Cloud Cost Optimization: Why Architecture Is Your Magic Wand
Information Week
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
High cloud costs often stem from outdated architecture, not just usage. For long-term savings, companies must modernize their cloud architecture.
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Information Week
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
High cloud costs often stem from outdated architecture, not just usage. For long-term savings, companies must modernize their cloud architecture.
Forrester IT
APRIL 17, 2024
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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.
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Open Digital Architecture. Co-created by over 1,750 professionals from more than 350 TM Forum member companies, ODA defines an industry-agreed set of reusable software building blocks for creating, managing, and securing any digital service. “Open Digital Architecture is behind this digital drive.” Running on ODA.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Earlier this month, the company said it expects cloud revenue to grow 29% to 31% in the second quarter of 2024, driven by high demand for AI and generative A I workloads from enterprises. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. The first region in Mexico is based at Querétaro.
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 11, 2023
A modern bank must have an agile, open, and intelligent systems architecture to deliver the digital services today’s consumers want. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.
TM Forum
APRIL 19, 2022
Liberty Latin America (LLA) has made its mark with an aggressive acquisition strategy meant to position the company as the leading integrated mobility and broadband provider in the Caribbean and Latin American region. Steps LLA is taking to turn operating company CEOs into BSS transformation evangelists.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.
TM Forum
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Telstra wanted to integrate established service domains, like wireless and transport, while enabling the easy introduction of newer domains, such as cloud and SD-WAN. For example, Telstra is co-developing enterprise solutions with a major Australian construction company, using 5G, SD-WAN and edge computing, leveraging AI, robotics and AR1.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Resolving this dilemma is challenging.
The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 28, 2021
CIOs need to prepare to switch cloud providers from the start Image Credit: Damien Pollet. As more and more CIOs move their company’s IT infrastructure into the cloud, the importance of the cloud is becoming more and more important. Design Your Cloud Strategy For Both Flexibility And Portability.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 3, 2024
“By expanding the availability of our software portfolio in AWS Marketplace, organizations around the world will have greater access to a streamlined way to procure many IBM AI and hybrid cloud offerings to help propel their business forward,” Nick Otto, Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at IBM, said in the statement.
GeekWire
APRIL 4, 2023
(GeekWire File Photo) The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. AWS does not take equity from participating companies. The accelerator is a way for Amazon to draw early-stage startups into its cloud ecosystem. ” It also provides up to $300,000 in AWS credits.
TM Forum
OCTOBER 12, 2022
African mobile operator MTC Namibia is reducing technical debt and enabling growth with a greenfield, cloud-native approach to transforming operational support systems (OSS). MTC Namibia is tackling technical debt and preparing for growth by moving operational and business support systems (OSS/BSS) to the cloud. Monica Nehemia.
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. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a company’s balance sheet. Why are we really going to cloud?
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.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
When moving legacy data to cloud, companies must overcome several barriers to take full advantage of the benefits a cloud architecture can offer.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The public cloud imperative For many organizations, regardless of size or industry, the public cloud has become an essential resource for critical operations. One reason is that public cloud has proven to be 40x more cost-effective. 1 Moreover, the public cloud is easy to use and is extremely scalable.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. In this report, Huawei Cloud was named a “Leader” and positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services.
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
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 18, 2024
When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platforms be to build or to buy? Before I get to why, what even is a “cloud native platform”? The platform usually has opinions about your app’s architecture. All apps need a platform to run.
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
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
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. . Consider for example one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies, Chevron. Powering through the world’s energy needs .
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Most companies’ digital journeys begin by migrating legacy applications to the cloud — the theory being that lifting and shifting workloads can provide a fast onramp to making good on services and capabilities unique to the cloud. But home and automobile insurance company Allstate is taking a different approach.
TM Forum
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
During Covid-19 lockdowns, BT experienced a surge in customer demand for cloud-based services to support newly remote workforces. At the same time, BT’s IT transformation was moving the company towards lightweight, autonomous, self-contained microservices solutions, which depended on new, agile delivery squads. Download report.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 26, 2024
We have become much more of a software company than we were 10 to 20 years ago,” says John Musser, director of engineering for Ford’s commercial division, Ford Pro. People don’t think of a large, 100-year-old manufacturing company as high tech.” Ford Motor Co.’s
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Most CIOs recognize the advantages of cloud, the global reach it provides, and the ease with which services can be scaled up and back down again. Your customers don’t care about your data centers,” says Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at online education company Pluralsight. They care about value.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 10, 2024
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.
Tech Republic Cloud
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
According to a RightScale survey, companies are now using multiple public and private clouds. Here are a few ways to keep it all organized.
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APRIL 29, 2014
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CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2023
After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 6, 2024
When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. The architecture was a means to get there.
TM Forum
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Vodafone’s migration of its SAP system to Google Cloud is the latest step in its radical IT transformation. Google expects the migration will take two to three years and will integrate SAP applications with the data ocean Vodafone is building on Google Cloud. Google in a blog.
Venture Beast
MARCH 30, 2021
Arm, the leader in chips used in all things electronic, has unveiled Armv9, the company's first major architectural change in a decade. Read More.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The era of the multi-cloud landscape is here. CIOs are taking deliberate action by proactively matching workloads and applications with the ideal cloud, and companies are also seeing a proliferation of multi-cloud architectures created by mergers and acquisitions, data sovereignty needs, support for remote work, and shadow IT.
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
MAY 23, 2022
Many companies whose AI model training infrastructure is not proximal to their data lake incur steeper costs as the data sets grow larger and AI models become more complex. The reality is that the cloud is not a hammer that should be used to hit every AI nail. Potential headaches of DIY on-prem infrastructure.
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
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 9, 2023
Oracle is adding a new managed offering to its Cloud@Customer platform that will allow enterprises to run applications on proprietary optimized infrastructure in their own data centers to address data residency and security regulations and solve low-latency requirements. The dedicated cloud IaaS market is expected to reach $20.5
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to further adopt public clouds, and geopolitical conflicts have demonstrated the importance and need for sovereign clouds. As the nature of the cloud evolves, so does the strategy in which organizations must approach these challenges.
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