CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

Cloud 310

Cloud Technical Review CTO Coach Fractional CTO 310

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Ironically, as more of Wiedenbeck’s IT budget has moved to the cloud, the one place where price increases have stayed in check has been for infrastructure. With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below. And that is the rub.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our infrastructure was handled by IT veteran Tim Farrington, who’s been doing this for over 20 years in SMEs throughout Ontario. He was very resourceful and organized in his approach to infrastructure management. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

You don’t need to figure out how to productize it, scale it, and support the underlying infrastructure. Vendors are keeping the prices down to encourage adoption. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. Secure, reliable data infrastructure Both ML and gen AI depend on data. This is where large language models get me really excited.

Artificial Inteligence 324

Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Trends ChatGPT 324

CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

Some enterprises turn to a fractional CIO to supply knowledge and expertise in one or more fundamental leadership areas, such as operations management, maintenance, strategic planning, risk, compliance/governance, vendor management, and other essential matters, Trzeciak notes. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

Technical Advisors 302

Technical Advisors How To Leadership Enterprise 302

Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

Blue Sentry

AUGUST 17, 2021

Managed Security Services. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are third-party contractors that offer IT tasks and services to companies. Managed Services typically cover things like infrastructure management, security services, DevOps, and NOC (Network Operations Center) services. Vendor management.

Cloud 52

Cloud Vendor Management Compliance AWS 52

Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2023

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. This also includes platform-level work around shared infrastructure, tools, and vendors that support SREs’ field of concerns.

Systems Review 74

Systems Review Sustainability Engineering Scalability 74

Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. Letting outsiders work on your networks and systems can be a trust issue as well.

Company 111

Company Technical Review Disaster Recovery Budget 111

Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

However, as enterprises seek to create the modern IT architectures and move workloads to the cloud, they need also incorporate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors to help create ecosystems that enable their business needs. What Is FedRAMP?

Security 51

Security Systems Review Technical Review Vendor Management 51

Infinidat

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In situations where Infinidat is allowed to compete against AFAs (All Flash Arrays) for their business, the savings can grow to 50% or more on a $/PB basis, and that does not include the savings associated with simplified infrastructure design, staff productivity improvements, or savings in vendor management costs. Conclusions.

Storage 69

Storage Systems Review Infrastructure Software Review 69

Infinidat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Ironically, if IT meets its service level objectives, the best that infrastructure and operations (I&O) Leaders can hope for is that data migrations complete on schedule and don’t create operational problems.

Storage 52

Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

Infinidat

OCTOBER 1, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Ironically, if IT meets its service level objectives, the best that infrastructure and operations (I&O) Leaders can hope for is that data migrations complete on schedule and don’t create operational problems.

Storage 52

Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 22, 2019

Cloud-native infrastructure. Instead, it moves the focus to creating cloud-native applications, and puts the spotlight on the advantages of cloud-based infrastructure. A service mesh can best be described as a dedicated layer of infrastructure that enables rapid, secure, and dependable communication between and among service instances.

Systems Review 78

Systems Review Trends Engineering System 78

CircleCI

JULY 18, 2022

Implementing well-known compliance best practices is a great way to measure your competence in internal corporate governance, risk management processes, organizational oversight policies, vendor management, and general security awareness. Comprehensive testing and change management. Conclusion.

Compliance 52

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Capgemini

MAY 24, 2023

This gives organizations the option to take advantage of synergies that will help in simplifying the overall managed service experience by having access to SAP’s comprehensive managed services across infrastructure, platform, and application management all together.

How To 52

How To Banking Google Cloud Internet 52

Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency -- CISA). To learn more about assessing the security of a software product: “ How to Assess a Vendor's Data Security ” (Electronic Frontier Foundation). “ 6 Ways to Optimize Vendor Management Programs ” (IANS Research). What is patch management?" (TechTarget).

