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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

Jenga builder: Enterprise architects piece together both reusable and replaceable components and solutions enabling responsive (adaptable, resilient) architectures that accelerate time-to-market without disrupting other components or the architecture overall (e.g. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Technology modernization strategy : Evaluate the overall IT landscape through the lens of enterprise architecture and assess IT applications through a 7R framework.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

CIO

Every strategic decision, from customer engagement to AI-driven automation, relies on an organizations ability to manage, process and move vast amounts of information efficiently. However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity.

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CIO hiring on the rise: How to land a top tech exec role in 2025

CIO

For companies that have already been investing in data, architecture, and technology over the past few years, the focus is more on transformation of culture and business models. In terms of management skills, organizations are looking for CIOs who have driven change management at scale, Hackley explains.

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

During their time at Blend — a 10-year-old publicly traded company whose white label technology powers mortgage applications on the site of banks — Mike Yu and Devon Yang realized that current mortgage infrastructure has not kept up with the pace of change in more digitally native industries. Image Credits: Vesta.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. Additionally, leveraging cloud-based solutions reduced the burden of maintaining on-premises infrastructure.

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO

Simultaneously, the monolithic IT organization was deconstructed into subgroups providing PC, cloud, infrastructure, security, and data services to the larger enterprise with associated solution leaders closely aligned to core business functions. They see a product from beginning to end and it’s pretty rewarding.”

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