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    Fixing IT’s Most Costly Mistake – Part 2

    This is Part 2 of a 3 part series on using the ITIL Service Lifecycle Stages to work together with development teams and safely release services into the live environment without the usual chaos and outages that take place with these activities. In Part 1, the framework shown below was presented along with key considerations…

    Randy Steinberg
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    Fixing IT’s Most Costly Mistake – Part 1

    Question: What is the return on investment of an IT solution that cannot be deployed and operated at acceptable cost and risk? Answer: Amount negative equal to your development investment plus lost opportunity costs and possible fines and penalties. The magnitude of this problem cannot be underestimated. I personally witness as much as a half billion dollars…

    Randy Steinburg
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    Cost Savings Ideas for Your Azure Environment

    I’ve seen that 20% – 40% of cloud spend is waste!  In this post I’ll cover cost savings ideas for your Azure environment that will help you “get more with less” from your cloud spend.    Idea #1. Properly Tag and Visualize Your Azure Costs  The most critical requirement to address Azure costs is to know…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Optimizing Your M&A Machine During a Recession

    A recession is the perfect time for many businesses to optimize their M&A machines.  Why?  Because recessions are often periods where winning companies continue to grow by eating up competitors and becoming even stronger.  So, how do you optimize an M&A machine during a recession (or even outside of it) to become more capable?  #1. …

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Manufacturing: Building Resiliency to Navigate Market Volatility

    How Manufacturers Can Thrive in a Challenging Economy    Manufacturers have navigated a turbulent environment for several years. Some unlocked exponential growth opportunities due to surging demand while others struggled to stay afloat. Now, most manufacturers are bracing for a recession. In the U.S., 62% of manufacturers expect a recession to start in 2023,[1] anticipating several…

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    OIDC vs. SAML

    When trying to set up authentication for an application, you might hear people talk about “OIDC” and “SAML”. This is especially true when you have a lot of different applications that you want the end user to be able to use the same username and password for; for example, inside of a business, you might…

    Nick Woods
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    Driving Efficiency from Cloud Investments

    Six Tests to Determine if Your Cloud Environment is Configured Properly I’m asked frequently, “how do I know if there is waste in my cloud environment” or “how do I know if my cloud environment is following best practices?”.  In response, I have six initial tests to evaluate the state of an already deployed cloud…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Using the Union Operator in KQL

    The union operator is a super handy organizational tool in the Kusto Query Language (KQL). It makes it possible to combine data from multiple tables to show the results in one space. Essentially it allows you to avoid running the same query multiple times if only a few parameters changed. In this example, we’re going…

    Joseph Dutton
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    A Holistic Approach to Zero Trust

    Zero Trust architecture isn’t another security fad, and it’s not a technology you can implement, but rather a security model that’s foundational on every step of the journey we at Concurrency help our clients in travel along the path of modern workplace maturity. Holistic Approach At its core, Zero Trust is based on 3 paradigms:…

    Chris Blackburn