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The Convergence of Containerization Confirmation

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Containers have brought about a revolution in cloud computing. They are changing the way applications are built, deployed, and managed. Containers enable developers to focus on agility and responsiveness, not infrastructure. Containers are also a game-changer in cloud computing by turning many of its fundamental elements on their head. In a container-based world, maintaining the supporting infrastructure simply becomes someone else's problem. In the past year, it seems like everyone is talking about containers. It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that containerization is the new buzzword in technology. But there's no doubt that containerization has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years and continues to gain momentum as more organizations adopt it. Containerization is a game-changer Why? Because it provides developers with a way to build and deploy applicati...

The Race To Automate The Finance Department

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A new report surveyed 145 chief financial officers (CFOs) and other financial leaders and found 81% of them believe automation has the potential to optimize processes, capture data insights, and reduce costs. The tight labor market and rising operational costs are further motivating nearly 60% of CFOs to increase investments in automation over the next year The majority of respondents (43%) believe they will achieve their goals within two years, with 10% reporting that they have already done so. In addition, 61% of the polled CFOs said automation had a significant impact on their finance functions. Primary Objectives Among the top objectives for the CFO are generating actionable insights, reducing errors, improving forecasting and financial predictability, and reducing labor costs. Most CFOs use automation to increase efficiency and productivity, but over half a...

Looking For IT Leaders With Entreprenurial Courage, Have You Seen Them?

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Few positions today matter more, in a world riddled with sophisticated technology, than the CIO. CIOs are in charge of deploying the technology that exists to support their company's strategic plan. This includes training its employees in using the technology by which their enterprise runs. They must make sure their companies have a broad top-level technology roadmap that can survive the rapid churn of technologies out there. Unfortunately, in today's world our corporate culture has become one that is hyper focused on cost reduction (instead of value) that results in IT leaders first focusing on what can make them look good (or bad) instead of having the assurance and autonomy to innovate and deliver robust technology solutions for the organization. Perhaps we need to review some prime examples of the success stories, examine how we got here, and more importantly how do we fix such and get back...