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A forensic look into cloud success with Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan

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Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud. So moving to the cloud is all about changing the culture, rightsizing your approach, and having a roadmap to get into a dynamic architecture that scales up and down during the working week.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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From a company standpoint, you minimize turnover and search and recruiting costs.” The 300-person shop doesn’t focus on the classic network or data center support roles — those are outsourced to service providers. “From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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7 tips for leading without authority

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His story ultimately convinced Diane Bryant, who at the time was head of Intel’s data center group. Once she was recruited, she gave us the assets we needed,” he says. “We You need the culture, and you need leaders who expect that. Then people can do amazing things,” Blank says.

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Wolverine hits pause for cloud success

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Wolverine relies on seven data centers, two of which are run by third-party partners. The on-premises data center at its corporate headquarters connects to Azure and other public clouds, Slater says, adding that Wolverine has moved roughly 500 services from on-prem to the Azure cloud.

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What it takes to succeed as a CIO today

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Are you going to have your own data centers, are you going to be in the cloud, or hybrid? In the middle, you’ve got data. That means you also need to understand all the global forces, and you need to understand the pulse and the heartbeat of the organization from a cultural perspective. Judy Kirby, CEO, Kirby Partners.

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Cato Network snags $130M Series E on $1B valuation as cloud wide area networking thrives

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The idea with Cato was to take that technology and redesign it for a mobile and cloud world, not one that was built for the previous generation of software that lived in private data centers and was mostly accessed from an office. “My feeling is that inclusion needs to happen in the earlier stages of the funnel.

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