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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

The list is growing and growing,” says Gordon Barnett, principal analyst at Forrester, “moving away from EA that just looks at applications and infrastructure to be truly enterprise. Businesses are using EA to provide not only better applications and services but a work experience that will attract and retain workers.

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Top 10 Quotes About Cloud Security

SecureWorld News

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. Shadow IT in the cloud: "The guy from finance, for example, just goes on the internet in search of whichever application he wants.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

We also need to consider all the regulations that are applicable to the industry, like (GLBA,ISO 27001,SOX,HIPAA). Targeted Audience – Tells to whom the policy is applicable. Backup Policy. Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. Incident Response Policy.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. What is our backup strategy? What storage do we have?’

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.