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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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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. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Similarly, poor practices that allow a business to incur technical debt open the door to cybersecurity exploits that can bankrupt a business financially or through loss of trust and reputation in the eyes of its customers. ” Balmas advises: “If you can’t stop using fax, segregate the printers, put them on a separate network.”.

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Network AF, Episode 7: From Juilliard to bare metal with Zac Smith

Kentik

In 2014, Zac co-founded Packet to empower technology-enabled enterprises with automated bare metal infrastructure. Family friend John LeRoux advised Zac to avoid creating a phone company, but rather to start something with recurring revenue. The help from his peers opened doors from a technical standpoint.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

For organizations as large as hospitals running million-dollar MRI machines to tiny nonprofit organizations without the resources to invest in new computers, the end of security support for Windows 7 represents a serious cybersecurity quandary. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for enterprises.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

That said, it is 100% oversaturated, and there are too many examples of strong technical founders creating “yet another” SaaS security startup. (2) The biggest worries of the portfolio founders surround slower enterprise sales cycles due to WFH and smaller budgets from potential customers. Very positively.