Dataversity

MARCH 25, 2022

Data is a critical asset that supports operations, drives decision-making, and gives businesses a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Unfortunately, today’s data can also be easily targeted by cybercriminals looking to access and tamper with sensitive information. As concerns of cyberattacks […].

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Bahrain EDB As cloud adoption grows, its impact on economies and businesses is starting to show that digital transformation can make good on the utopian promises of innovation and improved public services. billion revenue to Bahrain’s GDP by 2026, according to IDC’s Economic Impact study. So why did AWS select Bahrain?

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Education Innovation Banking Gaming 624

CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” But in 2024, CIOs will shift their focus toward responsible deployment, says Barry Shurkey, CIO at NTT Data, a digital business and IT consulting and services firm.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The EU has emerged as the first major power to introduce a comprehensive set of laws to govern the use of AI after it agreed on a landmark deal for the EU AI bill. The provisional agreement defines the rules for the governance of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate general-purpose AI systems (GPAIS), such as ChatGPT.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Our strategy is based on the pilar ‘Prepared people for the future’ and that’s why in Oman the Government has also launched several initiatives to prepare either job seekers or students. “Our As the world of work continues to evolve and organizations shift to hybrid work models, new challenges and opportunities present themselves.

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CIO

APRIL 5, 2024

For example, the US White House has released a blueprint for an AI bill of rights , and the European Parliament passed the wide-ranging AI Act in March , regulating AIs used in the European Union. However, Congress, mired in partisan infighting, seems unlikely to move forward on serious AI legislation anytime soon.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Remote work began as a temporary measure during the pandemic but has long been a permanent fixture in our new way of working.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Adopt a Defense in Depth strategy Defense in Depth (DiD) is a cybersecurity strategy that involves implementing multiple layers of security controls throughout the entire infrastructure. Encryption : Use encryption to protect sensitive data in transit and at rest.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2024

The boulder is made from complex infrastructure, network connections, data stores, and devices. The road other is paved with disciplined IT and business governance. Moreover, new sources of ever expanding data produced by generative AI and the unfettered growth of unstructured data introduce even more challenges.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships.

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Intellectual Property Alliance Knowledge Entertainment 775

CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT.

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Due Diligence Commerce Human Resources Security 775

CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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IT Security Security Human Resources 810

CIO

MARCH 1, 2024

But according to data from a survey from Women Tech Network , women earn around $15,000 less per year than their male counterparts, with an average annual salary of $60,828 for women compared to $85,000 for men. The numbers are worse for Black and Latina women who earn even less with an average salary of $52,000 per year.

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Startups Globalization Technology Technology 680

CIO

JULY 7, 2023

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. Cybersecurity oversight is a shared responsibility across the whole board. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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Security Security Education Due Diligence 721

CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Yet, these fundamental work activities expose organizations to a wide range of security risks, like data leaks, identity and password theft, malicious browser extensions, phishing sites and more. LayerX was purpose-built to secure and govern browser-based work, from both managed and unmanaged devices.

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Security Security Capital IT 371

CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Structural changes and impact of AI Analysts point out that the noticeable downturn in growth expectations is likely to persist due to major structural changes in the US. However, there could be new growth opportunities if the US government decides to invest heavily in infrastructure development and silicon chip production.

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Globalization IT Technology Technology 578

CIO

JUNE 13, 2022

New technologies hit the market, existing ones evolve, business needs change on a dime, staff comes and goes. All that together, though, is nothing compared to the turbulence that CIOs are seeing today. Those dynamics are now reshaping the CIO agenda for 2022, forcing many IT leaders to reorganize their list of top concerns. Customer experience.

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IT Innovation Technology Technology 900

CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] Zero Trust network security offers cybersecurity benefits vs. traditional perimeter-based network security models.

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Security Security Finance Banking 528

CIO

MAY 9, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Maybe you’ve even surpassed expectations in each of these yardsticks. Those Three Big Acronyms are still important for fine-tuning your IT operations, but success today is increasingly measured in business outcomes.

