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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Belgium Jul 3, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.
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Italy Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical italian
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
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Germany Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Das CIONET Sommerfest ist eine schöne Gelegenheit, CIONET-Mitglieder kennenzulernen oder wiederzutreffen und ein paar gemütliche Stunden miteinander zu verbringen.
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Germany Jul 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
KI gilt als Schlüsseltechnologie – doch viele Unternehmen kämpfen mit der Lücke zwischen Investition und echtem Mehrwert. Warum scheitern so viele Initiativen, und wie lässt sich Künstliche Intelligenz wirkungsvoll in die Praxis bringen? Diskutieren Sie mit uns, wie KI vom Buzzword zur echten Wertschöpfung wird!
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Italy Jul 8, 2025 Country Members Physical
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
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UK Jul 10, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for our community event on 10th July in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.
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Smartronix secures customers’ cloud workloads with Trend Micro Deep Security
Secures customers’ cloud workloads with Trend Micro Deep Security
OVERVIEW
Smartronix Inc. is a U.S.-based IT and engineering solutions provider that specializes in cloud computing, cybersecurity, health IT, network operations, and mission-focused engineering for complex enterprise environments. Smartronix operates 11 offices in the U.S., with approximately 750 employees.
Smartronix helps business and government organizations move computer processes securely to the cloud. Some of its customers include multiple government agencies, top pharma and medical device companies, and two of the largest U.S. credit card organizations. Smartronix has earned accolades from industry-leading technology partners, gained recognition as an employer of choice, and received numerous industry quality and business certifications.
CHALLENGES
Security is a major concern for businesses moving data to the cloud. The greatest challenge for Smartronix is maintaining a centralized view of its customers’ security across various cloud-hosted accounts. Another challenge is the scalability of the cloud itself. On-premises customers are restricted by their physical infrastructure, but public cloud infrastructure imposes fewer boundaries. Development teams can scale out workloads quickly, but the increased capacity makes it more difficult to quickly identify the resources that have been deployed.
With the shifting cloud landscape, tracking what’s in the cloud, making certain that organizational policies enforce security, and ensuring that gaps can be closed quickly are critical requirements.
"Looking at a lot of the different market leaders, we considered Trend Micro to be ahead of the curve with their implementation and integration and CSP capabilities."
Anthony Vultaggio
CTO, Smartronix
WHY TREND
With the Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ console, Smartronix can quickly view any gaps in endpoint security in the cloud. Trend Micro’s implementation capabilities also impressed Smartronix. The Trend Micro solution can point directly into a cloud services provider (CSP) account, identify resources, and determine whether configurations are under management.
Trend Micro’s application program interface (API)-level integration with CSPs, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a key differentiator. This integration enables Smartronix to track their customers’ use of Smartronix modules. The Deep Security module runtime can be broken down to hourly usage, enabling Smartronix to align its security pricing more closely with the way its customers consume cloud infrastructure.
“Looking at a lot of the different market leaders, we consider Trend Micro to be ahead of the curve with their implementation, integration for hybrid cloud environments, and CSP capabilities,” said Anthony Vultaggio, CTO, Smartronix.
SOLUTION
“Trend Micro provides centralized multi-tenant visibility across our customers’ various CSP accounts, enabling us to more easily scale our staff to support customer requirements,” said Rick Kelley, cloud practice director, Smartronix. The services offered by Smartronix are tailored closely to the way its customers use the cloud. Deep Security’s ability to manage modules by policy allows Smartronix to use tagging and intelligent decisions made by the systems themselves to push out the right policies to the right resources, as they come online. Every process has a specific malware or firewall policy governing it, in accordance with the type of resource. The policies can be pushed as each resource is provisioned within the cloud.
"Trend Micro is unique in the way that it provides centralized, multi-tenant visibility across our customers’ various CSP accounts, enabling us to more easily scale our staff to support customer requirements."
Rick Kelley
Cloud Practice Director, Smartronix
RESULTS
Trend Micro has helped Smartronix establish itself as a premier managed services organization, helping the company review its security service delivery capabilities on a quarterly basis. Trend Micro even provided tailored training programs. Smartronix customers know that the Trend Micro partnership helps ensure the security of their workloads, including managing regulatory workloads.
“Companies go to the cloud to take advantage of these new technologies, and Trend Micro is helping CSP partners deliver a secure, seamless experience to their customers,” said Vultaggio.
With over 4,000 end-user accounts, the automation capabilities have significantly reduced the labor it takes to maintain security across the workloads Smartronix manages, making its operations team very efficient.
WHAT'S NEXT
“A year ago, customer demand for serverless and container-based services was approximately two percent. Today, demand has grown to 20 percent and we expect to see explosive growth this year,” said Vultaggio. Smartronix is considering the additional capabilities Deep Security has to offer for managing customer workloads in containers—in the cloud and other environments. The company would like to include security in the container build process and in the container host or cluster infrastructure. Providing security within containers helps ensure that no malware infects workloads.
“Trend Micro has been a great partner that listens, and adapts quickly to the requirements of our customers and in the direction of the services they provide,” said Vultaggio.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
From economic uncertainty to governance, security and trade concerns, today’s IT leaders face unprecedented challenges that require them to navigate, and thrive, in chaos. That, at least, is the proposition of a new sequence of events from Cognizant and CIONET.
This high-energy panel event explored how artificial intelligence is transforming enterprise strategy, operations, and culture. Industry leaders from AstraZeneca, Orange Business, Strategy and Soho House shared how they are reimagining their organisations to stay competitive in the AI era.
The evolution of AI is comparable to that of IT, but it’s happening much faster. As with IT in its early days, AI is becoming deeply embedded in almost every business function. Amara’s Law also applies here: we tend to overestimate AI’s short-term effects and underestimate its long-term impact. This makes it essential to embed AI across your company in a structured way.
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