Tag: CIO

January 2, 2024

As enterprises push cautiously toward generative AI adoption, CIOs are grappling with the technical challenges inherent in leveraging the technology. The need to maintain data security and low latency is shifting enterprise strategy, encouraging organizations that have migrated to cloud […]

December 26, 2023

In many communities, December is a month set aside for reflection. To wit, across nearly every discipline, one finds magnum opuses entitled “Lessons Learned” or “The Year in Review” as the year draws to a close. Such exercises are valuable […]

December 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. And while […]

November 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT […]

October 16, 2023

Most organizations favor a hybrid AI strategy, building on open-source models while also leveraging off-the-shelf tools, according to an MIT Technology Review report. CIOs have doubled down on modernizing enterprise data systems to ease AI adoption, as the computing demands […]

August 30, 2023

When Mats Hultin, pictured, took over as group CIO at Ericsson four years ago, the company decided to review its large outsourcing contract. At the same time, the cloud team, led by cloud service VP Johan Sporre Lennberg, stressed for […]

August 7, 2023

Ever since Basecamp announced late last year that they were (mostly) pulling out of the cloud, there’s been a spirited debate about the failure of cloud computing to deliver on hyped-up promises of miraculous cost savings. Like a low-calorie cheesecake, […]

May 24, 2023

When Wells Fargo announced a deal with Microsoft and Google Cloud to support a decade-long modernization marathon in 2021, it was news. A major financial services company had opted in on hybrid multicloud. Two years later, the trend has become […]

July 19, 2022

Deep into a massive shift to the cloud, McDermott International CIO Vagesh Dave found himself at an unforgiving crossroads: As engineers gobbled up the vast computing resources available in the cloud, the oil rig constructor IT chief noticed the monthly […]

February 7, 2022

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will surely get you there. “Alice in Wonderland” taught us that, with the Cheshire Cat providing such elegant wisdom in Alice’s moment of despair. CIOs are well aware that enterprise journeys […]

December 28, 2021

Ten years ago, many CIOs had a negative opinion about cloud computing; few CIOs landed on the positive side. Cloud subject matter experts like me got walked out of the building on a regular basis. These days it’s a career […]

April 13, 2018

A free, open-source platform, OpenStack was created with the ambitious target of giving infrastructure-as-a-service to consumers in a rapid, self-serve manner. It is now one of the most popular open-source cloud projects with the likes of eBay and Walmart relying […]