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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Ensuring all IT spend is directly tied to business demand acts as an automatic cost optimizer.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

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Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Successful application modernization should increase business and IT agility and scalability, Perry says.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

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Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. 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.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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

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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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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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According to Edd Dumbill, a well respected thought leader and VP of Strategy for Silicon Valley Data Science, a big data and data science consulting company, Big Data is “data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.”

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

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The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.