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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If To prepare themselves for that eventuality, enterprises should have a backup plan that allows them to continue to operate without that particular vendor. You have to have a kill switch option,” he says. Unless the vendor did something special.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

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By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Change the organizational mindset. Build a realistic roadmap — and a surefire skills plan.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. What is our backup strategy? What storage do we have?’

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

He recommends expanding EA to map not only a business’ technology assets but all its processes that rely on vendors as well as part-time and contract workers who may become unavailable due to pandemics, sanctions, natural disasters, or other disruptions. . Planning for supply chain disruption.

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Backups of your data to Amazon S3 are continuous, incremental, and automatic. This combination of in-cluster replication and continuous backup to Amazon S3 ensures you have a highly durable system. You can use any of the saved system or user backups to restore a copy of your cluster with a few clicks. CTO - Amazon.com.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. This benefit is available to Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with SQL Server licenses covered by active Microsoft Software Assurance contracts. CTO - Amazon.com.