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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

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. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

“It requires engaging stakeholders across the organization, not just within IT, and having expertise in both the legacy application and the cloud you’re moving to,” says Steve Woodgate, strategic advisor at managed cloud service provider Navisite. Varerkar also advises against rebuilding an app from scratch.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k 7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k in gross profits. I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. Let's say a customer is spending $1M/year on Redshift. That seems kind of bad for AWS?

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

When it comes to areas of investment related to deploying technology in the cloud, respondents identified serverless functions, virtual machines and containers as the top three technology types where they plan to expand adoption in the next 12 months. Title % respondents Senior-most IT or security decision-maker in the firm (e.g.,