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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. Hes not the only one who wants to see government action. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Our goal is to modernize complex, mission-critical legacy IT systems in all government organizations, he says. That means theres a need for governance and regulation.

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Complexity snarls multicloud network management

Network World

Coping with complexity Several factors contribute to making multicloud network management a complex and, at times, frustrating task. Additionally, payment processes can differ for each cloud provider, making it difficult to manage costs.” Many of these vendors have mature feature sets.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing and outsourcing core applications. More than half, however, are committed to a cloud-first approach, or the preferred use of cloud services over on-premises hosted applications.

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