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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. 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.

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Fountainhead: A Leading Indicator of "Consumerized IT"?

Fountainhead

users turning to external web services w/out ITs knowledge). Inquiring into a VDI environment to increase manageability, reduce costs. Increasingly huge storage needs, esp. Pressured to support multiple user-provided devices (Smart phones, iPads, etc.). Significant "Shadow IT" (e.g.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. In early March it announced its second of 2022, Excelero, which develops software for securing and accelerating arrays of flash storage for use in enterprise high-performance computing. Its aim is to help customers automate the deployment of Spot by NetApp services.