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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads.

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Revolutionize your site for growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction with composable architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

In the realm of systems, this translates to leveraging architectural patterns that prioritize modularity, scalability, and adaptability. Headless, composable architectures are helping businesses select best-of-breed products and compose them into a system that aligns with business goals. What is a composable architecture?

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Quality assurance and application testing Application testing is a skill that’s likely to be augmented by AI if not replaced entirely, says Ram Palaniappan, CTO at TEKsystems.

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4 Reasons to Outsource Large IT Projects During Economic Headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

Inspect project plans to ensure it includes full and rigorous testing, especially around security, full quality assurance, and performance optimization. If you’re asking yourself the following questions, consider hiring a team of experts: What architecture do we need to support a next-generation operating model?

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

Contracts, audits, and SBOMs Beyond protecting enterprise architecture from dangerous updates, and dangerous software in general, there are other steps companies can take to safeguard their software supply chain, starting with selecting the vendor and signing the contract. In addition, 49% endorse mandatory incident reporting requirements.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO Business Intelligence

They may also ensure consistency in terms of processes, architecture, security, and technical governance. The core roles in a platform engineering team range from infrastructure engineers, software developers, and DevOps tool engineers, to database administrators, quality assurance, API and security engineers, and product architects.