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A data center is the department in an enterprise that houses and maintains back-end IT systems and data stores.

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What methodologies or frameworks (like NIST CSF, CMMC, etc.) are you using to assess and track your cybersecurity maturity level?

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What's a quick win for optimizing spend? What's been your focus or "lowest hanging fruit"?

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I'm building most on... share "why" in comments...

Public Cloud71%

Private Cloud28%

What headline-trend or buzzword makes you cringe the most?

Big Data16%

Remote Work19%

Microservices / Containerization13%

CI / CD7%

Zero-Trust15%

Automation2%

Digital Transformation17%

Cloud / Cloud Native2%

DevOps or DevSecOps3%

Other (comment)1%

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Which tech conference do you intend to attend in person next year or have already participated in this year, and what motivated your choice?

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What is the most interesting/helpful/unique tool you're using right now that no one is talking about?

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Which CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions are you currently using for your business!? What are their Pros & Cons!?

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Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

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What activities do you do to measure the value of sending your team to training?

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What are your biggest challenges in handling consumer data with respect to data privacy and security and what tools and processes help you manage these?

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We are inundated with discussions on new AI tools and other innovations, how much has it affected your internal strategy and planning processes? Particularly when it comes to digital transformation already in place?

Very positive19%

Some positive61%

No affect16%

Some negative2%

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How do you see AI benefiting IT departments and managed IT services provider in the future? Will it eliminate jobs or shift jobs in positions to work with AI?

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The cloud vendor bill is just line items on compute/storage/network spend. Are there tools to go beyond the surface and help understand the costs, and optimize cloud consumption? (Note this is not a question of cost saving in the cloud, I have seen the Q&A on that topic in the forums).

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I am looking to connect with any peers that have migrated their mainframe to the cloud or looking to do so. What have your experiences been and what advice do you have about the process?

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In organizations where innovation and research are critical to success, how do you effectively capture and incubate ideas? Do traditional proposal submissions still work best, or have you found more dynamic, democratized approaches that empower employees at all levels to contribute? I'd love to hear about successful frameworks, platforms, or cultural shifts that have helped foster innovation across your organization.

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In our on-premise environment DC's are connected with MPLS VRF's (no encryption). When planning the migration to Cloud, the suggestion to encrypt the traffic FW to FW with IPsec, was met with the question, "why is this different to our current setup...as the Cloud will really just be our next DC..."

Do you have any views on this argument? It comes with an additional challenge that implementing FW to FW IPSec will require additional investment in on-premise FW infrastructure.