Belgium 23-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
Read MoreBelgium 23-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the financial services industry in Belgium faces a critical juncture regarding its cloud adoption strategy. While the allure of cloud computing – with its promise of scalability, agility, and innovation – is undeniable, the unique regulatory demands and paramount need for data sovereignty present significant challenges. This CIONET roundtable, aims to bring together Digital Leaders from the Belgian financial sector to discuss how to navigate these complexities. We will explore how financial institutions can leverage cloud technologies while ensuring complete control over their data, maintaining compliance with stringent European regulations like GDPR and DORA, and mitigating geopolitical risks.
Read MoreBelgium 24-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
As smart devices proliferate across operational environments — from sensors on factory lines and GPS trackers in logistics fleets to wearables in healthcare and connected systems in smart cities — the integration of Managed IoT (MiOT) is accelerating. But with it comes a surge in cybersecurity risks. No longer isolated or air-gapped, OT systems are becoming fully networked, remotely accessible, and deeply entwined with IT. This creates a vulnerable, highly complex digital mesh, one where a single compromised device can trigger physical, financial, and reputational consequences.
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
Read MoreHelping EE keep on top of their costs
With Hybrid Cloud Cost Optimisation and CloudHealth.
Overview
EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) runs the biggest and fastest mobile network. They became a part of the BT Group in 2015. And in April 2018 they joined our consumer division, operating three brands: BT, EE, and Plusnet.
EE has been awarded the UK's best network for 4G and 5G. They've got 4G that covers 99% of the UK population and 5G in more places than any other network.
But being the best comes with its challenges, especially when it comes to keeping costs under control.
The challenge
EE is growing, and it’s growing fast. That’s why as part of their digital strategy, they embraced the cloud with open arms early on, to help manage their ever-increasing hybrid estate. With a whopping £600,000 monthly spend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, they needed an optimisation strategy to help keep on top of their costs. And that’s why they chose CloudHealth, a solution that gives EE greater visibility and insights of cloud costs across their entire estate, while staying secure. CloudHealth’s role-based dashboards showed them that they could make significant savings through simple actions, including:
Rightsizing resources
EE’s ever-evolving needs and demands for performance meant many resources were overdesigned.
Deleting unused resources
Unattached and underutilised resources were leading to unnecessary spending.
Finding an appropriate price structure
High agility DevOps-focused projects need flexible resourcing. And by subscribing for longer periods, these can be considerably cheaper. Using Reserved Instances (discount billing), can save up to 40% compared to on-demand prices, or spot pricing can be used at a much cheaper rate when suitable. The challenge is optimising costs by using the most appropriate pricing blend between upfront and on-demand payment methods.
Cloud Cost Optimisation has given EE greater control and streamlined decision-making.”
The solution
CloudHealth’s Cost Optimisation portal gave EE actionable, quick savings, through its live reports and dashboards. It also streamlined and improved decision-making, thanks to custom reports and dashboards tailored to other roles within the organisation, like finance, IT and management. While our expert Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team constantly monitored EE’s estate to keep on top of new costs.
The result
Today, the SRE team continue to monitor and optimise more than £5 million of BT’s assets. Not only controlling EE, but other parts of our estate, like BT Retail’s online storefront and main portal. All for the same amount of money they were spending from the start. Giving them more for less.
Continuously monitoring and applying rightsizing and other appropriate purchasing methods for resources, is saving EE £40,000 a month. And last year, CloudHealth’s optimisation tools, plus insights from the SRE team, saved them a staggering £400,000. All because of better optimal housekeeping and greater visibility offered by CloudHealth’s automated optimisation tools including: identifying underutilised resources, removing unused IP’s, reducing the database footprint and removing unneeded load balancers. Showing EE how simple actions can result in huge savings.
But the benefits to EE go beyond cost savings. They’re also seeing improved performance as a result of adopting a more suitable virtual server instance type. Today, automated remediation of policies avoids zombie assets. For example, whenever disks are spotted that haven’t been used for a week, they’ll automatically be deleted.
Daily reports (called ‘Health Checks’) are sent to all stakeholders for quick assessment, including any security issues. They can see ports that are open to the public or passwords that aren’t set up according to company policy. The SRE team has set up scripting against these reports, so users are sent an automated request if they need to update their machine.
They’ve also set up tagging policies to enforce actions across EE’s estate (supported by custom reports on un-tagged resources), creating useful centralised visibility on spend. These are also enabling internal chargeback (or show back), enabling internal cost charges to specific departments or projects – driving better accountability within the DevOps teams.
Conclusion
Cloud Cost Optimisation has given EE greater control and streamlined decision-making. While automation, governance and policies have changed user behaviour – putting costs first. More time can now be spent on value-added products, or in the case of EE, taking on new operational entities. All while keeping costs at the same level as before. It’s a win-win.
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Digital Transformation is redefining the future of health care and health delivery. All stakeholders are convinced that these innovations will create value for patients, healthcare practitioners, hospitals, and governments along the patient pathway. The benefits are starting from prevention and awareness to diagnosis, treatment, short- and long-term follow-up, and ultimately survival. But how do you make sure that your working towards an architecturally sound, secure and interoperable health IT ecosystem for your hospital and avoid implementing a hodgepodge of spot solutions? How does your IT department work together with the other stakeholders, such as the doctors and other healthcare practitioners, Life Sciences companies, Tech companies, regulators and your internal governance and administrative bodies?
Read MoreThe Telenet Business Leadership Circle powered by CIONET, offers a platform where IT executives and thought leaders can meet to inspire each other and share best practices. We want to be a facilitator who helps you optimise the performance of your IT function and your business by embracing the endless opportunities that digital change brings.
Read MoreDécouvrez la dynamique du leadership numérique aux Rencontres de CIONET, le programme francophone exclusif de CIONET pour les leaders numériques en Belgique, rendu possible grâce au soutien et à l'engagement de nos partenaires de programme : Deloitte, Denodo et Red Hat. Rejoignez trois événements inspirants par an à Liège, Namur et en Brabant Wallon, où des CIOs et des experts numériques francophones de premier plan partagent leurs perspectives et expériences sur des thèmes d'affaires et de IT actuels. Laissez-vous inspirer et apprenez des meilleurs du secteur lors de sessions captivantes conçues spécialement pour soutenir et enrichir votre rôle en tant que CIO pair. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de faire partie d'un réseau exceptionnel d'innovateurs numériques !
Read MoreCIONET is committed to highlighting and celebrating female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, creating a leadership programme that empowers and elevates women within the tech industry. This initiative is dedicated to showcasing the achievements and successes of leading women, fostering an environment where female role models are recognised, and their contributions can ignite progress and inspire the next generation of women in IT. Our mission is to shine the spotlight a little brighter on female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, and to empower each other through this inner network community.
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