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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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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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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. “The If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.”

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Infinidat Is Purchasing’s Best Friend, and NOT Just for an Amazing ROI!

Infinidat

Most IT Leaders have a built-in bias against changing storage vendors for reasons that are self-evident. The solution is monetizing the cost of their non-cooperation: the difference in cost between the vendor’s current bid and the best possible price recommended by a competent bid review analyst and an incumbent vendor’s actual bid.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

In this article, you will review examples of common compliance frameworks, best practices for achieving compliance as a software delivery organization, and how you can automate compliance with CI/CD. Comprehensive testing and change management. An audit can then move on to review your builds, deployed artifacts, and infrastructure.

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Just Exactly What Should A CIO Do During Their First 100 Days?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Once you have been successful at completing your large and small group conversations, your next task is to develop an IT strategy , along with a detailed integration roadmap with clear milestones for integrating teams, processes, systems, and infrastructure. At the same time you will need to focus on reviewing existing contracts.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

For CIOs, these deals can disrupt strategic rollouts, spell a need to pivot to a new solution, mean the potential sunsetting of essential technology, provide new opportunities to leverage newly synergized systems, and be a bellwether of further shifts to come in the IT landscape. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio.