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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

CIO

The road other is paved with disciplined IT and business governance. Throw in all the technical debt – and the cultural tendency (and often necessity) of building connections for backward compatibility. Throw in all the technical debt – and the cultural tendency (and often necessity) of building connections for backward compatibility.

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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

Across the globe, customers should not wait any longer for a magical one size fits all solution or ever trust that their due diligence of regulatory requirements can be delegated to any vendor. Whilst the battles between the hyperscale clouds continue to attempt to achieve sovereign status in Europe.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

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What is GRC? The rising importance of governance, risk, and compliance

CIO

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Best practices, framework and technology have been developed to support this work. What is GRC? GRC is overarching.

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Due diligence is Ever More Critical as the Battle for Cloud Sovereignty Intensifies

CIO

Across the globe, customers should not wait any longer for a magical one size fits all solution or ever trust that their due diligence of regulatory requirements can be delegated to any vendor. Whilst the battles between the hyperscale clouds continue to attempt to achieve sovereign status in Europe.

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‘Insane’ — UK tech reacts to government moves that might hand UK startups contract to Barclays Bank

TechCrunch

Tech Nation is trailing in second place in the race to remain the U.K.’s s government-backed “startup champion” after the latter put the £12 million contract out to tender, according to TechCrunch’s sources. First in line at this point in time — in a decision which is due in December — is banking giant Barclays.

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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

TechCrunch

who aim to power next-generation technology without the need for expensive hardware that takes billions of dollars to develop and years to deploy. For deep tech startups, the capital game can be a tricky one to play. applicants signals that your innovation has strong technical and commercial merit and the potential for broad U.S.