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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

CIO

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. To achieve this goal, “CIOs need to treat the assessment and analysis of data as a scientific discipline,” he advises.

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6 signs it’s time to restructure your IT organization

CIO

And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. Everyone will need time to adjust,” she advises. “Be

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Perspectives on how cloud computing & app development trends will take shape in 2023

CIO

As Kubernetes is becoming more mature, and the ecosystem around it as well is stabilizing, I believe that the challenges we are experiencing around knowledge gaps, and technical difficulties are going to get smaller over the next few years. Kubernetes and containerized environments are here to stay, and their footprint will continue to grow.

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Unleashing Creativity through Constraints

Perficient

The budget won’t allow this to be great. Our resources aren’t a perfect fit. Even reaching out to someone who knows very little about the topic who can ask the simple questions of “why” or “why not” can allow you to see the obvious when you were stuck on the technical. There are legal and regulatory concerns.

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5 Reasons Why NIS2 Directive Preparation Should Start Now, Part Two: Implementation Takes Time

Ivanti

So, in this post, I’ll walk you through how to resolve your weakest security issues before the NIS2 Directive deadline hits by addressing these three key areas: Inform management about your cybersecurity gaps Correctly implementing new organisation and technical security measures Find time to train all of your employees 1.