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Generative AI’s role in increasing IT efficiency

CIO

CIOs and their IT teams — including operations/DevOps, site reliability engineering, and platform engineering — are charged with building and managing IT services that can provide near 100% uptime. If the user encounters phrases or terms that they don’t understand, a quick follow-up question can rapidly provide a definition.

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4 questions CIOs are asking about cloud computing

CIO

That said, there are definitely more and less cost-conscious ways of implementing cloud infrastructure, and it’s not unusual for my company to discover that a new client has previously implemented their cloud in the most expensive way possible. You may spend even more. Don’t set up one-to-one applications deployed each to a dedicated VM.

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Scaling Security for Data Center Transformation: COVID-19 Amplifies Trends

Palo Alto Networks

Data centers have been rapidly adopting new technologies as they race to increase efficiency and keep up with the pace of business transformation. Shorter software-development cycle patterns, like agile methods and DevOps, depend on resources that can be put to use quickly and torn down at the same rate.

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How to ensure security in a cloud migration

CIO

The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). Integrate on-premise data center to #cloud, consider using VPN, direct connect, or dedicated network. Yes but it’s a tale of two cities. Find partners you trust.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

He notes that the catalog should present a clear definition of offerings as well as methods for delivery while ensuring that sales and delivery departments are consistently aligned. Cziomer observes that the foundation for service delivery excellence lies in a well-structured service catalog.

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The Network Also Needs to be Observable

Kentik

There are a number of definitions, but observability in the DevOps world has been about using diverse telemetry to know the internal states of systems over time (generally focused around metrics, logs, and traces), and providing answers to the unbounded questions needed to run modern applications. The Move to Observability.

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Infrastructure as Code: benefits & tools

Apiumhub

IaC is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. IaC is also an essential DevOps practice, indispensable to a competitively paced software delivery lifecycle. Accountability.