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

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Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. Infrastructure architecture: Building the foundational layers of hardware, networking and cloud resources that support the entire technology ecosystem.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

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The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Limitations of CCMO tools There’s a lot of room for improvement in cloud cost management.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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Downer’s digital journey to deliver consistency to customers

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Now at Downer, an organization with over 30,000 people, efficient use of technologies and talent is essential to the way it designs, builds, and sustains infrastructure assets and facilities across Australia and New Zealand. So on any given day, it supports cleaning in a hospital, for instance, and operates and maintains road networks.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Program analyst/manager Working closely with project managers, program analysts and managers oversee programs and projects within an organization to ensure they’re on track and on budget.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4% The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Managing technical debt, rationalizing services, and reducing infrastructure complexity have always been essential to an organization’s success in creating value and delivering on expectations,” she says. Moving to the cloud doesn’t make that go away, and it isn’t the vendor’s responsibility.