recently said, “dashboards are the great leveler.” In the survey, 74% of respondents said their organization is making the shift from project management to product management. DPM helps create transparency.

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Survey Software Development Devops Software 82

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. billion, and for insurance, the savings will approach $1.3 But most of these tools fall far short of organization’s goals for the technology.

Financial 95

Financial Company Dell Artificial Intelligence 95

GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2023

These are industries that potentially don’t have the best reputation for being in the vanguard of technology: insurance, financial services, health care, life sciences, all these sorts of things. .” AI and regulated industries: “One of the surprises to me over the past 12 months are the regulated industries.

Web Services 100

Web Services Artificial Intelligence Conference Microsoft 100

ComputerWorld IT Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

They run giant data centers, continually launch and modify large-scale applications, and don’t seem to be bound to big system vendors. But there are limits to how well a company in the insurance or machine-tool business can emulate world-changing tech giants. Everybody wants to be a winner.

Network 40

Network Enterprise Enterprise Open Source 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 6, 2015

Rolls out downtime insurance program to back up SLAs Read More.

Insurance 100

Insurance Programming 100

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 We have the most cutting-edge technology on one side of the spectrum, and then we have data centers, legacy systems and large mainframes still running in the back end.

Financial 102

Financial Nonprofit Industry Research 102

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. Get the story right, then people understand the plan and you’ve a much better chance of them buying in.

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Fractional CTO Meeting CTO Data 115

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Jason Carolan, CIO of data center solutions provider Flexential, says deciding on the right model between full-services and staff augmentation is essential. Select the right partnership model. Sometimes, you may want a partner who can work in both capacities.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Resources Vendor Management 123

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Eaton’s RPA center of excellence pays off at scale : Industrial manufacturer Eaton is using BPM and RPA to identify and automate activities such as sifting through and generating responses to emails and orchestrating process flows in financial, HR, and other corporate systems. BPM vs. RPA.

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Agile Enterprise Enterprise Engineering 83