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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed. Double down on vendor management.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

CTOvision

Hockenberry is a proven technologist and business executive with over 20 years of experience working with all aspects of IT to assist enterprises in better utilizing technology to create, deploy and operate unique and innovative solutions and provide mission and competitive advantage. But it’s hard to create metrics.

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3 things CIOs can do to make gen AI synch with sustainability

CIO

If you’re only buying inference services, ask them how they can account for all the upstream impact,” says Tate Cantrell, CTO of Verne, a UK-headquartered company that provides data center solutions for enterprises and hyperscalers. It’s important for CIOs to have metrics on the CO2 emission for a given application,” says Sundberg.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Amperity’s observability depended on a suite of tools for logs, metrics, and dashboards. Managing this array of tools demanded diverse skill sets and a significant amount of tribal knowledge to navigate them. The challenge?

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

Position/department % respondents IT 65% Cybersecurity / infosec 35% Base: 262 IT and security pros with final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure/architecture Source: A commissioned study conducted in 2023 by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable Which title best describes your position at your organization?

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO

Regardless of the nature of the projects and deliverables, or whether customers are internal or external to the organization, CTOs and now CIOs recognize they must provide continuous value if they are to stay relevant, says Phil Purdy, acting CTO of Australian-based IMRnext. People perceive it as the enemy of thoughtful planning.