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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. 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.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO

To do so, they developed a cloud-based customer data platform (CDP) that allows them to bring in and analyze third-party data and combine it with their own data so they can flag unused balances. The decision to host the platform in the cloud, in particular on AWS, was a question of efficiency, he says.

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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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How Managed Services Can Simplify Cloud Security

Blue Sentry

Whether you are already one of the millions of active customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS), or are considering if you should migrate your organization’s workloads to the cloud, you’ve more than likely questioned the general security surrounding the platform. Managed Security Services. Vendor management. Conclusion.

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