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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

CIO Business Intelligence

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We

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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.” It depends on what business model you’re in.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s not like enterprise architects and infrastructure engineers were great at capacity planning from the data center days. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts.

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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

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Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves. Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology.

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ITAM Isn’t Sexy. But We Need It!

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The owned aspect refers to the contracts, that is, the pieces of paper received from each vendor that tells you how much you bought and how much you paid for it. The version you bought as part of MS Office. Then there is the version you bought as part of an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA), which has a totally different SKU.

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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. It took some time for me to realize how to make the right tech choices. What systems to have and how to have them can impact your long-term cost.

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