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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. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations

CIO Business Intelligence

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. From an IT infrastructure standpoint, NCMS is 100% on the cloud. Losing 40% of domain expertise in one month.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

CIO Business Intelligence

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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