The benefits of a cloud-first strategy are clear, but you’ll need to consider these three essential questions to tap into those advantages in the best way possible.

Together, automation and orchestration can help reduce IT costs, ramp up productivity, and free up personnel focus for more strategic pursuits. However choosing the right tools to succeed with both takes time.

Containerization and virtualization are similar concepts, but they can mean very different things in your IT strategy.

It is our jobs as IT leaders to supply a vehicle that can deliver the promise without compromising the governance, policies, continuity, and cost management the business expects of us, Chris Pond writes.