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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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It’s often the data in these silos [that needs] to be integrated between multiple sites, multiple systems, especially in the [real-time] world that we live in today versus the more batch-oriented architecture of a decade ago.” It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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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 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6%

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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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 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. To illustrate how the framework helps IT move faster, Bradshaw points to how his team approached modernizing the core business systems it had inherited.

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Business Outcomes of PostgreSQL Cost Optimization

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With databases representing a substantial portion of the IT budget, getting the most from investments in this area is critical. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending. Cloud-based managed services provide easy scaling. Automating administrative tasks reduces manual efforts.