CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

But SaaS sprawl — the result not just of IT decisions but also line-of-business tech spending choices — is leaving CIOs with a challenge they tried to evade. “There was a huge push to move platforms to the cloud for many good reasons, and organizations have taken advantage of cloud capabilities and vendor support.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Average salary: US$136,017 Increase since 2021: 14.1%

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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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 required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. A cloud strategy should be built on business outcomes the organization is seeking to achieve, which may then align with some of those potential benefits.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

There’s absolutely an overarching trend we’re witnessing of organizations entering into more strategic partnership agreements to ensure access to critical talent and expertise,” says Greg Sarafin, global alliance and ecosystem leader at EY. Double down on vendor management. Build trust and transparency. “In

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs? What does a fractional CIO do?

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. When we asked about the intensity of that pressure, 83% cited a moderate to high degree of pressure.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What had started as a technology gap analysis had turned into more of a venting session about the growing pains he was seeing in his organization. As a leader, at one time you may have invested a fair amount of time and thought in your organization’s strategy. What examples from your organization would you add to that list?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s not hyperbole: TEKsystems’ 2024 State of Digital Transformation report found that 53% of organizations classified as digital leaders are confident that their digital investments will meet expected ROIs. But as a CIO, I don’t need an IT organization that’s writing apps. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While organizations continue to discover the powerful applications of generative AI , adoption is often slowed down by team silos and bespoke workflows. It also contains observability components for cost tracking, budgeting, auditing, logging, etc. The following example describes usage and cost per model per tenant in Athena.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

“[Top talent] can get top dollar wherever they go, but they won’t choose an organization based on the dollar value,” he says. There’s a clear correlation between organizations that have a sustainable offering or sustainable outlook and an improved bottom line,” he adds. They’ll choose based on whether values align overall.”

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. Benefits of IT Outsourcing.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. Like the ITIL and COBIT 5 certifications, you’ll need to find a third-party vendor to take the exam.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. This helps organizations avoid legal and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

CIO blog post : “Digital transformation is a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers.”. Wikipedia : “ Digital transformation (DX ) is the adoption of digital technology by an organization.”. Redundancy is often a culprit in organizations. Cost savings opportunities.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Budget: What will it cost to do this? Identifying the scope of responsibility and separation of duties will also reduce friction within an organization. Planning: How are we going to do it? Staffing: Who do we need to do this? Facility: Where are we going to do this?

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The advanced premise: if your organization doesn’t follow every best practice and cascading failures emerge when multiple downstream systems act oddly but none report errors, your app could be to blame—or, it could be a confluence of other issues making it fail. You could exclude these situations from SLO burn budgets.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Organizations of autonomous teams require a different set of behaviors than organizations that are run like a machine. They are unencumbered by hierarchy, expected to communicate with anybody in the organization they need. They are unencumbered by hierarchy, expected to communicate with anybody in the organization they need.

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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

Unfortunately, not all vendors are created equally. To remain compliant, organizations need vendors who match their cybersecurity risk tolerance levels. Why Is Vendor Management Important to Cybersecurity? Organizations depend on third-party vendors to create cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 17, 2021

While cloud providers like AWS are responsible for maintaining the security of the cloud itself, it is up to your organization to ensure the security of the specific data that is stored there. Managed services are an excellent option that not only save businesses time and money, but simplify their cloud security, as well. Conclusion.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 16, 2023

A quick “why” on Query Assistant In our announcement post for Query Assistant, we say this: “A common pitfall in many observability tools is mandating use of a query language, which seems to result in a dynamic where only a small percentage of power users in an organization know how to use it.” turbo’s limit.

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Infinidat

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Organizations that are captive to one or two storage vendors often put Purchasing in the difficult position of trying to negotiate competitive discounts without any leverage. Infinidat Is Purchasing’s Best Friend, and NOT Just for an Amazing ROI! Drew Schlussel. Fri, 02/14/2020 - 6:16pm. Introduction. Would it change my staffing plans?

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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. But, cloud findings are hardly the only source.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The bet on Agile was successful and, within a few years, the IT organization had transformed itself into a strong, reliable partner: transparency into spend, visibility into delivery, high-quality software, value for money. Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Large organizations usually split responsibilities between two executives — a supply chain manager and an operations manager. What are the roles of a supply chain manager and operations manager? For example, both are involved in: Forecasting prices , overseeing budgeting, planning and auditing.

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Infinidat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Another is that the organization has to commit staff resources to work with their Infinidat migration team. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs.

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Infinidat

OCTOBER 1, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Another is that the organization has to commit staff resources to work with their Infinidat migration team. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs.

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Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

It is often a non-revenue generating function of an organization that runs in the background, such as workforce management, payroll, IT management, etc. But more often than not, when we talk about managed services, we usually mean managed IT services. It costs them their reputation and the trust of their customers.

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Jeremiah Grossman

MAY 17, 2016

Security budgets are always extremely tight, so it’s smart to get the absolute best price possible from your security vendors. Never ever pay full price, or even take the first quote vendors give you. As a small warning, many organizations have policies regarding speaking on behalf of the company, so make sure to follow those.

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Protera

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For example, if you’re repainting a building and your goal is to get it done as quickly as possible within budget, the process reflects that. Are you doing it as a way to test the waters and prepare your organization for bigger changes down the line? As the goal becomes more complicated, so does the process.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 29, 2019

Drivers management. FMS keeps your driver records up-to-date, organized, and easily accessible from a central location. By helping manage expenses (cost registration, fixed costs scheduling, cost/km and cost/hour ratios calculation, etc.), Dashboard for monitoring accident status’ within your organization, Source: Chevin.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Most IT dollars are spent on business as usual: maintenance and upgrades represent 70% or more of the annual IT budget. The proto-CIO is a strong technologist with vendor management and negotiating skills, with a steady-as-she-goes disposition. The two organizations work together, but not exclusively.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This perspective is a shift from existing strategy perspectives as it affects nearly every major decision a company makes, from growth initiatives, portfolio strategy, and M&A opportunities to its approach to budgeting and cost cutting. These organizations move in lockstep, because everyone understands what’s important.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Learn to read the signs of potential business stakeholder disinterest and work to transform stakeholders into project partners to ensure at-risk projects can be righted or a mutual decision to shelve the project can be arrived at without disrupting other IT priorities or draining more time, budget, and resources.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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