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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If your job or business relies on systems engineering and operations, be sure to keep an eye on the following trends in the months ahead. A recent O’Reilly survey found that less than 40% of respondents have actually implemented Kubernetes, suggesting that the hype currently outweighs the reality. Kubernetes. Containers.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

As the attack surface expanded with emerging technologies and interconnected systems, so did the sophistication and frequency of cyber threats. No review of 2023 would be complete without mentioning the explosion of AI into the public eye, like ChatGPT and Copilot.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Tenable

Cyber Safety Review Board published a 50-plus page report on the Log4j event, and a key takeaway was that Log4Shell is an “endemic vulnerability” that’ll be around for a decade — or perhaps longer. . Inadequate Identity and Access Management. Insecure System Configuration. What is patch management?" (TechTarget).

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

Kaseya

According to Kaseya’s annual 2021 MSP Benchmark Survey , the top five IT services provided by MSPs are antivirus/antimalware, endpoint management , server backup, OS patching and updates, and email security, in that order. Letting outsiders work on your networks and systems can be a trust issue as well.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. We look at the vendor’s maturity and if they have proven success in the right focus areas for our business,” he says. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO

Our poll received excellent feedback – in addition to receiving a significant base of survey respondents, a number of community members provided additional commentary. At this point in time, it needs to be asked whether such a rapid increase in the number of vendors is sustainable. Of course, some startups will also shutdown.