CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. We look for transparency,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. “It What storage do we have?’ What is our backup strategy?

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. License Includedâ??

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

This paper answers these questions, and proposes a total cost calculation framework for CTOs and CIOs that are evaluating solutions for their organization’s use case(s). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4].

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash. Sales software startup HighSpot lands $248M. It has offices in Tualatin, Ore.

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