CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

Technical Review 174

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CIO

JULY 26, 2024

At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities. More than ever, their expertise and resources are being consulted when developing a roadmap, as well as planning and implementing a transformation process.

Cloud 215

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice.

Systems Administration 210

Systems Administration Hardware Project Management DevOps 210

CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

Product leaders define the opportunity and problem statement, while delivery leaders establish the solution’s architecture, execution plan, and support model. Examples include: User experience specialists provide team brand, design, information architecture, and style guides.

Technical Review 148

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies.

Technical Review 192

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Multi-year security architecture planning. Budgeting & forecasting.

Security 100

Security Leadership Disaster Recovery Budget 100

CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The certification includes a three-day boot camp that covers topics such as technical leadership, managing hybrid and virtual IT teams, creating innovative IT solutions, IT funding and cost management, vendor management, and client services.

Security 197

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This very thin technology layer was probably one of the best things we did architecturally because it allows us to experiment with a certain model, and then switch things out if another provider has something better suited to what we’re trying to do.” This was critical across both projects.

Real Estate 173

Real Estate Energy Engineering Architecture 173

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.

Technical Advisors 216

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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. Data warehouses then evolved into data lakes, and then data fabrics and other enterprise-wide data architectures.

Artificial Inteligence 195

Artificial Inteligence Enterprise Trends Open Source 195

CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

CIO, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Management, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “Discover where you’re currently spending to make sure you can explain all line items, improve spending where immediate action can be taken, and monitor for continued improvement,” says McKee.

Cloud 187

Cloud Technical Review CTO Coach Fractional CTO 187

CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

When assessing vendors, Rich Products looks at their technology, architecture, business value, and pragmatic perspective. We look at the vendor’s maturity and if they have proven success in the right focus areas for our business,” he says. “But the reality is many of these companies are still in the early stages.

Technical Review 197

Technical Review Generative AI Systems Review Software Review 197

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.

Security 51

Security Systems Review Technical Review Vendor Management 51

CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

What is difficult is seeing what fits the specific logic of your particular industry, and what fits the architecture and what can scale.” Artificial Intelligence, CIO, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers “Inventing new innovative things in a lab environment isn’t that difficult.

Artificial Inteligence 78

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Generative AI Analysis 78

Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems.

Security 62

Security Cloud Fractional CTO Technical Review 62

CIO

MAY 29, 2024

Last year, as many CIOs ramped up for their first round of Scope 3 reporting, gen AI found its way into virtually every office. Sometimes it came in through the front door, but in most cases, it seeped in quietly, as knowledge workers experimented with it to write documents and email without necessarily admitting they were doing so.

Sustainability 163

Sustainability Artificial Inteligence Energy Guidelines 163

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.

Storage 69

Storage Systems Review Infrastructure Software Review 69

Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Instead, it’s a platform-centric approach to security, optimized for the cloud native architectures and operational practices of the present and future. Whether this be for vendor management, data locality or other reasons, large organizations rarely only use a single provider. A Cloud-Agnostic Security Future.

Cloud 84

Cloud Serverless Lambda Weak Development Team 84

Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

Working with CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative ( JCDC ), a group of public- and private-sector collaborators participated in the creation of the “Remote Monitoring and Management Cyber Defense Plan,” which was released this week.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence How To 52

CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

Cloud 147

Cloud Strategy Architecture Policies 147

Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The “IT architecture and security software” category topped all others in 2022 SMB purchases. 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).

Software Review 52

Software Review SMB Development Team Review Malware 52

CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

Fractional CTO 212

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

“It’s often the data in these silos [that needs] to be integrated between multiple sites, multiple systems, especially in the [real-time] world that we live in today versus the more batch-oriented architecture of a decade ago.” APIs, Application Integration, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, SaaS, Vendor Management

Technical Review 204

Technical Review Software Review Apparel Systems Review 204

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

data, security, development, architecture) as well. To maintain the cloud-like experience for users, security must be embedded throughout the cloud-native software development and cloud architecture,” says Upchurch. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

Strategy 217

Strategy Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review 217

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. URL parameters are obscured.

Compliance 52

Compliance Software Review Software Policies 52

CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. For those working within or alongside EA, these concepts are well-established pillars of the discipline.

Architecture 183

Architecture Enterprise Technical Review Sustainability 183

Trigent

JULY 27, 2021

Akif Khan, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner, elaborates, “ IAM challenges have become increasingly complex and many organizations lack the skills and resources to manage effectively. Cybersecurity mesh with its mobile, adaptive, unified access management model is expected to support more than half of all IAM requests by 2025.

Security 98

Security Weak Development Team Malware Systems Review 98

Kentik

MAY 17, 2021

Many of our customers already running large on-prem networks noted a trend: As their companies settled into the cloud, network teams were asked to step up to help configure network architectures, establish connectivity to their data and remote offices, and solve connectivity issues for the app teams. But those days are gone. Adapt or die.

Network 52

Network Cloud AWS Architecture 52

CIO

JANUARY 16, 2025

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. Understanding price sensitivity, elasticity, and the price pack architecture, is driving new levels of performance. That has been super powerful.

Innovation 167

Innovation Off-The-Shelf Leadership Digital Marketing 167

CIO

APRIL 12, 2022

NetApp added some new functionality to its portfolio of cloud management tools in late February with the acquisition of Fylamynt, a young low-code cloud ops automation company. SaaS vendor management platform Vendr is buying SaaS management platform vendor Blissfully. Lansweeper acquires UMAknow.

Technical Review 214

Technical Review Enterprise Technology Software Review 214