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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

The vice president of IT is responsible for overseeing specific aspects of the organization’s IT operations, whether it’s infrastructure, security, data management, or applications. They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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Business Outcomes of PostgreSQL Cost Optimization

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With databases representing a substantial portion of the IT budget, getting the most from investments in this area is critical. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. The result is snappier response for applications and users. Automating administrative tasks reduces manual efforts.