CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. 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.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. In a modern IT environment, security should be a built-in infrastructure element, not an add-on.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Organizations should discuss ways they can modernize their technology infrastructure to support architectures in which security is built in, not simply bolted on, says Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables.

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. It reinforces the need for good data, data governance, integration points, and having the infrastructure to deliver data so it’s ready for analysis,” says RJ Juliano, senior vice president, CIO, and chief marketing officer of Parkway Corp.,

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Readiness is determined by the ability to experiment, and the ability to scale what works — building this capacity is critical to be future-ready,” says Siim Sikkut, former government CIO of Estonia, who’s now managing partner at IT consultancy Digital Nation. And then mainstreaming into your business the stuff that proves valuable.”

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Picking the right approach requires carefully studying all of the available options before making a final selection.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. It’s not like enterprise architects and infrastructure engineers were great at capacity planning from the data center days. Exceeding the planned budget. leading to poor performance and high cost.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Deciding on whether to scrap or keep existing infrastructure of any stripe isn’t easy. And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. When reorganizing any infrastructure, it’s important to understand what will be essential to retain. The same can be said for IT operations itself.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Their primary role is to ensure and design the secure network design and infrastructure that fulfills its goal. They can also make the conversion with the higher-level management like CEO and CTO. So that company can understand the trends and technology market and make a better decision. Role of Network Architect. Position Rank.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

.” Perl argues that one of the most complex challenges in building software today is the cost — the people, time, infrastructure cost — to test code from an end user’s perspective. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. Invest in win-wins.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. From an IT infrastructure standpoint, NCMS is 100% on the cloud. IT Skills

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CIO

MARCH 1, 2023

“While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual. A seamless cutover is rarely possible when you’re moving back to private infrastructure,” says Sample. million in 2017). million in 2017).

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CIO

MARCH 16, 2023

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist for Deloitte Consulting, cautions that adoption of AI for enhancing IT operations and employee productivity will require a new level of trust in the technology. “An Virtual and hybrid work is here to stay,” Matin says, “and I think that’s a great thing for technologists.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Infrastructure as Code. Infrastructure as code has become more than automation, it has become essential in DevOps. We have written a post about Infrastructure as Code , explaining it, you may find it here. Offering DevOps services , we believe Infrastructure as Code to be core to every team. Your infrastructure—i.e.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Which of the following cloud infrastructural technologies does your organization currently use?

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Mobilunity

MAY 20, 2023

Success Stories of Women in Tech Successful businesses lead by example by valuing women CTO, developers, and team leaders. Parisa Tabriz : Known as Google’s “Security Princess,” Tabriz is a Director of Engineering at Google and has been a stalwart in enhancing the company’s security infrastructure.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You didn't have to set up any infrastructure yourself, or write custom mapreduce and reload the jobtracker all day. If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. Redshift at the time was the first data warehouse running in the cloud.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

During this time, edge computing deployments grew from 43% in 2019 to 55% in 2021, while fog computing, known for its capabilities to create a small, cloud-like computing infrastructure, rose from 20% in 2019 to 25% in 2021. Cloud can enable standardization of infrastructure and platform to recover quickly from outages.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Components that are unique to data engineering and machine learning (red) surround the model, with more common elements (gray) in support of the entire infrastructure on the periphery. But once it’s ready to be served, it requires infrastructure of its own with monitoring of course. Am I missing anything? ML engineer: Feedback loops.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Does the IC ITE model and infrastructure offer the flexibility and scale required for exploitation of the IoT in an efficient and effective manner? Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Independent Consultant. Chief Technology Officer. Chief Information Officer.

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lifecycle Pricing When I’m budgeting a software project I think about the entire software lifecycle, my version of which I list below. A technical audit of your software is the only step that requires a technical friend, advisor, or consultant (like me) who is not your contractor.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Position Summary: The Internet2 Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer (CCSO) is the leader responsible for establishing the cyberinfrastructure security strategy and direction for Internet2′s global infrastructure programs. Responsibilities.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 23, 2021

Many teams want to adopt observability and Honeycomb—but run into budget roadblocks because budget holders may not clearly understand the quantifiable benefits to their end users, their teams, and the bottom line. . Some teams then say “Okay, but I have logs that could help.”

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 20 years he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, supporting them with general software design issues, process change and code revitalization. He’s got a Ph.D.

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Jeremiah Grossman

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

A recent study published by 7Safe, UK Security Breach Investigations Report , analyzed 62 cybercrime breach investigation and states that in “86% of all attacks, a weakness in a web interface was exploited ” (vs 14% infrastructure) and the attackers were predominately external (80%). portion of IT infrastructure. Total: $98.5B (USD).

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TechFides Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

At CIO Suite, Kent’s team (2 resources) offers four core services: IT Solutions Health Check Fractional CIO Services (i.e. Leadership, which is more of a fractional CIO role, and as we get into this discussion further, we’re all consultants, many of us trying not to be retired, and so we all kind of share that in common.

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Infinidat

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

BY: ERAN BROWN, CTO EMEA. When customers were asked by Enterprise Storage Forum about the biggest challenge involved with operating their current storage infrastructure, they replied: What is the biggest challenge involved with operating your current storage infrastructure? What storage specialists REALLY want? Infinidat.

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Management will study the need of information security policies and assign a budget to implement security policies. This will increase the knowledge of how our infrastructure is structured, internal traffic flow, point of contact for different IT infrastructures, etc. How wireless infrastructure devices need to be configured.

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Infinidat

JULY 24, 2019

A second cost is added when the HA solution requires Fibre Channel between the sites, taking a toll on the operational budget. The best way to solve this is by encouraging organisations to protect more by not charging for protecting more applications and leveraging cost-effective IP infrastructure that is shared with multiple use cases. .

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