Map out a clear exit strategy should you become uncomfortable with your vendor's financial or organizational wherewithal. These "outs" generally cost money, but exercising just one of these options can save more than paying for hundreds.
Fundamentally, which kinds of IT vendors is your company willing to trust as strategic partners? How important are price and one-stop simplicity? How important is best-of-breed specialization? For which products or projects does a conservative, financially stable vendor make more sense than a promising start-up? These aren't just philosophical questions. You and your management team need to have this discussion now. Meantime, hedge your bets.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
