Just as your embrace of cloud computing has been unique, so will the approach you take to optimizing your cloud(s).
Inevitably, you’ll face the sheer complexity of emerging IT technologies as well as decisions about productively and cost-efficiently deploying and managing those technologies, and about choosing from among an ever-growing range of cloud provider options and pricing models.
Bringing in a provider with advanced expertise to support your IT infrastructure can cut your costs, chiefly via increased uptime, better capacity utilization, longer asset lifespans, improved auditing, and reduced energy use
The great cloud computing experiment is over — because it’s been wildly successful and is now being replaced by cloud industrialization on a vast scale.
By 2021, cloud data centers will process 94% of all workloads and compute instances — and you need to be ready.
Despite occasional arguments that the U.S. IT talent gap is a myth , plenty of evidence (see my last post) points to what appears, in fact, to be a rather significant IT talent gap that’s particularly wide in cybersecurity , cloud computing , big data, analytics, and information management .
For a while now, organizations large and small have struggled to find and retain the IT skillsets they need. Two years have passed since Gartner noted , “Talent has now been recognized globally as the single biggest issue standing in the way of CIOs achieving their objectives.”
If your experience suggests the IT talent gap has intensified since 2016, you’re not alone. Among North American IT decision-makers, 75% say they face a skills shortage , and few expect it to ease over the next two years.
When it comes to risk management, best practices begin with best strategies:
1 Take the time to realistically assess your enterprise’s vulnerabilities
In one recent survey , increased reliance on technology itself and increasing business complexity ranked second and fourth as drivers of increased risk.
