The struggle to keep cloud budgets in check
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
There are increasing concerns among execs who want to know why the cloud, which was meant to save money, has quickly eaten up their budgets. Read More.
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Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
There are increasing concerns among execs who want to know why the cloud, which was meant to save money, has quickly eaten up their budgets. Read More.
Forrester IT
AUGUST 22, 2022
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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.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. Describing their existing systems as “burning platforms,” he says that migrating to the cloud was essentially their only option. We walked into a partner-managed cloud environment,” he says. “We
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 8 Complexity.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 31, 2023
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, today’s leading enterprises are seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance their security measures. Cloud costs and security are two critical aspects that every organization must carefully manage, and they are more closely intertwined than you might think.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate — ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT. That’s where the contract comes into play.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.
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.
TM Forum
OCTOBER 26, 2021
How: A solution aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs to achieve desired business outcomes. Results: Adopted cloud-native and microservices-based solution that resulted in 50% shorter time to market. Microservices architecture. TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA). Open APIs. ,
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2023
We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 4, 2022
Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. . With commodity prices being halved, Chevron like many of its peers in the energy space saw a consequent lowering in capital budgets.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2022
The reality is that the cloud is not a hammer that should be used to hit every AI nail. The cloud is great for experimentation when data sets are smaller and model complexity is light. But over time, data sets and AI models grow more complex as companies seek greater accuracy from the models.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 26, 2023
Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations, spending more than they intended and getting less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud. That’s how you can scale.”
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.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 11, 2022
“SAP runs about 85-90% of our services,” says Avnet CIO Max Chan, who still runs SAP ECC on premises but sees advantages in adopting a cloud-native architecture to help Avnet increase margins and provide more value-added services in the face of fiercer competition and industry consolidation. A faster way.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 31, 2023
Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations , spending more than they intended and getting out less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 24, 2022
Approximately 61% of APAC organizations have failed to build robust and successful digital business business models, primarily due to unsound practices of enterprise architecture (EA) teams, according to a report from Forrester. Enterprise architecture is key to success. “To Diversity of needs affect failure rates.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 6, 2022
We recently caught up with Antonio Medianero, director of cloud application at Fujitsu Services España S.A. to learn more about the company’s cloud services and solutions, what it means to be VMware Cloud Verified, and what he sees as the next big thing in cloud. Fujitsu supports all major public clouds.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2024
Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 27, 2023
For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.
Network World
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.
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.
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.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less. To achieve this, businesses are turning to a zero-trust architecture, specifically the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 12, 2024
The cloud is also increasing exponentially with many developments happening in the cloud. This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Kyndryl Consult has also expanded its existing partnerships with hyperscalers, such as Google Cloud, to ready itself to deliver on generative AI, Slaga said. The existing accounts or clients, according to Steve Dickens, vice president of hybrid cloud at The Futurum Group, would be the company’s first primary target to expand its business.
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Multicloud architectures help organizations get access to the right tools, manage their cost profiles, and quickly respond to changing needs. However siloed operations with multiple management interfaces and unique services across different clouds can drive up costs, reduce agility, and increase risk.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The ability to “personalize” their policy and fit it into their household budget has changed the industry. The Intelligent Data Management Cloud is an essential tool for making data “fit for business use” in financial services.
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. They did not plan for scalability.
Cloud Musings
JUNE 3, 2014
[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”.
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.”. Modernizing a utility’s data architecture. We’re very mature in our data architecture and what we want.
Network World
APRIL 3, 2020
guidance to aid agencies in securing their network and cloud environments.” CISA wrote: “While this prior work has been invaluable in securing federal networks and information, the program must adapt to modern architectures and frameworks for government IT resource utilization. The “interim Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The cloud is also increasing exponentially with many developments happening in the cloud. This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures. Ransomware attacks have also increased in 2023 probably due to their perceived profitability.
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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