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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode. Luckily, there are ways to slash the timelines on those projects.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. efficiency, agility, cost savings) as well as any performance characteristics that will help determine whether it is a good candidate for cloud.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO

It can be used to curate internal and external industry data that’s then used to train traditional algorithms to deliver agile results.” You don’t need to figure out how to productize it, scale it, and support the underlying infrastructure. Vendors are keeping the prices down to encourage adoption.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

Our infrastructure was handled by IT veteran Tim Farrington, who’s been doing this for over 20 years in SMEs throughout Ontario. He was very resourceful and organized in his approach to infrastructure management. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Do I need an architect?