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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan. When it is renewal time, make sure to scrutinize and shop around.”

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John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next?

The Verge

CTO Jahmy Hindman on farming, data, and right to repair One of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. There’s hardware, software, services that I think of as sort of traditional computer company problems. How does that part work?

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