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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? Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

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. data, security, development, architecture) as well. Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

Software development teams face a large and growing number of obstacles: shifting design requirements, organizational blockers, tight deadlines, complicated tech stacks and software supply chains. Examples of software compliance requirements. Software compliance best practices. Comprehensive testing.