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Building the Infrastructure AI Needs: From computer and data access to scalability, cost control, and operational readiness.

AI is moving from pilots into operational use, and the infrastructure question is becoming more concrete. The challenge is deciding what needs to be built, expanded, controlled, or delayed as usage grows. Three pressure points usually appear first. - Compute capacity requires careful planning: teams need enough GPU, cloud, or specialised processing power, while keeping utilisation and cost under control. - Data movement becomes more demanding: AI needs access to data across systems, with latency, security, integration, and quality managed from the start. - Operational control becomes essential: monitoring, access rights, resilience, cost visibility, and ownership need to scale with usage. The working question is simple: how do we support AI at scale while keeping infrastructure efficient, governed, and financially sustainable? If you are working through these choices, let’s compare approaches with others facing similar constraints.

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Turning AI Pilots into Daily Workflows: How to move from experimentation to adoption by redesigning work, ownership, controls, and habits.

AI pilots are easier to launch than to embed into daily operations. The challenge is changing how work happens once AI becomes part of decisions, tasks, handovers, and controls. Three pressure points tend to decide whether adoption holds. - Workflow fit matters: AI has to enter the flow of work as part of the process. - Ownership needs to be clear: someone must own the process, the controls, the exceptions, and the outcome. - User trust has to be built: people need to know when to rely on AI, when to challenge it, and when to escalate. The working question is simple: how do we move AI from promising pilots into daily work while keeping clarity, accountability, and risk control? If this is part of your current reality, let’s compare choices, constraints, and lessons learned.

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Les Rencontres: CTO: Le Saint Graal?

Pendant longtemps, le TCO donnait une impression de contrôle. On investissait, on amortissait, on optimisait. Les coûts étaient visibles, relativement prévisibles, et structurés autour d’une logique claire entre CAPEX et OPEX. Ce modèle ne suffit plus à expliquer où va réellement l’argent. Aujourd’hui, une part croissante des dépenses IT ne repose plus sur ce que l’on possède, mais sur ce que l’on consomme: des tokens générés par l’IA des agents qui exécutent des actions en continu des outils SaaS qui se multiplient dans les équipes du cloud qui s’adapte en permanence à l’usage Le coût ne disparaît pas, mais il devient plus diffus, plus dynamique, et souvent plus difficile à attribuer, à expliquer, et à maîtriser. C’est là que des approches comme le Technology Business Management, ou TBM, redeviennent particulièrement utiles: non pas comme un exercice de reporting supplémentaire, mais comme un moyen de relier concrètement les dépenses aux services, aux usages, et aux décisions. Et c’est là aussi que la question du “Saint Graal” revient, mais sous une autre forme. Vous vous demandez peut-être: Comment garder de la maîtrise quand la dépense dépend du comportement, des usages, et parfois même de systèmes autonomes ? Comment piloter l’équilibre CAPEX/OPEX quand le cloud, le SaaS et l’IA déplacent progressivement les coûts vers des modèles variables ? Quels coûts restent encore trop souvent hors radar: ressources métier, formation, support, intégration, sécurité, gouvernance ? Et surtout, qu’est-ce qu’un “bon TCO” veut encore dire quand il faut le mettre en regard d’objectifs parfois plus stratégiques, plus longs à mesurer, ou plus difficiles à quantifier: qualité de service, résilience, agilité, expérience utilisateur, capacité d’innovation ? Ce sont précisément ces questions qui seront au cœur de notre rencontre: une discussion ouverte entre pairs, ancrée dans la réalité du terrain, pas pour débattre de modèles idéaux, mais pour comprendre comment chacun tente, concrètement, de mesurer, d’attribuer et de reprendre le contrôle, sans réduire la valeur d’un choix technologique à son seul coût.

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CIBIL implements custom defense strategy to safeguard customer information

Implements custom defense strategy to safeguard customer information

OVERVIEW

Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd. (CIBIL), founded in 2000, is India’s first credit information company. CIBIL collects and maintains records of an individual’s payments pertaining to loans and credit cards. These records are submitted to CIBIL monthly by member banks and credit institutions. This information is then used to create credit information reports and credit scores, which are provided to credit institutions to help evaluate and approve loan applications.

The company was created to meet a very specific requirement: to bring about financial inclusion. CIBIL was on the lookout for technology that would help CIBIL provide its customer base with faster and cheaper access to CIBIL’s financial services. Today, the organization includes a customer base ranging from individuals to companies to microfinance organizations.

Trend Micro solutions provide an entire ecosystem that detects and blocks threats so that our data remains protected.

Satish Pillai

Managing Director and CEO, CIBIL

CHALLENGES

Data security is of the utmost importance to CIBIL due to the sensitivities of customer data and the inherent privacy issues of the business. When the company faced potential malignant attacks that threatened the company’s servers, CIBIL knew it needed effective protection from threat vectors and targeted attacks. Most of the servers are exposed to the internet, making it very important for CIBIL to protect them against any external threats and vulnerabilities. With advanced attacks and threats surfacing, it was imperative to have a strong strategy against targeted attacks—a strategy that could further improve the security posture of the organization.

Trend Micro has helped to simplify security operations with a single management dashboard across all functions.

Shiju Rawther

Assistant Vice President of Technology, CIBIL

SOLUTION

CIBIL implemented four Trend Micro products to protect its network and data center. Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ provides virtual patching, integrity monitoring, log inspection, anti-malware, and firewall in a single agent and dashboard, making compliance reporting less cumbersome. Virtual patching helps improve the patching cycle, protects against zero-day vulnerabilities, and is completely automated, making it easy to implement across the data center.

Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ provides 360-degree visibility for more than 100 protocols across all ports. Deep Discovery integration with Trend Micro™ TippingPoint® and other network devices helps to build a strong ecosystem for detecting, analyzing, and mitigating advanced threats. Deep Discovery includes multiple detection engines, along with a customized sandbox for detection and mitigation. The company’s custom defense strategy is implemented by integrating Deep Discovery with TippingPoint, Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Messaging Security Virtual Appliance (IMSVA), other network devices and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

RESULTS

The implementation of Trend Micro solutions has allowed CIBIL to efficiently monitor potential threats and effectively safeguard the information that their customers entrust them with. Trend Micro provides complete messaging gateway protection. This helps CIBIL to protect end users against targeted attacks and provides vulnerability protection and better visibility into security threats.

WHAT'S NEXT

As India’s first credit information company, CIBIL knows that its IT security team must stay informed about the latest threats to ensure that their systems and customer data are always protected. By working closely with Trend Micro, CIBIL can better understand the most efficient ways to defend against the next wave of exploits.

Technologies

InterScan Trend Micro TippingPoint Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Trend Micro™Deep Discovery™

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