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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Open and transparent communication with vendors is essential.

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Fountainhead: A Leading Indicator of "Consumerized IT"?

Fountainhead

users turning to external web services w/out ITs knowledge). Inquiring into a VDI environment to increase manageability, reduce costs. The rise of self-service technologies, driven by empowered employees, provides new opportunities for IT to improve business responsiveness by enabling greater autonomy.

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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Largest DDoS Attack in Internet History

SecureWorld News

Upon the discovery of this vulnerability, tech giants Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cloudflare swiftly coordinated their efforts to mitigate the attack. Google's sophisticated load-balancing infrastructure managed to halt the attack at the edge of its network, preventing widespread outages.