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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

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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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan. Billing errors, overprovisioning of licenses, and changes in capacity are other things to look for.

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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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UK’s new digital strategy promises change – will it deliver?

CIO Business Intelligence

The first step would be to release a photo ID application on iOS and Android built in partnership with HMRC and using facial recognition to verify the identity through smartphone and driving license. What the Minister should do, is to enable bottom-up development of solutions to genuine problems, within a clear technical architecture.

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