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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 isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

Strategy 363
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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. I have four core beliefs about technology that inform this thinking: We can do anything with technology. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers.

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A feat of skill: Moving SAP workloads to the cloud

CIO

Moving SAP workloads to the cloud promises to be transformational, but it’s not for the faint of heart. Goals for an ERP modernization initiative often range from lowering costs through infrastructure savings to adding cloud-based capabilities to ERP tasks with minimal disruption to day-to-day business.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center. By embracing a zero-trust architecture with Zscaler, our customers can free up to 74% of an admin’s time to focus on more strategic projects.

Firewall 246
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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

CIO

But that depends on our ability and commitment to take care of it properly.” — Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex. Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex, notes that the organization frees its customers to focus on their businesses, not the IT required to run them.

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SASE success: Avoid confusion and embrace a single-vendor solution

CIO

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). 3 Why the trough of disillusionment?

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The AI continuum

CIO

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? Downsides: Lower accuracy; the source of dumb chatbots; not suited for unstructured data. Here is some guidance. Learn more.