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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” D ue diligence pays off. Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment. Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

No review of 2023 would be complete without mentioning the explosion of AI into the public eye, like ChatGPT and Copilot. How it happened: The exact attack vector remains unclear, but experts speculate social engineering or a software vulnerability could be responsible. The company estimated total damages at $356 million.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. This also includes platform-level work around shared infrastructure, tools, and vendors that support SREs’ field of concerns.

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Outsourced IT: Is It Right for Your Company?

Kaseya

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. You might have to install or use additional software.

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