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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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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 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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All You Need to Know About Case Management

Newgen Software

Understanding Case Management Case management is a software-based approach that combines human action with intelligent automation to optimize diverse business activities. While both case management and BPM (business process management) focus on improving organizational processes, case management offers a more holistic approach.

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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Metrics: How will we know it is working effectively? At what interval will these interfaces be reviewed and updated? . This includes security and systems data, as well as knowledge management content and communications through collaboration tools.

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IT Leaders’ Top 5 Outsourcing Headaches

Seerene

They find it’s faster and less risky to pull in providers who know how to implement and manage the systems at scale. Since outsourcers don’t publish any kind of standard metrics, you can’t really compare apples to apples. As a result, hourly rates and cost cutting tend to drive the conversations and determine vendor selection.

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Patch Management is Integral for Mature Risk-based Prioritization

Ivanti

It remediates vulnerabilities and manages risk. Patching is a subset of risk-based prioritization, and software life-cycle management. Once you identify a critical vulnerability in the operating system or applications, you must seek a resolution. Challenges with managing risk priority by vendor.