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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

After Google’s cooperation with T-Systems and the “ Delos ” offer from Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato, AWS now follows suit. Across the globe, customers should not wait any longer for a magical one size fits all solution or ever trust that their due diligence of regulatory requirements can be delegated to any vendor.

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Modernizing applications: the importance of reducing technical debt

CIO

Technical debt is no longer just a “technical” problem. As recent, widely publicized events have shown, it is a business problem that can have serious consequences for organizations. What is technical debt? The warning signs of technical debt are clear.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You see the systems that must be repaired (or built) if the firm is to comply with SOX.

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO

And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise’s IT due diligence to go. When performing whatever minimal due diligence the cloud platform permits — SOC reports, GDPR compliance, PCI ROC, etc. The enterprise IT “pushback is that they do not trust the cloud automation and technology.

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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

TechCrunch

. “We also connect to several social media platforms and for specific event types we use external data sources as for example USGS (United States Geological Survey) for earthquake data or GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) for weather information.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO

Tech salaries are on the rise thanks to a demand for talent across nearly every industry. between 2021 and 2022, reaching an average tech salary of $111,348 per year, according to the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. But you don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to earn a high-tech salary. Salaries increased 2.3% Tampa, Fla.

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Incident Review: Shepherd Cache Delays

Honeycomb

In this incident review, we’ll cover the outage from September 8th, 2022, where our ingest system went down repeatedly and caused interruptions for over eight hours. Click here to get a detailed version of this review. The events. This post is an abridged version. Nothing worked. Everything was messy.