3 Key Cloud Computing Trends to Consider When Planning Your IT Budget
Information Week
JANUARY 30, 2023
As remote and hybrid work rises in popularity, so will the adoption of technologies that prioritize agile, secure end-user computing.
Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2022
When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. When a cloud strategy team has those chief objectives nailed down, they can plan supporting considerations – such as security, resiliency and scalability – around them more effectively.”
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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 26, 2023
IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.
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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 10, 2024
Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.
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Effective Metrics Are Critical For DevOps and Agile Success
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
In the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years --organizations were using "on-time" and "on-budget" as the mantra for project efficacy. Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. cloud computing. Business today is compelled to deliver business technology in cycles of hours, or days.
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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.
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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.
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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 6, 2022
When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. When a cloud strategy team has those chief objectives nailed down, they can plan supporting considerations – such as security, resiliency and scalability – around them more effectively.”
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Business Agility in the Cloud | Maximizing Business Value with AWS
Linux Academy
MARCH 21, 2019
In the previous article in this series, I discussed the value proposition of cloud computing and also highlighted some of the benefits of the variable pricing model. Let’s now discuss business agility in the cloud. Business Agility in the Cloud. Turn constant cloud technology changes into a strength.
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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
In order to avoid falling into the trap of legacy applications, Germany’s federal center for Information Technology, the ITZBund, recognized early to execute a future-oriented cloud landscape, says Christine Serrette, the federal administration’s CIO and deputy technical director. The next development is called Bundescloud 2.0
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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 9, 2023
For more than a decade, IT departments derived business value from cloud computing—public, private and maybe hybrid. Of late, concerns about the public “cloud-first” approach have emerged to challenge business value and skewer ROI, TCO and KPIs. Others conducted apples-to-apples comparisons of public cloud versus on-premises costs.
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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 9, 2022
Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.
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Softchoice—delivering award-winning, end-to-end multi-cloud strategies
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 7, 2023
Moving workloads to the cloud is a big undertaking that can include unexpected challenges, delays, and increased costs for many organizations. It all comes down to customer passion,” says Chris Swadish, hybrid cloud business leader for Softchoice. That’s why the right technology partner is essential.
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From Cloud to Customer
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Why Cloud Platforms Matter to Marketing Leaders According to IDC, 89% of marketing campaign management applications in Europe are now cloud based rather than on premises. Marketing is becoming digitally transformed through the adoption of new cloud-based marketing applications.
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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency
TM Forum
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Results: Adopted cloud-native and microservices-based solution that resulted in 50% shorter time to market. It stifled innovation internally and within ecosystems, slowing time to market and hampering business agility. It provided a detailed blueprint for building a standardized, cloud-native software component.
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Perspectives on how cloud computing & app development trends will take shape in 2023
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape. According to Forrester , forty percent of firms will take a cloud-native first strategy.
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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.
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Sitecore’s Release of XM Cloud Empowers Brands and Marketers to Maximize Consumer Engagement
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2022
From infrastructure costs to finding the right talent, it seems that digital experiences are always requiring more attention and more budget. Sitecore XM Cloud helps solve the globally recognized problem of powering instantaneous, global digital experiences in the cloud without sacrificing the customer experience.
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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 2, 2023
To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.
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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 23, 2023
Industry clouds are increasingly becoming go-to solutions for IT leaders seeking services tailored to their verticals. For the innovative few, co-creating custom industry solutions in conjunction with cloud providers can not only fulfill an internal need but also provide the opportunity to develop a new source of revenue from their IT IP.
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Transforming IT for digital success
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies.
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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 17, 2023
In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget.
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CIOs need a universal storage layer to manage multicloud complexities…here’s why.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. The answer lies in not taking the same approach and expecting a different outcome.
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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 5, 2023
“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.
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Software AG Announces the First Public Cloud Offering for IT Portfolio Management – Portfolios Live
CTOvision
OCTOBER 9, 2013
By Bob Gourley Portfolios Live offers CIOs precise and transparent management of their IT landscapes and is part of Software AG Live - a Platform-as-a-Service suite that also includes process design, agile application development and application integration. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.
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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 13, 2023
When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. We have hundreds of applications that we’re in the process of moving to the cloud but a lot of our main capabilities are underpinned by workloads on the mainframe and it’s definitely with us for the foreseeable future.”
