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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

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.” Contractors and vendors should be treated like your car insurance,” says Pratt.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. However, massively parallel processing (MPP) database architectures are one example of purpose-built technologies that have been developed to support both OLTP and OLAP data structures at enormous scales up into the petabytes (PB).

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Self-service: From the living room to the enterprise

CTOvision

Individuals also can arrange insurance with one click. Because all the systems are interlinked, a manager can see which employees he is responsible for, which applications these employees use and the total licensing costs are for that usage. Architecture CTO News' By Robert Doswell. About the author: .

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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. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

In his article Architecture Eats Culture Eats Strategy , Tim Bouma makes the point that the old management chestnut Culture Eats Strategy leaves open the question: how do we change the culture. Tim's point is that architecture (in the general sense) is the upstream predator to culture. This is their fundamental architecture.

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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?

Data Center Knowledge

In an open letter to the OpenStack community, co-founder and CTO Randy Bias is making the case that OpenStack must embrace other public clouds rather than set themselves up as an open alternative to the mega-clouds. Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We

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