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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Patch Management is Integral for Mature Risk-based Prioritization

Ivanti

It remediates vulnerabilities and manages risk. Patching is a subset of risk-based prioritization, and software life-cycle management. Once you identify a critical vulnerability in the operating system or applications, you must seek a resolution. Challenges with managing risk priority by vendor.

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO

This encourages innovation within the organization, doing technology proof-of-concepts, and ensures engineering is included in the company’s success metrics.” I’ve seen far too many candidates lost due to making them jump through too many hoops.” “However, we shouldn’t do this at the expense of leading by product,’’ Brassely insists.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

Too many identities, systems and cooks in the kitchen cloud an already complex mandate. And, managing who has access to these systems poses a significant challenge.

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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Metrics: How will we know it is working effectively? At what interval will these interfaces be reviewed and updated? . This includes security and systems data, as well as knowledge management content and communications through collaboration tools.