Software Review 52

Software Review SMB Malware Development Team Review 52

Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Result: Though the full scope remains unclear, the breach affected almost all Okta customers and highlighted the potential risks associated with third-party vendors managing sensitive data. Using a public cloud, for example, leads to a 22% increase in infrastructure flexibility relative to not using the cloud.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Open Source Weak Development Team 52

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What’s going to happen, then, if that point solution is acquired by another vendor — perhaps not your preferred supplier — and integrated into its stack? We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. If that’s true, then you’re in a better position.

Hardware 130

Hardware Vendor Management Infrastructure Software 130

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In today’s rapidly evolving threat environment, commercial and government organizations must not only identify cyber threat vectors and determine their potential impact on critical infrastructure, they also must take their game to the next level – by thinking differently.

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Fractional CTO CTO Security Metrics 105

CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

This ranges from the technology and devices needed to access work, through to their service and support and end-of-life management. Backed by Lenovo accessories, the CIO can streamline their device fleet rollouts and management by working with a single provider. CIOs realise the value of finding the right vendor partner.

Innovation 246

Innovation Agile Budget Vendor Management 246

CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation. With that added role under his belt, Strickland was soon tapped for other plus-roles along with a direct report structure to the CEO.

Leadership 363

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the hardware level it’s adding new instances to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service tailored for AI workloads. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers OCI Supercluster will combine thousands of Nvidia GPUs and high-speed memory for training LLMs.

Generative AI 246

Generative AI Enterprise Software ChatGPT 246

Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

These are the findings from a commissioned survey including 262 IT and security professionals who have the final decision-making authority for their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Which of the following cloud infrastructural technologies does your organization currently use?

Security 59

Security Cloud Fractional CTO Technical Review 59

Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

After all, IT infrastructure is the backbone of any organization, big or small. It involves finding the right talent and regularly investing in tools and services to deliver and manage IT services. MSPs remotely monitor and manage a company’s IT infrastructure, usually for a monthly subscription fee. to reach $150.4

Security 52

Security Disaster Recovery Technical Review Systems Review 52

Trigent

JULY 27, 2021

In response to these infrastructure attacks in recent times, President Biden’s administration enacted a cybersecurity executive order wherein the federal government will partner with the private sector to secure cyberspace and address the many concerns through its far-reaching provisions.

Security 98

Security Weak Development Team Malware Systems Review 98

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The tech organization not only had to master unfamiliar fundamentals like continuous build, unit testing, cloud infrastructure and requirements expressed as Stories, but improvise to fill in the gaps the fundamentals of the time didn't cover, things like vendor management and large program management.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Agile Delivery Management Recruiting 52

KitelyTech

MARCH 11, 2022

Such optimization tools allow organizations to better manage and proportion the amount of money spent on SaaS across the entire business. Now, SaaS management companies are developing tools with benefits beyond the financial realm.

Compliance 52

Compliance Internet Vendor Management Applications 52

Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The writing is on the wall: Traditional security tools and methodologies are ill-suited to protect cloud native’s developer-driven and infrastructure-agnostic multicloud patterns. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure and declarative APIs exemplify this approach. A Cloud-Agnostic Security Future.

Cloud 60

Cloud Serverless Lambda Weak Development Team 60

ParkMyCloud

MAY 29, 2019

As more and more enterprises drive value from container platforms, infrastructure-as-code solutions, software-defined networking, storage, continuous integration/delivery, and AI, they need people and skills on board with ever more niche expertise and deep technological understanding.

Trends 72

Trends Cloud IoT Artificial Inteligence 72

The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 16, 2021

Once you have been successful at completing your large and small group conversations, your next task is to develop an IT strategy , along with a detailed integration roadmap with clear milestones for integrating teams, processes, systems, and infrastructure. Inspire employees. Drive sustained profitable growth. Operational. Inspire employees.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Systems Review Meeting 52

Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) will carry out the review, which will also focus more broadly on the security of cloud computing environments and their identity and authentication infrastructure.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence How To 52

GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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