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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. For CIOs, that means building strong relationships with the C-suite and business unit managers so they can plan for and optimize cloud spend, says McMasters.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Microsoft quickly pledged to support it on its Azure platform. All of PwC’s clients are having this discussion, he says. So did Amazon on AWS.

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FedRAMP ATO Vendors: How Commercial Entities Can Benefit

Saviynt

The rigorous FedRAMP authorization process provides assurance that the vendor offers a solution that supports systems, incorporates innovative technology, and secures their customers’ information. Why Is Vendor Management Important to Cybersecurity?

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

They’re very involved in IT and security strategy. Each major public cloud provider — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azuremanages and configures cloud components differently, resulting in inconsistencies in continuous security monitoring. Address multi-cloud challenges.

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Trends in Cloud Jobs In 2019

ParkMyCloud

Cloud Architects are experts responsible for the supervision of a company’s cloud computing system, overseeing the organization’s cloud computing strategy through deployment, management, and support of cloud applications. An important role in the cloud management of businesses as demand for data and data analysts increases.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

NetApp added some new functionality to its portfolio of cloud management tools in late February with the acquisition of Fylamynt, a young low-code cloud ops automation company. SaaS vendor management platform Vendr is buying SaaS management platform vendor Blissfully.