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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

CIO Business Intelligence

One approach would be to create an IT capabilities map, develop data-driven scoring metrics, populating a dashboard, and using the result to construct an IT organizational transformation roadmap. Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Jeff Wysocki, CIO at mining firm Mosaic Company, acknowledges those budget-busting concerns, but he says CIOs may be able to work with their public cloud provider to get those costs under control.

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Context on Forced Joint Unity and DoD and Impact on Military C2 Constructs

CTOvision

As US DoD budgets continue to shrink, we encourage our coalition partners to pick up the slack. Today we don’t fight solo – we fight as Coalitions. Unilateral US military actions are rare, and getting rarer. That may help but only so much. This past summer we saw an outstanding example of Maritime Partnerships.

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What is NaaS? Providers, delivery models, and benefits explained

Network World

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS. Multi-vendor environments will further complicate the matter.

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Election Impact 2016: 10 Nov on Capital Hill

CTOvision

This event is an opportunity to hear directly from leaders in DC on the impact of the Congressional and Presidential elections, including diving deep into topics like cybersecurity, healthcare, defense, energy, technology and budgets.

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AWS cloud to rain another £8 billion in the UK for local cloud infrastructure

Network World

These positions all form part of the AWS data center supply chain, ranging from construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and other jobs within the broader local economy.” Google and Microsoft have historically been similarly vague about their European cloud budgets.

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Modular architecture drives productivity and risk management at Gilbane

CIO Business Intelligence

Gilbane is one of the largest privately-held real estate development and construction companies in the US. When you look at other industries like manufacturing and services, productivity has continually increased, whereas business productivity in construction has remained fairly flat.” People build buildings.”