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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 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

There’s absolutely an overarching trend we’re witnessing of organizations entering into more strategic partnership agreements to ensure access to critical talent and expertise,” says Greg Sarafin, global alliance and ecosystem leader at EY. D ue diligence pays off. Build trust and transparency.

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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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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

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. The solution proposed and decisions made not only have to fit the context of the team, but as well as the organization.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. The solution proposed and decisions made not only have to fit the context of the team, but as well as the organization.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. A cloud strategy should be built on business outcomes the organization is seeking to achieve, which may then align with some of those potential benefits.

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