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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. Double down on vendor management.

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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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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

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To give us a perspective on this question, we had the opportunity to speak with Roger Hockenberry , CEO and founding partner of Cognitio , a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. But it’s hard to create metrics.

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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. Book a consultation with our sales team. The challenge? Interested in learning more?

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems.