The new Cloud Economist job title wrangles runaway cloud costs Have you ever forgotten about a subscription? Maybe it was that Amazon Fresh upgrade you never used, charging you monthly payments. Or, your phone carrier slyly tacked on a feature and it went unnoticed for years. All these charges may seem insignificant, but they mount […]
The Bumpy Rise of the Tech-Savvy CFO in Healthcare Organizations
The good news? The working relationship between technology leadership and financial officers in health systems organizations is improving. The bad news? Chasms between finance and IT remain, and they are common throughout health systems providers. Market Research firm Black Book Research recently found, in its “2019 Black Book CFO & Financial Leadership Survey,” that chief […]
Enlisting the C-Suite in Disaster Recovery Initiatives
When disasters make headlines, corporate executives often have knee-jerk reactions and call for business continuity solutions to be implemented immediately. However, when push comes to shove, those very same executives tend to put up roadblocks with concerns over budget, priorities, vulnerability assessments and security. Perhaps more concerning, according to a June 2015 Ponemon Institute report, […]
How to talk to your CFO about DevOps
How to talk to your CFO about DevOps As DevOps practitioners, we understand the value of DevOps: It helps keep our infrastructures automated, allows us to push out code regularly, and reduces the frequency of breaks. But, does our CFO understand its value as well as we do? Probably not. The question is: How do […]