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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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SaaS startup Stimulus closes oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round

TechCrunch

Stanard established the company after her own experiences as a buyer and vendor manager. Stanard plans to use the money to hire more in sales, data and engineering and expand Stimulus’ partnerships with existing companies. It’s going from discovery to matching in real time.”.

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

CIO

The good news is all major cloud providers frameworks do the same thing: Operational excellence Security Cost optimization Reliability Performance efficiency Sustainability The framework helps in implementing the financial controls (FinOps) that we will discuss separately, management of workloads (BaseOps) and security controls (SecOps).

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Challenge Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy. Managing this array of tools demanded diverse skill sets and a significant amount of tribal knowledge to navigate them. The challenge?

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Collin Campbell, business information officer at Cushman & Wakefield, has engineered a different solution to this problem. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We And he doesn’t see the issue going away anytime soon.

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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. This practice incorporates machine learning in order to make sense of data and keep engineers informed about both patterns and problems so they can address them swiftly.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support. 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.