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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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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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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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A South African Bank simplifies security management and eliminates downtime with Trend Micro
Simplifies security management and eliminates downtime with Trend Micro
OVERVIEW
With more than 80 branches across South Africa, the leading Bank serves a diverse customer base that occupies several niches within the market. Financial institutions have long been a top target for cybercriminals globally. In addition to the security breaches and leaks that threaten these organizations daily, the system downtime required to address issues can result in financial losses and damage to the bank’s reputation. With growing concerns around these threats, the Bank needed to reexamine its approach to cybersecurity.
CHALLENGES
The Bank found that its existing malware solution was ineffective, which posed a potentially dangerous and costly problem if a breach or data leak occurred. In addition, executives and managers had only limited visibility into network traffic, so they were unable to track who was performing various tasks, as well as traffic between employees.
The existing solution didn’t allow the Bank to create groups or drill down to see network actions and traffic in detail. With its limited internal IT security resources, the Bank required support for its existing security solution but discovered that other vendors could not provide the local support they needed.
With Trend Micro, we have minimal virus outbreaks, excellent visibility, and great integration between all the products.
Security Lead
WHY TREND
With the sensitive nature of its customers’ financial data, the bank needed a state-of-the-art security solution from a well-respected vendor that was powerful enough to keep its systems and data protected. The Bank also wanted a security partner to provide local support that would help avoid downtime. Based on their successful 12-year relationship with Trend Micro and the company’s exceptional industry reputation, the Bank chose Trend Micro to provide their IT security solutions.
When we call for support, we have a response within hours. Trend Micro has been part of our network for 12 years and we find them to be the best value.
Security Lead
SOLUTION
To address its security challenges, the Bank implemented a powerful combination of Trend Micro endpoint and network security solutions. These solutions included Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™, Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA), Trend Micro™ Mobile Security, Trend Micro™ Integrated Data Loss Prevention (iDLP), Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector, and Trend Micro Control Manager™.
“With Trend Micro’s Control Manager, all the products talk to each other. You have a view of all your Trend Micro products on one console, which makes managing our network so much easier. We now also have the benefit of having a small footprint, which means that we no longer have a great deal of unnecessary network traffic,” said a security lead from the Bank.
Trend Micro’s products provide the Bank with outstanding detection, fewer false positives, and no negative impact on endpoints and servers. “What we have now is minimal virus outbreaks, excellent visibility, and great integration between all the products. With other vendors, we found that the local support wasn’t particularly quick with regard to response time and their local skills were not up to scratch. With Trend Micro, we log a call and we have a response within hours. We feel both confident and satisfied by their support. Trend Micro has been part of our network for 12 years and we find them to be the best value for the money,” said a security lead from the Bank.
RESULTS
With Trend Micro solutions, the Bank no longer experiences downtime during maintenance or while issues are addressed. Because they now have complete network visibility, it’s easy for them to keep track of network traffic and observe what’s happening from a single console. As a result, the Bank has gained outstanding threat detection, with fewer false positives and no negative impact on endpoints and servers.
Because the Bank can work with a local Trend Micro team, queries are quickly solved with minimal to no downtime, allowing business to continue as usual, which is vital in the financial services environment. What’s more, issues and license renewals can be handled quickly and efficiently because of Trend Micro’s local presence and high-quality technical skills.
WHAT'S NEXT
The ongoing relationship between the two companies reflects the Bank’s confidence that Trend Micro can be a trusted partner for continued security solution support and expertise. For all financial institutions, ensuring the highest level of IT security is an ongoing concern. In addition to continuing to update and maintain its security, the Bank is looking into encryption to secure all laptops, as well as limiting online use by employees.
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