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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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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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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. Then there’s housekeeping.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. There are other risks, too.

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Defensive Instrumentation Benefits Everyone

Honeycomb

If you write software and your employer hasn’t caught up to all the newest, best ways to work, I hope this pragmatic post helps you sleep better at night. But, this can be bad if downstream systems failed and yours is just the deepest that has good instrumentation. Here’s a graph of nodes that represent services. Problem solved.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation.