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

CIO

Cloud cost visibility, cost insights, cost governance, defining a cloud baseline infrastructure and vendor management are essential components of a comprehensive cloud financial management strategy. The journey I propose is in five phases through the lens of a crawl-walk-run framework. First, the mean part.

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

CIO

The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

Here’s a summary of some key results of a recent cloud transformation study, published by the Custom Research Team of CIO, CSO and Computerwoche in collaboration with T-Systems, plusserver, Fortinet, and SPIRIT/21. It’s also revealing that companies always cite an inappropriate or completely unsuitable company culture as a handicap.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If your job or business relies on systems engineering and operations, be sure to keep an eye on the following trends in the months ahead. The prevalence of heterogeneous distributed systems has made it slightly more difficult to put distributed tracing into practice there. Kubernetes.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Gone are the days of making well-thought documents who are reviewed and tested by colleagues in the organization. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation.