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

CIO

to identify opportunities for optimizations that reduce cost, improve efficiency and ensure scalability. Collaborator: Enterprise architects work with business stakeholders, development teams, vendors and other key players to ensure business outcomes are being met. This requires long-term thinking and investment.

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

CIO

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. as of January.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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The Six Pillars of Effective Security Operations

Palo Alto Networks

In our extensive work with security teams around the world, we’ve seen the best and the worst security operations (SecOps) practices. The first measure to make meaningful improvement is to take a step back and do an honest evaluation of how your security operations are structured and how they’re serving your business goals.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. Double down on vendor management.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO

Other responsibilities may include addressing digital transformation initiatives, guiding application development, and identifying security issues. The role can be particularly appealing for semi-retired and financially secure CIOs who wish to remain active in IT without the angst and drama that often surrounds C-level politics.