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Thinking outside the cloud: bring cloud agility to your entire infrastructure

CIO

Cloud technology is a springboard for digital transformation, delivering the business agility and simplicity that are so important to today’s business. Cloud is also a powerful catalyst for improving IT and user experiences, with operating principles such as anywhere access, policy automation, and visibility.

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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

Those organizations that don’t make that change risk losing their customers to those that adopted an agile, customer-centric approach to business. However, for many financial services organizations, security and agility traditionally haven’t been mutually achievable—oftentimes, one was sacrificed for the other.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. The complexity of today’s digital systems has multiple points of friction that need to be addressed if we are to achieve true business agility.

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Pre-Deployment Policy Compliance

Abhishek Tiwari

Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have become the norm, enabling rapid release cycles and frequent updates. However, amidst the drive for speed, ensuring policy compliance is often overlooked, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and compliance risks.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Independent research analyst Sageable founder Andi Mann agrees, pointing out how many internal operations and basic functions of IT infrastructure turn out to be the ‘picks and shovels’ to power an AI gold rush. It can be tempting to view cloud projects at lower priority than shiny new AI initiatives but he says they’re actually foundational.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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Controlling cloud chaos: How to realign IT with the business

CIO

But these processes simply don’t apply in the cloud where infrastructure is automatically deployed as code. To address this misalignment, enterprises need a model that provides IT the agility, scalability, and flexibility of the cloud while allowing the business to make value-based decisions overspend. The business has to get involved.

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