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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

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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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO

It’s not like enterprise architects and infrastructure engineers were great at capacity planning from the data center days. Among those chat participants suggested: Will the senior consultants you sent on the sales call be doing the technical work or will you substitute cheaper, more junior consultants?

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Tips for Succeeding with AI and IoT at The Edge

OTS Solutions

Edge computing is a combination of networking, storage capabilities, and compute options that take place outside a centralized data center. With Edge Computing, IT infrastructures are brought closer to areas where data is created and subsequently used. Consider Scalability Options of IoT Applications.

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5 ways QA can help you accelerate and improve your DevOps CI/CD cycle

Trigent

DevOps has many benefits in reducing cost, facilitating scalability, and improving productivity. These may include environmental triggers like a data center network interruption or unusual traffic spikes. As a result, the software developed through the CI/CD toolchains evolve frequently.

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The Kentik Platform is the Future of Network Operations

Kentik

The problems that Kentik solves are highly variable and sophisticated, such as understanding how traffic enters and exits networks, sliced by almost any facet of the data. Kentik’s success to date stems from delivering a truly scalable product that answers these questions in seconds. These are some of the most basic (but not easy!)

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FINRA CIO Steve Randich pushes the public cloud forward

CIO

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an operational and IT service arm that works for the SEC, is not only a cloud customer but also a technical partner to Amazon whose expertise has enabled the advancement of the cloud infrastructure at AWS. But FINRA’s CIO remains skeptical about so-called multicloud infrastructure.

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Migrating to AWS Cloud Services

iTexico

With the direction businesses have been heading, it’s become increasingly clear that the majority of businesses that fight the current and rely on on-premise data centers won’t be able to keep their hat in the ring anymore. Migration is when your company moves their data from one data center to another.

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