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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO

Other responsibilities may include addressing digital transformation initiatives, guiding application development, and identifying security issues. What is a virtual CIO versus a fractional CIO? A fractional CIO brought into an enterprise to guide a relatively minor task or project is sometimes referred to as a virtual CIO, or vCIO.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO

Albemarle has been using AI as a virtual assistant since the recent pandemic lockdowns. “We Traditional technology vendors are partnering with companies that develop generative AI to deliver virtual assistants that unlock the value of enterprise business systems,” says Thompson, who sits on the advisory boards of several application vendors.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

2023 was a year of relentless evolution in the cybersecurity landscape. Let’s take a look at a few critical security happenings from last year, including notable data breaches, valuable report findings, and key themes. Read on for the insights and takeaways I curated to stay informed of emerging threats and opportunities.

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How Managed Services Can Simplify Cloud Security

Blue Sentry

Whether you are already one of the millions of active customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS), or are considering if you should migrate your organization’s workloads to the cloud, you’ve more than likely questioned the general security surrounding the platform. Managed Security Services. Vendor management.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

You also sacrifice the opportunity to standardize on optimization, operations, security management and so on,” he adds. So they created an XaaS team, called the Anything as a Service team that owns cloud operations best practices, overall account management, and the financials. “But

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As both security threats and compliance pressures grow, automating security and baking security controls into the software development process is now critical. 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.