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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7%

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Tenable

Cyber Safety Review Board published a 50-plus page report on the Log4j event, and a key takeaway was that Log4Shell is an “endemic vulnerability” that’ll be around for a decade — or perhaps longer. . The report’s recommendations for evaluating the security of a software product include: Don’t take vendors’ words at face value.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. trillion in 2020 to $5.16

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO

The changing landscape of IT, driven by rapid advances in technology and digital transformation, has seen a shift in CIOs’ responsibilities and challenges. Here are 12 other tips tech vendor CTOs have to offer CIOs embarking on a more software- and services-defined digital journey.