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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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Join us for our community event on 24th September in London. Join us for our community event on 21st May in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.
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On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.
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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.
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Poland Sep 25, 2025 All Members Physical Polish
Agenci AI to przyszłość, która wyniesie organizacje na inny poziom dostarczania wartości biznesowej. Już teraz wiadomo, że nowa generacja inteligentnych agentów zmienia sposób, w jaki firmy działają, podejmują decyzje i się rozwijają. Podczas siódmego Community Eventu wraz z ekspertami AI sprawdzimy: możliwości, które dają agenci; jak wprowadzić governance i umiejscowić w organizacji tysiące sztucznych pracowników; jak zapewnić bezpieczeństwo, gdy każdy z agentów może wykonywać inne operacje; jaki jest wpływ wykorzystania agentów na koszty i środowisko; jak zmienia się pozycja firmy na rynku. Omówimy, jak liderzy IT i cyfrowi mogą i muszą strategicznie dostosować się do tej nowej rzeczywistości. Zarejestruj się już teraz i zapewnij sobie miejsce!
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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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Cancer Research UK discovers maximum protection with Trend Micro
Discovers maximum protection with Trend Micro
OVERVIEW
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, and has been at the heart of the progress that has seen survival rates in the UK double in the last 40 years. The charity has more than 3,900 employees, funds more than 4,000 scientists, doctors, and nurses across the UK, and works with more than 40,000 volunteers.
CHALLENGES
With more than 2,000 active users to manage across physical machines, VMware virtual desktops, and mobile devices, Cancer Research UK’s client technology manager, Martin Quinn, has his hands full.
Quinn was looking for a new supplier to come in and offer exceptional threat protection, and to help with installation and ongoing management where needed.
Like most organizations, Cancer Research UK is faced with a growing volume of threats ranging from traditional viruses and worms to more sophisticated targeted attacks, and everything in between. When applied to virtual environments, traditional security tools can often cause more problems than they solve by draining resources and consuming too much processing power. For Cancer Research UK, it was vital to find a provider that could offer security platforms designed specifically with virtual and physical environments in mind.
WHY TREND
After an initial meeting at VMworld and a subsequent three- to four-month trial, Quinn opted for the Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ solution to provide industry-leading protection for Cancer Research UK’s virtual desktop infrastructure. Another trial followed for the charity’s physical machines, after which Quinn chose Trend Micro™ Smart Protection for Endpoints.
Trend Micro has been a longtime partner of VMware and that was evident during Deep Security’s seamless integration into Cancer Research UK’s VDI infrastructure. The platform offers a comprehensive range of protection for virtual environments. What’s more, it has been designed to be virtual-ready—offering virtual patching and protection against instant-on gaps with no performance hit.
On the physical side, Trend Micro Smart Protection for Endpoints infrastructure offers a comprehensive breadth of security including vulnerability shielding, anti-malware and protection against spyware, targeted attacks, and ransomware, as well as data-loss prevention. There are flexible deployment options and centralized management, and it also works across mobile devices, removable media, and file servers.
RESULTS
Quinn is delighted with Deep Security’s performance, which keeps mission-critical systems safe, secure, and compliant with no service disruptions.
Quinn is also keen to highlight the instant-on security capabilities that ensure no virtual machine is ever unprotected, even if it has been lying dormant for some time. He is has found Trend Micro’s Support to also be a key differentiator for Cancer Research UK.
Recognising the importance of the customer relationship, Trend Micro was also flexible on licensing—allowing Cancer Research UK to trade in some VDI licensing for Smart Protection for Endpoints.
"What I really valued from a pre-sales point of view was that there was a lot of advice and support, getting us booked onto courses and giving us a more hands–on experience in a training environment with someone who knew the product inside out. That left us reassured that we could implement it and it wouldn’t cause us any problems down the line."
Martin Quinn - Client Technology Manager
WHAT'S NEXT
As for the future, Quinn already has an eye on a full protection suite from Trend Micro to complement the charity’s initial investments. “It’s been a great experience for us,” he said.
"Trend Micro is my strategic choice for threat protection for all of our client environments and I look forward to our continued partnership"
Martin Quinn - Client Technology Manager
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As AI transitions from a specialised tool to an all-pervasive force, understanding its profound implications for our human lives is no longer merely academic but an urgent imperative for social well-being and strategic preparedness.
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