IT infrastructure - What are the top of mind initiatives in the roadmap for the next year?

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Managing Director - I&O in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

Full application suite migration to Cloud while keeping the current on-prem infrastructure operational through transition; skill set augmentation of current staff to SRE model; adoption of Product Operating Model delivery methodologies

Director of IT2 years ago

Delivering Infrastructure as Platform

CIO in Government2 years ago

For our legacy infrastructure, our focus right now is to address hardware/software upgrades and patching as a result of scans.  The volume of effort is large enough to warrant an infrastructure project.

Senior Director, Information Technology in Software3 years ago

Streamline our sales processes so we can scale the CRM engine and improve data quality for making better business decisions.

IT Business Analyst in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

Disaster Recovery- ensuring our IT infrastructure can recover quickly from cyber attacks or operational mistakes. Basically implementing backup and recovery sollutions and define a disaster recovery plan.
Cloud migration - moving some of our internal data to cloud, taking advantage of scalability, reliability and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing

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