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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. ODC-Noord’s agile teams are comprised of skilled personnel.

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CIO Confidential: What Keeps CIOs and IT Leaders Up at Night

CIO

Some IT leaders are finding great success with cloud migration and hybrid cloud strategies by leveraging both for agile outcomes and back-office transformation, resulting in organizational strengthening. In order to future-proof and monitor performance of systems, another solution to consider is network intelligence.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.”

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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Skills the Irish Government CIO uses to advance digital transformation

CIO

To win stakeholders over, it took patiently explaining each initiative since it was clear to Lowry the concept of digital government would only work with shared data and joined-up thinking — a big challenge in the public sector where departments and agencies often operate in silos. Some steps forward have been painfully slow, however.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. We made everything new from scratch.

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Extreme data center pressure? Burst to the cloud with CDP!

Cloudera

Typical scenarios for most customer data centers. Most of our customers’ data centers struggle to keep up with their dynamic, ever-increasing business demands. The two examples listed here represent a quick glance at the challenges customers face due to the peak demands and extreme pressure on their data centers.