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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career. What is an IT consultant?

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity. For example, a company aiming for market expansion might focus on developing scalable infrastructure, enabling application localization, and enhancing security measures to support operations in new regions.

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Sunday Security launches a cybersecurity service for senior execs

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Traditionally, cybersecurity has always focused on what can be hacked and not so much on who might be most at risk. Sunday Security , which is launching today and announcing a $4 million seed funding round, is trying to switch this up by offering cyber-risk protection for senior executives and other key personnel.

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Has CISO become the least desirable role in business?

CIO

You’d think in a job where perpetual stress over the threat of a cyberattack is the norm, there would be empathy for security leaders. Instead, they face the growing challenge of trying to elicit support across departments and managing security threats, according to a recent report from WatchGuard.

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Grafana’s CTO on the State of the Observability Market 

The New Stack

But as Grafana CTO Tom Wilkie noted when I spoke with him at GrafanaCON, Grafana Labs ’ annual user’s conference here recently, this is a symptom rather than a trend, as players and organizations seek to refine the data they need, especially for cost control and the growing number of business use cases.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024. Other surveys found a similar gap.

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CIOs rethink public cloud as AI strategies mature

CIO

While the public cloud provides the flexibility to spin up large numbers of GPUs for AI experimentation, CIOs are looking to private cloud or on-premises environments as their AI strategies mature , and settle into predictable AI workloads, to limit spending and protect data privacy, says Greg Whalen , CTO of data observability firm Prove AI.

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