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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

Strategy 360
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Defensive Instrumentation Benefits Everyone

Honeycomb

But, this can be bad if downstream systems failed and yours is just the deepest that has good instrumentation. The vendor management team would receive this feedback so they can escalate or find a new vendor for that service. Only a couple of teams need to be dragged into the call, instead of 13.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Years of expensive overshoots, canceled projects, and poor quality solutions gave IT not just a bad reputation, but a confrontational relationship with its host business.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Budgeting & forecasting. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Network systems security. Data storage.

Security 100
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Improving LLMs in Production With Observability

Honeycomb

The principles and techniques that make observability necessary for modern software development apply to LLMs in production. This tells us that we can work on our prompt to not produce these invalid queries, remove the bad clause, or add a clause into the calculations block that corresponds to the extraneous ordering clause.

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Free Migrations Break the Stalemate Between Inertia and Modernization

Infinidat

Migrations consume scarce staff resources; they are time-consuming, create financial and operational risks, and complicate vendor relations. Free migrations are the easiest and safest way to bound the risks and costs of changing storage vendors. Why are data migrations painful? Let’s talk.

Storage 52