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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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FinOps is the discipline enterprises need to optimize cloud spending

CIO

Signing up for cloud services is easy. But getting control of cloud spending can be a persistent challenge for an enterprise focused on making the most of its technology investment. Gartner predicted worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services would grow 20.7% in 2023, to $591.8

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

That means taking a long hard look at costs and ensuring their spend is focused on the future and not just maintaining the past,” says Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at SAS. And with capital scarce, “the easiest way to find dollars that can be invested is to find costs that can be reduced,” says Marc Tanowitz, a managing partner at West Monroe.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Data replication holds the key to hybrid cloud effectiveness

CIO

As more businesses look to carve out an advantage in an increasingly competitive market, many are turning toward cloud computing—particularly hybrid cloud approaches that blend the power of the mainframe with the innovation of the cloud—to make the most of their data. There’s more to data than just adopting hybrid cloud.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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