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Andrew Larkin from the Cloud Academy sheds light on cloud computing misconceptions and drawbacks -- including downtime -- and offers best practices for CIOs to address these risks.
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Open source software's appeal is understandable: It's free, accessible and relatively easy to implement. But CIOs should be aware of the pitfalls.
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CIOs must align IT strategy to business KPIs, and so should their service vendors. In this ITSM best practices tip, experts explain how to tie vendor services to business outcomes.
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To maximize benefits of the cloud, avoid these 4 mistakes
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To maximize benefits of the cloud, avoid these 4 mistakes
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ITSM program: Tips on where to start, from a CIO who's been there
Link Alander has spent nearly a decade taking Lone Star College's ITSM program from subpar to superior. Here, he offers some tips for CIOs just getting started.
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Business process improvement (BPI) is a management exercise in which enterprise leaders use various methodologies to analyze their procedures to identify areas where they can improve accuracy, effectiveness and/or efficiency and then redesign those ...
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Startup accelerator The Engine tackles 'tough tech'
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Multi-cloud strategy: Determine the right cloud for your workloads
Businesses typically deploy a multi-cloud strategy to gain more agility, flexibility and choice, but Ed Featherston's advice for CIOs taking their first foray into the cloud is to pick one provider ...Continue Reading
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