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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Whether that means implementing cloud-based policies, deploying patches and updates, or analyzing network performance, these IT pros are skilled at navigating virtualized environments. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

CIO

Palmer is one of the world’s top AI experts and a longtime industry veteran who is educating and advising companies on how to approach and harness this new technology. Anna Ransley, a CD&IO known for her work at Godiva and Heineken, among others, has been advising boards and C-suites about generative AI strategy, risks, and opportunities.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Cross River Bank goes from tiny to mighty, with a $3B+ valuation and a crypto-first strategy

TechCrunch

Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T. If we want to get technical, the money was actually raised by CRB Group, the bank’s parent company.).

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO

Technical College System of Georgia, which comprises 22 colleges and 88 campuses, and serves 350,000 individuals, needed to modernize systems to adapt to customer expectations, says Steven Ferguson, CIO. Too often, Belmont says, IT tends to think about products and shiny objects more so than outcomes.