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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

CIO

The company’s recent trading update confirmed it would accelerate growth opportunities, such as its online offerings, and develop serverless computing with AWS so the retailer is able to rapidly scale when needed, like over Christmas or Black Friday. That’s worked well for us. We haven’t had to worry about this given it now sits in the cloud.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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3 things CIOs must do now to accurately hit net-zero targets

CIO

Optimize internal technology Today, CIOs can influence everything from hardware procurement and the way developers write code for their company, to how IT gathers, processes, distributes and stores data—all of which impact a company’s carbon footprint. The CIO’s role in delivering this technology will be essential.

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The AI continuum

CIO

Great for: Extracting meaning from unstructured data like network traffic, video & speech. Classical machine learning: Patterns, predictions, and decisions Classical machine learning is the proven backbone of pattern recognition, business intelligence, and rules-based decision-making; it produces explainable results.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

CIO

Tara Long, MassMutual’s newly appointed CIO, points to the company’s patented enterprise data application platform and enhanced cybersecurity as integrated digital services that add significant value to its digital customers. When the pandemic hit, Aflac CIO Rich Gilbert felt like the firm’s insurance agent business could be a dead duck.

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