Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. The cloud computing model can significantly help agencies grappling with the need to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints.” This phenomenon is generally referred to as "VM Sprawl".

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, establishing these processes might seem difficult. But on offense, when you have an automated change management solution in place along with processes to scan your code, your organization can more easily find and understand vulnerabilities before they become a problem.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

On one hand, hybrid cloud is all the rage. Adopting this option promises all the cost savings of public cloud with the security and comfort of private cloud. This environment would not only check the box for meeting the cloud computing mandate, but also position the organization as innovative and industry-leading.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Meanwhile, CIOs must still reduce technical debt, modernize applications, and get cloud costs under control. CIOs should look for other operational and risk management practices to complement transformation programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We’re investing a significant amount of time, resources, and budget to ensure we remain competitive in the digital age.” Everything is positive.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 31, 2023

From visionary people to executives with an in-depth knowledge of the business mechanics, this expert team will subsequently execute the change management. Act like a venture capitalist when adapting and adjusting to the ongoing changes. It also means you need to accelerate the budgeting procedure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Those principles are data centric, platform first, cloud based, automation led, and zero trust (so that everything is secure from the start).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

Azure (and other cloud providers) enables organizations to safely benefit from the opportunities that such tools bring. From high availability architectures to enhanced workload and service management, CIOs must take a thoughtful and intentional approach to capitalize on the opportunity and build resiliency into the go-forward architecture.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

This challenge can also be significantly exacerbated in an IT environment that blends legacy, outsourced and cloud service provider resources. It should also encompass a policy-based approach with support for all major operating systems on physical servers and leading virtualization and cloud platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. To manage this data at scale, IT teams should invest in a modern data stack and build out a world-class architecture to maintain an agile edge as the company grows.

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Spearline Testing

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” Supported through the use of technological breakthroughs such as cloud computing, cooperation, and enhanced communication tools, remote working has never been easier. However, transformation and change management have still been difficult, Colm believes. Technology has improved so much.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies. So, what happens next?

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IT vendors - and even analysts - are understandably eager to see new technologies and operating models (cloud) adopted quickly. Here goes: An Instant Cloud. One Dominant Public Cloud. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Broad Use of IT Chargeback.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 27, 2023

How to counter the most risky cloud computing threats? This inventory helps you track and manage your resources, ensuring that they are properly protected and updated. This includes evaluating and testing changes before implementation, and minimizing the risk of introducing vulnerabilities.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Because only people can drive innovation, change and create value. How to build the conditions inside an IT organization and use social business, cloud, and agile approach to making it happen? The aspects of change management and how change makes people feel are important considerations for any innovation project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

“Building new business aligned cost models, setting up disaster recovery and BCP platforms, allowing remote-working, rearchitecting the enterprise network from the ground up, and migrating to cloud should be some of the prime focus areas for CIOs as they set about their operations in the new-era.”

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Future of CIO

JULY 20, 2011

Re-imagine the Future of EA The future of EA should be designed by asking: (1) Re-imagine EA “in the cloud” Does Cloud computing make enterprise architecture irrelevant or more critical? (2) To retain institutional memory and knowledge 5. To retain institutional memory and knowledge 5. . ·

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Future of CIO

JUNE 12, 2015

And it’s because the paradigm on which they are built is no longer fit for the complexity and hyperconnectivity of digital dynamic managers face. So they have a whole raft of standard management approaches that basically don't work - the classic approach to strategy, change management, finance management, project management.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 25, 2013

If leadership teams do not collaborate as a whole, but act as the sum of pieces, unhealthily compete with each other internally about budgeting, resources, credit, and blames, then, the CIO as "influential" role may turn to be second class, as they are not as "powerful" as CEOs, or as "rich" as CFOs, etc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With lots of Indians here and not much of a time difference, change management is less, too.” Ventre realized this when working on a large cloud migration project for Adani Ports as part of its strategy to digitize ports and logistics. I would say the first three months were the hardest,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. The company rolled out the new ERP in January 2022, coinciding with its new fiscal year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2022

We’re cloud smart, not cloud first,” he says. “We We actually lead with business transformation — and then we did a cloud migration as a part of that.”. So many companies started out with a cloud transformation and then selectively they drove business transformation. Driving change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 11, 2013

Poor cost/budgeting? Inadequate portfolio management? A Transaction needs plans, budgets, and designs detail steps. Further, IT leaders shifting from transactional managers to transformational leaders take thought leadership, transcendent wisdom, and trans-disciplinary skill. Lack of charisma? Lack of business-savvy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities. Reporting to the program’s executive team should be a business project manager and an IT project manager. Data migration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Implementing RPA can be challenging, given both the potential complexity of legacy business processes and the level of change management that can be required for RPA to succeed. Set and manage expectations. Poor design, change management can wreak havoc. Not every enterprise, however, has the budget for this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

Brkovich, who also teaches a financial management class for CIOs at Carnegie Mellon University, says, in his experience, the relationship between the CIO and the CFO is the most important relationship a CIO has. And I think we all know the only thing we can guarantee is that the pace of change is only getting faster,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Grady’s leadership team at healthcare diagnostics and software maker IDEXX had already been talking about introducing a more robust change management discipline within the enterprise IT function, and seeing what was possible when everyone was on board with transformational change kicked those efforts into higher gear.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If Hybrid Cloud For more information, visit the HPE GreenLake “Learn More” page.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If Hybrid Cloud For more information, visit the HPE GreenLake “Learn More” page.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2017

asks Sam Taylor, Senior Consultant at Coastal Cloud. “If What most organizations forget, or don’t realize at all, is how difficult enacting company-wide change can be,” says Rob Ristagno CEO, ‎The Sterling Woods Group. That’s why there are entire professions devoted to change management.

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