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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. Double down on vendor management.

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

CIO

But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Solution Josh had a longstanding familiarity with Honeycomb and had previously engaged with Honeycomb’s CTO, Charity Majors, in discussions about their shared philosophy regarding modern observability. It gives us high-quality data to explore and uncover insights to manage the performance, quality, and reliability of our solution.”

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

There’s also the ever-present threat of copyright lawsuits related to AI-generated text and images, accuracy of AI-generated content, and the risk of having sensitive information become training data for the next generation of the AI model — and getting exposed to the world. “If But it’s not exactly a safe bet.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems.