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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

data, security, development, architecture) as well. Workloads with unpredictable demand such as mobile apps or websites may belong in public cloud, whereas efficient, virtualized, steady-state applications with predictable usage may not benefit from migration. Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

McMasters, for instance, keeps up with each cloud vendor’s roadmap, and looks for opportunities to collaborate. As an example, Microsoft wanted to make inroads with municipalities for its virtual desktop infrastructure, so it was able to work out a win-win arrangement to provide those services.

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Announcing The Forrester Wave: Insights-Driven Business Process Outsourcing

Forrester IT

Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.

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The importance of converging the Security Service Edge

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. The approach also speeds time-to-market, since vendors can deliver – and users can implement – individual components faster, and thereby realize more immediate results. “A

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

When assessing vendors, Rich Products looks at their technology, architecture, business value, and pragmatic perspective. We look at the vendor’s maturity and if they have proven success in the right focus areas for our business,” he says. Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” There’s no clear leader in the market yet.”

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

NetApp added some new functionality to its portfolio of cloud management tools in late February with the acquisition of Fylamynt, a young low-code cloud ops automation company. SaaS vendor management platform Vendr is buying SaaS management platform vendor Blissfully. Atlassian buys Percept.ai. Citrix closes $2.25