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Business KPI Innovation Profiling 763

CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

So in the short term, the group has a project plan focused on scalability, customer knowledge, and a clear commitment to the cloud in hybrid mode, cybersecurity, and sustainability. They’ve also significantly increased digital governance and implemented premium platforms in core areas like web, loyalty, and operations.

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Business Travel Hospitals Innovation 593

CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, today, the two most important things that come up first in storage conversations are cybersecurity and delivery time. Storage cybersecurity would not even be discussed until the eighth conversation or later. In past years, the first conversations with enterprise storage buyers were about cost efficiency and performance.

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Security Security IT Profiling 596

CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Chan says. “The Geographical nuances are also arising. The net result?

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Achieving regulatory compliance Many governments are responding to climate change by passing new laws aimed at reducing carbon emissions. According to market researchers at Gartner 1 , “Utilities are faced with unprecedented challenges.” ResearchandMarkets 1 estimates that the energy and power market spent 3.103 billion USD on AI in 2021.

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Alliance Value Chain Banking Market Research 854

CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By Ilias Chantzos, Global Privacy Officer and Head of EMEA Government Affairs, Broadcom. In fact, one of the world’s most far-reaching cybersecurity regulations for financial services and their supply chains is a done deal. Despite the choice of term, there’s nothing “provisional” about DORA. Mandating New Regulatory Perspectives.

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Globalization Security Security Finance 648

CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The tumultuous events of the past several years have impacted practically every business. And with the number of extreme weather events, cyberattacks, and geopolitical conflicts continuing to rise, business leaders are bracing for the possibility of increasingly more frequent impactful incidents their organizations will need to respond to.

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Business Loss Human Resources Analysis 753

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility.

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IT Security Security Finance 903

CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Among the senior IT leaders who participated, 81% said that “green IT,” which they defined as “reducing their tech-related environmental impact,” was one of their top priorities. Data centers run on electricity, which often comes from the burning of fossil fuels. They collected their findings in a report titled The Sustainable CTO.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored.

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Intellectual Property Security Security Loss 616

CIO

APRIL 13, 2023

But despite those expenditures, there have already been at least 13 major data breaches, including at Apple, Meta and Twitter. To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. “If

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Security Security Benchmarking Business 700

CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

VMware-enabled software factories VMware customers are leveraging Tanzu to run some of the most mission critical cloud-native applications in the world, including government agencies that are essential to national security. Just last month, the U.S. soldiers and service personnel.

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Security Security Globalization Knowledge 697

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Serving leaders in the energy, fashion, financial services, food, healthcare, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail, and telecommunications industries, WIIT works with organizations that have stringent business continuity needs, mission-critical applications, and crucial data security and sovereignty requirements.

Pharmaceutical 602

Pharmaceutical IT Innovation Retail 602

CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government.

Innovation 798

Innovation Security Security Research 798

CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

The impact was profound. As a result, “only two stores were directly impacted where they had no internet connectivity,” says Shaun Guthrie, the company’s Senior VP of Information Technology and VP of the CIO Association of Canada. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 Not just a domestic issue.

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Learning Retail Travel Loss 700

CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

IT analyst firm GigaOm is quick to point out that primary data is the first point of impact for ransomware attacks. This fact puts primary storage in the spotlight for every CIO to see, and it highlights how important ransomware protection is in an enterprise storage solution.

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IT Analysis Security Security 596

CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most organizations understand the profound impact that data is having on modern business. In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. Gold Associates LLC.

Business 737

Business Security Security Intelligence 737

CIO

AUGUST 23, 2022

They know that just a handful of efficiency techniques can have a major impact on their organizations and careers. They know that just a handful of efficiency techniques can have a major impact on their organizations and careers. Leadership efficiency is a career-long commitment. They trust their leadership team.

Innovation 767

Innovation Business Environment Technology Technology 767

CIO

JULY 31, 2023

To allow or not According to various news reports, some big-name companies initially blocked generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for various reasons, including concerns about protecting proprietary data. 1 question now is to allow or not allow,” says Mir Kashifuddin, data risk and privacy leader with the professional services firm PwC US. “The

Intellectual Property 614

Intellectual Property Technology Technology Knowledge 614