Bruce Guptill

Resolving IT-Finance Asynchronization on Cloud Improvements

April 14, 2020

Resolving IT-Finance Asynchronization While CIO-CFO communications and alignment may never seem better, what is considered to be C-level, strategic “alignment” increasingly obscures realities that keep IT and Finance from synchronizing their thinking and activity. This in turn increase the costs

How CFOs and CIOs See Finance Management Priorities

February 26, 2020

Cloud and the Finance-IT Effectiveness Gap IT leaders today tend to be much better aligned with business and operational leaders and business goals than they were just five years ago. Unfortunately, they are still not often well-synchronized, meaning that IT

As The Digital Workplace Strengthens, Traditional Business Thinking Must Die

January 22, 2020

The Digital Workplace The cloud-driven, digital workplace is enabling better ways of working, new ways of doing business, and entirely new business opportunities. It is also breaking down traditional boundaries and barriers within and between enterprises large and small, and

Why Organizations Should Stop Focusing on Cloud Adoption and Start Focusing on Cloud Maturity

Stop Focusing on Cloud Adoption and Start Focusing on Cloud Maturity For the past several years, most organizations have made it their priority to shift much of their applications and data from on-premises to the ...

OPEX is the new battleground of cloud for listed companies

OPEX is the new battleground I recently wrote in CloudTweaks about how cloud is forcing CIOs to work more closely with their C-suite colleagues to sell the benefits and its role as a business driver ...

Common DevOps Misconceptions: It’s Not A Role, But A Culture

Common DevOps Misconceptions 86% of businesses say it’s important for their company to develop and produce new software fast to win market share and beat the competition, Harvard Business Review reveals. Yet, just 10% of businesses ...

Network Security in the Public Cloud: 2023 Guide

Network Security in the Public Cloud What is Network Security? Network security is a strategic approach to securing an organization’s resources and data across the corporate network. It helps protect organizations of all sizes, industries, ...

Get Smarter – The Era of Microlearning

The Era of Microlearning Becoming employable and then staying employable requires ongoing, up to date knowledge, and this can become something of a dilemma. Many of us grew up with a traditional understanding of the ...

Three Ways to Save Your Organization on Cloud Costs in 2023

Save Your Organization on Cloud Costs Organizations of all sizes are currently navigating their plans to avoid the recent surge in cyber-attacks and data breaches and preparing for unforeseen setbacks. Building a sensible backup and ...

How CISOs get multicloud security right with CIEM

More CISOs will have to deliver revenue growth to protect their budgets and grow their careers in 2023 and beyond, and a core part of that will be getting multicloud security right. It’s the most common infrastructure strategy for ...

10 Leading Open Source Business Intelligence Tools

Open Source Business Intelligence Tools It’s impossible to take the right business decisions without having insightful information to back up the decision-making process. Open Source Business Intelligence Tools make it easier to have our raw ...