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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. It took some time for me to realize how to make the right tech choices. To me, it’s how can we replace old technology with newer technology that’s going to be more agile, more cost effective.”

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

It doesn’t matter how good everything looks on paper; when you’re the CIO, CTO, CISO, or CPO of a large organization dealing with a big supplier of many of your business-critical applications, face-to-face, personal engagement with the individuals driving those software roadmaps and supporting services is critical.

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UK’s new digital strategy promises change – will it deliver?

CIO Business Intelligence

The first step would be to release a photo ID application on iOS and Android built in partnership with HMRC and using facial recognition to verify the identity through smartphone and driving license. The mission also suggests the imminent launch of a new mobile application strategy. Digital skills at scale.

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The Emergence

Crafty CTO

There’s an applicable concept from James S.A. Where can we apply what’s emerging to make our product better, increase our agility and effectiveness, reduce costs? trained model arrived, licensed for research and commercial use. How does this change our day to day activities? Stay up on what’s emerging.

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s still the case today, except entrepreneurs and companies are now beginning to adopt tools to create applications and develop services that don’t require coding. As a software engineer, setting up a working application or even a demo is a real challenge. It takes months or years in some cases.