Articles/Papers

Below is a searchable list of Association newsletters, research papers, stories and articles from various sources. If you are looking for information on a specific topic, use the search box to the right.

Running Cloud Like a Business: Why CIO Leadership Is the Missing Link in Cloud Financial Control

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, Invero. Cloud spend continues to surprise even the most mature organizations. Despite investments in tooling, dashboards, and optimization initiatives, many CIOs still find themselves pulled into reactive conversations – explaining unexpected invoices after the fact rather than confidently forecasting, governing, and aligning spend with business priorities. …

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Member Spotlight – Celebrating Women in Technology

Member Spotlight – Celebrating Women in Technology At CIOCAN, we are committed to fostering a more inclusive and diverse technology landscape. This International Women’s Day, we proudly celebrate the women in our community whose leadership, innovation, and impact continue to move the industry forward. Rachel Porteous How long have you been a member of CIOCAN, …

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Building a threat-aware IAM strategy: What CIOs and CISOs should prioritise next

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, ManageEngine. Jay, Head of growth, IAM and SIEM, ManageEngine Identities have always been the threads that stitch enterprise IT together, but their nature has changed dramatically. Twenty years ago, an identity meant a username and password sitting in a corporate directory. Access was tied to a …

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CIO Award Winners: What does it take?

CIO Award Winners: What does it take? In a world where negative stories about IT project failures seem to dominate the top headlines, it is great to be able to celebrate CIO successes. As one of the tools to help benchmark their organization’s progress and to provide some public recognition of their teams’ triumphs, progressive …

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Accelerating the Benefits of AI Requires a MetaData Supply Chain Strategy

Posted on behalf of CIO Association of Canada’s sponsor, Oproma. Organizations consistently pay approximately five times more than necessary for data storage. Not because hardware prices remain high, but because most enterprises have become digital hoarders—accumulating vast quantities of Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial information (ROT data) across disparate systems. Research consistently shows that 80-85% of …

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Advancing Endpoint Security in the Hybrid, AI-Powered Era

CIOCAN has published a new whitepaper with support by Dell and Intel. The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN) – working in partnership with Dell Canada and Intel of Canada – facilitated a virtual gathering of IT leaders* to discuss how the hybrid era and AI is changing their outlook on endpoint security. This report captures …

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Navigating the AI PC Era: Cybersecurity Challenges and Innovations

CIOCAN has published a new whitepaper with support by Dell and Intel. The CIO Association of Canada (CIOCAN), working in partnership with Dell Canada and Intelof Canada, recently convened a group of CISO members to discuss the evolution of AI PCs andthe security implications. This report is intended to combine their anonymized insights withguidance on …

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White Paper – Low-Code Development for CIOs: Essential Recommendations for IT Leaders

CIOCAN has published a new whitepaper with support by DAZZM. “The increased demand for application development comes from many directions. Where CIOsmight have once focused their developers on operational applications that support the backoffice, the quest to enhance customer experiences has prompted the call for more ways to engagedigitally. This not only includes e-commerce processes …

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