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What is a cloud architect? A vital role for success in the cloud

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Continuous learning will be a priority on the IC path, ensuring you continue to grow and develop your expertise and learn about new and emerging tech. Others will find themselves on a management path, leading teams of cloud architects and engineers, ensuring they stay on track and budget when it comes to cloud infrastructure.

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

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And according to the most recent Enterprise Cloud Index survey related to the recruitment and retention of cloud talent, 80% of respondents identify IT and cloud talent recruitment and retention a concern for their budgets. A new cloud operating model Rising demand and increased choice require a new operational approach.

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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks

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The insight garnered from these practices can inform budgeting prioritizations and influence planning around business partnerships and product trajectories. Investment in resilience is an investment in business continuity. This allows you and your teams to stay ahead of potential threats, ensuring business continuity.

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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Reimbursement and spend management platform PayEm secures $220M in equity and debt

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. “A credit warehouse facility is a tool perfectly structured to support our customers’ payments activity and provide them with monthly payment terms in order for them to keep their businesses flowing as our business continues to grow.

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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

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“As organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, they are migrating more critical workloads and data to the cloud, which naturally leads to higher costs,” he says. Another factor is the use of multiple cloud providers, Bhargava says. “As Cloud costs have risen for many of CGI’s customers in the past year. “The

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. In other words, how much business risk does your company run if it can’t find (or train) employees into the jobs it needs to be done?