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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Similar to disaster recovery, business continuity, and information security, data strategy needs to be well thought out and defined to inform the rest, while providing a foundation from which to build a strong business.” Dirty data or poor-quality data is the biggest issue with AI, Impact Advisor’s Johnson says.

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WestRock CIDO Amir Kazmi on building resiliency

CIO

In his current role as chief information and digital officer at WestRock, he’s responsible for developing and executing global information systems, technology, and cybersecurity strategy in addition to leading the company’s digital transformation. They’re upfront when they have a bad day, and they go back out and fight the fight again.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks. Disaster recovery can be an effective way to ease into the cloud.

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It’s Not All Bad! Using Cloud Drift for Teachable Moments

Prisma Clud

Stack Overflow’s 2021 Developer Survey found that 54% of developers use AWS, yet only 7% use Terraform. That means that far more developers have adopted provisioning, managing and decommissioning cloud infrastructure using methods other than infrastructure as code (IaC). A misconfiguration (lack of encryption) was remediated.

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General Dynamics IT takes multicloud strategy to the next level

CIO

Laying the multicloud foundation When the IT division started its digital transformation, Hannah and his team performed a thorough assessment of General Dynamics’ corporate workloads to determine which cloud would be best based on functionality. And it increased or strengthened our DR [disaster recovery] posture overall.”

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Enterprise Application Security: What It Is and How To Prevent It?

Openxcell

During enterprise application development, secure coding practices play a pivotal role in minimizing potential vulnerabilities. According to 92% of technologists, speed of innovation across application development is more important than app security to explain this lag in maturity.

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The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence

CIO

The team had also accumulated a lot of technical debt over the years as they implemented workarounds out of necessity that later became unwieldy.”. For years, the IT team worked to get by, but it was getting tough just to keep things running. Our team questioned if we could pull it off. It energized the entire team.”.

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