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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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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. This will enable you to define, develop, and execute the optimal migration and modernization path for your business.”

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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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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. That has served me incredibly well.”

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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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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. ↩︎ There was one major architectural difference of Snowflake vs Redshift.

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