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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. “To

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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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IT leader’s survival guide: 8 tips to thrive in the years ahead

CIO

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. It feels as if traditional metrics of experience have been upended.

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.” What we can’t measure we can’t improve.

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The 7 venial sins of IT management

CIO

Leadership is a useful tool for making that happen (see “dog,” above). But it’s far from the only tool. As for the granular, accurate approach, if you head down this path you can count on your entire time budget being eaten alive by arguments over whether what you’re charging is right or not. Give it up.

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Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution

Honeycomb

tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an impending steep price increase. tool, which relied on the three pillars of logs, metrics, and traces. tool, which relied on the three pillars of logs, metrics, and traces.

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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

CIO

Buying and implementing technology solutions takes time, so the CIO’s easiest tool to combat shadow IT is providing stakeholders the confidence that collaboration is in their best interest. The human element is the most important,” says Brian Suk, associate CTO at SADA.