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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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Komatsu implements AI-powered automation in the public cloud
How a multinational manufacturing firm reduces cloud costs and helps assure application performance
In 1921, as copper deposits in the mine became increasingly limited, Takeuchi shifted his focus to manufacturing and formed Komatsu Ltd. (link resides outside of ibm.com). It goes without saying that technology has evolved dramatically since then. But, since the beginning, Komatsu has been committed to implementing the latest technology to improve operations and empower its team. Today this commitment extends to its public cloud strategy.
Like many other IT organizations, the infrastructure team at Komatsu historically relied on disparate monitoring tools, user complaints and manual intervention to address performance issues. They lacked the visibility they needed to identify instances of overprovisioning. A business impact use case could take the team hours to resolve. This kept the team in a cycle of fighting fires and prevented them from directing a more significant portion of their time to advancing strategic initiatives.
Moreover, the team had no way to reliably assess the impact of a resourcing decision before it was taken. All they could do was monitor the impact after they allocated resources. As the team shifted their focus to the public cloud and began migrating all their on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure, they knew they could not sustain this manual approach. They needed to be able to proactively prevent performance issues, reduce waste and minimize time spent on addressing user complaints. This is when they turned to the IBM® Turbonomic® hybrid cloud cost optimization solution.
The team has reduced their user complaints to 10 tickets per year
Since implementing automation, the team has achieved more than USD 650,000 savings in the public cloud
In our organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond human scale. We see tremendous value in IBM Turbonomic to help us close that gap as much as possible within our organization. ”
Once they implemented Turbonomic, the team was finally able to break this cycle of fighting fires. “IBM Turbonomic provides a proactive approach to avoiding performance degradation. It has allowed us to detect issues before they have actually become issues,” explains Matthew Koozer, Infrastructure Architect at Komatsu. Armed with Turbonomic’s full-stack visibility, the team at Komatsu is now able to quickly assess potential performance risk and identify the optimal way to reallocate resources to eliminate that risk without compromising performance in another layer of their technology stack.
Full-stack visibility was just the beginning in Komatsu’s journey to continuously ensure performance while reducing cost. The next step was to implement Turbonomic’s AI-powered resourcing recommendations. The team began with manual execution of those recommendations. They quickly learned that Turbonomic’s recommendations were not short-term fixes that enhanced just one layer of their tech stack. “Turbonomic shows us how a decision is being driven based from a storage perspective—the IOPS being driven to a specific storage solution within our public cloud offering—but its decisions also considers DTU utilization from a database perspective, and whether the issue is related to memory or CPU consumption,” says Koozer. Because they considered Komatsu’s full tech stack, these resourcing recommendations empowered the team to improve performance across their entire environment. Soon, the team was ready to explore automation.
Presently, Koozer and his team have a combination of automation and manual execution of resourcing recommendations. They primarily rely on Turbonomic’s automated resourcing actions in Azure to optimize servers, storage and databases. Turbonomic provides recommendations on where and how to reallocate resources in real time. Then, the team has predetermined time blocks where those actions are executed with minimal impact to the business. After seeing early success with automating resourcing actions, the team now relies on Turbonomic to execute resourcing actions automatically for a very large portion of the organization, without the IT team being involved at all.
We allow Turbonomic’s software solution to take actions with little to no IT oversight because we trust its decisions to assure performance continuously. ”
Once they had a comprehensive view of their environment, Koozer and his team identified numerous workloads that were overprovisioned and developed a clear plan to right-size them. Historically, application owners resisted resizing efforts, but with Turbonomic, Koozer and his team had the data they needed to show application owners that overprovisioned workloads could be right-sized effectively. “Shifting to a configuration with less memory or less CPU helped us significantly reduce waste across our Azure environment without sacrificing performance,” explains Koozer. This has allowed the team to simultaneously minimize cost and improve performance. Furthermore, the team can now see consumption utilization over a period of time and reevaluate resource allocations on an ongoing basis. Reserved instances have played an important role in this shift.
Koozer and his team have implemented reserved instances with the help of Turbonomic. These have allowed the team, on average, to save 33% or more on their server run rates. In some cases, they have been able to decommission servers. The team has also reduced the amount of time they spend reacting to user complaints and resolving performance issues. In fact, they have brought their user complaints down to about 10–12 per year. Additionally, they have reduced their overall cloud spend. Their cumulative savings achieved, at the time of this publication, exceed USD 650,000.
For over a century, Komatsu has been a manufacturing leader committed to quality and reliability. Technological innovation and employee development have been major pillars of this mission. In recent years, Komatsu’s IT organization has expanded its adoption of the public cloud, and automation has played an important role in that journey. It has helped Komatsu reduce waste from a financial and environmental perspective, and it has helped Komatsu free up its IT organization to focus on strategy and innovation.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and founded in 1921, Komatsu (link resides outside of ibm.com) provides essential equipment, technologies and services for the construction, mining, forest, energy and manufacturing industries. Komatsu serves clients across the globe and states that its purpose is to “create value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, businesses, and our planet thrive together.”
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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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