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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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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

Each of these pillars contain a number of building blocks that we describe in-depth in our book, “ Elements of Security Operations.” Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Budget: What will it cost to do this? Planning: How are we going to do it? Staffing: Who do we need to do this?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. SD : Why now?