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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

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 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Do we need architects anyway?

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Do we need architects anyway?

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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. Then there’s housekeeping.

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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. Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. There are other risks, too.

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Infinidat Is Purchasing’s Best Friend, and NOT Just for an Amazing ROI!

Infinidat

Infinidat understands the problem and is here to help transform IT Operations’ view of Purchasing from being a speed bump in the pathway to their getting the storage they need to a partner that helps them get maximum value from their storage budget. Monetizing the Cost of Operations and Purchasing Not Working Together.

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