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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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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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