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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Every company is different based on its industry, its available resources, and its needs.

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Industry clouds give CIOs on-ramp to gen AI

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And that’s all thanks to Beltzer’s decision to give RBC private equity advisors a vertical industry cloud that offered financial services out-of-the-box that are both customizable and extensible. And, with access to features such as Einstein, CIOs choosing industry clouds may be able to accelerate innovation further.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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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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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

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To help make it quick and easy for IT leaders to get a reliable snapshot of the enterprise storage trends, we put together this “trends update” for the second half of 2022. The following five trends can be summed up in eight words: cyber resilience, automation, hybrid cloud, performance, availability, and consolidation. .

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5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

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It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure. A key driver for this is the steep resource cost in keeping customized implementations apace with the latest features — a cost many CIOs forgo in favor of stagnancy, at the risk of falling behind.

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

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Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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Cloud optimization startup ProsperOps lands $72M investment

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The cloud is growing expensive. According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. billion in 2022. billion in 2022. a few months).

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