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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

He and his teams tried a few off-the-shelf tools but were never satisfied with the support for linking a cloud resource to a line of business to determine ownership. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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Streaming Analytics in the Real World

Cloudera

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. The data shelf life is decreasing,” said Marr. This speed of change has enormous implications for businesses.

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Want More Runway? Consider Your Infrastructure Costs

Crunchbase News

Notifications, analytics, storage, marketing comms, compliance scans, transactional messages, login? If you turned off some of these systems would you free up an engineer to focus on your conversion funnel? If you haven’t figured out product-market fit yet, you need more time. This is what we’re seeing from Big Tech.

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Will Flash Penetrate Secondary Storage Environments?

IDC

When the first All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) were introduced back in 2011, many enterprises, analysts and established enterprise storage vendors felt that these types of systems would be too expensive for widespread use in the enterprise. Low latency aside, flash does offer a number of benefits though that are of interest for secondary workloads.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

For example, CIOs can buy an off-the-shelf system that costs X in license fees today and 20% of X every year as long as they are using it or they could choose to build the system in a manner where instead of X they incur 1.5X Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).