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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 4, 2022
Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases.
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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. It can be tempting to view cloud projects at lower priority than shiny new AI initiatives but he says they’re actually foundational.
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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Likely, they will need to exploit all the latest tools provided by cloud and data partner ecosystems to manage, govern, scale, analyze, and secure their data before they can deliver these types of solutions. Many organizations still rely on legacy systems that can be challenging to maintain, upgrade, or integrate with newer technologies.
The Fellowship of the Metaverse: CIO, CMO, CCO and CHRO
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. Agile Development So, how should you handle this conundrum?
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4 ways to invest in IT during a recession while keeping costs low
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Gartner recently lowered their expectations for IT budgets to increase by just 2.2% Here are tips for making the most of your IT budget in a recession. Modern edge solutions represent a generational shift, expanding the capabilities of the cloud while reducing the costs of stitching together piecemeal solutions and managing servers.
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Cloud Computing’s Value Proposition | Maximizing Business Value with AWS
Linux Academy
MARCH 7, 2019
One of the most attractive aspects of cloud computing is its “pay as you go” pricing model. I’m sure you already understand the concept of cloud computing. When trying to understand what cloud computing is, and the benefits it provides, think about how the industrial revolution modernized manufacturing processes.
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Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Include the Cloud?
Eric D. Brown
JANUARY 28, 2015
With the growth in popularity, functionality and capabilities of cloud technology and cloud vendors, CIO’s and IT Managers began to investigate the use of public, private and hybrid cloud systems for disaster recovery solutions. Cloud-based DR can provide an enormous amount of value to an organization.
National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 20, 2022
“You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget. I don’t want to give you exact numbers, but I had a smaller budget when I was the chief information officer at Dell.”. Not all data will be migrated off premises — just the data that makes sense running in the cloud, she says.
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Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. agile planning. (17).
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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Guest Blog: Sequestration and.
Cloud Musings
MAY 30, 2013
Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Guest Blog: Sequestration and the Cloud. GovCloud Daily.
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ODA components garner growing industry support
TM Forum
APRIL 12, 2022
” Gustavo Jerónimo Ochovo, DevOps & Cloud Architect at Alvatross by SATEC, cites the involvement of major CSPs such as Orange, Vodafone and Telefónica in defining ODA as one of the reasons he believes it will be the “de facto standard in the digital services business.” ” The aim of.
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“Cloud First” Lesson’s Learned from ViON
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 24, 2015
In 2011, then United States CIO Vivek Kundra released the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy [1]. The cloud computing model can significantly help agencies grappling with the need to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints.” This phenomenon is generally referred to as "VM Sprawl".
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The NIS2 Directive: why cyber-resilience is the new normal for European organisations
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2024
Defending this was never going to be easy at a time of constricted budgets and a shortage of technical skills. A deepening of geo-political tensions has raised the likelihood of CNI being targeted in a way that could result in a large-scale cyber-incident.
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Security helps raise global enterprise IT spend
TM Forum
APRIL 29, 2022
Gartner, for example, points out that CIOs are investing in acquiring the agility and flexibility to cope with geopolitical disruption, inflation, currency fluctuations and supply chain challenges, with key areas of investment including analytics, cloud computing, seamless customer experiences and security.
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Is IT Budget Planning Still Too Yesterday
Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.
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Rob Davies, ViON SVP, Talks about Government Cloud Computing
Cloud Musings
JUNE 22, 2015
ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. I had the opportunity to meet him at the ViON headquarters building in Herndon, Virginia for a discussion on government cloud computing. How is that going?
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Rob Davies, ViON SVP, Talks about Government Cloud Computing
Cloud Musings
JUNE 22, 2015
ViON solves complex enterprise problems by combining passion and agility to deliver the most effective, innovative solutions because commitment to mission success is in their DNA. I had the opportunity to meet him at the ViON headquarters building in Herndon, Virginia for a discussion on government cloud computing. How is that going?
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Digital Transformation Success: It’s All About Simplicity Through Partnerships
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
According to 2022 State of the CIO study , 85% of CIOs are focusing on transformational initiatives with pre-pandemic levels of technology budget growth. To enhance and stabilize continuous business operations despite future disruptions seeing how the pandemic has highlighted the importance of business resiliency and agility.
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