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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

CIO

The most important thing a tech leader can do is create the architecture that staff work with,” Riley says. After that, the architecture begins to shape not only your employees but also yourself and the entire organization.” It’s imperative to keep the team in the know, so that projects can stay on track and under budget,” Alarid says.

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AWS Cloud Best Practices With Blue Sentry CTO Todd Bernson

Blue Sentry

TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. The AWS trusted advisor tool can help identify opportunities to use more cost-effective resources for your workloads. One of the best practices for AWS cost optimization is to use the right type and size of resources.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

β€œThe net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

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. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

β€œIt requires engaging stakeholders across the organization, not just within IT, and having expertise in both the legacy application and the cloud you’re moving to,” says Steve Woodgate, strategic advisor at managed cloud service provider Navisite. Bavare considers this approach to be very effective.

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Prerequisites for evolutionary architectures

CircleCI

Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it. Without mandating a specific architecture (e.g.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Today’s CIOs play more of a general manager role, Meyercord adds, with IT leaders focused not just on crafting great IT architecture and strategy, but also on hiring, building, and nurturing teams, understanding the finances of the department, and putting out fires on an ongoing basis. That has served me incredibly well.”