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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

He uses external providers and in-house developers to write connective “tissue” code to provide integration capabilities. Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, they procure solutions off-the-shelf rather than developing them in-house. For example, Puneesh Lamba, CIO of Shahi Exports, an apparel manufacturing company, acknowledges that “certifications have helped him perform better in board meetings, thereby making it easier to get approvals on IT spending.”.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. Beaumont also cited the enterprise licensing issue. Microsoft Photo). “Your code will be attacked.”

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