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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

“FinOps practices provide a significant cost reduction benefit by eliminating unnecessary cloud usage, streamlining needed services, and adopting cloud-native services when appropriate — for example, reserved instances, workload smart parking, and spot market pricing,” he says.

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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts. for example Healthcare, Legal, Finance) What is your success rate in migrating applications/systems?

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Data governance In traditional application development, enterprises have to be careful that end users aren’t allowed access to data they don’t have permission to see. Even individual cities are getting in on the action.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. billion to the global economy.