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Reflections On 2020: Cloud Predictions Versus Reality

Forrester IT

This week, we published scores for our 2020 cloud predictions. This is an exercise we do every year to hold us — the prediction-makers — accountable to our predictions. We assess if our predictions came to pass and explicitly call out if we were vague, too aggressive, or just simply wrong. Although we pride ourselves […].

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

CIO Business Intelligence

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 if you do your planning exercise properly, you shouldn’t have to move your applications around,” he says.

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Five Keys To Innovating Faster With Cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Leveraging the cloud has become the fastest way to modernize and deliver the innovation and adaptivity needed in a customer-obsessed strategy—but designing and implementing a successful enterprise cloud strategy can feel like a never-ending exercise in risk vs. reward.

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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO Business Intelligence

These initiatives reinforce the growing potential of sovereign cloud services in a world increasingly dominated by questions of cloud choice and control, and complex compliance requirements. CLOUD Act or Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This news, of course, is food for thought.

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New Amazon Halo feature will assess routine body movement, and offer exercises for improvement

GeekWire

Amazon is adding a new feature to its Halo health app, using computer vision and machine learning to score users’ stability, posture and mobility in four different areas of the body, and offering a series of exercises designed to improve their ability to make routine movements based on the results.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.

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