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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Expedia Group, for example, grew significantly over time through acquisitions to comprise 21 separate travel brands, each with its own tech stack and SaaS providers, says Rajesh Naidu, chief architect and head of data platform and data management. Addressing the ensuing sprawl was no quick fix.

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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

This system is designed fully in-house to optimize for speed, cost and reliability, and the entire architecture has worked flawlessly from the very start.” “Per their FCC license , Kuiper has to launch about half of their constellation, or about 1,600 satellites, by the summer of 2026.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

Fortunately, the move to 5G standalone architectures will require a great deal less infrastructure investment and more IT spending, which on the whole is less extensive. The cost of these licenses in many countries broke all previous records, and MNOs registered a great deal of disquiet. architectures. systems architecture.

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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Most importantly, IT leaders should define the cloud architecture and put the solution in place for the business stakeholders to leverage, otherwise they risk each stakeholder creating their own cloud infrastructure making for a fragmented environment that is difficult to manage, secure, and optimize. hyperscale, private cloud).

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

Sourabh Chatterjee, president and head of technology, digital sales, and travel at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, says, “At the end of the day, it is the content, faculty, and case studies of a course that cumulatively open the mind. It could be coding, designing, process flow, testing, or architecture.

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Technology Short Take 88

Scott Lowe

Travel is keeping me pretty busy this fall (so much for things slowing down after VMworld EMEA), and this has made it a bit more difficult to stick to my self-imposed biweekly schedule for the Technology Short Takes (heck, I couldn’t even get this one published on Friday!). Welcome to Technology Short Take #88! Sorry about that!

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Technology Short Take #62

Scott Lowe

Sorry for the long delay since the last TST; some global travel has really thrown my schedule off. Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Welcome to Technology Short Take #62. Networking.

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