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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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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements.

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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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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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FedRAMP ATO Vendors: How Commercial Entities Can Benefit

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However, as enterprises seek to create the modern IT architectures and move workloads to the cloud, they need also incorporate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors to help create ecosystems that enable their business needs.