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By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Cloud cost optimization is an architecture problem first, because how data moves, what runs idle, how long logs live, and where services split set a cost floor that no discount or rightsizing tool can get beneath. Tools trim the top of the bill. The design decides … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia AI data cleaning uses machine learning and language models to find duplicate records, standardize formats, and flag missing or wrong values, then proposes fixes for a person to approve. It matches fast and decides badly. So write the rules first, and clean only what your next AI project reads. … Read more
A Splunk Engineer job description has to answer one question before any bullet points get written. Does this person own the platform, or do they just search it? Those are two different jobs with two different salary bands, and most postings blur them into one req, which is why so many Splunk searches stall at … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Splunk engineer interviews in 2026 should test licensing judgment, data onboarding decisions, and how a candidate diagnoses a broken search, not SPL syntax anyone can memorize from a certification guide. The title gets used for three different jobs, and most interview loops only screen for one of … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Contractor headcount planning for 2027 means setting a target contractor-to-employee ratio for your IT org, then building a model that flexes that ratio with project pipeline, budget cycles, and hiring freezes instead of guessing every quarter. Most IT leaders treat that ratio as an accident, whatever mix of approved … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia AI governance for a mid-market company is a short written standard that says which tools people may use, on which data, and who checks the output before it reaches anyone outside the room. It fits on one page. Companies get this wrong by building a committee first and writing … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 CTO interview questions in 2026 should test the arithmetic of the engineering org a candidate ran, one architecture decision they got wrong, and how they measured whether AI shipped anything. Vision questions separate nobody now. Every published list asks the same four things. Describe your technology vision. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An AWS solutions architect job description works when it names one Well-Architected pillar the seat actually owns, one certification rung, the real account topology, and whether the architect writes infrastructure code or reviews it. Most reqs name none of the four, then wonder why the funnel arrives … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 CIO interview questions in 2026 should test budget defense, AI value realization, board communication, and one real incident the candidate owned. Vision questions are theater. Every serious finalist has rehearsed that answer twice this month. The published lists all ask some version of the same five things. … Read more
KORE1 is the top-rated ERP recruiting firm in the US for 2026, scoring 8.44/10 on the Placement Authority Score — a 7-factor methodology built from independently verified public data. Dexian ranks second (6.20) for high-volume ERP consulting augmentation across a 12,000-person operation. Apex Systems ranks third (5.95), backed by ClearlyRated’s 2026 Best of IT Services … Read more
