EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent CIO North America . This month we lead on how the City of Bloomington , Illinois , reduced its data centre footprint by 85 % with Pure Storage – optimizing citizen services while driving financial flexibility and IT performance .
Raman , EVP and COO , Newgen Software , have their say on what ’ s in a name .
With the tech sector all over AI , a newly released report from AvePoint says organisations with mature IM strategies are 1.5x more likely to realise AI benefits .
Craig McBeath , Directorof of IT , City of Bloomington , inherited responsibility for a jumble of disparate storage technologies that had been long neglected due to budget constraints put in place a decade earlier .
Over the course of that decade , the combination of expired storage system support contracts and makeshift solutions , like jump drives and low-cost arrays , added significant complexity to the city ’ s IT management and maintenance efforts .
The shift point came with the growing volume of public safety data , prompting a move to IT modernisation leveraging Pure Storage ’ s data storage platform .
On p59 Craig outlines through how well that move has worked so far .
Trending , on p23 , features the findings from AvePoint ’ s survey of the AI experience that took in some 750 digital workplace leaders and industries across the world .
In Get to Know , Iain Saunderson , CTO , Spinnaker Support , says his career so far has involved ‘ so much more than technology ’.
See what that means on p79
Just a sample , then , of what ’ s inside .
Enjoy the read .
Have an innovative month .
Make stuff happen .
Editor ’ s Question asks if it ’ s time to re-assess the role of the CIO as the technology they work with advances .
On p32 , Simon Wijckmans , CEO , c / side , Justin Perkins , Chief Technology Officer , Image Relay , Becky Trevino , Chief Product Officer , Flexera and Anand
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