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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza. Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza? Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo: La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.
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Belgium Oct 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
AI isn’t just another tool. It changes how we work, how we think, how we organise ourselves.Yet most organisations still approach it like a digital upgrade, deploying assistants, automating workflows, testing use cases inisolation.The results are predictable. Short-term wins. Long-term confusion.Effort spent. Value unclear.Many companies can’t connect AI to their actual strategic goals,and the promised ROI never materialises.At the same time, something deeper is shifting.AI can now reason, decide, adapt. Not just mimic processes butcontribute to them.The technology is evolving, but the way we implement it hasn’tcaught up.If your AI still fits inside a single department, you’re likely solvingthe wrong problem.If it works only for individuals, you're missing how your teamsactually deliver value.If it replaces people instead of supporting them, you're buildingfor today, not tomorrow.The next step isn’t more AI. It’s the right AI.Built for your business, your teams, your way of working.Not a tool to add but a structure to build around.Are we ready to treat AI as a shared capability, not a scatteredexperiment?Can we move beyond individual efficiency and build systems thatcollaborate, learn and adapt with us?Those are the questions we’ll explore at the round table.
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Germany Oct 28, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Am 28. Oktober lädt CIONET CIOs und Digital Leaders nach Köln ein: hier stellen wir reale Anwendungsfälle vor, in denen KI-Agenten Aufgaben autonom übernehmen, Prozesse beschleunigen und Entscheidungen vorbereiten – mit messbarem Nutzen für das Business.
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France Nov 4, 2025 Country Members Physical french
À l’ère des mutations géopolitiques et réglementaires, l’établissement d’une souveraineté numérique est devenu un élément stratégique essentiel pour les entreprises. Ce dialogue stratégique mettra en lumière le rôle fondamental du réseau dans la mise en place du contrôle, de la confiance et de la résilience. Nous explorerons comment une infrastructure moderne et résiliente permet d’appliquer des politiques de gestion des données et d’assurer la continuité opérationnelle. Ce dialogue stratégique, réservé à un groupe restreint de pairs, est conçu pour permettre aux leaders du numérique d’échanger sur l’un des enjeux les plus urgents aujourd’hui. Nous discuterons des réseaux « sovereign-ready » et débattrons des préoccupations croissantes autour de la souveraineté des données, qui motivent l’adoption de politiques de confidentialité et de protection des données de plus en plus strictes à l’échelle mondiale.
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Netherlands Nov 10, 2025 Public Physical english
CIONET Nederland vertrekt met een groep Nederlandse CIO's en digital leaders 10 t/m 12 november 2025 voor de geheel verzorgde CIO Innovation Trip naar de Web Summit in Lissabon, Portugal. Reis jij mee of neem je collega(s) mee!
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AMS-IX uses Azure Red Hat OpenShift for clear container management
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) played a key role in the core of the Internet. AMS-IX selected Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to simplify its on-premises container environment; by adopting one container platform. This will help standardize how you deploy and manage containers and take your first steps in the cloud.
Internet exchanges are the beating heart of today’s connected world; they ensure internet traffic is routed reliably, efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively. Internet service providers, telecom companies, cloud providers, and other companies vital to the internet ecosystem connect to them as they can offer secure, reliable, low latency, and engaging online experiences for their end-users. The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) has played a crucial role at the internet’s core for almost 30 years. The neutral member-based association is one of the world’s largest hubs for internet traffic, operating multiple interconnection platforms around the world.
AMS-IX has always kept ahead of the technology curve, adopting open source more than 20 years ago. “Open source has always been important to AMS-IX,” said Miguel Regalado, Senior Linux Engineer at AMS-IX. “Open source gives us the flexibility to build the unique capabilities we need for managing our internet exchange.”
Having adopted containers back when they first emerged, AMS-IX had built up a complex ecosystem of container technologies with different containers running on different virtual machines. “This approach is no longer desirable; therefore, efforts were made to consolidate the container technologies to one single platform,” said Bram Semeijn, PR and Communications Specialist at AMS-IX.
After setting up several proof of concepts in the laboratory to demonstrate a variety of leading container runtimes and platforms, AMS-IX selected Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift as the container platform of choice.
“Red Hat OpenShift is a very mature platform; being a Kubernetes-based platform rather than a container runtime, it adds an additional powerful set of tools that makes its containers much easier to manage,” said Regalado. Moreover, the vendor-agnostic platform provides flexibility as it does not tie AMS-IX to any specific container technology—which is important given its customers’ individual needs and preferred cloud platforms.
AMS-IX chose the IX-API project as the first project where Red Hat OpenShift was to be used. “IX-API is a collaborative project of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges—AMS-IX, DE-CIX, and LINX,” said Semeijn. “The goal of the project is to develop one API (application programming interface) gateway that gives customers a standard way for provisioning services at all three exchanges.”
AMS-IX built its IX-API gateway on-premise in a community Kubernetes platform and deployed the test and production versions in Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers the Internet Exchange a flexible, robust, and resilient container platform that it can deploy efficiently in any customer environment to meet individual customer needs.
Containers make life easier for developers and help them to deploy and check their code really fast,” said Regalado. This was important as a containerized approach means developers no longer require that extra layer where they need another team to support their infrastructure. As a result, the team is able to speed up the deployment of new software considerably—by around 60%.
“The OpenShift Marketplace offers solutions that you can deploy directly into Red Hat OpenShift,” said Regalado. “Knowing they are certified as compatible means you can deploy really fast.”
Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud approach gives AMS-IX the flexibility to run applications anywhere it needs to. Red Hat OpenShift delivers a complete application platform for both traditional and cloud-native applications. While AMS-IX traditionally uses its own premises, the Internet Exchange is looking to the future: “Red Hat OpenShift allows us to adopt a hybrid model, which gives us the cost, ease-of-use, and agility benefits of cloud for production environments,” said Regalado, “while retaining the flexibility and freedom you have with open source and in-house environments during development.”
“Red Hat OpenShift ensures AMS-IX is not tied to a specific environment or vendor. And that’s important for us,” said Semeijn.
Simplified operations with a central container management tool, helping to save around one hour for each deployment
AMS-IX wanted to simplify its on-premise container environment by adopting one container platform. Standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift has made it simpler for the Internet Exchange to manage its various container deployments and has allowed it to take its first step into the cloud.
“The goal in the end is to have one central container management tool,” said Regalado. “A single place for managing even the most remote container environments. Compared to the former technology, we now save about one hour on each deployment, around 75%.”
Red Hat OpenShift is a very mature platform; being a Kubernetes-based platform rather than a container runtime, it adds an additional powerful set of tools that makes its containers easier to manage. Miguel Regalado - Senior Linux Engineer, AMS-IX
Red Hat OpenShift ensures AMS-IX is not tied to a specific environment or vendor Bram Semeijn - PR and Communications Specialist AMS-IX
AMS-IX is currently running a limited number of applications supported with Red Hat OpenShift; however, it plans to run and support more production applications in the Red Hat OpenShift environment, including its website, from on-premises Red Hat OpenShift to ARO. Regalado also plans to run GitLab in Azure Red Hat OpenShift using the GitLab Operator. In addition, Regalado and the systems and engineering team plans to phase out other container technologies that AMS-IX is currently using.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
Geopolitical tensions have dominated the headlines for over two years now. In this context, the cyber threat landscape is also evolving rapidly. The protection and security of critical infrastructure – both physical and digital – is becoming increasingly important.
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