Steering the ship as a CIO, the question often arises: “What exactly does a CIO do?” The truth is there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. Today’s CIOs must be as dynamic and adaptable as the technologies they champion, navigating through an era of remarkable change within the digital landscape. My experience at Nutanix thus far has been…
News accounts that raise the possibility of increased prices, lack of innovation, and reduced support from a critical IT vendor suggest risks that CIOs and other C-level executives (CXOs) simply cannot ignore. Yet these are the risks that many VMware customers are grappling with in the wake of the Broadcom acquisition, often resulting in a…
Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. New product bundling and pricing, reseller program adjustments, divestments, and unforeseen changes are driving CIOs and IT providers to reassess their strategies and technologies. “It’s going to change…
Few CIOs would have imagined how radically their infrastructures would change over the last 10 years — and the speed of change is only accelerating. To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and…
Customer experience (CX) technologies are reaching new levels of innovation, enabling businesses to create deeper customer connections and new pathways to business growth. This innovation is transforming the modern contact center into dynamic Experience Centers, capable of enhancing customer interactions across text, email, chat, and voice channels – through enhanced automation, analytics, and of course,…
The CIO’s job has never been simple, but modern IT challenges are becoming more and more complex and unwieldy by the day. Exponential data growth has confounded IT’s ability to affordably and securely manage it all. At the same time, employees, partners, customers, and other stakeholders need constant access to IT resources from many devices…
When generative AI (genAI) burst onto the scene in November 2022 with the public release of OpenAI ChatGPT, it rapidly became the most hyped technology since the public internet. But what goes up must come down, and, according to Gartner, genAI has recently fallen into the “trough of disillusionment,” meaning that enterprises are not seeing…
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) serves a vital purpose in that it protects the Department of Defense’s data. But certification – which includes standards ensuring that businesses working with the DoD have strong cybersecurity practices – can be daunting. Fulfilling all the detailed requirements across multiple maturity levels is costly and time-consuming, especially for…
Los CIO que no logran ganar tracción organizacional con la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa podrían querer repensar cómo están introduciendo la tecnología y cómo están perfeccionando sus estrategias de IA para adaptarse. Según una nueva investigación del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), cuando los responsables de TI se plantean la IA generativa, deberían crear estrategias…
As more generative AI projects move from proof-of-concept to production, CIOs will be shouldering the additional pressure of enacting AI governance policies to protect the enterprise — and their jobs. There is no dearth of AI governance frameworks available from the US government and European Union, as well as top market researchers, but no doubt,…